He might by a wonderfully lofted shot play the ball over the obstacle, but he would have to rise at such an angle that any length would be an impossibility, and he would be short of the green.
However, to the hesitating golfer, or to him whose mashie play so far has been somewhat disappointing, I give with confidence the advice to use a mashie which is very fairly lofted and which is deep in the blade.
There was the old-time golfer who lofted balls over the spire of St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, and another who tooled his gutty from Bruntsfield Links to the top of Arthur's Seat.
This is found to be a wonderfully interesting occupation, and presently they unstore the mashie or well-lofted iron in order to practise negotiating stymies--a form of practice which cannot fail to be useful in the forthcoming season.
And again he says: The strength of long putts can generally be more accurately regulated with a lofted putter than with a straight-faced one.
In all good cut shots with lofted clubs, the angle of the axis of spin is to a very great extent regulated by the amount of loft on the face of the club.
The result of this is that the ball is lofted over the other, and if hit properly it will run on and go out of sight as intended.
The club which produces the slice is always lofted in a greater or less degree, and quite often the natural loft is increased by the player designedly laying the face back during the stroke.
This is particularly the case with high loftedapproach shots.
Thus in both cases, of the very fast and the very slow green, the ball can be played without fear right up to the hole when the putter is so well lofted as I have recommended.
As a matter of fact it had been lofted high into the air and both I and the caddie had seen it with the most perfect distinctness.
The fact is that if the flooring of the tin is set at a certain angle this chucking out again of a ball lofted in becomes a dynamical certainty.
Ordering the puncher of the tactical error to follow, he lofted into his own saddle and was off in pursuit of his imported beef on the hoof.
The black proved a fore-and-after--pawed out ladylike blows with slender forefeet, then lofted his heels in a way that jarred the human aboard him more than the wary target.
They came to a block lofted with tenements on one side and shadowed by huge, cylindric gas tanks on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lofted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
