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  • n  nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)
    to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting
  • n  a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
  • v  bark in a high-pitched tone

  • For golfers, it can start with the yips, an uncontrollable twitch of the arm or an involuntary snap of the wrist at just the wrong moment.
  • Usually it's the later holes that induce the yips, but usually women don't play on the PGA Tour with television broadcasting hole-by-hole coverage of their rounds.
  • But at night in her 135-year-old house on the edge of the spread, she can clearly hear the yips and howls of the scruffy predators echoing across the meadows.
Quotes

  • Woody Austin in San Jose Mercury News
    I threw it away,said Austin, whose demonstrative ways led him to cup a ball and slam it against the wood board marking the 7th tee. "I didn't hit the ball close enough to the hole the last two holes to counteract my yips. I've got to...
  • Lindsay Davenport in Independent
    I guess they call it 'the yips' on your serve,Davenport said. "I don't know where it came from - probably from all my years making fun of people that had it. That was my karma coming back."
  • Mark Richt in Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
    The first one maybe missed by (a few feet), and the second hit the post, so, it is not like he is yanking 'em or got the yips or anything,Richt said. "He is still striking the ball extremely well. I think he will be fine."

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