Banana-balls and The Dictionary

Since some of my friends are not that familiar with golf, I started making ”the BASE Jumpers Guide to Golf”. The idea was to draw what ever parallels there might be between the two activities and make a comprehensive guide to the fine game.

Golf, like any other activity, has a lot of terms that make no sense to the good people who do not participate in the game. For instance a ”slice” is when the flight of your ball curves to the right (if you are a right handed player) and the intention was to hit it straight. In BASE jumping this would be very similar to an ”off-heading opening”.

The project was short-lived though. First of all: to my friends that do not participate in neither golf nor BASE jumping the document would make absolutely no sense. Second, and more importantly: It was not funny, comprehensive or useful in any way.

However. What I did discover in my research for the project was that an impressive number of golf-related terms describe shots that go bad. Which gave me a new idea:

In stead of a guide, I hope you will find the new dictionary, useful. And should you wonder how my game is nowadays, I can report that I in some mysterious way have revived the slice, and every now and then I do manage to hit the odd banana-ball.