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Recent Examples of dogleg
The 396-yard, dogleg right around a marsh was statistically the toughest hole on the course, with a stroke average of 4.43 and only 24 birdies (and 41 double bogeys or worse) in 552 total rounds.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Tuesday morning on Quail Hollow’s first tee before the PGA Championship, Hideki Matsuyama set up for his drive into the opening dogleg right.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
According to the league's official website, the two-time major champion's tee shot traveled 400 yards over the dogleg left of the fairway and landed on the green 27 feet from the hole.
—Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
The doglegs and water in play will demand the players pay attention off the tee, but the small greens will reward those players who lead the field in proximity to the hole on approach shots.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Tuesday morning on Quail Hollow’s first tee before the PGA Championship, Hideki Matsuyama set up for his drive into the opening dogleg right.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
According to the league's official website, the two-time major champion's tee shot traveled 400 yards over the dogleg left of the fairway and landed on the green 27 feet from the hole.
—Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
The doglegs and water in play will demand the players pay attention off the tee, but the small greens will reward those players who lead the field in proximity to the hole on approach shots.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dogleg
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Where military service is compulsory, and may only disappoint our best or even worst men, but can be interrupted, thank god, by life’s hairpin turns.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 Feb. 2026
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To keep the hairpin turns and runaway carousel rides to a minimum, Dietrich, his chief lieutenant, Josh Belovsky, and assistants Ryan Day and Tony Schifano — the latter joining the staff this year — hit the recruiting trail and transfer portal hard.—
Brian Robin,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
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Family members and Blackbird Mountain Guides officials said the group was on the last day of a three-day trip to the Frog Lake huts near Castle Peak and that the skiers were heading back to the trailhead when the slope collapsed.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
22 Feb. 2026
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While conditions remain dangerous, experts advise reading the avalanche forecast, skiing with local expert guides and choosing shallower slopes to ski off-piste.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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That particular corner was filled with pink shirts and defeated faces, and Salloi stood in front of them, fingers in the corners of his mouth, drawing his smile wide like the Joker.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Tech execs in their 30s and 40s mingle with local artists and philanthropists—and yes, that just might be Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel in the corner, but the crowd doesn’t seem to care.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The phone's exterior frame includes a loop for a lanyard, as well as physical keys to activate push-to-talk and emergency outreach shortcuts.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
21 Feb. 2026
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Rather than hanging from a traditional metal loop soldered to the outside, the ribbon feeds directly into an internal cavity hidden between the medal's two halves.—
Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Dogleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogleg. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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