Wiktionary
n. 1 (context golf English) Any shot, normally not when tee off, aimed to land on the green, hit for accuracy more than power. 2 (context tennis English) A shot intended to allow the player hitting it to get to the net.
WordNet
n. a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green; "he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green" [syn: approach]
Usage examples of "approach shot".
The ball would roll to an optimum position for a decent five-iron approach shot to the seventeenth green.
Fuentes, a skilled captain, had been with them eight hyperspace hours earlier, when they'd emerged to compute their approach shot.
Just as he placed the club behind the ball and got ready for his approach shot, another player's ball whizzed from among the trees to his right and hit him hard on the temple.