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.
The Gimme Stickâ¢ for measuring a gimme putt in golf. Gimmie Stickâ¢ or Gimmistick are also mispelled versions of the Gimme Stickâ¢. What's The Gimme Stickâ¢. Gimme Putts, sometimes referred to as concessions, have been a part of golf since its inception. In tournament golf, their tradition stems from early major events, such as the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open, which followed a match play format.