backweight

English

Etymology

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 New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.