Scramble: A 2 or 4 Person Scramble is a golf tournament or outing that is played with 2 or 4 person teams. Most commonly played with 2 people, a “2-Man-Scramble” (or 2-Woman-Scramble), is a tournament where each player tees off their first shot and then decides which ball’s lie is better, and then the player [...]
There are many golf terms that get thrown around and a “scratch golfer” is one of them. It’s been apparent to us that even the average golfer doesn’t know what it means. The most common thing that is gets confused with is a “bogie golfer”; many people think “scratch” means a mess up, making them [...]
This is a question that doesn’t come up often, but still something good to know. But, we are not really sure… To the best of our knowledge it goes as follows: Hole-In-One = TRIANGLE Eagle = DOUBLE CIRCLE Birdie = CIRCLE Par = Nothing Bogie = SQUARE Double Bogie = DOUBLE SQUARE Triple Bogie = [...]
When playing golf you often say words that you might not fully know why you use them. Some are obvious and some are not, like why we yell “fore” not everyone knows. But then there are some golf terms that are just somewhat clear, like knowing that each hole has a “par”. But why say [...]
Golf etiquette should always be followed, but when it comes to the rules of golf most of them are very important to follow yet some rules are really just up to the people playing. Obviously when playing in any competition or at the professional level you have to follow every single rule to the “T”. [...]
A common golf term that is misunderstood is “executive course“. At first glance one might think it is some type of VIP course or very high end, but in fact the terminology “executive golf course“ really mean shorter. These types of courses normally don’t have any par 5 holes, and have more par 3′s than [...]
Just another golf terminology thrown around the course is “Birdie“. We all know that we want birdies but why is it called a birdie anyway ? The “birdie” came from golfers at the Atlantic City Country Club in 1899. The term ‘birdie’ originated in the United States in 1899. H.B. Martin’s “Fifty Years of American [...]
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