I seem to remember that a double eagle was shooting 3 under par. So shooting 2 on a par 5. or in the rare case of a hole-in-one on a par 4.
This writer calls a double eagle shooting an eagle on 2 holes in the same round. Have things changed in golf terminology?
Looks like Tiger came back too soon.
Double Eagles, maybe...you are correct in your assessment (even though the last time I golfed I only hit two good balls all day...and THAT was when I stepped on a rake in the sand trap!)
He scored two eagles in the third round, one at 16 and one at 18, both were 3’s on 5 pars.
This writer (I use the term loosely) made it sound like he won the tournament with double eagles (that would be 2’s on 5 pars) at the end of the fourth round.
I saw an Eagle last week at Mount Shasta. ..
This writer is using ‘double’ to indicate two eagles. A better choice of wording
would have been the use of ‘two’ in place of double. Confusing to say the least.
No.
It looks like the problem is with the headline writer rather than with the reporter. The reporter correctly described two eagles on separate holes. The headline writer incorrectly combined them into a double eagle. Article headlines are quite commonly provided by someone other than the person who wrote the piece.
A lot of Common Core graduates struggle with English as their first language.
McIlroy did NOT score any double eagles. Unlike Sarazen who scored a genuine double eagle in Master’s tournament at Augusta National, whose 2nd shot on a par 5 dropped into the hole for a 2 on par 5, McIlroy’s best score was 3 (single eagle) on par 5.
He did get two single eagles, but that is NOT doable eagle score. These golf writers are obviously not real golfers.