Snorkisms - regularly used by the Snorks

  • A Nipple licker - shot which opens up the hole
  • A Worm f***er - well struck shot, but which doesn't get off the ground (introduced by Swiss Tony)
  • A Sally Gunnell - ugly runner
  • A Brazil - putt which shaves the hole close (thanks go to Gerry for this)
  • I don't go that far on me holidays - for a well struck drive
  • On the dance floor - on the green
  • Lucy Locket - rhyming slang ('socket') expression for a shank, as it refers to the part of the club striking the ball
  • There's a lot of golf left in that - for any putt shorter than 3ft
  • Give it a bit more chocolate/toffee - hit it harder
  • Bunny hindsight - wait to see what the ball does, and then say it was a deliberate hard fade etc
  • COME ROUND! - the most optimistic shout ever heard in golf, by George, immediately after a hard left hook
  • A Mother in law - you're up there but you know you shouldn't be (sometimes also called a sister in law, which is not quite as grotesque)
  • Does your husband play? - for when someone hits a short tee shot
  • "You're standing too close to the ball......after you've hit it" - for another short tee shot
  • Power Fade - excuse regularly used for a horrible slice that ends up miles yards down the wrong fairway
  • Going down to Margate - when hit into the bunker, must be sung as per Chas and Dave classic
  • NITBY - "not in the bunker yet", for any short chip over a bunker onto the green
  • Rick O'Shea - when anyone's ball bounces off a tree back onto the fairway
  • Houston, we have re-entry - for whenever someone skies one off the tee
  • A Paris Hilton - an expensive hole (another Gerry special)
  • Tee Way Back - Chinese for a long hole
  • A Rick Waller - VERY fat.......and ugly.......with no redeeming features whatsoever
  • Gone from Ben Hogan to Hulk Hogan - to go from playing like a God to absolute shite
  • Point behind a fellow golfer and say "Oi mate!...........I think you dropped your lipstick" if they hit a short putt or drive


       Singalong Snorkisms

  • "Dude Putts Like a Lady" - sung to the tune of "Dude Looks Like a Lady" by Aerosmith for whenever anyone hits a putt short
  • A Chuck Berry (in the trees) - no particular place to go
  • A Bon Jovi - when you leave a putt short i.e. "Oh, we're halfway there"


       Other "Snorkisms" to be found on the web

       Putting:
  • Putting like a gynaecologist's assistant - shaving the hole
  • A Dennis Wise - a nasty 5 footer
  • A Diego Maradonna - a very nasty 5 footer
  • A Salman Rushdie - an impossible read
  • A Rio Ferdinand - Lipped out
  • A Rock Hudson - thought it was straight, but it wasn't
  • A Cuban - needs one more revolution
  • An Elton John - a big bender that lips the rim


       Bunker Play:
  • An Adolf Hitler - two shots in the bunker
  • An Eva Braun - picked up in the bunker
  • A Saddam Hussein - go from bunker to bunker
  • A Yasser Arafat  - ugly and in the sand


       Ball Striking:
  • A Kate Winslett - little bit fat but otherwise perfect
  • A Kate Moss - bit thin
  • A Gerry Adams - playing a Provisional
  • A Michael Barrymore - a long iron
  • A Wilfred Bramble - a thin iron
  • A Glen Miller - kept low and didn't make it over the water
  • An Arthur Scargill - a great strike but a poor result
  • A Russell Grant - a fat iron
  • A Peter Mandelson - an unbelievable iron
  • A Rodney King - over-clubbed
  • An O.J. Simpson - got away with it
  • A Paula Radcliffe - not as ugly as a Sally Gunnell but still a good runner
  • A Marilyn Monroe - a fair crack up the middle (aka "A Blondie)
  • A Princess Grace - should have taken a driver
  • A Princess Di - shouldn't have taken a driver
  • A Robin Cook - just died on the hill
  • A Michael Jackson - gradually fading
  • A Douglas Bader - looked good in the air, but didn't have the legs
  • An Arsene Wenger - everyone saw where it went but you
  • A Ken Livingstone - quite far left
  • A Jean-Marie LePen - a long way right
  • A Ladyboy - looks like an easy hole but all may not be what it seems!
  • A Mrs Patel - ugly, but a good worker
  • An elephant's arse - high and shitty
  • A condom -  safe but didn't feel real good
  • A circus tent - a BIG top
  • An Anna Kournikova - looks great, but unlikely to get a result
  • A Vinnie Jones - nasty kick when you're not expecting it
  • A Tony Blair - too much spin
  • A Bin Laden - driven out and never to be found again
  • A Jamie Oliver - you really want to smack it but you can't
  • A Lee Harvey Oswald - three good shots in a row that you don't know where the hell came from
  • A Red October - underwater and you won't find it


       Thanks to Ian for the following:
  • A Ryanair - flies well but lands a long way from the target
  • A Leslie Ash - bunker with a big lip
  • A Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri - played with a hook
  • A Teddy Kennedy - drove into the water
  • A Payne Stewart - played golf well, but eventually crashed and burned



GOLFING SNORKISMS