Golf Terminology

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  • impact - Moment when the club strikes the ball.
  • impediment - Loose debris that you can remove from around your ball as long as the ball doesn’t move.
  • Impregnable Quadrilateral - The Grand Slam.
  • improve your lie - To move the ball to make a shot easier. This is illegal unless local rules dictate otherwise.
  • in play - Within the confines of the course (not out-of-bounds).
  • in your pocket - After you’ve picked up the ball! (Generally after you finish a hole without holing out.)
  • insert - Plate in the face of wooden clubs.
  • inside - Area on your side of a line drawn from the ball to the target.
  • inside out - Clubhead moves through the impact area on a line to the right of the target. Most tour players do this. (See also outside in.)
  • intended line - The path on which you imagine the ball flying from club to target.
  • interlocking - Type of grip where the little finger of the right hand is entwined with the index finger of the left.
  • into out - Swing path whereby the clubhead moves across the ball-target line from left to right.
  • investment cast - Clubs made from a mold.


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