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Slime said:
A double eagle has to be four under par by anyone's logic, surely.
Therefore only for a hole-in-one on a par five, which we all know is a condor.
Double Eagle is purely for those who scream Mashed Potato!
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In the old use, an eagle was one shot better than a birdie. So two shots better than birdie, a double eagle. Sarazen's on the 15th at the Masters is always and only, a double eagle.
 
Looked like nobody wanted to win it.. A few collapsed on the last 18...why did Malnati get relief from greenside rough on 15 or 16? From barely seeing his ball in the rough to putting from the fringe.. Happy for the man tho.. He was very emotional at the end and it obviously meant a lot to him... Cam young is bound to pick up a win sooner or later..
 
C7usk said:
Looked like nobody wanted to win it.. A few collapsed on the last 18...why did Malnati get relief from greenside rough on 15 or 16? From barely seeing his ball in the rough to putting from the fringe..
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Might be wrong but it looked like there was a sprinkler head where he would take his stance,
 
Swango1980 said:
A birdie is 1 under par. So 2 under par must be a double birdie :)
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I suppose. But guessing double birdies were always scored in the history of golf, and prompted a specific word eagle for that rarer birdie, even if only for holes in one. But until professionals started hitting par 5s in two, the three-under score was unheard of, and so no specific term was needed. Then it started happening a hundred years ago, and double eagle was the first shot to describe it. And why the famous Sarazen still is named that way generally.
 
Backache said:
Might be wrong but it looked like there was a sprinkler head where he would take his stance,
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Cheers Backache, I never heard any of the commentary team mention the reason for it. I couldn't see anything untoward and thought it was one of them when the pros get a drop for no obvious reason... When we would all just have to deal with it...
 
Sarazens was the first in tournament history apparently. I think we can forgive them for not coming up with the 'correct' term in the moment.
 
Reading a bit online it seems accepted that it was a few American golfers that coined the phrase ‘birdie’ for what was just called 1under in Britain, and followed later with ‘eagle’ for 2under… Britain now thinking this looked fun then wanted to play the name-game so came up with 3under as an albatross but America said naff off its our naming game & chose double eagle instead

Britain obviously peeved at not being allowed into this particular playground said, well we’re going to call it an albatross so stick that in your pipe. America weren’t even listening by then so even today they have no idea what Pádraig is jabbering about
 
Slab said:
Reading a bit online it seems accepted that it was a few American golfers that coined the phrase ‘birdie’ for what was just called 1under in Britain, and followed later with ‘eagle’ for 2under… Britain now thinking this looked fun then wanted to play the name-game so came up with 3under as an albatross but America said naff off its our naming game & chose double eagle instead

Britain obviously peeved at not being allowed into this particular playground said, well we’re going to call it an albatross so stick that in your pipe. America weren’t even listening by then so even today they have no idea what Pádraig is jabbering about
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