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The golf course's good neighborhood, between the rough that eats balls and the green that ends suffering.
means The mowed, manageable strip of a golf hole running from tee to green, where the grass is short enough to let you actually hit the ball properly.
from Originally a nautical and navigational term — a 'fairway' was the clear, safe channel a ship could travel without running aground, the opposite of hazardous shoals. Golf borrowed the word in the 19th century for the same idea on land: the safe, clear passage between tee and green, as opposed to the rough and bunkers that wreck your 'voyage' toward the hole.
- origin
- nautical term for safe sailing channel
- grass height
- mowed to about half an inch
- irony
- narrowest part, yet named for fairness