Complete Clue List
Across
1. Found in Bobby Jones' five and a half-inch competitive golf arena: "the space between your ears"
7. Carefully guide a putt towards the hole
10. Increase rapidly (5,2) [hopefully not one's golf score]
11. Barefoot (var.)
12. Thing of the past
13. FIND FEE by accident for a Turkish term of respect (anag.)
14. Glisten, like new 1D
18. Descriptive of a hacking, chopping shot to hit the ball out of the rough
19. A shot hit towards the green
23. Golf bag item with a big head
24. The angle of ____ describes how the clubhead approaches the ball at impact
27. Weapon store (7 or 3-4)
28. Golf facility with nine or eighteen holes
29. Amount of break allowed for the ball's deviation when putting
30. Links locale
31. Famous people who may also play golf (abbr.)
34. Curl around the hole's edge without going in (3-3)
35. Nature lover; many a 5D
39. HOLES? Strangely it's the head socket on a golf club (anag.)
40. People hooked on golf?
44. Nonprofessional 5D
45. Archaic term for a 3-wood OR an item of cutlery
46. Attractive force bringing golf balls back to Earth
47. Destructive wind, too strong for golf OR a kind of fence
48. ____ Maxwell Berning, retired professional 5D, won four majors competing under her maiden name
49. Temporary pavilions sometimes seen at major golfing events
Down
1. Fourteen is a bagful
2. Dreads sporter (abbr.)
3. Golf swing where forearm rotation is delayed or prevented
4. Equally profound (2,4); hopefully not a description of golf balls buried in a bunker
5. One often found playing a round
6. Sestina section
7. Honest OR a steeper-than-normal swing plane in golf
8. Slangy intensifier and contraction which may be heard playing golf: "____ shot!"
9. Look over again
15. Objective; in golf, some would say it's getting the ball closer to the hole
16. Golf's ____-overlapping grip: index finger of top hand overlaps smallest finger of bottom hand
17. Generosity
20. Flag won in a golfing competition
21. Make scents of? May also happen to used golfing gear (US spelling)
22. Having an arched shape, like the rounding of the sole of a wood or iron to reduce drag
25. THROB I'M generating might be blood clots (anag.)
26. 26D & 43D: Another sport with balls on greens describes how legend Sam Snead would putt (1st word)
31. On-air partners at a televised golfing event (2-5)
32. Teaching events involving PGA pros
33. Correct distribution of weight when addressing the ball and during the swing
36. Posture: 32D topic
37. Parts of a Spanish omelette
38. Imaginary line from the ball to the player's aiming point: ____ line
41. Culvert which may be a hazard on a golf hole
42. Porcelain prize sometimes awarded to 44A winners
43. 26D & 43D: Another sport with balls on greens describes how legend Sam Snead would putt (2nd word)