mashie
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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
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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
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
In the lovely brick and half-timbered clubhouse-cum-museum, where it is 1926 still, the mashie hangs in the upstairs clubroom beneath an enormous portrait of Jones.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 16, 2012
And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2010
I believe he did several conjuring tricks during the course of the round, such as holding mashie pitches from the edge of the green.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
The others are from days of mashies and niblicks: Harry Cooper and Macdonald Smith.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 26, 2020
Also performing well were the "patent clubs," all those weird specialty clubs from the turn of the century -- water mashies, rake irons, mammoth-headed niblicks, roller-sole putters and adjustable-head irons.
From Golf Digest ● May 31, 2012
Still, while other golfers with such abominable luck might be smashing their mashies and pulverizing their putters, Norman's confidence remains unshaken.
From Time Magazine Archive
Girl champions appeared played for a few years, then got married and forgot their mashies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Approach-work never was so dire, No mashies on this earth expire So near the tin; You ought to watch his tee-shots whizz At number nine.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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