slice (golf) antedate

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Dec 29 20:01:05 UTC 2004


OED has 1890.

_Outing_ 11/1896,  "A Gossip on Golf", Horace G. Hutchinson
p. 158/2

"If you are slicing or pulling the ball, so that it describes a curve, out
of the vertical plane, in its flight, you may be sure that your clubhead at
the moment of meeting the ball is not traveling in the line of flight which
you wish the ball to take."



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