nineteenth hole

English

Etymology

From an extension of the golf course hole-numbering system, wherein a (normal) full-length course consists of eighteen holes.

Noun

nineteenth hole (plural nineteenth holes)

1. (golf) A pub/bar where golfers go for drinks after a game of golf, usually in the clubhouse at the course; equivalent to après-ski.
   • 1972, The Diced Cap: The Story of Aberdeen City Police, page 79:

     The incident occurred at the "University Bar," Sinclair Road, the public house now styled the "Nineteenth Hole."

   • 2007, John H. Minan, The Little Green Book of Golf Law: The Real Rules of the Game of Golf, →ISBN, page 145:

     Many golfers enjoy the tradition associated with the nineteenth hole. This tradition usually involves a trip to the clubhouse bar, or something serving its reasonable approximation, [... for] a few drinks. On occasion, some golfers get carried away at the nineteenth hole, sometimes in handcuffs.

   • 2009, Tom Coyne, A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk, →ISBN, page 50:

     As it was told to me in the nineteenth hole, a cracking pub in the center of town, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nineteenth hole.

pub/bar where golfers go for drinks after a game of golf

• Danish: nittende (da) hul (da)
• Norwegian: nittende hull (no)
• Swedish: nittonde hål (sv) (usually in definite singular: nittonde hålet)