niblick
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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
He then had the humiliation of exchanging his putter for his niblick, and, we may assume without being unkind, that was the last seriously competitive round he ever played.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 31, 2020
At free-kicks from the edge of the box he could affect a niblick chip into the top corner or a driven three-wood with draw or fade.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012
And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2010
Its head, made of wood, was very short, like that of the iron niblick, for the purpose of fitting into ruts.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
