noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bunker
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His tee shot lacked the necessary left-to-right spin and finished in one of the two fairway bunkers .
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After hitting it in a fairway bunker , he pounded another 9-iron to 25 feet and 2-putted for par.
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Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker .
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What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards - all uphill.
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hit
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After hitting it in a fairway bunker, he pounded another 9-iron to 25 feet and 2-putted for par.
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Annes in 1979, he hit only two fairways yet almost always found his ball sitting kindly.
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Lickliter hit the fairway for the third time.
miss
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But we missed a couple of fairways and he wasn't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough.
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He likes missing fairways , he likes missing greens; in scrambling he is forced to be inventive.
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Typically, if you miss fairways and greens in those championships, you make bogeys.
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He missed just three fairways in the final round and one of those by just a few inches.
walk
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You may not realise, as you watch the humble caddie walk the fairways , how heavy that bag is.
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The latter was happy to be walking the fairways of Sandwich instead of battling with strikers on the picket lines.
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I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood, despite my early departure from my bed.
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This cameraman's pal wanders out with a tripod, and also walks straight across the fairway .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But we missed a couple of fairways and he wasn't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough.
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Peter was as steady as a rock, keeping the ball on the fairway and hitting nearly every green in regulation.
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The 3-wood is used for driving and the 5-wood for fairway shots.
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The ball glanced on a bounce off the foot of a spectator and back down toward the fairway .
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The discoveries confirm a significant new productive fairway in the Upper Magdalena Basin.
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We have to limit galleries to one side of the fairways.
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We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together.
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What he did was send his drive over both familiar fairway bunkers 313 yards - all uphill.