Name a golf term

Last seen Dive #57. 855 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hint 1. 855 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 7 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

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Hint 3 — a rare answer

Niblick · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Niblick One in a Krillion 100 pts

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Best rare answers

  • Niblick 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Address 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Advice 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aeration 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aggregate 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Alignment 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Am-am 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Amateur 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Backspin 60 pts
  • Backswing 60 pts
  • Break 60 pts
  • Clubhouse 60 pts
  • Condor 60 pts
  • Downswing 60 pts
  • Draw 60 pts
  • Duff 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Birdie 10
  • Bogey 10
  • Bunker 10
  • Caddie 10
  • Driver 10
  • Eagle 10
  • Fairway 10
  • Fore 10
  • Green 10
  • Hole in one 10
  • Par 10
  • Putt 10
  • Tee 10

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Prompt 1 of 1

Name a golf term

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 702 ● Rare · 105 ● Schooler · 34 ● Plankton · 13
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Niblick +100
Deep Cut +85 702 answers — tap to reveal
  • 150 marker +85
  • 2 and 1 +85
  • Abnormal course condition +85
  • Acey deucey +85
  • Address +85
  • Adjustable hosel +85
  • Adjusted gross score +85
  • Advice +85
  • Aeration +85
  • Aeration plug +85
  • Aggregate +85
  • Aim point +85
  • Aiming post +85
  • Alignment +85
  • Alignment stick +85
  • Alps hole +85
  • Am-am +85
  • Amateur +85
  • Anchored putting +85
  • Angle of attack +85
  • Animal hole +85
  • Apex height +85
  • Approach course +85
  • Apron +85
  • Army golf +85
  • Arnie +85
  • Artisan golfer +85
  • Assistant pro +85
  • Attend the flagstick +85
  • Auto press +85
  • Away +85
  • Back pin +85
  • Back-on-the-line relief +85
  • Baffy +85
  • Bag drop +85
  • Bag tag +85
  • Bail out +85
  • Balata +85
  • Ball drop +85
  • Ball line marker +85
  • Ball position +85
  • Ball shagger +85
  • Ball speed +85
  • Ball striking +85
  • Ball tracer +85
  • Ball washer +85
  • Ballot +85
  • Banana ball +85
  • Bare lie +85
  • Barkie +85
  • Beach +85
  • Belly putter +85
  • Bentgrass +85
  • Bermuda grass +85
  • Beverage cart +85
  • Biarritz +85
  • Bifurcation +85
  • Bingo bango bongo +85
  • Birdie blitz +85
  • Birdie machine +85
  • Birdie putt +85
  • Bisque +85
  • Blade iron +85
  • Blade putter +85
  • Blaster +85
  • Blind hole +85
  • Blind shot +85
  • Blind wolf +85
  • Blob +85
  • Block +85
  • Bloodsomes +85
  • Blow-up hole +85
  • Blue stakes +85
  • Board competition +85
  • Bogey golfer +85
  • Bogey juice +85
  • Bogey rating +85
  • Bogey-free round +85
  • Bomb +85
  • Bomb and gouge +85
  • Bomber +85
  • Bore-through hosel +85
  • Bounce +85
  • Bounce back +85
  • Boundary fence +85
  • Boundary object +85
  • Bramble ball +85
  • Brassie +85
  • Breakfast ball +85
  • Breaking putt +85
  • British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association +85
  • Brush tee +85
  • Bucket of balls +85
  • Buffalo grass +85
  • Buffer zone +85
  • Bullarding +85
  • Bunker face +85
  • Bunker lip +85
  • Bunt +85
  • Burn +85
  • Butt cap +85
  • Butt end +85
  • Buzzard +85
  • Bye +85
