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APPROACH SHOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
Example:
he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green
Synonyms:
approach; approach shot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("approach shot" is a kind of...):
golf shot; golf stroke; swing (the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "approach shot"):
chip; chip shot ((golf) a low running approach shot)
pitch; pitch shot (a high approach shot in golf)
