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Golf Related Poll- Double Eagle or Albatross? (1 Viewer)

What do you call it?

  • Double Eagle

    Votes: 57 61.3%

  • Albatross

    Votes: 36 38.7%
  • Total voters
    93
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Annyong

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It's recently come to my attention that some morons call a double eagle an albatross. That can't be normal. I've been playing golf since I was in 8th grade and have never heard this.

 
Annyong said:
It's recently come to my attention that some morons call a double eagle an albatross. That can't be normal. I've been playing golf since I was in 8th grade and have never heard this.
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It is an albatross. The rarest or all the birds.

ETA to say: OF not OR. Rarest of all the birds.

 
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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 1929 indicates that it had been in use for some time before then. John G Ridland, who scored an 'albatross' in India in 1934, theorized that it was the introduction of steel shafted clubs in 1920s which made this score achievable enough to necessitate a name for it.

The first ‘albatross’ score reported as such in the press is from South Africa when E E Wooler scored a hole-in-one in the summer of 1931 on the 18th hole of the Durban Country Club which is a par-4. It cost £40 in drinks but, had he known that he was making history, he would not have minded.

 
Annyong said:
It's recently come to my attention that some morons call a double eagle an albatross. That can't be normal. I've been playing golf since I was in 8th grade and have never heard this.
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ahh, the old "I've been saying things wrong all these years so it's the other people who are morons" shtick.

 
"Double Eagle" seems pretty dumb. Two under par, doubled, is obviously four under par.

ETA: Damn you!

 
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I've always used "Albatross" to describe a 4-under hole (i.e., getting a hole-in-one on a Par 5, or getting a 2 on a Par 6).

 
Joe Summer said:
I've always used "Albatross" to describe a 4-under hole (i.e., getting a hole-in-one on a Par 5, or getting a 2 on a Par 6).
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What is a hole-in-one on a par-5 called? "Condor" is sometimes recognized as the "proper" term, but triple-eagle and double-albatross are also correct.

 
I'd assume that people who say sand trap and fringe also play at the muni in jorts and a tank top with a 12 pack of Milwaukee's best in their cart.

 
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