fairway

noun4

1. •
   The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
2. •
   open ground with nothing in the way, especially the long area of short grass leading from the tee toward the hole on a golf course
3. •
   a channel deep enough for large ships, forming their usual route through a harbor, a river or the sea near a coast
4. •
   A navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.

   • By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the Hispaniola right in the fairway, hardly to be missed. — 1881