Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.