  • Cabbage +85
  • Caddie master +85
  • Caddylactic +85
  • Calcutta auction +85
  • Callaway system +85
  • Camel +85
  • Cape hole +85
  • Captain's day +85
  • Captain's drive-in +85
  • Card and pencil +85
  • Carry +85
  • Carryover +85
  • Cart bag +85
  • Cart barn +85
  • Cart path only +85
  • Casting +85
  • Castle tee +85
  • Casual water +85
  • Category handicap +85
  • Cavity back +85
  • Championship course +85
  • Championship tees +85
  • Chapman +85
  • Chicago +85
  • Chicken wing +85
  • Chili dip +85
  • Chipper +85
  • Chipping green +85
  • Chipping net +85
  • Chocolate drops +85
  • Chop +85
  • Church pews +85
  • Circles and squares +85
  • Claw grip +85
  • Cleek +85
  • Clone club +85
  • Closed face +85
  • Closed out +85
  • Closest to the pin +85
  • Club championship +85
  • Club fitting +85
  • Club path +85
  • Club-length +85
  • Clubface +85
  • Clubhead +85
  • Coefficient of restitution +85
  • Coffin bunker +85
  • Combo tees +85
  • Come-backer +85
  • Comfort station +85
  • Committee +85
  • Competition scratch score +85
  • Competition Stableford adjustment +85
  • Composite course +85
  • Compress +85
  • Compression +85
  • Concession +85
  • Conditions affecting the stroke +85
  • Conforming club +85
  • Corded grip +85
  • Count-back +85
  • Counterbalance +85
  • Course handicap +85
  • Course rating +85
  • Course record +85
  • Courtesy of the course +85
  • Criers and whiners +85
  • Cross bunker +85
  • Cross-handed +85
  • Crowned green +85
  • Cup liner +85
  • Cuppy lie +85
  • Dart +85
  • Daytona +85
  • Dead +85
  • Dead weight +85
  • Dell +85
  • Desert course +85
  • Devil ball +85
  • Dew sweepers +85
  • Differential +85
  • Distance ball +85
  • Distance measuring device +85
  • Divot mix +85
  • Divot tool +85
  • Dog licence +85
  • Dormie +85
  • Dormie house +85
  • Dots +85
  • Double bag +85
  • Double cross +85
  • Double dogleg +85
  • Double green +85
  • Double press +85
  • Downhill lie +85
  • Downhill putt +85
  • Downland +85
  • Draw bias +85
  • Driver cover +85
  • Driving bay +85
  • Driving distance +85
  • Driving iron +85
  • Drop +85
  • Duck hook +85
  • Dynamic loft +85
  • Early extension +85
  • Eden hole +85
  • Electric trolley +85
  • Elevated green +85
  • Equipment rules +85
  • Equitable stroke control +85
  • Exact handicap +85
  • Executive course +85
  • Extra stiff +85
  • Face angle +85
  • Face balanced +85
  • Face insert +85
  • Fade bias +85
  • Fairway cut +85
  • Fairway finder +85
  • Fairway hit +85
  • Fall line +85
  • False front +85
  • Family tees +85
  • Fat side +85
  • Feather ball +85
  • Featured group +85
  • Fellow competitor +85
  • Ferret +85
  • Ferrule +85
  • Fescue rough +85
  • Firm and fast +85
  • First cut +85
  • Fivesome +85
  • Flag tournament +85
  • Flier +85
  • Flushed +85
  • Foot wedge +85
  • Foozle +85
  • Forecaddie +85
  • Forged iron +85
  • Forward tees +85
  • Fourteen club rule +85
  • Free relief +85
  • Frenchie +85
  • Front pin +85
  • Frost delay +85
  • Funnies +85
  • Game improvement iron +85
  • Gap wedge +85
  • Gear effect +85
  • General area +85
  • General penalty +85
  • Golden ferret +85
  • Goldie bounce +85
  • Golf ball retriever +85
  • Golf cap +85
  • Golf etiquette +85
  • Golf GPS +85
  • Golf hole +85
  • Golf simulator +85
  • Golf society +85
  • Golf tan +85
  • Golf towel +85
  • Golf umbrella +85
  • Golf visor +85
  • Golf widow +85
  • Golfer's elbow +85
  • Grain +85
  • Green book +85
  • Green complex +85
  • Green rolling +85
  • Green speed +85
  • Greenie +85
  • Greenkeeper +85
  • Greensomes +85
  • Grip it and rip it +85
  • Grip pressure +85
  • Grip tape +85
