CLICHES



These are just a few, and I know there are a lot more out there. If you have any you would like to share, email me and I will post them and see that you get credit for it.


THE DRIVE

Do I make you horny? - To playing partners after good drive.

Who's your daddy!?! - Said after someone in the group spanks a drive

Shogs'ed it - Hitting the ground first with the driver, but with a good result

A Teddy - A short drive into the water

Angel gooser - Really high tee shot

HOS - Hands of Stone (big hitter but no touch around the green)

Smack it good one time!! - hit a long drive

Let the big dog eat - Hit your driver

Red Ass - murdering the next tee shot after just missing a short bogey putt on the previous hole

Pitching wood - said as partner skies their drive

"Duck!!" - What is said to the rest of the group when the driver is about to be thrown - Lynn F.

Juan Es Alto - another saying after someone skies a drive (from beavis and butt-head)

He has spoken! - after an awsome drive during a bad day

300 yard drive - said on a skied tee shot. as in, 100 up, 100 out, and 100 down

Hit it OB Wan Kenobe - after o.b. wan kenobe from star wars

You the man - excellent drive

OOhhh,baby! you'd better put a stewardess on that one!!!! - shouted after your partner hits a high, long drive

Totally out of character - said when you hit an unsually perfect drive

Give me the lumber - time for a big shot (a wood)

Tee it high, let it fly ~ tee'm high, hit'm far - salutation

Dick-out (D-O) - when you don't hit your drive past the ladies tees

The only driving you've done all day is on the way here

A long way the wrong way - said after someone hits a bad shot off of the tee

Got both cheeks into it - said after hitting a very long drive

Alot of postage, no address - long drive with no accuracy

Deep compression - long tee shot

You crushed that one - long tee shot

That'll play - said after a mediocre drive

Don't touch it Lord - said when someone skies their tee shot

Put your skirt on - didn't hit the drive past the ladies tee

Not far but straight - said when someone whiffs a tee shot

Nice wedge! - said after someone skies a driver

Elephant ass - when you or your partner gets under the drive too much, high and stinky

Boy, you really slapped that bitch! - told to a playing partner who smokes a drives

Houston... we have a problem - for very high tee shots

Prove your a man, let it hang out this hole - said to a man whose drive does not reach the ladies tee


THE SAND TRAP

Bogey dust - sand trap

Kitty box - sand trap

Bogey dust - sand trap

Piss Poor Marine - when you fail to get it out of the bunker and it just dies on the beach

Sunny side up - when your ball is burried in a sand trap and only half of the ball is visible

Sand bass - when the ball hits the sand and it splashes sand up

Lawrence of Arabia - you (or your buddy) has been in the sand all day!

Rommell - hit from one sand trap into another sand trap

Archie - ball in a sand trap

Into the kitty litter with all the other sh**! - a bad one into the trap

Life is a beach - hit into a sand trap


OUT OF BOUNDS

OBPLHA - out of bounds, probably lost, hit again

A.M.F. - ball gone out of bounds is adios mother f**ker!


EXCUSES

I'm not really slicing, the planets are improperly aligned - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, if I had hit that one a little farther and straighter it would have been perfect - oh yeh

I've never played this bad before - this one always falls on deaf ears

I shot 84, but it could have been 78 - said always every round

Its not me, its the distance markers - what to say when your ego is hurt by your short distance


MISCELLANEOUS

I play in the 70's. - Any hotter, and I have to go inside.

The Hillary - The ugliest hole in the State of New York. Nothin' but the the worst lies, shady green and a hole.

A Hillary Scorecard - A card that uses altered numbers to improve it's appearance.

Beer Wench - The girl that drives the refreshment cart

Jerry Springer moment - throwing a temper tantrum on the course

"Got Weiskoffed" - to get berated by a fellow player

This is economy golf - Getting the price down to a dime a stroke by way of bad play

Sorry my dad didn't glue a club to my hand - when you're partner tells you you are no Tiger Woods

I am not Tiger Woods! - when you really, really suck

Every conceivable risk day! - this is a day when all golfers in the group (probably hung-over) agree to forgoe all traditional golfing logic and play the most risky shot at all times

Human rain delay - a slow player

I can play a lot better than this - I just never have - after taking your usual double on the shortest par 3 on the course

UFB - Unf---ing believeable

Loft - lack of f**king talent. as in what's your problem - loft!

