Unfamiliar with that term? The Tiger Slam is the name the media came up with to describe Woods's holding the four majors titles at once but not doing it within a calendar -- or golf season -- year.
The Tiger Slam is a play on the Grand Slam, which in turn is a description of the four majors: The PGA, The Masters, The US Open, and the British Open. That is one of the terms I do understand. However, despite being familiar with the words "birdie" and "bogey" and "eagle" in golf, I was never quite sure of their exact definition.
Knowing that not everyone golfs and that lots of kids are interested in the sport because of Tiger Woods, I thought I'd go searching for the definitions of these golf terms.
According to the World Book site (http://www.worldbook.com/fun/golf/html/l... a birdie is one shot under par for a hole; a bogey is a score of one over par for a hole; and an eagle is two shots under par for the hole. Par is the pre-determined number of shots it should take to finish a hole. So, a par 4 hole would mean (in scoring terms), 2 shots is an eagle, 3 is a birdie, 4 is even par, and 5 would be a bogey. (I'm already feeling like an expert!)
For a more complete definition of golf terms, visit the golf term dictionary at http://www.golfeurope.com/almanac/golf_t...
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