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Golf's quiet confession: the swing that separates heroes from scorecards.
means A short, gentle stroke used to roll the ball along the green and into the hole.
from From Scottish dialect, a variant of 'put' meaning to push or shove gently — golf's old vocabulary of propulsion, shrunk down to its smallest, most delicate gesture.
- stroke count
- half of all golf shots are putts
- origin
- scots word for a gentle push or shove
- distance illusion
- greens make slopes look flatter than they are
- yips
- a psychological tremor with its own name