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Birdie

Birdie

Birdie

A score of one under par on any individual hole. On a par-3 hole, a player birdies if he sinks the ball in 2 strokes; on a par-4, if he scores a 3 it's a birdie. No matter what the par is on a hole, if a player sinks the ball in one fewer strokes, he has birdied the hole.

Thought to have first been used in the US in 1899 in the form of the slang term "bird" to describe a "bird of a shot" — a great shot, the term shortly evolved into its current and enduring definition (U.S. Golf Association).

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