Double Eagle was: RE: Antedating of "Eagle" (Golf) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Antedating of "Eagle" (Golf)
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> When I was a kid, people would refer to double eagle as 'albatross.'

_American Golfer_ Jun 5 1920 p 32 col a
"When a hole is made in 3 under par it might be called a double eagle."

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