Socket: That part of the head of iron clubs into which the shaft is fitted.
Sole: The flat bottom of the club head.
Spoons: Wooden-headed clubs of three lengths—long, middle, and short: the head is scooped or grassed so as to loft the ball.
Spring: The degree of suppleness in the shaft.
Square: When the game stands level, neither party being any holes ahead.
Stance: The position of the player's feet when addressing himself to the ball.
Steal: To hole a long unlikely "putt" from a distance, not by a "gobble," but by a stroke which just succeeds in getting the ball as far as the hole.
Stroke: Any movement of the club which is intended to strike the ball.
Stymie: When your opponent's ball lies in the line of your "putt"; from an old Scotch word, meaning "obscuring."