Elsewhere: Golf Lingo

On the hallowed turf of The Times’s Sport section, Bill Pennington asked “Do you speak golf?”

Do you play for Barkies? Or Arnies? Do you avail yourself of the breakfast ball and love a good game of Bingo, Bango, Bongo?

Have you found yourself dormie, stymied, plugged or in the cabbage?

Have you dubbed it, shrimped it, shanked it, dinked it or duck-hooked it? And do you know the difference? Have you hit a scooter? How about one in the side door?

Are you a sandbagger? A pigeon? A player? A hooker?

Do you know who lovingly called his putter Billy Baroo?

In other words, are you conversant in the dialect of golf? Do you not only play golf but also revel in all of its idiosyncratic, peculiar lingo?

If, like Schott’s Vocab, you hit five, shout fore, and card three you can add your golf nomenclature to Mr. Pennington’s splendid piece here.