hit off

verb3

1. •
   To play the first shot off the fairway.

   • I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.] — 1995
2. •
   To give; to hand over.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To describe with quick characteristic strokes.

   • Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life? — 1652