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

You don’t want these birds

These are the ones you are likely to see with an incredibly high handicapper or watching a high school tournament. Those are about the only two times you will see them. In the case that someone on Tour has gotten one of them, I’ll try and throw that in there too.

We start with a “Snipe”, which would be six over, and a “Quail” which is seven over. Your weekend golfer likely gets these once in a while, although no that often. Going OB twice is a quick way to make it happen, as we all just lose control once in a while. Kinda like the next guy featured in this article.

A “Partridge” is eight over par on a single hole. The most recent/notable occurrence of this happened to Sergio Garcia at the Masters in 2018. He would finish with a 13 on the par-5 15th hole. Do you know what I have to say to Sergio here? Haha, Sergio. I don’t feel bad at all, because of how you act on the course.

We are starting to approach the truly dreadful scores. Ones that you wouldn’t wish on anyone. Well, that’s not true, there are definitely some people I would wish these on. *cough* Sergio *cough*. A “vulture” is nine over par, and a “dodo” is ten over par.

Now we get to birds that people have likely never of.