Golf Phrases

Phrases

• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• Ace in the hole
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• After the ball was over
• Ahead of the game
• Air shot
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• An albatross round his neck
• Anyone's game
• As game as Ned Kelly
• Ball achingly good
• Ball and chain
• Ball of fire
• Beaten at your own game
• Behind the eight ball
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Blame game
• Blown off course
• Bolt hole
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Burn a hole in your pocket
• But of course
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Carry the ball
• Cat and mouse game
• Chart a course
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Club together
• Correspondence course
• Course you can, Malcolm (Vick's Sinex Nasal Spray advertising slogan)
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Crash course
• Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Different ball game
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Drop the ball
• Eagle eyed
• Eagle freak
• Eddie The Eagle (Nickname of Eddie Edwards)
• End of the ball game
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fair game
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Fire in the hole
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fits you to a tee
• Fixing A Hole (Beatles song)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Frisbee golf (A game based on golf but using frisbees rather than balls)
• Game bird
• Game brain
• Game changer
• Game of two halves
• Game on
• Game over
• Game plan
• Game set and match
• Game time
• Game to the last
• Get the ball rolling
• Give the game away
• Glee club
• Glory hole
• Godforsaken hole
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Grass widow
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Guessing game
• Have a ball
• Have the ball at your feet
• Hell hole
• High ball
• Hole in one
• Hole in the wall
• Hole out
• How do you spell soap? Why P-E-A-R-S, of course (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• I'm game
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• In a hole
• In due course
• In the club
• In the pudding club
• It's in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
• It's just a game
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's only a game
• Join the club
• Karma Chameleon (Culture Club song)
• Keep the ball rolling
• Keep your eye on the ball
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Legal eagle
• Let nature take its course
• Lift your game

• Link farm
• Link rot
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Love in This Club (Usher with Young Jeezy song)
• Make the cut
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Matter of course
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Miss the cut
• Missing link
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Nineteenth hole
• Numbers game
• Off course
• On a collision course
• On the ball
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Par for the course
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Play a waiting game
• Play ball
• Play from the tips
• Play the game
• Play the percentage game
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put the wood in the hole
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Run its course
• Run with the ball
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Shell game
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shut your cake hole
• Shut your pie hole
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Skin in the game
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Spot the ball
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Square peg in a round hole
• Start the ball rolling
• Stay on course
• Stay the course
• Suits you down to a tee
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Take a Mulligan
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• Tee Bee (Nickname of Terrell Brandon)
• That's the way the ball bounces
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• The Eagle has landed
• The Great White Shark (Nickname of Greg Norman)
• The Grey Eagle (Nickname of Tris Speaker)
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Ol' Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Queen of TV Comedy (Nickname of comedienne Lucille Ball)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The ball is in your court
• The beautiful game
• The belle of the ball
• The blame game
• The clean plate club
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The mile high club
• The mint with the hole (Polo Mints advertising slogan)
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The old ball and chain
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The way the ball bounces
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Top hole
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Two can play at that game
• Up your game
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• Watering hole
• We drink all we can, the rest we sell (Utica Club advertising slogan)
• What's your game?
• When you are in a hole, stop digging
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Whole ball of wax
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You are the weakest link, goodbye (A catchphrase from The Weakest Link)
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground
• Zero sum game