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Golf Tips: A Bird Name for Every Score you could Imagine

By Christopher O'Day

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 23: Detial of Albatross on a Waka during NZ Festival Opening Night - A Waka Odyssey on February 23, 2018 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/Getty Images)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 23: Detial of Albatross on a Waka during NZ Festival Opening Night - A Waka Odyssey on February 23, 2018 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/Getty Images) /
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The rarest golf score possible: The Condor
CUZCO, PERU – JUNE 2007: Images of a baby Condor on hand for tourists at Sacsayhuaman, an ancient Inca ground overlooking Cuzco, Peru, 23 June 2007. The Inti Raymi festival is the most spectacular Andean festival with over 500 actors re-enacting the the ceremony of adoration of the Sun God, personified by the Inca. Thousands of people fill the great square of the fortress of Sacsayhuaman to re-enact the ceremony. The festival brings together all the different Andean communities and provides an opportunity for these communities to come together. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.) /

The Best of the Best Bird Scores

The holy grail of golfing birds. The Condor. A Hole-In-One on a par-5. Four under par. To my knowledge, this has never been done, but it is still out there and assigned to this particular score. I can’t imagine that anyone would ever be able to do it either. You would have to play in incredible winds, have some weird cart path bouncing occur, or land on a bird and have it fall in the hole.

It’s more likely the Seattle Mariners make the World Series. That’s saying something. (In case you didn’t know, they’re the only MLB team to never make it. They’ve been around since the 1970’s. Don’t worry about me crying over here.)

We move on to one that many people have heard of, but that very few people have ever seen or accomplished. Well, unless you have been watching The Players Championship the last three years. Then you would have seen it three different times.

Rafa Cabrera-Bello in 2017, then Brooks Koepka in 2018 (on the same hole, no less), and Harris English in 2019 all made an albatross at The Players Championship.

The one that stands out to me though, and the one that I will always remember, is Louis Oosthuizen at the Masters back in 2012.

It keeps on rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling… you get the picture.

In the end, it was still not enough for Oosthuizen, as he would lose in a playoff to Bubba Watson during the tournament.

Again, no idea why people call it a double-eagle. It doesn’t make sense. I’m going to stay away from that argument before I get upset though.

Then we have the Eagle. A majestic bird that all golfers covet. Whether you have been lucky enough to hit a hole-in-one like George Bush finally accomplished at the age of 72. Maybe you have been lucky enough to get to the green on a short par-4. Then there is the more common occurrence, making one on a par-5.

Very few of us have the skill or power to get there and close in two. We can go for three though, so here’s hoping that all of you get an eagle at some point in your life!

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