backweight

English

Etymology

From back +‎ weight.

Noun

backweight (plural backweights)

  1. (golf) A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
    • 2007 September 7, Wendy Moonan, “Olde Cleeks, Spoons and Brassies (for Birdies and Bogeys)”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 November 2025:
      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.
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