Golf Glossary - The Terms of Golf
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| Face | |
| 1. The surface of the club designed to strike the ball. 2. The steep slope of a bunker designed as part of the hazard. | |
| Fade | |
| A deliberate shot that starts left of the target line and curves slightly to the right (for a right-handed golfer). An unintentional fade is a slice. | |
| Fairway | |
| The closely mown area of grass, usually 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch, running from the tee (where you hit your first shot) to the green. Its boundary is longer grass called the semi-rough or grass that has not been cut called the rough. It can have obstacles such as trees, bunkers or water hazards. | |
| Fat or Fat Shot | |
| Hitting the ground before the ball creating a divot. | |
| Featheries | |
| Early type of golf ball made by filling a leather pouch with boiled compressed feathers that went out of use around the 1880’s when the guttie was introduced. | |
| Flagstick | |
| The flagged pole that sticks out of the hole on each green. | |
| Flex | |
| The amount of bend in a club shaft. | |
| Flier lie | |
| What you end up with when grass comes between the club face and the ball, reducing the amount of backspin on the ball. | |
| Flop shot | |
| A type of pitch shot that travels high up into the air and lands softly. | |
| Fluffy lie | |
| Situation where the ball finishes suspended above the ground in the rough. In England this is known as a perched lie. | |
| Follow-through | |
| The path of your swing after you have made impact with the ball. | |
| Fore | |
| A warning call you should shout when your ball is headed for a person. | |
| Forecaddie | |
| A caddie ahead of the players to indicate the position of players shots as they come to rest. | |
| Forged steel blade | |
| A club where the head is made of softer forged steel, instead of the harder cast steel cavity-back irons are made of. | |
| Four-ball match | |
| A match where one pair of players selects the better positioned ball for their next shot against the better ball of another pair of players. | |
| Foursome | |
| 1. A group of four players 2. a match between two pairs in which each pair plays one ball. | |
| Free Drop | |
| A ball is dropped without incurring a penalty away from an immovable obstruction in accordance with the Rules of Golf. | |
| Fringe | |
| The collar of grass surrounding the green, usually shorter in length than the fairway but longer than the green itself. See Collar. | |
| Front nine | |
| The first nine holes on an 18-hole golf course. | |
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