Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly.
- noun A sharp bend or turn.
- noun Sports A golf hole in which the fairway is abruptly angled.
- intransitive verb To make a sharp bend or turn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To bend in the shape of the hind
leg of adog . - noun golf A sharp
bend in thefairway (before the hole) - noun A configuration of
stairs where aflight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
- noun angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
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Examples
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No. 5, 555 yards, par 5: This dogleg-right par 5 is reachable in two shots by the longest hitters after carrying the fairway bunker on the inside of the dogleg from the tee.
Course description 2000
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Now the dogleg was a trigger, and the right angle at the other end sat firmly on the barrel plunger, preventing it from sliding forward.
Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
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A dogleg might be a boomerang-shaped piece of ground, a dogleg fence a zigzag of interlaced horizontal logs.
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The first incident cost me $1,000 to replace the "dogleg" on the other person's car (the obscure and perversely expensive little panel between the tail end of the car and the back door).
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Players must decide whether to take on the corner of the dogleg left or play back.
Breaking down all 18 holes of British Open host Turnberry 2009
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A new tee makes this hole play 45 yards longer and turned a dogleg right into a relatively straight hole, but the burn is more in play than before.
Breaking down all 18 holes of British Open host Turnberry 2009
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That was the point of the dogleg at Shilshole, as well as the need to compromise and avoid putting the trail in front of the busiest businesses.
Ballard Businesses Propose Missing Link Alternative « PubliCola 2010
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A new tee changes the angle of the hole to more of a dogleg left, with new fairway bunkers that allow players to decide whether they want a middle iron or a wedge to the green.
Breaking down all 18 holes of British Open host Turnberry 2009
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Wrote Phil, "I quipped to him, 'I hear the next stop is a tricky par four dogleg.'"
A former Head Start teacher reflects on the program's first year John Kelly 2010
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Beyond the fourth, it's possible to see forward tees on the par-4 third hole to tempt players to take it over the trees with a draw and cut off the dogleg, as Dustin Johnson did during the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
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