How to Use fairway in a Sentence

fairway

noun
  • Her shot landed at the left side of the fairway.
  • Could have hit a few more fairways.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
  • The fairway cants to the right.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The fairway slopes to the left.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • Homa lined up on the fairway for his third shot on the third hole.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
  • Rahm pulled his drive just a bit off the fairway in the left rough.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • The help dyed the creeks and ponds blue and stained the fairway grass green.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Just get the ball on the fairway, make it to the green, and go for par.
    — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The home sits on the second fairway of the club’s short course.
    — Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • One of the game’s best drivers no longer could find the fairway.
    — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
  • Johnson hit the fairway on the first and fifth holes — both pars.
    — Doug Ferguson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Others hit it high enough to soar over the trees to the left of the fairway.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Miller sat in the middle of the fairway, a 7-iron to the green.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • Woods looked solid off the tee shot, straight down the middle of the fairway.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The fairways are bouncy, and the greens are getting firmer.
    — Bob Buttitta, Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Off the tee, Woods flirted with the left fairway but found the first-cut rough.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Clark, who has long expressed her passion for the sport, is no stranger to the fairways.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The staff has let the rough go brown and the fairway is being hand watered due to the drought.
    — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Katt Williams is heading back to the fairway—but this time, not just for laughs.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Alex was in the fairway, but her approach landed in the bunker on the right side of the green.
    — Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2021
  • The tight fairway landing is squeezed by bunkers, and more bunkers narrow the front of the green.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • His goes down the fairway and mine makes a beautiful arch to the left, and then hits the house.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • The one who hits the golf ball the farthest while staying in the fairway will win the three points.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Anything too short with too much spin could roll back some 50 yards down the fairway.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • But why, oh why, do people pay good money to sit along a fairway and watch golf balls fly by?
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Fans line the fairways several rows deep.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The key for Theegala will be keeping the ball in the fairway.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Both hit the center of the 17th fairway, got to the green in two, and two-putted.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2022
  • McIlroy feasts on wider fairways as one of the best drivers of the ball.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Woods just misses the fairway off the tee about 200 yards away from the flag.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020

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