Top 85+ Golf Inspired Dog Names

Golf-inspired Canine Name Ideas

	Name	Meaning / Inspiration	Gender
#1	Floater	A ball whose contact and trajectory are compromised by tall grass and thus floats in the air, falling short	Male
#2	Nassau	A bet/competition set up to reward points for winning the front 9, back 9 and total 18	Female
#3	Gimme	A conceded putt	Female
#4	Groove	A consistent swing	Male
#5	Whiff	A hard miss	Male
#6	Slice	A harder cut to one side than a fade	Female
#7	Bunker	A hollowed area of grass or sand meant to be an obstacle or hazard	Female
#8	Flub	A missed or straight up terrible shot	Male
#9	Waggle	A motion or motions used to keep a golfer loose before a swing	Female
#10	Yips	A psychological condition where someone talented seems to lose all of their skill in an instant	Female
#11	Balata	A rubber-like substance that lines the outside of golf balls	Female
#12	Wedge	A severely – angled iron used in special situations	Female
#13	Lob	A short, high flying shot meant to have a soft landing	Male
#14	Lag	A shot purposely hit to fall short of the target	Male
#15	Fade	A shot that flies only slightly off to one side	Male
#16	Hook	A shot that flies sharply outside (left to right for righties)	Female
#17	Draw	A shot with a slight drift from right to left for righties and vice versa for lefties	Male
#18	Flier	A shot with unusual spin due to the lie or conditions that causes it to sail further than normal	Male
#19	Bag Rat	A slang term for a caddie	Male
#20	Quacker	A slang term for a duck hook	Female

	Name	Meaning / Inspiration	Gender
#21	Hacker	A slang term for a terrible golfer	Male
#22	Oscar Bravo	A slang term for out of bounds	Male
#23	Croquet	A style of putting	Female
#24	Shank	A swing that misses so severely it hits the ball with something other than the club head	Female
#25	Pistol	A type of grip usually used for putting	Female
#26	Fluffy	A type of lie where the ball rests on top of taller grass	Female
#27	Block	A type of swing that uses the forearm to produce a purposeful direction	Male
#28	Calcutta	An auction where people bid on teams or players that will be playing in a tournament	Female
#29	Spoon	An outdated term for a 3-wood	Male
#30	Arnold / Arnie	Arnold Palmer	Male
#31	Palmer	Arnold Palmer	Male
#32	Dawn	As in dawn patrol, the first golfers on the course	Female
#33	Duck	As in Duck Hook; a shot that flies hard off to the left for righties	Female
#34	Flip	As in Flip Shot; a short, high shot	Female
#35	Byron	As in Iron Byron, a testing device used to test clubs and balls	Male
#36	Link	As in links, a term used to describe a course built on linksland which is reclaimed from the ocean	Male
#37	Chunk	Bad shot
#38	Hogan	Ben Hogan	Male
#39	Bubba	Bubba Watson	Male
#40	Callie	Callaway

	Name	Meaning / Inspiration	Gender
#41	Scramble	Catching up after falling behind	Male
#42	Scratch	Even par	Male
#43	Freddy	Fred Couples
#44	Fuzzy	Fully Zoeller
#45	Links	Golf course style	Male
#46	Happy	Happy Gilmore
#47	Nuke	Hitting a ball to the maximum distance possible for that club	Male
#48	Mulligan	Hitting a second ball without penalty (not legal but commonly used in friendly games)	Male
#49	Ace	Hole in one
#50	Augusta	Home of the Masters
#51	Grip	How a golfer holds their club depending on style and shot	Male
#52	Coil	How the golfer’s body turns during the backswing	Male
#53	Carry	How well a ball travels	Female
#54	Jack	Jack Nicklaus	Male
#55	Bear	Jack Nicklaus’ nickname	Male
#56	Daly	John Daly	Male
#57	Flop	Like a flip shop but with a slower swing	Male
#58	Muff	Like a flub; to mis-hit a shot	Male
#59	Obie	Out of bounds
#60	Rory	Rory Mcilroy

Related Read: 86 Dog Names Inspired From Golf

	Name	Meaning / Inspiration	Gender
#61	Ryder	Ryder Cup
#62	Bogey	Scoring one over par on a hole	Female
#63	Birdie	Scoring one under par on a hole	Female
#64	Eagle	Scoring two under par on a hole	Female
#65	Shooter	Shooter Mcgavin
#66	Chip	Short shot
#67	Divot	Spots of the course displaced by the strike of a club	Male
#68	Yip	Swing issues
#69	Taylor	Taylormade
#70	Driver	The 1 – wood club; a club with the lowest loft	Male
#71	Flange	The angled head of a wedge or putter	Female
#72	Grain	The direction the blades of grass grow	Female
#73	Jaws	The few inches surrounding the cup/hole	Male
#74	Heel	The part of the club head that is closest to the hosel	Female

	Name	Meaning / Inspiration	Gender
#75	Hosel	The part of the golf club that connects the shaft to the club head	Female
#76	Caddie	The person who carries and grabs/exchanges clubs for the golfer	Female
#77	Pivot	The rotation of the body during a swing	Male
#78	Par	The score an average, accomplished player is expected to make on an individual hole	Male
#79	Pace	The speed of a swing or the greens	Female
#80	Cabbage	Thick, inescapable rough	Female
#81	Tiger	Tiger Woods	Male
#82	Watson	Tom Watson	Male
#83	Torrey	Torrey Pines	Female
#84	Dormie	When a golfer is up by the same number of strokes as the number of holes left	Female
#85	Cuppy	When the ball is sitting in a small depression	Female
#86	Teebox	Where golfer’s begin each hole and tee off from	Female

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