How to Use fairway in a Sentence

fairway

noun

• Her shot landed at the left side of the fairway.
• Miller sat in the middle of the fairway, a 7-iron to the green.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
• From the fairway on the 17th, his wedge spun back to 4 feet.
  — Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• Both hit the center of the 17th fairway, got to the green in two, and two-putted.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2022
• The good news is, the first hole of the Old Course is the widest fairway on planet Earth.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• Off the tee, Woods flirted with the left fairway but found the first-cut rough.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
• The one who hits the golf ball the farthest while staying in the fairway will win the three points.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 1 Feb. 2023
• The staff has let the rough go brown and the fairway is being hand watered due to the drought.
  — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• The ball bounced back into the fairway, as Steele crumpled to the ground.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2022
• Yet his ball settled in the fairway — and about 300 yards away from the tee box.
  — Mitchell Forde For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 July 2022
• On the 18th hole, Swathwood’s final shot from the fairway sailed over the green.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2022
• When standing on the fairway, a rangefinder helps the golfer judge the distance to the pin.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• Woods looked solid off the tee shot, straight down the middle of the fairway.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
• In the end, Scheffler and Fitzpatrick had to hole out from the fairway to catch him.
  — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• From 308 yards, while on the fairway, Scheffler didn't choose to lay up.
  — USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• The 14th fairway, shown in May before the rough was fully grown out.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
• Woods often used a club as a crutch while walking off the tee box and down the fairway.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• Time to pop open a big wave and drive it down the fairway to celebrate!
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• Piercy's tee shot landed in the fairway bunker, and his sand wedge didn't get him out of the sand.
  — Fox News, 25 July 2022
• On the next hole, another par 4, Lowry put his drive in the fairway but said the pin was in a tricky place on the green.
  — Steve Douglas, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• There isn’t a tee box, a fairway, a bunker, a thatch of pine straw or a putting surface where the greats haven’t walked.
  — Will Graves, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2022
• Fans were building for hours ahead of their 12:29 tee time and ringed not just the first tee box, but the fairways and around the greens.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023
• Thousands of them circled the 18th green, the crowd stretching back 50 yards down the fairway.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 12 June 2022
• His tee shot landed in the fairway, but his second shot clipped a tree and fell in the rough, 55 yards from the hole.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2022
• Her second shot crossed the fairway and nestled into the first cut of the left rough.
  — Kalani Takase, ajc, 17 Apr. 2022
• Thousands of spectators crowd the 18th fairway of the links golf course on which it’s held to look some of the rarest cars in the world.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2022
• Her tee shot, striped down the middle of the fairway, landed in a divot.
  — Tyson Alger For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2022
• That pit sitting along a fairway or green might look like just a large bowl of sand.
  — Bradley S. Klein, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Ryan is that golfer who punches out of the trees and back into the fairway; Wentz tries to thread it through the woods to the flagstick.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
• Woods went bunker-to-fairway-to-bunker on the 10th hole and had to make an 8-footer to save bogey.
  — Doug Ferguson, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024