Golf Glossary - The Terms of Golf
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| Baby shot | |
| When you hit a shot softer and shorter than is usual for a particular club. | |
| Back nine | |
| The second half of an 18-hole golf course. | |
| Backspin | |
| Reverse spin put on the golf ball when it is hit. | |
| Backswing | |
| The first part of the swing, which ends when the club stops above your head. | |
| Bag | |
| What you carry your clubs in. Usually cylindrical, most bags have pockets added on, enabling you to carry everything you need for the day. | |
| Balata | |
| Natural tree sap or synthetic compound used to make the cover of top-standard golf balls. Its soft elastic qualities produce a high spin rate and it is favored particularly by tournament players. | |
| Ball marker | |
| Any small, flat object used to mark the position of your ball on the green. | |
| Ball-mark repair tool | |
| A forked tool used to fix the mark your ball leaves on the green when it lands. | |
| Baseball grip | |
| A way to hold the club that keeps all ten fingers in contact with the grip of the club. | |
| Bent Grass | |
| Type of fine-leafed grass that produces an ideal surface for putting greens. | |
| Best ball | |
| A match in which teams play against the best score posted by a player on the other team on each hole. Each team will post their best ball or their best score on each hole as the team score. | |
| Birdie | |
| Playing a hole in one stroke less than par. | |
| Blade | |
| An irons club head. Also, striking the ball on its equator with the bottom of the club head or blade which causes the ball to hug the ground in flight. | |
| Blind | |
| Also known as a blind shot which refers to a player approach where they have no sight of the green. | |
| Blocked shot | |
| Hitting the ball straight and to the right of the target (for a right-handed golfer). | |
| Bogey | |
| Playing a hole in one stroke more than par. | |
| Borrow | |
| British term for the amount that a putt goes to the left or right of a straight line to the hole to compensate for the slope of the green. | |
| Bounce | |
| The metal hump that hangs down below the leading edge of a sand wedge. | |
| Brassie | |
| Another name for a two wood. | |
| Break | |
| The amount of turn a putted ball must follow over a green contour to go into the hole. | |
| Breaking down | |
| When your wrist bends during a putt. | |
| Bump-and-run | |
| A type of shot that flies part of the way to the target, then bounces and rolls the rest of the way. | |
| Bunker (also known as a trap) | |
| A prepared area of gound where the turf or earth has been removed and replaced with tall grass, water or a sand-filled hazard near the green or on the fairway. | |
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