can someone please explain the golfing terms of where a birdie and eagle and albatross come from.?

Answer 1

I went to about.com it said back in the 1800"s American slang for good was Bird than eagle,than albatross,This was fun question

Answer 2

I assume that they used three animals that increase in rareity as you go along the chain. ie. a birdie is more common that an eagle which is more common that an albatross just like it's more common to hit a par-1 than a par-2 than a par-3. Why they chose birds and not something else like fish or something I don't know. Hope that made sence

Answer 3

A man in an ice-cream girl's uniform is standing in a spotlight with an ice-cream tray with an albatross on it.

Man: Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!

(A customer approaches him.)

Customer: Two choc-ices please.

Man: I haven't got choc-ices. I only got the albatross. Albatross!

Customer: What flavour is it?

Man: It's a bird, innit. It's a bloody sea bird . .. it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross!

Customer: Do you get wafers with it?

Man: Course you don't get bloody wafers with it. Albatross!

Customer: How much is it?

Man: Ninepence.

Customer: I'll have two please.

Man: Gannet on a stick.

(The camera zooms past back onto the screen. On screen appears another 'Intermission' sign.)

First Voice Over: There will now be a very short...

(The intermission sign explodes.)

We now see a series on animated captions:

'NOW SHOWING AT OTHER DANK CINEMAS'
'AT THE PORTNOY CINEMA PICCADILLY'
'WINNER OF THE GOLDEN PALM, TORREMOLINOS'
'RAINWEAR THROUGH THE AGES'
'COMING SOON'
'AT THE JODRELL CINEMA, COCKFOSTERS'


Second Voice Over: The management regrets that it will not be showing a feature film this evening as it eats into the profits'

(Cut to the Queen on horseback; first few bars of National Anthem. Cut to Customer sitting in cinema seat clutching albatross.)

Customer: Well that's quite enough of that. And now a policeman near Rottingdeans ... Albatross!

Answer 4

The term Birdie comes from Bobby Jones He once hit a really good shot and his playing partner exclaimed " thats a bird of a shot!!". (He was American!!)

Eagle is a bigger bird and albatross is an even bigger bird.

Some people also think its because they are rare birds but I am not so sure.

Answer 5

Good question! I found out the etymology of the following words:

golf
1457, Scot. gouf, usually taken as an alteration of M.Du. colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from P.Gmc. *kulth- (cf. O.N. kolfr "clapper of a bell," Ger. Kolben "mace, club"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scot. statute on forbidden games.

birdie
golf slang for "play a hole one under par," 1956, earlier bird (1911), from bird (1) in Amer.Eng. slang sense of "exceptionally clever or accomplished person or thing" (1839).

eagle
Golf score sense is first recorded 1922. The figurative eagle-eyed is attested from 1601.

bogey (2)
in golfing, c.1892, originally "number of strokes a good player is supposed to need for a given hole or course," later, "score one over par" (1946), from the same source as bogey (1), on the notion of a "phantom" opponent, represented by the "ground score." The word was in vogue at the time in Britain because of the popularity of the music hall tune "Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogey Man."
"One popular song at least has left its permanent effect on the game of golf. That song is 'The Bogey Man.' In 1890 Dr. Thos. Browne, R.N., the hon. secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, was playing against a Major Wellman, the match being against the 'ground score,' which was the name given to the scratch value of each hole. The system of playing against the 'ground score' was new to Major Wellman, and he exclaimed, thinking of the song of the moment, that his mysterious and well-nigh invincible opponent was a regular 'bogey-man.' The name 'caught on' at Great Yarmouth, and to-day 'Bogey' is one of the most feared opponents on all the courses that acknowledge him." [1908, M.A.P.]

mulligan
The golf sense of "extra stroke after a poor shot" (1949) is sometimes said to be from the name of a Canadian golfer in the 1920s whose friends gave him an extra shot in gratitude for driving them over rough roads to their weekly foursome at St. Lambert Country Club near Montreal. The name is from Gael. Maolagan, O.Ir. Maelecan, a double dim. of mael "bald," hence "the little bald (or shaven) one," probably often a reference to a monk or disciple.

I cannot find where Eagle and Albatross came from, but I presume they are bigger and bigger birdies!!

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Claire P Gives a clear steer.

Answer 7

1 under par, 2 under par and 3 under par....... Where they come from, my guess could be just as good as yours...,.

Answer 8

hi wazzup

Answer 9

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