| 单词 | approach play |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapproach play 11. Golf. The play or stroke by which a player hits the ball on to the putting-green or approaches the hole; chiefly attributive, as approach play, approach shot, approach stroke. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of play putting1690 short game1858 approach1879 iron play1879 pitch1889 duffing1890 hook1890 loft1890 lofting1895 slicing1899 bunkering1909 socketing1911 shanking1924 foozling1927 Stableford1937 shotmaking1969 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 765/2 Having got within some moderate distance of it [sc. a hole], he proceeds to make his ‘approach shot’. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 765/2 The ‘approach’ and the ‘putting’ are by far the most difficult..parts of the game. 1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf viii. 155 There are four clubs used for ordinary approach work—the putter, the cleek, the iron, and the mashy. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 2/3 Plenty of opportunities still will be afforded for approach strokes. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 2/3 Approach play is not to be considered in laying out a hole. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress i. 23 Does it [sc. love] make you slice your approach-shots? 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 173 His approach-putting has to be seen to be believed. < as lemmas |
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