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Area on a golf course
Answer for the clue "Area on a golf course ", 7 letters:
fairway
Alternative clues for the word fairway
- The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters
- A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
- The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
- Golfer's target, reasonable distance
- Tee shot destination, hopefully
- A tree-covered approach? On the contrary
- Golf course area between tee and green
Word definitions for fairway in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "navigational channel of a river," from fair (adj.) + way (n.). Golfing sense is by 1898.
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.