| Tell golfing partners for the 40th time how the phrase mashie niblick always makes you laugh. |
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| He got his first golf club — a hickory-shaft mashie, similar to the modern 5-iron — and taught himself the game. |
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| I'm still not that bad with my mashie niblick today out on the Weymouth pitch and putt, but back in my teens, it was a bit of a steep learning curve. |
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| Jones was 170 yards from the green and seemingly out of reach because of his lie, but he took a mashie and landed safely on the heart of the green. |
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| It is indeed hard to realize that in 1894 the driver and the mashie were totally unknown in this land of sunshine and laughter. |
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| Jones reached in his bag for a hickory-shafted mashie, roughly equivalent to a 5-iron. |
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| They used clubs with names like mashie, brassie, niblick and jigger stamped into the tiny club heads, some irons looking more like straight razors than golf clubs. |
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| These were a brassie, a mashie, and a putter. |
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| There we have it, another improvement in Golf's game and not a mashie niblick in sight. |
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| It has miles of white sandy beaches, ochre cliffs and more golf courses than you could shake a mashie niblick at. |
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| And with 10 courses no further than a mashie niblick away, it's as close to golfing paradise as there is. |
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| The boy gave me the driver and the brassie and the putter, and I thanked him and told him that now I'd like the midiron, the mashie, the mashie niblick and the niblick. |
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| Situated on the road between St Andrews and Crail, Kingsbarns is surrounded by so many golf courses that the local children know what a mashie niblick is before they can walk. |
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