mashie

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Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025

But forget about carrying the golf clubs unless your collection is limited to a single niblick or mashie.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

In the lovely brick and half-timbered clubhouse-cum-museum, where it is 1926 still, the mashie hangs in the upstairs clubroom beneath an enormous portrait of Jones.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 16, 2012

Jones reached in his bag for a hickory-shafted mashie, roughly equivalent to a 5-iron.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2012

I believe he did several conjuring tricks during the course of the round, such as holding mashie pitches from the edge of the green.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.