approach shot

1. 1.

   a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green

   “he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green”

   Synonymsapproach

   Broadergolf stroke

   Narrowerchippitch

   golf

Questions about approach shot

What does approach shot mean?

approach shot means "a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green".

What is another word for approach shot?

Close synonyms include approach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is approach shot a common word?

approach shot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.