Article question

[badgermat]

Prompted by an answer on the tee thread (and others here and elsewhere), why is it some golfers leave off the direct article when talking about (the) driver?

“When I hit driver”, “I’m having trouble hitting driver”, “Driver is essential to my game” etc. It sounds really odd (to me).

And as a subsidiary question, since I’ve never seen it done for other clubs, why not for woods, wedges and irons also?

Enquiring minds and all that.

bm.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Modern English and Queens English not the same. Nothing more than modern vernacular and easier to type

 

[Imurg]

It's them blooming Yanks saying it all the time.....creeps into every walk of life....

 

[6535]

It's them blooming Yanks saying it all the time.....creeps into every walk of life....

I game my driver. 😂

 

[jim8flog]

In the same way that most pros drop the 'ly' of a lot of words used to describe how they played.

e.g I played solid

 

[Italian outcast]

When one is using ones one iron one should always use the definitive article