Meaning & use
Baffy
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In traditional golf terminology, a wooden club with a deeply angled face, used for hitting the ball to a high, short trajectory; roughly equivalent to a modern lofted fairway wood.
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Old golf sets sometimes included a baffy for short approach shots.
The museum displayed a hickory-shafted baffy from the early 1900s.
A note on using this word
The club fell out of use once golf clubs began to be numbered rather than individually named, but the term survives in histories of the game.
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baffing spoon
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