baffy

American  

[baf-ee] / ˈbæf i /

noun

Golf.

plural

baffies

1. a short, wooden club with a steep-sloped face, for lofting the ball.

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Etymology

Origin of baffy

First recorded in 1885–90; baff + -y ²

Example Sentences

The baffy demands, for the achievement of such success as it can afford, a fairly good lie, and when this is given it is a tolerably easy club to play with.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

As Ambrose often tells us, the baffy is a sweet little club to have in the bag—provided, of course, you have the nerve to use it.

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van

It may surprise the student of history not to find the "baffy" put down in the list; but as a matter of fact the baffy had passed out of common use by this date.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.

"I fear he doesn't know a bulger from a baffy," he added sorrowfully.

From The Half-Back by Barbour, Ralph Henry

I got off a good tee-shot straight down the fairway, took a baffy for my second, and—— But that is not the point.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)