Smother
When a golfer hits a ball with a closed clubface. The ball either flies very low or does not leave the ground.
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Smother
To hit down on the ball so that it travels a short distance on the ground
Snake ...
Smother: To bring the clubface down and over the ball when hitting a shot causing the ball to be poorly struck.
Snake: A long putt; one that is usually holed from a long distance.
Smother: To hit the ball with a closed clubface, resulting in a horrible, low, hooky shot.
Snake: Long putt.
Snap Hook: Severe hook.
Smothered: Hook: A low, right to left shot that dives quickly to the ground. The cause is an extremely closed clubface. (He hit a smothered hook from the tee, and the ball splashed into a nearby pond.
Smother : A shot that either doesn't leave the ground or flies very low because the clubface contacted the ball in a position that was much to closed. Example: Karen smothered her tee shot as she rolled the clubface closed.
How to smother the slice for good
With today's enormous drivers, it has become easier to hit the ball a long way.
smother
An errant stroke where, at the point of impact, the clubface is brought down and over the ball.
smother: To hit down on ball with an extremely closed club face, resulting in a low shot curving excessively left.
snap hook: As duck hook; a shot that starts right of target and excessively curves left and left of target.
We have here the classic condition for a shoulder-roller's out-to-in smother, or slice, or hook, orbital shot, daisy cutter .... you name it, it's possible! Any shot, except a straight one. The odds against that are enormous.
Many players face their clubs in while addressing in order to overcome the slice and to avoid foundering their ball or smothering it; they have to gouge at the ball or turn the face of the club up as they come to it in order to hit the ball clean.
When your ball is 200 yards from a water-guarded green and sitting in eight-inch rough, the shot with the biggest reward may be a 5-wood, but from a poor lie, you'll risk smothering or pulling that shot, or hitting it into the drink.
For instance, Horizontal Hinging on it's associated plane does not open or close but when placed on the inclined plane it is turned to the right and rolled to the left. An over roll would result in a smother hook.
 See also: Golf, Swing, Hit, Shot, Stroke
  
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