What does “No Bananas” mean?
A – A “banana ball” is a shot that bends to the right, often even way to the right, for a right-handed player and the other way around for someone who plays left-handed. “Banana Ball” is a colloquial name for what we otherwise call a slice. Years ago, such a shot was given its name by only God knows whome some anonymous distraught slicer himself or just as probably his partner, or some half-friendly opponent who had finally seen enough of this shot in which a ball flies high, or low, on a wide, bending trajectory that takes it from a preferred target-line over the appropriate fairway and sends it not to the edge of the rough, but well beyond it, or through or over a line of trees, down into a ravine, well into a water hazard or adjoining fairway, and too often out of bounds. Over 85% of golfers suffer from some form of the Banana Ball. You even see them occasionally on the Professional circuit. Our clubs, properly named “No Bananas”, are designed to cure, and even to eliminate, that ba