  • Groove +85
  • Groove rule +85
  • Gross score +85
  • Ground under repair +85
  • Grounding the club +85
  • Guttie +85
  • Half +85
  • Halfway house +85
  • Ham and egg +85
  • Hammer +85
  • Handsy +85
  • Hardpan +85
  • Haskell ball +85
  • Heathland +85
  • Heel +85
  • Hickory golf +85
  • Hickory shaft +85
  • High ball +85
  • High bounce +85
  • High handicapper +85
  • High spin ball +85
  • Hogan +85
  • Hogback +85
  • Hold the green +85
  • Hole in one insurance +85
  • Hole location +85
  • Hollow coring +85
  • Hollywood +85
  • Honors +85
  • Horseshoe +85
  • Hosel +85
  • Hustler +85
  • Illegal ball +85
  • Impact bag +85
  • Impact tape +85
  • In play +85
  • In the drink +85
  • In the soup +85
  • Insert putter +85
  • Integral object +85
  • Interlocking grip +85
  • Iron covers +85
  • Iron shot +85
  • Island green +85
  • Jab +85
  • Jail +85
  • Jigger +85
  • Jumbo grip +85
  • Junior tees +85
  • Knee-knocker +85
  • Known or virtually certain +85
  • Ladies flex +85
  • Lake ball +85
  • Landing area +85
  • Lateral relief +85
  • Lateral water hazard +85
  • Launch angle +85
  • Launch monitor +85
  • Lawn dart +85
  • Leading edge +85
  • Let it ride +85
  • Leven +85
  • Lie angle +85
  • Lie board +85
  • Line +85
  • Line of play +85
  • Links land +85
  • Local rule +85
  • Loft and lie machine +85
  • Lofting iron +85
  • Lone wolf +85
  • Long game +85
  • Long putter +85
  • Longest drive +85
  • Longest putt +85
  • Loose impediment +85
  • Loss of hole +85
  • Low ball +85
  • Low bounce +85
  • Low compression ball +85
  • Low handicapper +85
  • Low runner +85
  • Made cut did not finish +85
  • Mallet putter +85
  • Marker +85
  • Marker post +85
  • Marking the card +85
  • Marshal +85
  • Mashie +85
  • Mashie niblick +85
  • Maximum score +85
  • Medalist +85
  • Member's bounce +85
  • Member's guest +85
  • Mesh pattern ball +85
  • Metal spike +85
  • Mid-amateur +85
  • Mid-mashie +85
  • Midsize grip +85
  • Milled face +85
  • Mishit +85
  • Misread +85
  • Modified alternate shot +85
  • Moment of inertia +85
  • Monday qualifier +85
  • Monthly medal +85
  • Moorland +85
  • Mounding +85
  • Mountain course +85
  • Movable obstruction +85
  • Moved +85
  • Moving day +85
  • Mowing height +85
  • Mud ball +85
  • Multilayer ball +85
  • Municipal course +85
  • Murphy +85
  • Nassau +85
  • Native area +85
  • Natural forces +85
  • Nearest point of complete relief +85
  • Net double bogey +85
  • Net score +85
  • Never up, never in +85
  • Nine wood +85
  • Nines +85
  • No card +85
  • No play zone +85
  • Non-conforming club +85
  • Nose +85
  • Obstruction +85
  • Offset +85
  • On the charge +85
  • One iron +85
  • One up +85
  • Onset +85
  • Oozlum +85
  • Open competition +85
  • Ostrich +85
  • Out and back +85
  • Outside influence +85
  • Over the top +85
  • Overseeding +85
  • Pace of play +85
  • Pairing +85
  • Par 6 +85
  • Par competition +85
  • Par save +85
  • Par seven +85
  • Par three course +85
  • Parkland +85
  • Patsome +85
  • Penal +85
  • Penalty relief +85
  • Pencil bag +85
  • Peoria system +85
  • Perfect round +85
  • Perimeter weighting +85
  • Persimmon driver +85
  • PGA Tour Champions +85
  • Pick up +85
  • Pick-up sticks +85
  • Pin high +85
  • Pin seeker +85
  • Pin sheet +85
  • Pistol grip +85
  • Pitch and putt +85
  • Pitching niblick +85
  • Plastic tee +85
  • Play club +85
  • Play it as it lies +85
  • Players iron +85
  • Playing conditions calculation +85
  • Playing handicap +85
  • Playing partner +85
  • Plugged lie +85
  • Plumb-bob +85
  • Plus fours +85
  • Plus handicap +85
  • Point of maximum available relief +85
  • Polie +85
