Word: niblick
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...retire. Indignantly the Globe wrote: "The newspaper [Blanton edits] is one of Missouri journalism's choice assets . . . We herewith and to his face call Jack Blanton a quitter, a fellow with a future who is deliberately passing it by to dally down the primrose path with a niblick in one hand, a fishpole in the other...
Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him the British Open...
...make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Carefree's authors make game of psychoanalysis, are frankly incredulous at the thought of Ginger Rogers' having a subconscious. Psychiatrists will deprecate this skepticism but will join the rest of the cinema audience in applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault...
That stumped him. "I'm in a helluva mess", he blurted out. "I guess I'll need my niblick to got out of this...