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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fairway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bunker
▪ His tee shot lacked the necessary left-to-right spin and finished in one of the two fairway bunkers.
▪ After hitting it in a fairway bunker, he pounded another 9-iron to 25 feet and 2-putted for par.
▪ Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker.
▪ What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards - all uphill.
■ VERB
hit
▪ After hitting it in a fairway bunker, he pounded another 9-iron to 25 feet and 2-putted for par.
▪ Annes in 1979, he hit only two fairways yet almost always found his ball sitting kindly.
▪ Lickliter hit the fairway for the third time.
miss
▪ But we missed a couple of fairways and he wasn't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough.
▪ He likes missing fairways, he likes missing greens; in scrambling he is forced to be inventive.
▪ Typically, if you miss fairways and greens in those championships, you make bogeys.
▪ He missed just three fairways in the final round and one of those by just a few inches.
walk
▪ You may not realise, as you watch the humble caddie walk the fairways, how heavy that bag is.
▪ The latter was happy to be walking the fairways of Sandwich instead of battling with strikers on the picket lines.
▪ I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood, despite my early departure from my bed.
▪ This cameraman's pal wanders out with a tripod, and also walks straight across the fairway.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we missed a couple of fairways and he wasn't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough.
▪ Peter was as steady as a rock, keeping the ball on the fairway and hitting nearly every green in regulation.
▪ The 3-wood is used for driving and the 5-wood for fairway shots.
▪ The ball glanced on a bounce off the foot of a spectator and back down toward the fairway.
▪ The discoveries confirm a significant new productive fairway in the Upper Magdalena Basin.
▪ We have to limit galleries to one side of the fairways.
▪ We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together.
▪ What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards - all uphill.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fairway

Fairway \Fair"way`\, n.

  1. The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
    --Totten.

  2. (golf) That part of a golf course between the tee and the green which is of closely mowed grass, as contrasted to the rough.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fairway

1580s, "navigational channel of a river," from fair (adj.) + way (n.). Golfing sense is by 1898.

WordNet
fairway
  1. n. the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short

  2. the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters

  3. a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement

Gazetteer
Fairway, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 3952
Housing Units (2000): 1842
Land area (2000): 1.139292 sq. miles (2.950753 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.139292 sq. miles (2.950753 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22700
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.023988 N, 94.629213 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Fairway

Fairway may refer to:

  • Fairway (golf), part of a golf course
  • Fairway (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Fairway, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Fairway, Kansas, United States
  • Fairway, Lexington, neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky, United States
  • Fairway Market, an American grocery chain based mostly in New York City
  • Fairway Markets, a grocery chain on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
  • Fairway Press, a Christian publishing company
  • Fairway, a name of the Austin FX4 taxicab.
Fairway (horse)

Fairway (1925–1946) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Fairway was the best horse of his generation in Britain at two, three and four years old, winning the St Leger Stakes, the Champion Stakes (twice) and the Eclipse Stakes. He retired as a five-year-old in 1930 and went on to become a successful and influential sire.

Usage examples of "fairway".

Stone drove his usual slice into the next fairway, and Dino hooked his into yet another fairway.

For once Blitzkrieg appeared to have figured out what it took to keep his shots in the center of the fairway.

Again, we would be staggering through the tide-rips and overfalls that infest the open fairway of the Weser on our passage between the Fork and the Pike.

Yet through the bellowing of mess numbers and the banging of mess kids, Plaice and Jemmy Ducks stuck doggedly to their tasks in the galley, standing there in the midst of the tide, blocking the fairway fore and aft.

I saw reflected in his eyes, not them, no, nor the bright green fairway fringed in dark pine, nor the city of Baguio misty and lost in the distance, none of these, but the long delicate snout of that mythic Lincoln.

Erratic puffs from the high land behind made her progress timorous at first, but soon the fairway was reached and a true breeze from Flensburg and the west took her in its friendly grip.

You drive over one of the tallest and deepest bunkers in the United Kingdom and then have a long second shot across an undulating hilly fairway to a plateau green guarded by a final slope which makes it easier to take three putts than two.

I recognized the curving slope of the fairway and the steep dropoff to the ocean.

The man seemed not to notice and drove the golf bails, one after another, far out on the green fairway.

The triple lot was on a high bluff over the Atlantic Beach it would be necessary to construct a stairway to the beach, but what the hell, that was better than having the Atlantic Ocean come crashing through your living room in a once-in-a-century hurricaneand when the proposed golf course was built, would have a view of the fairways, far enough away from them to prevent golf balls from crashing into the houses windows.

The triple lot was on a high bluff over the Atlantic Beach- it would be necessary to construct a stairway to the beach, but what the hell, that was better than having the Atlantic Ocean come crashing through your living room in a once-in-a-century hurricane-and when the proposed golf course was built, would have a view of the fairways, far enough away from them to prevent golf balls from crash-ing into the house's windows.

Even using silk flags and the lushest Bermuda grass, it hardly seems possible to spend so much to spruce up a few fairways.

O'Hara drives into the quarry to the left of the sixteenth fairway, double-bogeys the hole, and concedes it to Hume, who is on the green in two shots.

I walk up to the fourth fairway while checking the sheet for the draw in this, the first round of the Scottish Amateur.

If the greens were at opposite ends of the same fairway and foursomes had to play against each other, defending their own green while assaulting the opponents' and risking getting hit with a ball or a club at close quarters, well, then you'd have a game.