The handle of the club is the shaft and the part bound with leather, the grip. The other end of the club is the head ; the under portion of the head, the sole; the part which comes in contact with the ball, the face ; and the slope of the face, the spoon. The word spoon is also used when referring to the length of the face, a club with a long head being called a long spoon, one with a medium head a mid spoon, and one with a short head a short spoon ; a baffy spoon being a short handled wooden club with the face laid well back, to be used in place of a lofting iron. The end of the head is the toe or nose, and the part nearest the shaft the heel. The part where the head joins the shaft is called the neck, and in iron clubs the socket into which the shaft is fitted is called the hose. The narrow part where the head is glued to the shaft is the scare, and the twine binding the head and the shaft, the whipping. The angle of the head with the shaft is the lie of the club, and the position of the ball on the ground, the lie of the ball.

The stance is the way one stands when in position to hit the ball. The teeing ground is the space within which the ball must be teed, the tee being the pinch of sand upon which the ball is placed. The fair green or green is that part of the course between the teeing ground and the putting green. The putting green is the ground around the hole and it is called keen when the ground is hard or the turf so close knitted that the ball travels quickly, and dead when the ground is heavy or the turf so clinging that it retards the ball.

Slicing is swinging the club head so that it strikes the ball on the line with the hole, but while swinging from right to left across this line which makes the ball curve to the right. Pulling is swinging the club head in a similar way on to the ball from left to right so that it curves to the left. Hooking or drawing is striking the ball to the right of the line between the ball and the hole which makes it fly to the left.

Topping is hitting the top of the ball, and sclaffing or baffing is hitting the ground behind the ball.