Cart path golf - look to see which side of the fairway the cart path runs.for cart path only days

FISO - F**k!, I'm still out

Don't let the dog out - don't choke during a good day

If the queen had balls she'd be king - said when someone gives an "if" excuse

A grass sloth - a realy slow player

Thank you very little - said after someone compliments you on what you feel is a mediocre shot (from caddyshack)

Monkeyboy golf - when you are in the trees all day hunting for your balls

You're swinging really well - you're just swing too often!

7-woods and dirty books help old men keep it up - said to a young buck just took for $10 a hole

That's your problem pal, you're always looking up - found this written on the inside of a golf cart just above my head

"Ok, pick up your sh*t and lets go"- To the player who isn't on the green yet but is laying double par. - Scott A.

Deep woods - when your partner shanks a long one into the bush

I came, I saw, I left them in awe!! - reserved for Tiger Woods

Army golf - playing the rough (ie left-right-left-right)

Golf cart management ~ cart golf - said when you and your riding partner hit shots to the same spot.

We've got it surrounded - when several balls are on the green evenly spaced around the hole

Brain fart - bad decision

Hard times - nothing works that day

Gargle peanutbutter - when someone chokes

Swallowed his/her apple - choked

Just hold four fingers up - instead of yelling

I've got my veggie game today - said to your playing partners when your game is lifeless and shows little sign of a pulse.


THE PUTT

"Stewart, give me the ol' Billy Baroo" - Said by Judge Shmalles in Caddyshack

You have to get off the Estragen - Said when your partner keeps putting short

Put the flaps down - when a putt is flying past the hole

Too much Paisan - You putted too hard

Gimme - an agreement between two people who can't putt.

Take the rake - to concede a putt (rake it away)

Grow brakes - When your ball tears past the hole.

That putt was longer than my first marriage- self explanatory

Get it close - Said to an opponent about to putt a 3-4 footer to win the hole

A Linda Lovelace - When a player chokes or gags on a short shot or putt

Tastes like chicken - getting a birdie.

Never up never in - said after putt is left short

Did you get that putter caught up in your skirt? - This is said to a player that leaves an important putt short - by a large margin - my apologies to the ladies...

Grab a chair! } Shouted to your putted ball as it shoots past the hole!

GROW HAIR!! - shouted at your putted ball as it shoots past the hole!!

Hit a house! - watching your putt sail by the hole

I'd one-putt if the hole had hair! - self explainatory

A little meat left on that bone - when you have left a long second putt

Pull the trigger!! - said or yelled at someone who stands over a shot/putt too long.

USA - Your still away

Whip cream on dog shit - sinking a long put to make a nine.

Never up, never in - the quintessential cliche. no description needed.

Call 911 - when someone chokes a short putt or starts hitting several poor shots in a row.

Nice touch, hulk - 6 inch putts goes by 2 feet

Nice choke, Sprewell - left a 6 inch putt 1 inch short.

He's got powder burns on his hands - said after a short putt

A little light in the loafers - hit a putt too easy

Write when you get work - spoken to a putt that has just past the hole and is still going hard

That was about as close as ice cream is to shit - badly missed putt

Dolly parton - a putt which uses all of the cup, same as victory lap

Just like a teenager, it went off in your hands - said to playing partner who just blasted a putt 8 feet past the hole

We knew there was a hole somewhere - after someone in you foursome finally sinks a putt

3 jack - 3 putt a green

Wessley to the bridge - said when a putt is hit way to hard (wessly crusher from star trek)

A mick jagger - a major lip-out putt

Hit a wall! - yelled when you've obviously hit the ball too hard on a putt

Your bra strap slip? ~ got my putter stuck in my bra - does your husband play golf? ~ hit it with your purse!

Groin putt - short testy (testes) putt in the 4-6 foot range

Tote your tapper - putt is outside the gimmee range. you have to putt again

That ball is afraid of the dark - said after putt just misses the hole

I haven't 4 putted in 3 years - hey, ya know, sometimes this one is actually true

Tote your tapper - putt is outside the gimmee range. you have to putt again

That ball is afraid of the dark - said after putt just misses the hole

Come down here and fight like a man! - said staring at the sky when you miss a short putt

It's not the putter, it's the putz - questions?

Ninety percent of all putts left short don't go into the hole - supposedly said by Lee Trevino after a short putt!

Sh*t or get off the pot - for those who feel it is neceassary to eye a 3 inch putt for 10 minutes

Would you like the pin in or out - said when a putt goes off the green

Too much gorilla - said about a putt which blows past the hole and off the green

Full flaps - yelled when you've obviously hit the ball too hard on a putt

Skirt blew up - said after a very bad putt, usually a short putt left short

Shark bit - missed an easy putt, or always the brides maid.

