Naming shots

[G56788]

I have names for certain golf shots as a way to mentally trigger a swing feeling or visualization. For example, a “buzzsaw” is a wedge shot that requires more acceleration than normal, like in thick rough (I visualize the grooves cutting the bottom of the ball like a saw blade). Or if I need to hit a giant slice, I think “hair salon” (because it’s a SuperCut). Does anyone else do this? What do you call your shots?

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Basically, I have three. Up, up and away. That is for a drive that I want to go high to cut a corner and go over trees (Tee up higher and swing up). The other two are nice and oh crap. 

[Bobbers]

11 hours ago, Golfer56744 said:

I have names for certain golf shots as a way to mentally trigger a swing feeling or visualization. For example, a “buzzsaw” is a wedge shot that requires more acceleration than normal, like in thick rough (I visualize the grooves cutting the bottom of the ball like a saw blade). Or if I need to hit a giant slice, I think “hair salon” (because it’s a SuperCut). Does anyone else do this? What do you call your shots?

I have a couple, one is a "dammit", then there's the "not again!", and the tried and true "what the hell?!"...  I have other "names" for shots but those are best left imagined rather than expressed. 

[G56788]

6 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

6 hours ago, Bobbers said:

I have a couple, one is a "dammit", then there's the "not again!", and the tried and true "what the hell?!"...  I have other "names" for shots but those are best left imagined rather than expressed. 

The other two are nice and oh crap. 

Some of these sound like the names of the shots that I visualize my opponents hitting. 

[chisag]

15 hours ago, Bobbers said:

I have a couple, one is a "dammit", then there's the "not again!", and the tried and true "what the hell?!"...  I have other "names" for shots but those are best left imagined rather than expressed. 

 

... I always found it interesting that with all the vile words out there the very worst thing a golfer can say ... is their own name. Blocking a drive on 18 OB and onto the range calls for a What a POS!?!?! or F**K ME!?!? But no ... just a disgusted utterance of your own name.