💻 A computer expert ⛳ A bad golfer

hacker

12 7.7

A person who plays golf badly and without skill

noun
/ˈhækər/

Archaic

: golfista mediocre

Examples

And it was a sport that men who were mere hackers, as politicians and artists usually were, loved to play with good-looking women.

Fiction book (1990)
"I'm fairly adept at creating anigraphs, but as a hacker I really suck.

Fiction book (2000)
My friend is such a hacker; he can barely hit the ball past the tee.
Even though he practices regularly, he still plays like a hacker on the golf course.
During our golf outing, I realized that he's just a hacker who struggles with his swing.

Antonyms

pro

Informal

384 3.7

A person who is paid to do something they are very good at

expert

3 3.5

Very skilled and knowing a lot about a particular area

How Skilled

professional

16 3.5

golfer

98 1.0

hacker

Archaic

12 7.7

duffer

Offensive

3 7.9

Surface Forms

hacker singular

hackers plural

Morphology

hacker = hack (semi-transparent) = hack + er

Formed regularly from 'hack' + '-er', but the specific golfing sense 'an unskilled golfer' is a domain-specific extension rather than a fully predictable general meaning.

Etymology

Hacker for a poor golfer comes from the old verb hack, which meant 'to chop' or 'cut roughly', because such players 'hack' at the ball instead of hitting it cleanly.