Stunted growth - short putt

That put broke six inches, straight down - said when one holes a putt

Hit it right in the liver - putt that goes in the side of the cup

Just like you sex life - said after a putt is hit short and not hard enough

Victory lap ~ all-around good putt - ball goes all the way around the hole before falling into the hole

UUEE - The ball comes back at you after hitting the hole.

Louder! - putting and not quite making it to the hole!

Haiti putt ~ third world putt } just one more revolution!

LPGA putt - goes both ways

Honeymoon putt - goes off in your hands

Alice - a putt that comes up short, golfer has no b***s

Mother-in-law putt - nothing but lip

Had it right in the hear - said when a putt is right at the hole but left a little short

Is it hard to putt in high heels - said to some who leaves putt short

Lot of chicken left on that bone - after leaving a long putt way short

Gas too expensive today - putting short


THE CARD

On the Satan Train - three 6's in a row

A Clinton - The response you give when you don't want to admit how many strokes you took on a hole

Dog balls - the ever-popular "8" on the scorecard

Snowman - an eight, 8

Took a Troy Aikman - take an eight on a hole


THE SHOT

Oh Shit !! - An explanation of how the ball will probably end up after a particularly bad shot....

Mole Shagger !! - Similar to a worm worrier - where your ball bounds along the ground, threatening to kill anything in it's path !!

A Slick Willy - A short, thin shot that hooks to the left.

Redneck wedge - a shot, sliced into deep woods, which, inexplicably, comes careening back onto the fairway after smacking a tree

Hitting it Monica - a shot that is fat and it sucks

Get funky in the bedroom - said as ball is flying dangerously close to hole

Lewinsky'd - A shot that requires a little clean up.

Some Scooby - as in Scooby doo, Screw, when the ball spins back

Bipli - you've taken way too many stokes -- you pick up, put the ball in your pocket and declare a bipli -- Ball In Pocket Lost Interest.

Like a homesick gopher - ball that cruises along the green and dives into the hole

Happy ball - taking mulligans on the same shot until you are happy.

E.A. (elephant's ass) - it's high and it stinks (said of a skied tee shot)

Give me Lot-O-Room - what you say when you slice a ball right, hoping that it goes far enough right to give you room for a shot

Hit a house - when you steam roll a putt 10 feet past the hole

Chunky monkey - when you hit a shot fat

Like a man with one arm in a wood chopping contest - description of how you hit the ball when you hack

Caveman golf - someone who swings as hard as possible on every shot " me hit ball, me hit ball far"

Long Dong - someone who's a long hitter

Into the furniture - Ball struck into the trees.

Get a barkie - To get up and down immediately after hitting a tree.

The best ball I hit all day was when I stepped on the rake on 17. - 19th hole revelry.

Grip it an' Rip it - duh!!

Like f*****g your sister - It's all the way up there but you're not proud of it

Drive for show. putt for dough... - no explantaion needed

Nutted it - hit it just right

Wow you hit that one wfr! - way f*****g right

Gay golf - You never go straight

Your chances are slim and none, and slim just left town - nuff said

Its like a f*****g magnet - the woods

At least it went left this time - after being right all day

Hit the ball in the nuts - Striking the ball slightly below the waist (thin)

Tomahawked - Hitting the ball really thin (almost cutting it in half)

Chew Grass - shouted at the ball when you want an approach shot to stop or spin back

Grow teeth - wanting the ball to stop on the green

Tin Cup - a player repeatitively tries impossible shot, makes big score on the hole (also could be a Jon Daly)

Jizz - backspin

Had some spunk on that one - knocking a shot well past the hole

Hit it a little skanky - a bad shot (shank)

Got all of that one - said when player duffs or shanks a shot

Get in the hole! - said after a player hits a very poor shot that is head nowheres near the hole

Knife - 1 iron

Standing too close to the ball, after you hit it! - self-explainatory!

UBU - ugly but useful- said of a bad shot that has a good result

Roots - a clean and shallow divot on tour

Got a little bark-spin on that one! - used when you hit the ball into the trees and it bounces back onto the fairway or other good condition.

That one's longer than train smoke! - a really long hit.

