Golf Glossary - The Terms of Golf
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| Dead Ball | |
| A ball barely off the hole, making the next putt a definite certainty. | |
| Default | |
| Concede a match without playing it. | |
| Deloft | |
| Decreasing the loft of a club face by tilting the club shaft toward the target. | |
| Dimple | |
| One of hundreds of small indentations on the golf ball. | |
| Divot | |
| A small strip of turf removed by the club head during a swing. Golfing etiquette requires that the divot be replaced and pressed down. | |
| Dog-leg | |
| A hole that changes direction sharply to either the left or the right from tee to cup. | |
| Dormie | |
| In match play, describes the situation in which a team can’t lose a match against the competition because the number of holes left to play is the same as the current lead. | |
| Double bogey | |
| Finishing a hole in two more shots than par. | |
| Double eagle | |
| Finishing a hole in three shots less than par on a par-5 hole. Known as an albatross in England. | |
| Down | |
| The number of holes (in match play) or strokes (in medal play) that a player is down. | |
| Downhill lie | |
| A lie in which your front foot is below your rear foot at address. | |
| Draw | |
| A shot that bends or hooks slightly to the left (for a right-handed golfer) during the flight of the ball. | |
| Drive | |
| The longest type of stroke made during play, usually with a wood or a low numbered irons. | |
| Driver | |
| The driver has a long shaft and little loft and is used to drive the ball the farthest from the tee. | |
| Driving range | |
| A place to hit practice balls. | |
| Drop | |
| Placing a ball back into play after it was deemed unplayable. | |
| Dub | |
| A nicer term for a hacker; it also means to hit the ball poorly. | |
| Duff | |
| To completely miss or mess up a shot. | |
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