mashie

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

Some newspaper reports say the epiphany came on the ninth fairway at Pine Valley when he hit a spade mashie to five feet, but I like the Miracle of the Bridge.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 26, 2017

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

He got his first golf club — a hickory-shaft mashie, similar to the modern 5-iron — and taught himself the game.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2013

Colonel Jimmy studied his lie for some time and went through all the motions, but when the shot came it was a beauty—a mashie pitch which landed his ball five feet from the cup.

From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan

The others are from days of mashies and niblicks: Harry Cooper and Macdonald Smith.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 26, 2020

Also performing well were the "patent clubs," all those weird specialty clubs from the turn of the century -- water mashies, rake irons, mammoth-headed niblicks, roller-sole putters and adjustable-head irons.

From Golf Digest ● May 31, 2012

Girl champions appeared played for a few years, then got married and forgot their mashies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, while other golfers with such abominable luck might be smashing their mashies and pulverizing their putters, Norman's confidence remains unshaken.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has a larger collection of drivers, brassies, cleeks, mashies, midirons, jiggers, niblicks, putters and other tools than Billy Moon, and Moon is a specialist in that direction.

From John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams