Backweight

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.

    "Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight."

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"Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight."

Etymology

From back + weight.

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centre of gravitygolf club

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