  • Post a score +85
  • Postage stamp green +85
  • Posture +85
  • Pot bunker +85
  • Practice bunker +85
  • Practice green +85
  • Practice net +85
  • Pre-shot routine +85
  • Preferred lies +85
  • Press +85
  • Primary rough +85
  • Private course +85
  • Proximity to the hole +85
  • Public course +85
  • Pull +85
  • Punch out +85
  • Punchbowl +85
  • Push +85
  • Push-up green +85
  • Putting clock +85
  • Putting iron +85
  • Putting mat +85
  • Putts per round +85
  • Quadruple bogey +85
  • Qualifying school +85
  • Quota +85
  • Rabbit +85
  • Railway ties +85
  • Rain gloves +85
  • Rain suit +85
  • Rake +85
  • Rake the bunker +85
  • Range ball +85
  • Range mat +85
  • Ready golf +85
  • Recovery shot +85
  • Red stakes +85
  • Redan +85
  • Regripping +85
  • Regulation course +85
  • Release +85
  • Relief +85
  • Relief area +85
  • Repair your pitch mark +85
  • Replace +85
  • Replace your divot +85
  • Reshafting +85
  • Resort course +85
  • Reverse bounce back +85
  • Reverse pivot +85
  • Reversible course +85
  • Ringer +85
  • Risk-reward hole +85
  • Road hole +85
  • Roll out +85
  • Roll-up +85
  • Round robin +85
  • Rowan match play +85
  • Rub of the green +85
  • Rubber tee +85
  • Rules official +85
  • Run +85
  • Run-off area +85
  • Running chip +85
  • Rut iron +85
  • Rye grass +85
  • Sand scrape +85
  • Sand-based green +85
  • Sandbox +85
  • Sandie +85
  • Scalping +85
  • Scarifying +85
  • Sclaff +85
  • Scorecard pencil +85
  • Scoring average +85
  • Scotch foursomes +85
  • Scrambling +85
  • Second cut +85
  • Semi-blind +85
  • Senior flex +85
  • Senior golfer +85
  • Senior tees +85
  • Serious breach +85
  • Seve +85
  • Seven wood +85
  • Shaft band +85
  • Shaft kick point +85
  • Shag bag +85
  • Shamble +85
  • Shoot your age +85
  • Shoot your temperature +85
  • Short course +85
  • Short game area +85
  • Short side +85
  • Sidehill lie +85
  • Sidespin +85
  • Sightline +85
  • Signature hole +85
  • Signing your card +85
  • Single-digit handicap +85
  • Sit +85
  • Six-six-six +85
  • Sky +85
  • Slope rating +85
  • Smash factor +85
  • Snake +85
  • Society day +85
  • Sod wall bunker +85
  • Sole +85
  • Sole grind +85
  • Sole plate +85
  • Solid tining +85
  • Spade mashie +85
  • Speed +85
  • Spikeless shoes +85
  • Spin loft +85
  • Spin rate +85
  • Sponsor exemption +85
  • Spoon +85
  • Sprauchle +85
  • Spray +85
  • Sprinkler head +85
  • Sprinkler yardage +85
  • Stadium course +85
  • Staff bag +85
  • Stand bag +85
  • Standard scratch score +85
  • Starter +85
  • Step cut +85
  • Stick it +85
  • Stiff flex +85
  • Stiff it +85
  • Stimpmeter +85
  • Straight ball +85
  • Strategic +85
  • Stroke index +85
  • Strokes gained +85
  • Strong grip +85
  • Stymie +85
  • Substitute +85
  • Sucker pin +85
  • Summer rules +85
  • Sunday bag +85
  • Sunday stick +85
  • Surlyn +85
  • Swale +85
  • Sway +85
  • Sweep +85
  • Swindle +85
  • Swing plane +85
  • Swing trainer +85
  • Swing weight +85
  • System 36 +85
  • Takeaway +85
  • Target line +85
  • Tee complex +85
  • Tee marker +85
  • Tee set +85
  • Tee sheet +85
  • Tee to green +85
  • Template hole +85
  • Tempo +85
  • Ten-finger grip +85
  • Tester +85
  • Texas wedge +85
  • Thatch +85
  • The R&A +85
  • The turn +85
  • Three putt poker +85
  • Three-ball +85
  • Three-piece ball +85
  • Three-quarter shot +85
  • Threesome +85
  • Through line +85
  • Through the green +85
  • Tiered green +85
  • Tiger Slam +85
  • Titanium driver +85
  • Toe +85
  • Toe hang +85
  • Top spin +85
  • Topdressing +85
  • Torque +85
  • Tour ball +85
  • Tour card +85
  • Trailing edge +85
  • Tree shot +85
