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A hole score of one stroke fewer than par (one under par, −1) is known as a birdie, e.g. 2 strokes to complete a par 3 hole or 4 strokes on a par 5 hole. [2] This expression was coined in 1899, at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, New Jersey.
References External links 0–9 19th hole The clubhouse bar. A ace When a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the hole with one stroke. Also called a hole in one. address The act of taking a stance and placing the club-head behind the golf ball. If the ball moves once a player has addressed the ball, there is a one-stroke penalty, unless it is clear that the actions of the player ...
In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. The feat is also known as an ace, mostly in American English.As the feat needs to occur on the stroke that starts a hole, a ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a hole-in-one, due to the application of a stroke penalty.
He hit wedge to 10 feet for birdie on the fourth hole. He made a 20-foot birdie on the par-3 fifth. And then he hit a tough shot around the trees into a bunker, and holed that for a fourth birdie .
Evan Koehn, a 13-year-old from Hesston, had the experience of a lifetime on Monday when he made two holes-in-one in the same round during a Kansas Junior Golf Tour event at Terradyne Country Club ...
Par, or bogey, is a scoring system used mostly in amateur and club golf.It is a stroke play format played against the course, with match play scoring based on the number of strokes taken on each hole compared to a fixed score, [1] usually the par or bogey; in this context, bogey is meant in the traditional sense as the score a good player would expect on the hole, usually par but occasionally ...
Palmer took double bogey on the 12th hole, where Snead made birdie. ... Mickelson when Lefty holed an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot victory over Els, who ...
Golfers play as normal, counting the strokes taken on a given hole. The golfer with the lowest score on a given hole receives one point. If the golfers tie, then the hole is tied (or halved). For example, in an 18-hole match, the first hole is a par-4 and Player A scores a 3 (birdie) and Player B scores a 4 (par); Player A is now 1-up with 17 ...