noun
- Golf. a piece of turf gouged out with a club in making a stroke.
- Scot. a piece of turf.
noun
- a piece of turf dug out of a grass surface, esp by a golf club or by horses’ hooves
1530s, from Scottish, literally “piece of turf or sod” used for roofing material, etc., of unknown origin. The golfing sense is from 1886.