mashie

American  

[mash-ee] / ˈmæʃ i /

Also mashy

noun

Golf.

plural

mashies

1. a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mashie iron but less slope than a mashie niblick.

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mashie British  

/ ˈmæʃɪ /

noun

1. golf (formerly) a club, corresponding to the modern No. 5 or No. 6 iron, used for approach shots

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Etymology

Origin of mashie

First recorded in 1880–85; perhaps from French massue “club,” from unattested Vulgar Latin matteūca, derivative of unattested matte(a) “mallet, club”; see mace ¹

Example Sentences

Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025

Some newspaper reports say the epiphany came on the ninth fairway at Pine Valley when he hit a spade mashie to five feet, but I like the Miracle of the Bridge.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 26, 2017

But forget about carrying the golf clubs unless your collection is limited to a single niblick or mashie.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

He got his first golf club — a hickory-shaft mashie, similar to the modern 5-iron — and taught himself the game.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2013

In the pleasure excited by a perfect drive, a perfect brassie-shot, and an ill-fated, ill-judged, but clean full mashie, he had lost sight of the other's existence.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard