Across
- 2. - Slang for sand trap.
- 3. in the Stance - At address means that you stand with the ball closer to your right foot than to your left foot (right-handed golfer). When hitting a wedge, for instance, it is generally accepted that you should have the ball back in your stance.
- 6. - Used on fairways that are designed to provide blind shots during the course of normal play, it is common to see a ship-style bell on the cart path near the green. The bell is to be rung when the group ahead leaves the green so as to alert the group playing behind that it is now safe for them to hit their approach shots. At WCC, they are used on the 14th and 16th holes.
- 8. - The nature rule of golf where the player farthest from the hole is the first to play, as in "Who's away?" In certain circumstances on the putting green, however, particularly in medal competition, a player who has already putted once may hole out before her partner, who may be further from the hole, takes her shot.
- 9. Gross Score - Your score after you apply your handicap stroke allowance.
- 10. - If you play in a tournament, you will submit your score card at the conclusion of each round. You will sign your score card as testimony that you stand behind the accuracy of those numbers you wrote onto the card. But there is another person who must also sign your score card. And that is one of the golfers who played with you and will vouch for the accuracy of your score card. To "attest" means to say that you were a witness to the score that someone else posted
- 11. - when your ball hits any part of a tree and you still complete the hole with a par.
- 12. - Reverse spin applied to the ball and prevents it from bouncing forward after landing; same as 'bite'.
- 13. - Someone in your foursome who talks a lot during the round.
- 15. - the final position taken by a golfer just before the swing.
- 16. - The backspin imparted on the ball
Down
- 1. Foot - Refers to the golfer's foot, farthest from the target when addressing the ball. In this illustration, the back foot would be the one to the right. The "front foot" is the left one, closest to the target.
- 4. - To get better air circulation into the soil underneath the turf of a golf course. This is necessary for the health of the microbes that live in the topsoil. Grass depends upon these microbes because they convert the nitrogen of fertilizer into a form that the grass can use. Aeration takes the form of poking holes (or slits) into the turf every few inches.
- 5. Shot - Another twist of stoke play. In this format one player hits the drive and then the other player hits the next shot and so forth until the hole is completed. The score recorded is the same manner as stroke play.
- 6. Ball - A match in which one player plays against the better or two balls or the best ball of three players. Also the better score of two partners in a four-ball or best-ball match.
- 7. - Normally a short or medium shot played to the putting green or pin – commonly referred to as the "approach shot."
- 8. the flag - To hold and then remove the flag while another player putts. A common courtesy performed when playing a round of golf.
- 11. - A score of one under par on any given hole.
- 14. - A hole in one.