backweight

Etymology

From back + weight.

backweight means A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.“Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.”