putter
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“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
He said the past two weeks had boosted his confidence in his putter, and it certainly showed as he needed just 22 putts, gaining more than five strokes on the field on the greens.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
I think I’m just a serial putterer, in that I putter around and I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
The US-based Cornishman - arguably the world's best putter - is ranked 10 places lower at 57th, despite reaching the season-ending Tour Championship.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
"That was his cousin. I knew his whole family history before he left. He gave me an aluminum putter that I use today."
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The occasion often feels tacked-on amid the barbecues and the shiny putters trotted out like obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Within 12 months, Scheffler had risen into the top 15 putters and completed a remarkable season, winning seven PGA Tour events, including a second Masters, and an Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
He focused on altering the conventional starting point, which has shot putters standing at the back of the ring, facing away from the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
She switched putters this week and it clicked in the second round.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
He reached under the counter to get two putters.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
A group of women in floral dresses puttered out to meet the Warrior on a bum-bum, an inboard motorboat.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
In fact, I was gulping some of the Sailing Goat’s excellent clam chowder when my innkeepers’ 22-foot boat puttered up to the dock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The all-terrain vehicle puttered down a winding dirt road shaded by mature Douglas fir and cedar, with sword ferns and vine maple brushing the sides of the cart along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
The train slowed, began moving again, slowed once more and then “just puttered to a stop,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
I made a fire, the tree room warmed, and I puttered around with a concoction I call possum sop.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Shahed drones have been dubbed "flying mopeds" by Ukrainians because of their puttering engines.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
Cortes would often walk from the homestead to Arvia to find his abuelito in the shed out back doing maintenance or puttering at his TV and radio repair business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
This time the girl was puttering around in the kitchen when Cora kicked the pot against the wall.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
