The word "fairway" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in golf to refer to the part of the course that is between the tee and the green. For example, "The golfer hit a long drive down the fairway to set up her second shot."
Coltart too might not have tamed the Tiger under any circumstances, but with a huge crowd lining the 9th fairway it is disgraceful that he was allowed to spend five minutes on a fruitless search deep in the woods for his ball when all the while it was nestling in the semi-rough only a few feet from the fairway.
I have also holed a couple of times from the middle of the fairway.
He sized it up for a minute or two, then decided to play the most audacious little cut, right around the left side of trunk and away up the fairway into the heart of the green.
IN 1986 Alston Chase, a writer, stood before a piece of ground in Yellowstone National Park which had been grazed, as Mr Chase put it, "as smooth as a golf fairway".
To keep on the fairway, perhaps they should stay off the golf courses.
The CBS television camera follows the ball hundreds of yards down the fairway until it lands, and then the director cuts back to Mr Woods.
The battlefield had seen Nuer fight Nuer before: among the still-bleeding corpses were scattered human vertebrae and clean-picked skulls, like golf balls on a vast green fairway.
ON A manicured fairway in Morocco's capital, Rabat, a muezzin's call to prayer drowns out the crack of a well-aimed iron and the whirr of a little white ball.
Many theories have been put forward to explain why the economic progress of South-East Asia has so suddenly left the fairway: the forces of globalisation; misguided economic policies; exclusive and unresponsive political systems; a pursuit of growth at the expense of everything else, including the environment and the livelihoods of the poor.
LAST week, without bothering to make a reservation, I strolled onto the first tee at St Andrews and sloshed one down the fairway.
Dan Wald of the Boston Consulting Group, who advises sports businesses, says that golf video games actually decrease the chance of getting a young person to play golf, because hitting a ball smoothly down a real fairway is so much harder than on a virtual one.
