Definition: A "fried egg," or "fried egg lie," refers to a golf ball that has plugged, or buried, in a sand bunker. When the ball hits the soft sand, it settles down into the sand and creates a circular splash pattern around the ball.
Beat The Fried Egg
By Tom Stickney II, G.S.E.D., PGA, Illustration by Phil Franke ...
Fried Egg - A ball half-buried in the sand.
Get Legs - A term used by golfers to encourage the ball to keep rolling when they suspect it may stop short.
Fried Egg: Lie in a sand bunker in which most of the ball is below the surface of the sand. Visually, the ball looks like a "fried egg", hence the term.
Fried Egg: When your ball is semiburied in the sand.
Fringe: See Apron.
Frog Hair: Slang for Apron, Fringe, or Collar.
Fried Egg: When a ball remains in its own pitch mark when landing in a bunker. To be half buried in the sand.
Fringe: The short fringe surrounding the green which isolates it from the fairway.
Fried Egg: The slang term for a buried lie in the sand. (To her dismay, when Nancy Lopez reached the bunker she saw she was facing a fried egg lie.)
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Fried Egg : A lie (usually in a sand filled bunker) in which the ball is half buried and thus resembles a fried egg.
Fringe : The short grass that separates the putting green from rough or fairway.
Fried Egg
A ball half-buried in its own crater in the sand.
Tight Pin Placement ...
Fried Egg
When a ball lands steeply in a bunker causing it to rest in a crater sand with the ball substantially below the surface.
Fringe ...
Fried Egg
A lie in a sand bunker where the landing of the ball has splashed the immediate sand away, leaving the ball resting in the middle of a crater.
Fried-Egg ...
Example: Excellent quality precision golf clubs are often frequency matched to a very small tolerance fried egg a lie (usually in a sand filled bunker) in which the ball is half buried and thus resembles a fried egg ...
Also known as a "buried lie" or in a bunker a "fried egg".
Plunk
a lie where the ball is on the lip of a lake or other water hazard.
Plus
a golf handicap less than zero. A 'plus' handicap golfer must add his handicap to his score.
Pop-up ...
Let's say that you just don't have a "fried egg" (where 50% of the ball is buried) but only the very top of the ball is visible. What do you do? Follow these steps and you'll be able to hit any lie that you have in a bunker.
Here's what you do: ...
Also known as a "buried lie" or a "fried egg".
Pop-up: a poor tee shot where the top of the clubhead strikes under the ball, causing it to go straight up in the air.
Buried (Lie): The lie of a ball, typically in a sand bunker, in which most of it is below the surface. See also "Fried Egg."
Burn: The Scottish term for a creek or stream
Buzzard: A score of two strokes over par for a hole.
This is the quality of impact that compresses the golf ball on the club-face like a fried egg at the moment of impact. This is the type of impact that leads to powerful, accurate shot-making, and low scores.
Plugged Lie
A bad lie (typically in a bunker) where the ball is at least half-buried in sand. Also known as a "buried lie" or a "fried egg".
Foursome---a group of four players, normally the maximum number of players allowed to play together.
Fried egg---a ball buried in the sand of a bunker.
Fringe---the closely mown area surrounding the green. (Also called the apron.) ...
fried egg: Plugged ball in sand, leaving image of an egg.
fringe: As apron. The cut grass around the edge of a green, cut longer than the grass on the green.
front nine: The first half of a round of golf ...
 See also: Swing, Shot, Golf, Hit, Bunker
  
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