Golf Tips: A Bird Name for Every Score you could Imagine
Extinct Birds you hope stay that way
A “Great Auk” is 11 over par. The bird has been extinct since the middle of the 19th century and was closely related to penguins. During the 2005 Masters, then 73-year-old Billy Casper shot 14 on the par-3 16th hole. This score isn’t official, as Casper refused to turn in his card and was DQ’d, although we all know what happened.
Next up is “Moa” which is 12 over. Like the Great Auk, the Moa is now extinct as well. Similar to an emu, they were found in New Zealand. This is one that many people are familiar with. Kevin Na shot a 16 on the par-4 9th hole at the Valero Texas Open in 2011. Remember him hacking out of the trees? Yup, this is when it happened.
Of course, we couldn’t go through a list like this without mentioning the great John Daly. A “Roc” is 13 over and was accomplished at the 1998 Arnold Palmer Invitational. He scored an 18 on the par-5 6th hole when he hit six shots into the water. It’s far from being the only time Daly has done something like this, but it’s the one that I decided to go with for the list.
The penultimate entry on this list is a “Phoenix”, which is 14 over. We will save an example of this in lieu of the final entry on the list, an Archaeopteryx.
This would be 15 over. Dale Douglass had this happen back at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am in 1963, when he shot a 19 on a par 4.
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Hopefully, you never have to experience any of these. Unless you are Sergio Garcia. Then I hope that they show up often for you.