Caddy Lingo Featured
- Written by Thomas Bosscher
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Caddies have a terminology all their own. Trying to understand the terminology used on the course can be an undertaking for the untrained ear. Here is a list of terms I have compiled from the web to help interpret the slang of the Loopers, Enjoy!
- Aiming Fluid
- Alcholic beverage consumed while playing
- Adolf Hitler
- Two in the bunker
- Bag Rats
- A caddy's term of affection for one another
- Bag Snatcher
- A caddie who aggressively pursues work
- Bandit
- British term for a sandbagger or a player who consciously underestimates his playing ability with a bloated handicap index
- Barbra Streisand
- Ugly, but still working
- Bib
- An apron-like pullover uniform worn by caddies
- Big House
- The clubhouse
- Black Dick
- A cigar
- Bootjacking
- A caddie who practices lurking in the parking lot to seek work from players as they arrive at the course
- Bullard
- Playing worse than your handicap index purports
- Caddie Collar
- When a caddie gets a chafed neck from carrying around a very thin, wiry strap on a golf bag
- Caddie Hole
- Area in which caddies wait for work. Also refered to as "Caddie Yard" or "Yard" for short
- Caddie Yard
- Area in which caddies wait for work. Also refered to as "Caddie Hole" or "Yard" for short
- Caddy Shack
- A poor-looking or poorly-maintaned "Caddie Hole" or "Caddie Yard"
- Captian Kirk
- A shot that goes where no man has gone before
- Calcutta
- A wager, usually on a team or individual player to win a tournament
- Cheaters-mans
- A golfer who will push the envelope of the Rules of Golf
- Chinese Shot
- A "way long" shot
- Chirp
- A golfer who is a cheap player
- Chops
- A golfer whom is a poor player. Also refered to as "Hacks"
- Chronyon
- Cannabis or marijuana
- Clubbing
- Refers to the act of telling a player which club to hit
- Comebacker
- A putt required after the previous putt attemp goes beyond the hole
- Condom Shot
- It's a safe shot but it does not feel very good
- Creep
- A slow round of golf
- Crotch Rot
- The sensation one finds between their legs after walking many miles on a hot dat
- Cuban
- Ball that needed one more revolution to go into the hole
- Day in the Clouds
- Working on a hilly course
- Dead
- When a players ball lies in a position where no favorable outcome is possible
- Dead March
- A painful round that never seems to end
- Dental Floss Strap
- A very thin, wiry strap on a golf bag
- Depresso
- The short and better sounding version of the word, depressing
- Dipsters
- Player who uses smokeless tobacco, snuff
- Dog Track
- A poor unkempt golf course
- Double Dip
- A caddie who plays two rounds in one day, usually means 36 holes.
- Drainox
- The act of a golf ball rolling into the hole
- Dropaca
- Spain-glish for get in the hole
- Dubs
- A poor golfer
- Duck
- A golfer who disappears quickly after finishing a round
- Egocap
- A handicap justified not by skill level but by shear egotism and delusion
- Elephant Ass
- It's a high shot and it stinks
- FISO
- F***, I'm still out
- Flying Snakes
- Errant shots from players who don't yell fore
- Foot Wedge
- Using the sole of your shoe to improve a players lie
- Fore-caddy
- When a caddie advances ahead of their player to watch tee shots or take part in extra-caddicular activities
- Freezoid
- A torturous cold temperature
- Fried Egg
- A terrible lie which occurs when a golf ball imbeds in a sand hazzard
- Garbage
- A lucky shot which somehow works out, a substandard golf shot or performance
- Geeked
- Weed, to smoke weed
- Goof
- A derogatory, racist term for blacks
- Grinder
- Someone who works super hard regardless of pain or boredom
- Hacks
- A golfer whom is a poor player. Also refered to as a "Chop"
- Halfway House
- The midpoint rest area, usually placed between the 9th green and 10th hole
- Honor Caddy
- A caddie classification for the most experienced of "loopers"
- Horror
- Inmates from the "House of Pain" who are outside caddies, not regularly employed at a particular course
- Hot Dix
- Hot dogs
- House of Pain
- Area in which caddies wait for work
- Iced
- Getting one-up'd or worked over
- Icy
- Pertains to something or someone top-notch
- Jake
- Lame, crappy, lousy
- Jam Boy
- The extra caddid hired who is covered in jam to attract annoying mosquitoes
- James Joyce
- A putt that is impossible to read
- Jedi Master
- A ball that is an O.B. one
- JFK Jr.
