derryork76
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An eagle is 2 under par correct? Can someone explain to me why Americans call 3 under par a double eagle? Surely that is 4 under?
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williamalex1
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We call it a rarely spotted Albatross.:thup:
derryork76
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I know that the rest of the world calls it an albatross, I just want to know why the americans dont?????
Dan2501
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It's because they're American.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
A shocking grasp of the English language
You gotta hit in there real good to get one of them double eagles
You gotta hit in there real good to get one of them double eagles
Rooter
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what clubs do you need to game for that bro?
the_coach
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😒
maybes merge this thread with the other passive aggressive one - someone bound to say it's just in humor & probably mention a missing 'u' too
always amazed how many folks have no time for embracing differences
certainly know how to make us foreigners real welcome
no rules on terminology
albatross looked on as being a bunch of bad luck - especially shooting one - ask the ancient mariner ...
it (albatross0 first came about around the late 1920's first record of it in a report of a game in South Africa after a hole in one
the eagle is our national symbol steeped in our not so old history
so our leaning to the term double eagle & the double eagle club though albatross is used also
& our triple eagle or condor is 4 under
maybes merge this thread with the other passive aggressive one - someone bound to say it's just in humor & probably mention a missing 'u' too
always amazed how many folks have no time for embracing differences
certainly know how to make us foreigners real welcome
no rules on terminology
albatross looked on as being a bunch of bad luck - especially shooting one - ask the ancient mariner ...
it (albatross0 first came about around the late 1920's first record of it in a report of a game in South Africa after a hole in one
the eagle is our national symbol steeped in our not so old history
so our leaning to the term double eagle & the double eagle club though albatross is used also
& our triple eagle or condor is 4 under
williamalex1
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you completely messed it up :ears:
HowlingGale
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A golden Eagle would sound better :thup: we have a shot called a golden ferret.
Do they get washed with a golden shower? 😀
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
the_coach
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y'all being doin that on your own for centuries ... cept for Mam (rhymes with ham) & her family 😒
bobmac
Major Champion
We will all be speaking American soon so you might as well get used to it. In fact we're half way there now
Yeah but its ours to do what we want with it :ears:
Beezerk
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What you talkin' 'bout Willis?
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
Some good points in post #7
I have this image of the_coach with mouse pointer hovered over the submit button and his finger to his lips Patrick Reed style :thup: Won't be true but I liked it.
Things is, on our little ol' island a lot of the tech we use only does US English, so we are reprimanded for having a u in humour (this forum is doing it here), so we don't feel like the differences are being embraced at all. More it feels like it is being imposed. Add to that the Hollywood effect on the children and maybe you can see a little of another point of view.
I have this image of the_coach with mouse pointer hovered over the submit button and his finger to his lips Patrick Reed style
:thup: Won't be true but I liked it.Things is, on our little ol' island a lot of the tech we use only does US English, so we are reprimanded for having a u in humour (this forum is doing it here), so we don't feel like the differences are being embraced at all. More it feels like it is being imposed. Add to that the Hollywood effect on the children and maybe you can see a little of another point of view.
the_coach
Journeyman Pro
heck no am from Cali not Texas 😊
am an outsider here so to be fair am always looking at others points of view as a norm
often times though as some other posts aptly demonstrate looking at sweeping critical not very complementary generalizations about us .... 'yanks' 😒
(think with a large majority of 'tech' you can default set to UK english & keep the 'u'
& Hollywood influence long since being superseded by the world wide web)
am an outsider here so to be fair am always looking at others points of view as a norm
often times though as some other posts aptly demonstrate looking at sweeping critical not very complementary generalizations about us .... 'yanks' 😒
(think with a large majority of 'tech' you can default set to UK english & keep the 'u'
& Hollywood influence long since being superseded by the world wide web)
williamalex1
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Coach, it's all being done in the best possible taste
. Maybe someone can post the Kenny Everett video .:rofl:
Leftie
Tour Winner
Hey Coach. How can you feel a foreigner on here? Apart from your Cali drawl, you sound like a regular guy
Your comment about shooting an albatross reminded me of a Scottish salesman we had many, many years ago. If something had gone wrong with a sale, he would come into the office ranting that "someone had shot a bleedin' albatross ...."
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
In the non golf sense, shooting an albatross has always been considered bad luck, regardless of which side of the Pond one originates.
This next bit is surmise on my part but I'd guess that "shooting a score" (as in achieving a score) is more of an americanism whereas, in the past, we would have been "making a score". Hence they automatically get the phrase with its bad luck inference which "making an albatross" would never have had. So we use it & they don't.
And before we point fingers at people too much for mangling "our" language - just think what the Danes, Norse, Saxons, Romans, French, Britons etc etc thought about us when we mangled everything together into what we now call "English"
This next bit is surmise on my part but I'd guess that "shooting a score" (as in achieving a score) is more of an americanism whereas, in the past, we would have been "making a score". Hence they automatically get the phrase with its bad luck inference which "making an albatross" would never have had. So we use it & they don't.
And before we point fingers at people too much for mangling "our" language - just think what the Danes, Norse, Saxons, Romans, French, Britons etc etc thought about us when we mangled everything together into what we now call "English"
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