The complement of clubs carried by a player.

The like is the stroke which equalises the number played by the other side. Thus, after the tee-shots have been driven, the player furthest from the hole plays the 'odds,' and, if be places [..]

Furze or gorse.

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A stroke of less distance than a full shot. and played with a half swing; less than a three-quarter shot and more than a wrist or quarter shot

A hole is 'halved' when each side takes the same number of strokes. A match is halved when both sides have won the same number of holes, or have proved equal.

A hanging ball is one which lies on ground sloping downward in the direction in which it is to be driven.

A general term for bunkers, water, sand, loose earth, mole-hills, paths, roads or railways, whins, bushes, rushes, rabbit-scrapes, fences, ditches, or anything which is not the green of the course, ex [..]

The lowest part of a golf-club. See page 18.

First, that part of the club-head nearest the shaft (see page 18); second, to hit the ball with the heel of the club, which has the effect of driving the ball to the right hand.