Posted August 18, 2007. My wife is telling me that I now occasionally yell in my sleep. Once I was yelling OW! repeatedly, and once she couldn't make out what I was saying. After waking up I do not remember any dreams that it could be related to.
Succinctly, a gimmie is a putt so short a golfer considers it unmissable, so just picks it up and counts it as holed. To be more precise: A gimmie putt is one that a player requests be conceded by another player, allowing the first player to pick up and move on as if the putt had been holed.
Nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf. yips. Noun. 1. yips - nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts); to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting.