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Top 10: Favorite Golf Slang

By West Valentine

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - DECEMBER 03: Tiger Woods of the United States and Jordan Spieth of the United States laugh on the practice range during round three of the Hero World Challenge at Albany, The Bahamas on December 3, 2016 in Nassau, Bahamas. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - DECEMBER 03: Tiger Woods of the United States and Jordan Spieth of the United States laugh on the practice range during round three of the Hero World Challenge at Albany, The Bahamas on December 3, 2016 in Nassau, Bahamas. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 17: General view of the atmosphere before the screening of “Top Gun” during AFI & Walt Disney Pictures’ “A Cinematic Celebration of Jerry Bruckheimer” held at the Mann Chinese 6 on May 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images for AFI)
LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 17: General view of the atmosphere before the screening of “Top Gun” during AFI & Walt Disney Pictures’ “A Cinematic Celebration of Jerry Bruckheimer” held at the Mann Chinese 6 on May 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images for AFI) /

A MiG

I’ve always wanted that to be the title of a slide, and its tough with golf. When Top Gun comes up, you just have to roll with it.

You’re playing in a foursome and your normally reliable partner has a really bad hole (hockey stick or Snowman). On the next tee, he skunks a drive into the woods.

Your buddies in the other twosome look at you like, “What’s wrong with him?”

“That MiG on #5 really (messed) him up.”

Taken from the opening of Top Gun, a MiG is a blow-up hole that gets you so ruffled your game and confidence momentarily collapse. Like Cougar, you can recover but you may end up turning in your wings after the round.

Lucy, I’m home! (from my personal collection)

I was in a trap and skulled my shot over the green into a corrugated metal shed. The collision of ball and sheet metal sounded like a person banging on a door. In my best Spanish accent I yelled, “Lucy, I’m home!”

I don’t know why I said it. I don’t even really like I Love Lucy. But if you picture Ricky Ricardo in argyle pants, a cardigan, and tassel spikes sticking his head over the lip of a trap yelling it, it gets a little funnier. No? Maybe it’s just me?

It also works when you hit other immovable obstructions like the clubhouse or a car. (done and done.)

The Lumber Yard

This, of course, is from the legendary Caddyshack. Ty Webb tries to teach Danny to hit a ball blindfolded. Ty has mentioned earlier that he owns a lumber yard but doesn’t know where it is.

Danny’s shot screams into the woods.

“Where’d it go?”

“Right in the lumber yard.”

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