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Question: What are the Odds of Making a Double Eagle?

The double eagle, also known as the albatross, is a rare bird on the golf course - much rarer than the hole-in-one. To make a double-eagle requires acing a par-4 hole or scoring 2 on a par-5 hole. But are exact double-eagle odds known?
Answer:
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1. Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18
years of dealing with him across a desk.
> Grantland Rice
> 2. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf
players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
> John Updike
>
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An Ode to Golf



In my hand I hold a ball....



white and dimpled, rather small....



Oh, how bland it does appear....



this harmless looking little sphere....





By its size I could not guess....



the awesome strength it does possess....



But since
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Here are some new ones to add to your vocabulary.


A "James Joyce" - a putt that's an impossible read.

A "Rock Hudson" - it looked straight, but wasn't.

A "Saddam Hussein" - from one bunker into another.

A "Yasser Arafat" - butt ugly and in the sand.

A "Rodney King" - over-clubbed.

An
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Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.


When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.


If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out,
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The Best 10 Caddie Comebacks

# 10
Golfer: "Think I'm going to drown myself in the lake."
Caddy: "Think you can keep your head down that long?"
# 9
Golfer: "I'd move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course."
Caddy: "Try heaven, you've already moved most of the earth."
# 8
Golfer:
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>Golf Truths
>
>* Golf can best be defined as an endless series of
> tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed
> by a good bottle of beer
>
>* Golf! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing
> left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins.
> And on top of that, the winner
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Thirty-Two Absolute Truths of Golf:

1. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

2. The game of golf is 90% mental and 10% mental.

3. Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

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New Golf Book by Bobby Rusher:


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