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What is an eagle in golf?
Posted by: coachrockne in Games, Sports, tags: eagle, golf, hole-in-one, scoringAn eagle is a score two strokes below par on a single hole.
Eagles are unusual and mostly seen on par-5s when a player manages to reach the green in two strokes and sink a single putt.
An eagle can also be made on a par-4 but that generally means either driving the green (possible only on short par-4s) or holing out from somewhere on the fairway (very unusual).
Technically, an eagle can be made on a par-3 but that’s usually called a hole-in-one!