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Definition of Golf stroke
1. Noun. The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it.
Generic synonyms: Shot, Stroke
Specialized synonyms: Downswing, Fade, Slice, Slicing, Draw, Hook, Hooking, Drive, Driving, Explosion, Putt, Putting, Approach, Approach Shot, Sclaff, Shank, Teeoff
Derivative terms: Swing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golf Stroke
Literary usage of Golf stroke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chick Evans' Golf Book by Charles Evans (1921)
"A good golf stroke does not necessarily proceed from a geometrical diagram.
It is a rhythmic movement that Hows through body and club. ..."
2. The Soul of Golf by Percy Adolphus Vaile (1912)
"The golf stroke in itself may be quite easily learned; I mean the true golf
stroke, and not the imaginary golf stroke, which has been built up for the ..."
3. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"The fact is that in the golf stroke, though the wrists are greatly used—so much
so that in some cases the whole stroke is made with them—nevertheless it is ..."
4. A-B-C of Golf by John Duncan Dunn (1916)
"Obviously the golf stroke must be more difficult to execute than either the
strictly horizontal hit in baseball or the strictly vertical blow in ..."
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