photo credit: Danny Nicholson The use of the word “birdie” originated in 1899 at the Atlanta City Country Club. It seems George Crump, the famed architect of the infamous Pine Valley Golf Club, was playing the 350-yard 2nd hole with Ab and William Smith. Ab’s second shot stopped six inches from the pin. “That was a bird of a shot,” Ab cried. One-under on a hole has been called a birdie ever since.
The earliest mention of golf in Scotland – the birthplace of the game – was a pronouncement by the Scottish Parliament in 1457. It decreed that golf “be utterly cryit doune and not usit” (rejected and ignored) because it was keeping young soldiers away from archery practice. The game was extremely popular even in it’s infancy!
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