Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The surface on the head of a golf club used to strike the ball directly.
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- noun golf The leading
face of agolf club ; the side of theclubhead that strikes the ball
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lacquered wood damped nearly all the audible frequencies out of the hit; most of what golfers heard came from the ball and the plastic insert in the clubface, not the wood body.
The Quiet Importance of Sound John Paul Newport 2011
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Sharp, metallic pinging sounds rang out in the cool morning air as clubface and golf ball came together.
RUBYRED AND PARSHOOTER Howard Giordano 2011
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Unlike a fade, for which the clubface is held open as long as possible, hitting a draw requires a player to release the clubface quicker, imparting extra spin and causing the ball to curve in the opposite direction.
Brave Kaymer Goes for Change Richard Gillis 2011
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His body was fast through the shot and his clubface was open.
Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010
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When the clubface was open—a foundation of the Haney swing is the fanning of the club on the backswing, meaning tremendous forearm rotation was needed on the way back to the ball—the result was the right-to-right ball fight that had come to plague Woods and was painfully evident in the final round at The Players.
Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010
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The problem for newcomers, especially pros who train to such precision, is how much control they must cede to the landscape and the weather once the ball leaves their clubface.
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Mr. Brenkus also informs us that the coefficient of "restitution," which measures bounce or impact, is a major element in the effort to increase the power of a golf swing by increasing the springiness or "trampoline" quality of the clubface (see the 543-yarder above).
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During recovery, it ' s going to try to recover based on the torque you ' re applying to the ball, and the degree of adhesion of the ball to the clubface will increase the spin.
How to Get to Spin Central Jeff Neuman 2010
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The effect is to spread the allowable trampoline effect over a greater area than just the middle of the clubface, to help balls hit off-center go farther.
Drive the Ball Like It John Paul Newport 2010
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Nike Golf has just come out with what it calls a " compression channel " located about a half inch behind the clubface in its new drivers and fairway woods.
Drive the Ball Like It John Paul Newport 2010
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