What Is An Albatross In Golf?
What is an Albatross In Golf? is Ask.Com’s ninth most asked golf question. Their answer: Albatross is another term for a double eagle, or 3-under par on any one hole.
Albatross seems to be a relatively recent golf term. Whereas par, bogey and birdie have been used since the 1800s, as late as 1935, Gene Sarazen referred to his double eagle at that year’s Masters as a “dodo.”
I’ve always thought “albatross” a bit strange, for putting an albatross on your scorecard seems unnecessarily similar to having an albatross around your neck. That has a lot of negative connotations, thanks to Samuel Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.”
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I have heard that Albatross is also derived this way (probably BS): An alternate name (perhaps older name) for an Eagle is “Big Birdie”, and Albatross comes as a Bigger Birdie or Biggest Birdie.
Double Eagle makes no sense to me, as that would be 4 under par wouldn’t it?
Posted by martin on 07/31
I suppose that it could be one of those Russian Imperial Double Eagles, with the one body and two heads.
Posted by The Golf Blogger on 07/31
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