Par-3 Hole. Note that any hole-in-one or ace will be called by those terms, rather than by double eagle on a par-4 or eagle on a par After all, why use double eagle or eagle when you can call it a hole-in-one? Another note about the alternative term for "double eagle": Albatross is the preferred term in most of the golfing world; double eagle is the preferred term in the United States.
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Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. All numbers — negative or positive — are based around zero. Likewise, all scores in golf are in relation to par.
A bogey is one stroke over par, so a golfer took one extra shot to get the ball into the hole in relation to par. Bogeys are tracked on the scorecard with a square around your score. For example, if you make a 5 on a par-4, you would put a square around the five. For anything worse than a double bogey, make a square around your score and shade it in.
A birdie is when a golfer shoots one stroke under par on a hole. A birdie is also a score that is attainable for the average golfer. A good drive, lucky bounce or perfectly placed long putt can result in a birdie every now and then. Birdie is the redeemer in golf, the score that makes a bad day on the course feel like it was worth the effort. An eagle — two strokes under par on a hole — is tricky and average golfers could go a lifetime without ever recording one.
It takes a very skilled golfer to put the ball into position to record an eagle. Eagles are most often scored on par-5 holes where long hitters can reach the green in two strokes and then sink the ensuing putt. A hole-in-one on a par-3 hole is also an eagle.
Ab Smith see Birdie above said that his group referred to two under as an 'eagle'. By the term was being introduced to Britain, as when Mr H D Gaunt's explained the use of 'birdie' and 'eagle' that he met in Canada. For many years, eagle was always introduced as American terms, as in when Cecil Cecilia Leitch described a putt for a 3 on a par-5 hole as 'securing what is known in American golfing parlance as an "eagle"' Golf XII p Albatross is the term for three under par and is a continuation of the birdie and eagle theme, but is in fact a British term.
Ab Smith said his group used the phrase 'double eagle' for three under see Birdie above , which is still the term most Americans and the name for their Double Eagle Club membership by invitation only. Three under par is a very rare score and an albatross is a very rare bird. The exact origin is unclear but the first known reference in indicates that it had been in use for some time before then.
John G Ridland, who scored an 'albatross' in India in , theorized that it was the introduction of steel shafted clubs in s which made this score common enough to necessitate a name for it. Durban Country Club 18th Hole site of first recorded albatross, a hole-in-one on yard par More details of the first albatrosses, are given in The Albatross has Landed in News section.
No standard terms for 2 or 3 or more over Par have emerged. They are just double and triple Bogeys. Joyce Wethered once suggested that a hole-in-one should be called a Curlew, known in Scottish as a 'Whaup', which, though fitting, did not catch on. It seems that golfing terms came into popular use in much the same way as you find new words being invented and used on the Internet. If they sound good, people start using them. What we do not hear about are all the terms, such as beantops , that never made it because they did not catch on.
Only the future can tell which of the terms that we create will still be in use in a hundred years time. Bogey to Blow-Up There is quite a history behind the golfing terms bogey, par, birdie, eagle and albatross.
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