sand wedge
Definition
- Noun:
- A golf club designed for hitting a golf ball out of a sand trap (bunker): A "sand wedge" is a type of golf club with a heavy, angled head (loft) specifically engineered to lift a ball from soft surfaces like sand or deep grass.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- He selected his sand wedge to play the shot from the bunker.
- A good sand wedge is essential for any golfer's short game.
- She practiced her bunker shots with the sand wedge for an hour.
Advanced Usage
- "to use a sand wedge": To employ this specific club for a shot.
- For this lie in the rough, you might want to use a sand wedge instead of a pitching wedge.
Variants and Related Words
- Wedge (n): A broader category of golf clubs with a high loft, including the pitching wedge, gap wedge, lob wedge, and sand wedge.
- Bunker (n): A hollow filled with sand on a golf course, often called a sand trap.
- Lob wedge (n): A golf club with even more loft than a sand wedge, used for very high, short shots.
Synonyms
- Sand iron (n): An older, less common term for a sand wedge.
Related Phrases
- "Open the face of the sand wedge": A technique where the clubface is angled to the right (for a right-handed player) to increase loft and bounce when hitting from sand.
- To get the ball out softly, remember to open the face of the sand wedge at address.
Noun
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a wedge used to get out of sand traps
