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