On New Years Eve, you hit the clubs. Now that that's over with, it's time to do something new: hit stuff WITH clubs. And by stuff we mean balls. And the clubs are golf clubs. That was clear, right?
The word for hitting the ball when you're close to the hole is "putt" because you're trying to "put the ball away." They added another t on the end because no two words are allowed to be the same.
