: a golf stroke made on a putting green to cause the ball to roll into or near the hole
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With the Ryder Cup on the line, Langer faced a 6 foot putt on the 18th green.—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Hole after hole, putts dropped and swings flowed.—Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025 The Northern Irishman needed to produce a stunning eagle putt on the 72nd hole to take Lagergren, who had made a brilliant eagle himself on the 16th, to a playoff.—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrates an eagle putt on the 18th green on day four of the Amgen Irish Open 2025 at The K Club on September 07, 2025 in Straffan, Ireland.—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for putt
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Scots, literally, shove, gentle push, from putt, put to put
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