Grub check - taking a very large, deep divot

Do you eat with those hands? - said to your buddy after he hits a particularly bad chip or putt

It's a condom - it's up there and safe but you don't like it

A Thurman Munson - a dead yank

Thank the monkeys - said when golfer benefits from hitting a tree

I see you played a little float on that shot (or) next time less fade / draw and more float - said to golfer who skims shot off a water hazard to safety/shot skips on water hazard before drowning

That's where bears go to die - when someone hits deep into the woods

Mulligan - take a free stroke sometime during the game

Right church, wrong pew - said when the shot has the direction but not the right distance

It's an Eddie - known in vermont as a relatively good shot but the golfer who hit it complains as he hits it (or right after)

Ugly with big tits - a terrible shot that goes in the hole

One in a row - after you finally hit a decent shot

Well at least it's in the fairway - self explanatory

Right club, wrong address - a shot off line

"Oh he gotta-holda-dat-one" - said with an accent like Bill Murray in Caddy Shack

Pay the man - bad shot

You're standing too close to the ball - after you've hit it !

Indians - yelled as a partner hits a ball toward the woods to try to scare the ball back into the fairway

Spank it and yank it - different from yank it and spank it, this version I use means you totally overswing and pull it 90 degress.

Oprah Golf - when you alternately hit your shots fat and thin. your partners will likely start saying you go girl! after every shot

A Nelson - Rockefeller

A darth fader - a slice

Hang wang - let it all out on a shot.

Chili-dipper - miss-hit sending ball rolling about 5ft.

Sit down! - said to a shot that is rolling to far

Susy-patch - a very long, wide divot

Gopher killer - same as worm burner

Thats the most wood you've got on one all day - said when a player hits a tree rock solid when having a very bad driving day (not as effective since metal woods, but still humorous.)

The lug nuts are gettin loose now - said when a strong player for the day starts to hit a few wayward shots late in the round (a prelude to the wheels are comin off!)

Cutting a beaver pelt - taking a very large divot

Grass granny - after a big divot

Weedwacker deluxe - an extremely large divot

I was keeping it out of the wind - said after you've hit a worm burner

Jump all over it - really spanking a shot

Jack it & wack it - same as yank it & spank it

Give it some monkey juice - put some power into it

Look up, see a bad shot - when you raise your head before completing your swing

You had some good stuff on that one - said after somone hits a shot which obviously has a lot of action or spin on it

Texas bug f****r - another name for worm burner

Put some dookie on it - make the ball stick and backup

PBFU - post birdie f*** up. usually stated when a birdie is followed by a double bogey - Clay W.

Crack another egg - hit another ball(provisional)

Looks like a dead cat flying - a large long divot flying through the air

Worm burner - a very low hit

Reload - after you hit one out of bounds

Stop shanking!! - once you get the shanks - Fish (R.H.)

Ungulunka - Indian for "way right" - Fish (R.H.)

Shank you! - shank you very much

"Billy Williams" - Said when a ball starts heading for a tree or trees hoping it will bounce out in the fairway

Champion Genes - Happens to the Champion family of golfers when the ball is heading for the trees it will bounce out in the fairway 95% of the time - Walt C.

Oh the humanity! - what you yell after an extremely bad shot

Better throw a provisional - when your partner angrily throws a club but it's not in the fairway

That'll play - what your playing partner says when you hit the ball, but not all that well

Hit the big ball - duff the ball and hit the earth first

Casual golf - what does not land in the fairway is regarded as casual water

Leaving nothing in you bag - when you (or a buddy) swings so hard, you do a 360, and almost auger yourself into the ground

Marine corps golf - left-right-left-right...

Blew by you - you hit your drive past your buddies and call it a Linda Ronstat

Fore Lord! - your partner yells this after you hitting a ball a mile in the air

U.S.A - you shoot again,

"Your still out" - three most common used words on the course

A liz taylor - a little fat but not bad

A Shelly Winters - real fat and ugly

A Rush Limbaugh - fat and ugly and right

A Hilary Clinton - ugly and left

Boy, this course is hard! - what say after whiffing the ball completely

The best wood in your bag is a pencil - enough said

Having a golf experience - standing over the ball way to long

On the dance floor but can't hear the music~on the dance floor but can't see the band ~your dancing "Need a fog horn" - in the direction of the hole when your ball is on the wrong side of a very large green

Yank it & spank it - fast play golf

Mandy - topping the ball, rolling all the way, and ending up 12 inches from the pin. you weren't very proud of the hit, but it sure feels and ends up good!!


THE WATER

A JFK, Jr. - dump 3 in the water

A Ted Kennedy - dump one in the water

Like a Cuban immigrant you'll need a raft - a ball hit into the water

Hit a Brook Shields - dump one in the water (blue lagoon)

Jacques cousteau - when a ball lands in the middle of a water hazard

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