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Mouth Wedge

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Definition: The weapon employed by golfers who talk excessively to opponents (to the point of annoying them), or intentionally use zingers, needling or teasing to affect their opponents' play. For example, the one golfer in your association who just won't shut up on the course? Who rambles on incessantly, just to hear himself talk? That guy carries a powerful mouth wedge.

A golfer, as in the exampe above, who has a mouth wedge may not be intentionally trying to affect an opponent's game. But if a golfer is the type who makes comments intended to anger or annoy an opponent in the hope it will have a negative impact on their game, then that golfer is using his mouth wedge to try to gain advantage. If you use a mouth wedge in such a way, we don't want to play with you.

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