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Examples of niblick
niblick
It is enough to make Minnesota Fats want to trade in his cue for a niblick.
From the time.com
The similarly designed mashie niblick was today's seven iron, the spade mashie a six iron.
From the forbes.com
So thank the Lord for Augusta legend Bobby Jones, here to tell you how to use your niblick properly in the sand.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cartoonists usually depicted him with a niblick in hand, festooned with clumps of heather and saplings, with an inseparable pipe clamped between his teeth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
As for golf club development, there is a third way between using a mashie niblick and permitting the anchoring of a putter, which seems in contravention of the spirit of the game.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- An iron with considerable loft
- Early golf clubs were all made of wood. They were hand-crafted, often by the player themselves, and had no standard shape or form. ...
- (dated) A metal headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs
- An obsolete iron that was commonly used for playing out of the sand or from the rough. The term was also formerly applied to the No. 9 iron.
- Old term for a 9-iron.
- Another name for a 9 iron. At the time of its use, it characteristically had a shorter face than other clubs and was also concave like a spoon.
- A short headed steeply lofted wooden club, no longer in use, used for playing out of ruts and tight lies. The alternative name for the number nine iron.
- The number nine iron is also known by this name. The original niblicks were a steeply lofted club constructed from wood.
- An old term for a deep-bladed club used to play from the sand and the rough. Roughly equivalent to a modern 9 iron.
