I wouldn't 'ave belleeved that meer wood and iron could 'ave done the work that that one German niblick did wivout turning an 'air.
I wispered to 'im that 'e must play steddy and use the niblick whenever possibul.
Illustrate the finer points of distinction between (a) a niblickand a gutty; (b) a bye and a bulger.
N was his Niblickaround my head shaken: O was the Oil poured on waters so stormy, P was the Putt which, next hole, made me dormy.
Mister Schwabstein put down a new ball, wiv a sort of groan, and pulled it wiv 'is niblick right rarnd into the rough.
I see a member of the House of Peers Within an ace of bursting into tears, When, after six stout niblick shots, his ball Lies worse than if he had not struck at all.
And the way that thick strong niblickeat into the turf was enuff to brake the 'art of 'Enery Wilks.
It was niblick play and 'ope all rarnd the blooming course.
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.
His spirits, so low but a few moments back, soared like a good niblick shot out of the bunker of Gloom.
Besides, even leaving out of the question the fact that he can do things with a niblick that I didn't think anybody except the pro.
The niblickis used for taking it out of especially bad situations.
If the ball gets into a worse position, as a bunker or sandpit, the use of the cleek, iron or niblick will become necessary.
Myra took a niblickand got the ball back into the middle of the floor.
Excuse me," I shouted as I ran quickly after it, and I got my niblick on to it just as it was disappearing.
I hooked my drive off the tee and down a little gully to the left, put a good iron shot into a bunker on the right, and than ran down a hundred-yard putt with a niblick for a three.
I raked up an old copy of Strumers with theNiblick for him, and read bits of the Telephone Directory out aloud.
I hooked my drive off the tee and down a little gully to the left, put a good iron shot into a bunker on the right, and then ran down a hundred-yard putt with a niblick for a three.
Excuse me," I shouted, as I ran quickly after it, and I got my niblick on to it, just as it was disappearing.
Then with a resolute quiet action, he broke his niblick across his knee.
Presently the exasperated diplomat ceased his objurgations, swung his niblick once more and tried to get out.
If I did not, then would it be apt to run a long the ground like a beetle instead of soaring like a bird, and mayhap, for thou seest how rough and tangled is the grass before us, I should have to use a niblick for my second.
My last glimpse of them showed me that her ball had fallen into a stone-studded cavity in the side of the hill, and she was drawing her niblick from her bag as I passed out of sight.
It had taken him ten with the niblick to get back on to the car tracks, and this had taught him prudence.
I shall use a mashie-niblick and chip my ball aboard, row across to the other side, chip it ashore, and carry on.
I knew that for weeks, day in and day out, the niblick had hardly ever been out of his hand, and no constitution can stand that.
Ramsden reached for his niblick and plunged into the bushes.
It is difficult to judge distance where sounds are concerned, but Mortimer estimated that the voice had spoken about a short mashie-niblick and an easy putt from where he stood.
It was as if my ball had fallen into the pit which my niblick had digged.
If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
Ralph Bingham had broken his mashie-niblick across his knee.
If I have to play it where it lies, I suppose a niblick would be the club?
I go out with that man Hemmingway to play an ordinary friendly round--nothing depending on it except a measly ball--and on the seventh he pulls me up and claims the hole simply because I happened to drop my niblick in the bunker.
With our third we may reach a cross-bunker, and a well-executed niblick shot takes us into a ditch on the other side.
With a stout niblick shot the ball may easily be dislodged from Strath, but it will all too probably bound over the green into the sandy horrors of the Eden.
It was in this bunker also that Mr. Tait played his ever-famous shot out of water, and Mr. Ball followed it with a superb niblick shot out of hard wet sand, which is not half as famous as it ought to be.
They are to be found on links of undoubted eminence, and were found on many more till they were literally hacked and hewed out of existence by the niblickshots of their infuriated victims.
There is ample opportunity here for skilful niblick work, which compels the admiration of the two or three couples behind us, who have meanwhile collected on the tee.
Till that historic moment no one had ever dreamed of a niblick being used for anything but ordinary spade work.
The ordinary cut mashie stroke is hard to accomplish, but the cut niblick is harder still.
There is little variety in niblicks, and therefore no necessity to discourse upon their points, for no professional is ever likely to stock a niblick for sale that is unequal to the performance of its peculiar duties.
I happened to be bunkered at the fourteenth, and took my niblick to get out, but lost the hole.
I regard the ordinary mashie as the best club with which to make it, but there are some good golfers who like the niblick for this task, and it is undoubtedly productive of good results.
But it does not do that at Walton Heath, where they have made the bunkers so deep that the ball inevitably stops in, and there is nothing for it but to ask the caddie for the niblick and resign yourself to losing a stroke.
It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.
Of theniblick it need only be said that it must be strong, heavy, and well lofted.
The club must hit the sand, and the sand must move the ball, but the iron blade of the niblick must hardly ever come into contact with the ball.
Another of his peculiarities is that he carries no niblick in his bag, and I think he never has carried one.
I murmured sympathetically on the third occasion, thereby going as near to being slain with a niblick as it has ever been my lot to go.
And when at last in Charon's wherry, It was the sponsor's turn to stand His friend came down to meet the ferry A phantom niblick in his hand.
The noonday sun looks down in glee While Potter in the bunker swinks, He plies the niblick merrily While Caddie unto Caddie winks.
Elsie made no reply, but took her niblick and began to search rather perfunctorily for the lost ball.
He descended into the bunker, but the ball was reposing in a heel-mark, and it required two even of Pip's earth-compelling niblick shots to remove it.
In running the ball up to the hole she either hits the ground behind it and sends it six inches, or plays a shot which necessitates the departure of her long-suffering partner, niblick in hand and scarlet in the face, to an adjacent bunker.
He, therefore, proceeded to play with the niblick only, till he proved his case and showed that it is a club entitled to the highest respect.
One of those girls confirmed the story that "Uncle Arthur" one day concluded that the niblickwas something more than a humble necessity of a bad golfer--that it had positive virtues of its own and had suffered centuries of neglect.
Young Tommy, ever an innovating genius, is credited with being the first to use the niblick for lofting approaches, but the niblick of those days was peculiarly ill adapted to such delicate uses.
The brassey was just the wooden niblick with a sole of brass, and as all wooden niblicks began to be brazen upon the sole their very name passed into oblivion and that of brassey superseded it.
I do not know whether this literary gentleman had seen me in bunkers and niblicking out of them so frequently that he inferred the niblick to be the club that I most loved to have in hand; at all events, that was his comment, and it went home.
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.
It does not get trodden down and hacked out of existence by a niblick as the faint-hearted whin does.
With the shaft of his niblick in his teeth, Windy swarmed up the side of the wall, found the footholds and planted himself solidly.
He was forced to use a heavyniblick on his third; but the ball rolled thirty feet beyond the pin.
His niblick shot tore through that tangle of thick grass, cut under the ball and sent it spinning high in the air.
Grasping a bush above his head with his left hand, he measured the distance with his eye, steadied himself and swung the niblick with his powerful right arm.
Boy, slip me the niblick and get up yonder on the edge of the ravine where you can watch this ball.
Adolphus took his niblick and attacked the octopus.
Guess I haven't forgotten how, but diggin' with a blasted niblick is hard work.
The drive must carry a steep hill, the right slope of which pitches away to a deep, narrow ravine--a ravine scarred and marred by thousands of niblick shots, but otherwise as disgusted Nature left it.
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