Hi,
wer kennt die Herkunft (nicht Bedeutung) der Golf-Begriffe Bogey, Birdie, Eagle und Albatros?
Gruß und schonmal danke
Christian
Hallo Christian,
nachfolgende Texte helfen sicherlich die Herkunft zu klären:
Another measure for scoring difficulty of a golf course was „bogey“ which was the expected score of the fictitious Colonel Bogey. About 1890, Mr. Hugh Rotherham of the Coventry Golf Club proposed the concept of a blind opponent in match play. He was called Colonel Bogey by Dr. Thomas Browne of Great Yarmouth. Colonel Bogey was a low handicap golfer who usually made 4 on long par-3 holes and 5 on long par-4 holes but otherwise played nearly flawless golf. Bogey scores ranged from 76 to 80 on most courses.
On the links, a bogey is a score of one over par on a particular hole. According to the OED2, this term was invented in 1890 by a certain Major Wellman at the Great Yarmouth Golf Club. He was playing against a Dr. Thomas Browne using the scratch value of each hole. Wellman, having difficulty beating the scratch score, claimed that he was playing against a bogey-man, a character in a popular song at the time. In American usage, bogey came to mean one over par. The verb form appeared around 1942, the earliest cite in the OED2 being from Ben Hogan’s Power Golf.
Indeed, there was hardly any facet of the game that Tillinghast did not explore. Any full account of his life would have to include a multitude of scenes in which Tillie, as he was known in the golf world, appeared indifferent roles. Tillie the photographer carried the best camera equipment on his pilgrimages to Scotland, where he took superb pictures of golf scenes and celebrities. Tillie the author wrote humorous, fictional pieces about golf which his daughter, Elsie, would later describe as “immense, gushing sentimentalism.” Tillie the advocate was forever promoting the virtues of public golf, and Tillie the entrepreneur owned a combination miniature golf course-driving range with lights, covered booths, and long-hitting contests. Tillie the phrase maker is said to have coined the word “birdie,” though by his own account the term came into more or less spontaneous use among a group of Philadelphia golfers of which he was a member.
Some of the terms used in golf give us clues as to its close association with imperialism. The ‚eagle‘ for instance, clearly refers to that symbol used by the three greediest nations of all time: Rome, Germany and the United States of America. The importance of ‚par‘ (derived from the Latin patria) immediately suggests the German fatherland, a country so lacking in lebensraum (living room) that earlier this century a sizeable part of its population was discarded during a simultaneous concerted effort to annex the rest of Europe.
Gruss
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