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  • You might look after the golf cases, you know; injuries to bald-headed gentlemen by gutties; trespassing by players; forfeiting of leases, and so forth.

    The Half-Back Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • There was no difficulty about balls, for we decided at once that the most suitable article for us, in the absence of real gutties, was the big white marble which we called a taw, and which was about half the size of an ordinary golf ball, or perhaps a little less than that.

    The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon 1903

  • Developed for beach-goers during the 1830s, plimsolls - also known as sand shoes, or gutties, should you find yourself north of the border - were once regulation physical education uniform in primary schools across the country and, as a result, among the most popular shoes in Britain during the Seventies and Eighties.

    Evening Standard - Home Karen Dacre 2011

  • This is due to the smooth surface of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball to cover more distance.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther than the gutties.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • I’ve been muttering “gutties on the powerline” off and on for hours now.

    Gutties on the powerline | clusterflock 2009

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