four-spotting
n.— «Like most professional golfers, Lowery has suffered through his own trail of lament.…There was losing his TOUR card and the two years of surviving the vagaries of Monday qualifying, “four-spotting” as it is sometimes called.» —“Surprising Lowery more than happy to be hangin’ in Maui” by Stan Awtrey PGATOUR.com (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida) Jan. 7, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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