They tower so high above and so close to us that even with a mashie and a teed ball we are all too likely to err.
This is but the length of a mashie pitch, but what a difficult pitch it is!
Now the trees have been ruthlessly cut down, and we have a one-shot hole, demanding not a mashie but a brassey shot, very good and very orthodox.
It is surprising and rather humiliating to find how difficult it is to play a perfectly ordinary, straightforward mashie pitch, if only there are enough difficulties to strike terror into the soul.
That is indeed a great record, and, as we hack our ball along with a driving mashie out of a hard and flinty lie, narrowly avoiding the slaughter of a passing pedestrian, we feel that we are on hallowed ground.
This is the present twelfth hole, where in old days the tee-shot consisted of a mashie pitch, played mountains high into the air in order to clear the tops of a row of tall trees.
His mashie was in excellent repair, and he still had a dozen balls in his bag, it being his prudent practice always to start out with eighteen.
I kicked the ball on to a little bare mound, from which it was an easy task with a nice half-mashie to reach the green for a snappy seven.
Adeline is married to Cuthbert, and it was only his earnest pleading which prevented her from having their eldest son christened Abe Mitchell Ribbed-Faced Mashie Banks, for she is now as keen a devotee of the great game as her husband.
Vincent Jopp uttered a quavering moan, and his hand, as he took the mashie from his bag, was trembling like an aspen.
A handsome, well-set-up man, with no vices except a tendency to use the mashie for shots which should have been made with the light iron.
The real golfers play over with a good mashie shot that lands them dead on the green, but dubs, like Paisley, play around with two easy mid-iron shots.
Cutting round a stymie is nearly always included in the chapter on putting, but it is practically always a mashie stroke, and in the majority of cases is a very short pitch with a large amount of cut.
The difference between a mashie and a putter is roughly, say, three inches.
The mashie is drawn back from the ball in a perfectly straight line, and with the sole of it practically brushing, or no more than just clearing the green.
He saw the mashie flash in the air, some turf cut away, and a ball dropping on to the green.
I have played the shot myself repeatedly, and I have repeatedly seen perhaps the greatest master in the world of the cut mashie approach, to wit J.
Duncan took his mashie and played the stymie shot perfectly, "just in the usual way.
The best stymie stroke which can be played, is played without lifting the mashie or the niblick by so much as a fraction of an inch after the ball has been hit.
It is the bronze figure of a player whose mashie is in the position of that valuable iron club at the end of a short approach.
With a mashie at one hundred and twenty yards he dropped ball after ball within a short distance of a stake which served to indicate a cup.
There are no mashie shots to foozle, and no drives to top into the bunker in the House of Commons, to make a man feel that life is yet a feeble, disappointing thing.
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.
Doctor, although the General has laid his ball dead with his mashie with the like.
Woolwich, to know that a cable received at the Foreign Office this morning stated that the British Consul at Mogador had just holed out with a mashie shot.
He held it as an axiom that if a golfer kept his hand in with short mashie practise he would never be off his game.
Absolutely," Trent agreed, "take your mashie here and go back slowly and don't look up for three seconds after hitting the ball.
The mashie had something besides rust on it now, something wet, moist and sticky.
It required a good drive to get over a ridge of high ground; beyond was a brassey shot, then an iron, and a mashie on to the green.
This mashie is too heavy for me," he muttered to himself.
After hoeing the vegetables with a mashie for a hot two hours, I fought my way out of the rhubarb on all fours, with a golf-ball between my teeth, and then strode doggedly back to the tee and drove into the virgin artichoke forest.
For the first time in his life he made it in three--a long approach close to the green; a short mashieshot that trickled into the very cup.
Seaford is another very short ladies' course, which is yet splendid practice for iron and mashie shots.
The holes on these links vary in length from a full mashie shot to a distance that will require two or three strokes to reach the green.
Of all courses though, where accurate iron and mashie shots tell, the Hoylake Ladies' links at the Dale, take any amount of beating.
The mashie is one of the most useful clubs, for besides being your "right hand" in approach shots, it is simply indispensable when playing out of a bad lie, or whenever the ball is snugly reposing in some sand bunker.
Pip's ball was lying well up, and only a chip with his mashie was required to lay him dead.
Pip, impassive as ever, said nothing, but took hismashie and succeeded in reaching the green.
He came to the conclusion, as he returned to his unaccustomed pursuit, and fluffed mashie shot aftermashie shot, that there existed a Miss Besant at present entirely unrevealed.