- Did not quite make it over the water
- Johnny Cochran
- A shot that must be played from such a terrible lie that only OJ's lawyer can save you
- Juicer
- A strong drinker of alchohol
- Jumper
- A full length caddy uniform also refered to as a Jumpsuit
- Jumpsuit
- A full length caddy uniform also refered to as a Jumper
- Jungle
- The rough on the golf course
- Junkulus
- A garbage golf shot
- KFC
- Still a little chicken on the bone. Refers to a put that still has some distance before it is a gimme
- Kook
- Something crazy or someone who is obliviou, forgetful, or nuts
- L-Bomb
- A loser
- Lewinski
- A putt that was all lip, no hole
- Lifer
- A caddie that is old and been around for a long time
- Linda Rondstat
- "Blew by you". A long drive outdistances fellow players
- Loopers
- A caddie who works the "Loop". Loop refers to one ciruit around the golf course or 18 holes
- Loophole
- The cracks and spaces caddies dissappear into avoiding painful loops
- Looping Fool
- Caddie who holds the record for doing the most caddying per day, per week or per season at any particular course
- Mickey Mantle
- A dead yank
- Michael Jackson
- Gradually fading (going off line)
- Military Golf
- Left, left, left, right, left
- Mother-in-Law
- An ugly shot that has got to the green
- Nelson Rockafeller
- "Dead in the hole" To drain a put from a considerable distance
- Nancy Pelosi
- Way too far left
- Nice
- Used to rejoice or to express pleasure
- Nicen
- An attractive female who exudes sexual appeal
- Nine Iron
- Derogatory term for an asian
- OJ
- A shot you got away with
- Paris Hilton
- A very expensive hole
- Paste
- A derogatory term for white stiffs
- PC
- Something that falls short of acceptable, mediocre and hackenyed. Commonly golf related.
- Pee Wee Herman
- Too Much Wrist
- Perma-Geeked
- Refers to folks who have stoned themselves to forever
- Pills
- Golf balls
- Place Kick
- A small child, rugrat
- Prairie
- A poorly maintained golf course
- Prince
- A golfer whom is a generous tipper
- Princess Grace
- Should have used the driver
- Princess Di
- Should not have used a driver
- Pro
- Someone too involved in a certain thing to objectively see how dorky they are acting
- Pro-Doe
- Someone who poses an overabundant, unneeded level of profesionalism, its apex is prodellix
- Prom Putt
- A putt that was all lip, no hole
- Pure Ice
- Delienating something awesome or extraordinary
- Quench Wench
- A beer cart girl
- Red Face
- An angry person or golfer
- Rex
- Desfribes anything of poor taste or repugnancy
- Ride Pine
- Waiting for a "loop", like riding the bench
- Roaster
- To be in the state of anger, to humiliate or berate someone, even oneself
- Rock Hudson
- A putt which looks very straight, but wasn't
- Rodney King
- Over clubbed the shot
- Rot
- To site far too long waiting for the day's loop
- Rush Lindbaugh
- A bit too far to the right
- Sack
- A bag of clubs
- Saddam Hussein
- From one bunker into another
- Sandwhich Bomb
- The trick of applying sand to the base of a flagstick
- Scotchman
- Applelation bestowed pon professionals, regardless of country
- Serve Out
- Over doing it, someone who exibits dor-like over exubereance, knowledge or passion for a certain thing
- Shop Rat
- A caddie who shadows a pro in hope of gaining work
- Slip
- A tip / To tip
- Slippage
- A tip from any quest(s) served
- Slugfest
- A sucky loop or event in one's day
- Snake Charmer
- Any golfer extemly talented with the flat stick
- Son in Law
- "Not what I had in mind, but it will do"
- Spaceship
- An unusually large clubhead, most ofter in reference to putters
- Spearzo
- A golf shot that lands directly in the hole
- Splitage
- The splitting of tips between two or more loopers
- Stymie
- An old archaic rule in match play, on the putting surface, when an opponent's ball sat on a direct line between the cup and the ball in play, hindering a clear path to the hole.
- Sunny Bono
- Straight into the trees
- Super Looper
- The Alpha caddie of the yard
- Sweat Bath
- Describes a hot and typically humid round of golf
- Sweaty
- Something sexually arousing or having lots of sex appeal
- Swing Lube
- Alcholic beverage consumed while playing to relax a golfer
- T
- Short for trash, a concise way to describe something repugnant or something lacking in taste or class
- Tard Nectar
- Pop culture for the masses
- Ted Kennedy
- Goes into the water and jumps out
- Texas Wedge
- The putter, when it is used from off the green
- Wet Ass
- To have moisture on one's buttock
- Wiggadis
- A derogatory expression used to describe non-blacks emulating today's dumbed down, hip hop street culture. Can be described singularly as wig-dogs and plurally as wiggadí
- Within The Leather
- The process where players measure whether or not a putt of short length is good
- Wood Butchers
- A poor golfer
- Yard
- Area in which caddies wait for work. Also refered to as "Caddie Hole" or "Caddies Yard"
- Yassar Arafat
- Butt ugly and in the sand
- Yips
- A mental and physical sickness that afflicts golfers who intern miss short putts due to an inability to make a smooth putting stroke
- Zeek
- Smokes, cigarettes / the act of smoking

Thomas Bosscher
I am Stymie. I love the game of golf and play as much as I can. When I am not on the course I enjoy the lighter side of the game in a non-stuffy atmosphere.
Website: www.stymies.net