been playing golf since I was 16 -(53 years) and it was albatross then...
hope you don’t go ballistic about a condor.
Albatross isn’t exactly unknown in the golf world for sure.... Maybe
unknown to some but that is the way things are. None of us know all things.
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http://www.scottishgolfhistory.org/origin-of-golf-terms/bogey/#albatross
Albatross is the term for three under par and is a continuation of the
birdie and eagle theme, but is in fact a British term. Ab Smith said his
group used the phrase ‘double eagle’ for three under (see Birdie above),
which is still the term most Americans and the name for their Double Eagle
Club (membership by invitation only).
Three under par is a very rare score and an albatross is a very rare bird.
The exact origin is unclear but the first known reference in 1929 indicates
that it had been in use for some time before then. John G Ridland, who
scored an ‘albatross’ in India in 1934, theorized that it was the introduction
of steel shafted clubs in 1920s which made this score common enough to
necessitate a name for it.
Me too, and it was always a double eagle.........oh well, who really cares.