Sentence examples for half stroke from inspiring English sources

He refused to default, and he lost, hitting a kind of crippled half stroke.

I had been travelling — working, to Mark's horror — and hadn't surfed in several weeks, so my paddling was weak, and the lost half stroke kept betraying me as I misjudged shifting peaks or got tangled in the kelp.

Woodland's highest rounds this year in 72-hole stroke-play events generally have come on Sundays, when his average is 72.5 strokes, two and a half strokes more than on Thursdays.

That was not the case Thursday when an unheralded player took the first-round lead by shooting a crazy number on the South Course, which played, as usual, about two and a half strokes tougher than the North.

After about four and a half strokes I was in spoof town and I knew that from that moment on I wanted to masturbate 24/7 FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.

Try short strokes of 6 inches (15.2 cm) or so in the middle of the bow at first, then try half strokes from the frog to the middle and back again.

He had two choices: glide to the wall, kicking like crazy, or take an extra, awkward half-stroke.

It also is the most difficult hole, ranked No. 1 after two rounds at nearly a half-stroke over par.

Over all, 71 of the 121 players finished even par or better, with the average score at about a half-stroke under par.

We show that the direction of the half-stroke averaged aerodynamic force relative to the body is independent of the body orientation, varying in a range of merely 20 deg.

Last year, Woods won the Vardon Trophy for the best scoring average on the PGA Tour -- the seventh time he has won it -- shooting one-and-a-half strokes better per round than Ernie Els, the runner up.