Golf Glossary - The Terms of Golf
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| Waggle | |
| Back and forth warm-up movements of the club prior to hitting the ball. | |
| Water hazard | |
| A body of water, identified by yellow or red stakes. If your ball goes into one and you can't hit it out, you must take a one-shot penalty. | |
| Weak grip | |
| A grip in which a player sees one knuckle of the left hand; it is used to turn the ball to the right. | |
| Wedge | |
| A short iron with a loft of at least 48 degrees, used to hit very short shots or to get out of the sand. A pitching wedge has the least amount of loft for a wedge; a gap wedge has more, followed by a sand wedge, and then finally the lob wedge, which has the most loft of any golf club. | |
| Whiff | |
| The sound the club makes as it whips through air above the ball -and misses the ball entirely. | |
| Whipping | |
| Waxed thread used to bind the area on a club where the shaft meets the wooden clubhead. | |
| Wood | |
| A golf club that uses a large, pear-shaped head to hit the ball. Made of metal or wood, woods generally are longer than irons and are used to hit the ball longer distances. A driver is considered a wood, as is a 3-wood. Many golfers now carry 5-, 7-, and even 9-woods instead of long irons (those marked with smaller numbers, such as 2 or 3), because the woods tend to be slightly easier to hit. The higher the number of the club, the more loft it has. | |
| Worm burner | |
| A shot with no loft that rolls along the ground. | |
| Wristy | |
| A stroke is one in which the wrists break down. See Breaking down. | |
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