Welcome to my first blog post based on our season 6 ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we’re covering sentences you might hear or need when playing a game of golf in Germany.
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Let’s start with one easy phrase (not in the video):
Achtung!
Fore!
Was ist deine Lieblingsübung im Putting?
What’s your favourite putting exercise?
Wie hoch sind die Greenfee-Gebühren?
How much are the green fees?”
Können Sie mir ein Golfcart reservieren?
Can you reserve a golf buggy for me?
Ist Wasser auf diesem Loch?
Is there water on this hole?
Ich habe meinen Ball im Rough verloren.
I lost my ball in the rough.
Kann ich hier ein paar Bälle auf der Driving Range schlagen?
Can I hit a few balls at the driving range here?
Wie viele Schläge sind auf diesem Loch Par?
What par is this hole?
Das war ein Hole-in-One!
That was a hole-in-one!
Ich bin am 19. Loch. 😉
I am at the 19th hole.
Here’s the video where Steven gets to practise saying and translating the sentences:
What can you do with these sentences to remember them?
You can bookmark this post or make a vocabulary list with them. You can do that with any paper or electronic notebook. Or you could buy my notebook which I designed specially for German vocab learners. It has space for vocabulary lists and sentences. You can even choose one of two colours 😊
I have to admit, I don’t play golf and probably agree with Mark Twain, who apparently said: “Golf is a good walk spoiled. “
„Golf: ein schöner Spaziergang, der einem verdorben wird.“ 😉
