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"professional average result" sounds like a backronym to me, especially as the word 'par' has a meaning of 'equality' that predates golf. Does anyone have a reference for this supposed acronym? Varitek 16:30, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thinking about it, 'par' presumably predates professionalism, too. It's gotta be a backronym. Varitek 16:31, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Golf professionalism predates the first use of "par" (with respect to golf), which, according to the OED, was first used in 1898. Old Tom Morris, among others, was considered a professional some 30 years before, during the 1860's. This acronym has roughly the same legitimacy as the "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden" expression for the word "golf." -turnberry 15 Dec 2004

i.e., none whatsoever . . . Varitek 21:34, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 wikilinks 2 Gimmes vs conceded strokes 3 Sandbagging 4 Nineteenth Hole 5 glaring omission 6 2007-02-7 Automated pywikipediabot message 7 Schreckbagger 8 For the Car Bounce

[edit] wikilinks

Birdie links to an article about the shuttlecock, chip, drive and shank to disambiguation pages that don't even mention golf, eagle and albatross to articles about the birds, and so on (I haven't tested them all). There seems to be no point in linking most of these terms to anything. Shantavira 17:44, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

I have now checked and removed all the spurious wikilinks as there is never likely to be a whole article about most of these terms. The links were just misleading. Shantavira 13:09, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gimmes vs conceded strokes

Can anyone elucidate the precise distinction here? At first wink it looks like terminology, or "formality" thereof or otherwise. Alai 04:08, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbagging

I don't think that it's a case of "most golfers consider it cheating" I think it's pretty straight forward lying or misrepresentation. The USGA rules of golf describe it at http://www.usga.org/playing/rules/rules_of_golf.html in section 6-2 and 6-6b. Basically giving a handicap that a golfer is not entitled to disqualifies him or her

[edit] Nineteenth Hole

Is it appropriate to add a reference to "The Nineteenth Hole" ? This is very common slang, in the UK at least, meaning the club house and specifically the bar in the club house. It is easily citable but may not be appropriate in a Glossary of Terms....?

[edit] glaring omission

Someone with a command of both concepts and simplified explanation should undertake "Through the green", the most ubiquitous term in the rules of golf

Undertaken. Paul M. Parks (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:05, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-02-7 Automated pywikipediabot message

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[edit] Schreckbagger

"Schreckbagger" looks like a plant to me, and it was also translated to wiktionary. Discussing here because of greater visibility...

Specifically, aside from the form of the definition (ps?), it is above Sandbagger rather than the appropriate alphabetical space.

...And I've never heard it, but I'm sure there are many words that come into that class. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.9.250.6 (talk) 02:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

This is pretty clearly vandalism. It was added in 23 October 2006 by an anonymous user who also made other unexplained and somewhat odd changes. The "has a swing like a dying octopus" (from his description for "Hack") might somehow mean something concrete in golf, but it looks like a plain insult. (Edit: Was not, in fact, removed. The words "dying octopus" were also still there, literally. I find this hard to believe.)

Almost all 56 Google hits for "Schreckbagger" are references or quotes from this article. I think that says it all.

--- Arancaytar - avá artanhé (reply) 15:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't see why a link to http://www.golfrewind.com/ is necessary. Looks like an easy way to drive traffic.

[edit] For the Car Bounce

Anyone really ever heard of this term? I intend to delete it. Also, hardly belongs under 'J'. JJ (talk) 13:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)