  • Trouble +85
  • Turkey +85
  • Twilight rate +85
  • Two wood +85
  • Two-ball putter +85
  • Two-club competition +85
  • Two-piece ball +85
  • Two-tee start +85
  • Twos +85
  • Twosome +85
  • U-grooves +85
  • Undulation +85
  • Uphill lie +85
  • Uphill putt +85
  • Urethane cover +85
  • USGA green +85
  • V-grooves +85
  • Vanity handicap +85
  • Vardon grip +85
  • Vaulting dormie +85
  • Vegas +85
  • Verticutting +85
  • Volcano green +85
  • Waggle +85
  • Waste area +85
  • Watson +85
  • Weak grip +85
  • Wedge shot +85
  • Weight port +85
  • Weighted club +85
  • Whin +85
  • White stakes +85
  • Winter green +85
  • Winter league +85
  • Winter rules +85
  • Winterkill +85
  • Wire-to-wire +85
  • Wolf +85
  • Wooden tee +85
  • Woodie +85
  • World handicap system +85
  • Wound ball +85
  • Wrong ball +85
  • Wrong green +85
  • Wrong place +85
  • X-out +85
  • Yardage book +85
  • Yardage marker +85
  • Yellow ball +85
  • Yellow stakes +85
  • Zoysia +85
Rare +60 105 answers — tap to reveal
  • All square +60
  • Approach shot +60
  • Backspin +60
  • Backswing +60
  • Ball marker +60
  • Best ball +60
  • Break +60
  • Bump and run +60
  • Bunker shot +60
  • Cart attendant +60
  • Cart path +60
  • Chip in +60
  • Clubhouse +60
  • Condor +60
  • Country club +60
  • Cut +60
  • Dance floor +60
  • Downswing +60
  • Draw +60
  • Duff +60
  • Fade +60
  • Fairway bunker +60
  • Fairway wood +60
  • Fat shot +60
  • Flop shot +60
  • Follow through +60
  • Four-ball +60
  • Foursomes +60
  • Fried egg +60
  • Fringe +60
  • Golf bag +60
  • Golf glove +60
  • Golf professional +60
  • Golf shoes +60
  • Golf trolley +60
  • Grand Slam +60
  • Green fee +60
  • Green in regulation +60
  • Greenside bunker +60
  • Grip +60
  • Hacker +60
  • Hazard +60
  • Head cover +60
  • Hole out +60
  • Hybrid +60
  • Lag putt +60
  • Lay up +60
  • Leaderboard +60
  • Lie +60
  • Links +60
  • Lip out +60
  • Lob wedge +60
  • Loft +60
  • Lost ball +60
  • LPGA +60
  • Major +60
  • Match play +60
  • Nineteenth hole +60
  • One-putt +60
  • Par 4 +60
  • Par 5 +60
  • Penalty stroke +60
  • Pitch +60
  • Pitch mark +60
  • Pitching wedge +60
  • Play through +60
  • Playoff +60
  • Practice swing +60
  • Pro shop +60
  • Pro-am +60
  • Provisional ball +60
  • Punch shot +60
  • Rangefinder +60
  • Round +60
  • Sand save +60
  • Sand wedge +60
  • Sandbagger +60
  • Scorecard +60
  • Scramble +60
  • Scratch golfer +60
  • Shaft +60
  • Short game +60
  • Shotgun start +60
  • Skins +60
  • Slow play +60
  • Snowman +60
  • Stableford +60
  • Stance +60
  • Stinger +60
  • Stroke play +60
  • Sudden death +60
  • Sweet spot +60
  • Tap in +60
  • Thin shot +60
  • Three-putt +60
  • Top +60
  • Triple bogey +60
  • Two-putt +60
  • Unplayable lie +60
  • Up and down +60
  • Whiff +60
  • Wood +60
  • Worm burner +60
  • Yardage +60
  • Yips +60
Schooler +30 34 answers — tap to reveal
  • Albatross +30
  • Back nine +30
  • Chip +30
  • Club +30
  • Course +30
  • Cup +30
  • Divot +30
  • Dogleg +30
  • Double bogey +30
  • Drive +30
  • Driving range +30
  • Flagstick +30
  • Front nine +30
  • Gimme +30
  • Golf ball +30
  • Golf cart +30
  • Handicap +30
  • Hook +30
  • Iron +30
  • Mulligan +30
  • Out of bounds +30
  • Par 3 +30
  • PGA +30
  • Putter +30
  • Rough +30
  • Shank +30
  • Slice +30
  • Stroke +30
  • Swing +30
  • Tee box +30
  • Tee off +30
  • Tee time +30
  • Water hazard +30
  • Wedge +30
Plankton +10 13 answers — tap to reveal
  • Birdie +10
  • Bogey +10
  • Bunker +10
  • Caddie +10
  • Driver +10
  • Eagle +10
  • Fairway +10
  • Fore +10
  • Green +10
  • Hole in one +10
  • Par +10
  • Putt +10
  • Tee +10