Haven't you noticed he's been using a mashie--the same mashie every time?
When a bewitched mashie is pitted against an enchanted ball, there can obviously be none of the alternations and vicissitudes of Fortune which constitute the charm of Golf.
He was all right, barrin' themashie microbe, and he started in to put me next.
I don't know what a mashie is, but I do know what a highball bat is.
After a while you can't tell a mashie from a ball bat.
I believe he did several conjuring tricks during the course of the round, such as holding mashie pitches from the edge of the green.
I do not at all regret that labour; it was an excellent education; but there is no doubt that the mashie simplified the approaching problems.
Ironing range means a considerably longer distance with the rubber-cores than with the solid balls, and the distance gained by taking a brassey instead of a driving mashie or a cleek is as nothing compared with what it used to be.
It may be noted that this was all before the introduction of the mashie and while the use of the niblick for the approach was still looked on as a tour de force.
He used to swing the mashie very far back, in proportion to the distance that the ball had to go, and to let it come back to the ball very slowly, with very loose wrist.
If he wished to use a mashie the Bish would insist on the mid-iron.
Colonel Jimmy studied his lie for some time and went through all the motions, but when the shot came it was a beauty--a mashie pitch which landed his ball five feet from the cup.
Our seventeenth hole is a long one, par 5, and the approach to the putting green is guarded by an embankment, paralleled on the far side by a wide and treacherous sand trap, put there to encourage clean mashie pitches.
I give you a perfect drive--I leave you in a position where all you have to do is pop a little mashie over a bunker to the green--and see what a mess you've made of it!
Waddles, executing his second with mechanical precision, carried the deep ravine with his mashie and put the ball on the green for a sure four.
Cupid looked at the mashie niblicks and then he looked at Windy.
Wally played an instant later, a mashie shot intended to clear the trap, but he had been waiting too long and was burning up with impatience.
While Mary and Russell were discussing the theory of the mixed foursome old Bill made a terrific mashie shot out of the grass, and the ball reached the edge of the green.
The Elder-Smathers match came to Number Seventeen all square; but our man ended the suspense by dropping a beautiful mashie pitch dead to the pin from a distance of one hundred yards.
Harry Vardon himself can't drive with a mashie niblick!
It is longer because one has sometimes to play high lofting shots over trees and the like, and in such cases the loft of the mashie is necessary and a considerable amount of power as well--hence the extra stick.
If, after due contemplation of all the heavy risks, it is decided to make such an attempt, the stroke should be played very much after the fashion of the mashie approach with cut.
Again, on making a critical examination of these measurements, the golfer of a little experience will promptly ask why my mashieis an inch and a quarter longer than my iron.
It is properly classified as a mashie shot, but there are golfers who do it with an iron.
So much depends upon this part of the game, and so much upon the preferences and peculiarities of the player, that it is unlikely that the first mashie in which he invests will go alone with him through his experience as a golfer.
The driving mashie usually demands a good lie if it is to be played with any amount of success.
Generally all mashie shots may be separated into three groups.
He doesn't know how it happened; he thinks themashie must be the most difficult club in the world to play with, and he complains of his terrible luck; but by the time the approach shot to the next hole comes to be played he is at it again.
One partner may be particularly good at making a fairly full iron shot, but shaky indeed when it comes to a little pitch with the mashie over the bunker that guards the green.
Yet the absence of such ribbon bunkers does not prevent the man who likes to play his high mashie shots from still playing them.
But champion Taylor would take his mashie and play, perhaps, some fifteen yards above the cliff with all the cut that he could put upon the ball, and then he would be putting for a two.
Truly they are not, and those old traditions had nothing to do with gutties either; but Duncan Forbes would have rejoiced in the possession of a modern driver and mashie niblick.
Our cuadrilla of one, the little Spanish lad with the bag of clubs, advances and hands the putter, taking back the mashie which has done its business.
It is a kind of mashie niblick, David claiming to be the inventor of this type of club, but it is different from others in that it has a perfectly straight, flat sole and a concave face.
If you want to improve, go out with half a dozen balls and practise mashie shots on to a green.
But there were delightful incidents to balance these distressing ones: Frank holed a mashie shot at the sixteenth, and at the next David ran through two (not one) bunkers off a topped drive, and a third with his second shot.
So for the last week David had “slacked out” with a mashie and a putter, found a green that was not under water, and had put this hint into practice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mashie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
