One of the great benefits of having colleagues spread around the world is that I get to hear new expressions – well – new to me anyway. Today it was ‘golf clap.’ Now before all you professionals go rushing out to check that your set of Callaways haven’t mysteriously developed some indescribable disease, check this from Wikipedia:
A golf clap is a quiet form of clapping performed by lightly and rapidly clapping the fingers of one hand against the palm of the other. It is patterned after the sound of distant clapping heard during televised golf tournaments (during a golf tournament, a golf clap is an audience’s normal show of appreciation via clapping, but done quietly to not disturb people golfing at other nearby fairways, hence the intentionally subdued sound level).
The “golf clap” may also be employed as a sarcastic form of applause, used to show indifference or disdain, just as the ’slow handclap’ may be used.
So – if you see me concluding a post with: golf clap – you know what I mean.
And hat tip to the ever classy Chris Yeh of pbWiki for alerting me to this delightful term.
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