plural birdies
1
: a little bird
2
: a golf score of one stroke less than par on a hole compare eagle entry 1
3
: shuttlecock
In Asia, badminton is an obsession … . In one preliminary match in Malaysia, 21,000 people came out to watch the speeding birdie.—
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Jennifer BoethExamples of birdie in a Sentence
Noun
I made a birdie on the fifth hole.
I made birdie on the fifth hole.
Verb
She birdied the second hole.
Recent Examples on the WebDom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
April’s Masters champion had gone 168 rounds with at least one birdie before his second round 74, and had not finished outside the top-25 at a major since missing the cut at the 2022 PGA Championship.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 17 June 2024
Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
This time, the nightmare ran on till to the last two-and-a-half feet, as a simple conversion for par at the 18th green would have forced DeChambeau to birdie to avoid a playoff.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 17 June 2024
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Noun
Morikawa ended up with a birdie, hitting a 16-foot, 5-inch putt.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
April’s Masters champion had gone 168 rounds with at least one birdie before his second round 74, and had not finished outside the top-25 at a major since missing the cut at the 2022 PGA Championship.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 17 June 2024
Verb
Scheffler went back out with two holes to play and birdied 18 to join a three-way tie for second with Collin Morikawa and Akshay Bhatia at 11-under.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
This time, the nightmare ran on till to the last two-and-a-half feet, as a simple conversion for par at the 18th green would have forced DeChambeau to birdie to avoid a playoff.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 17 June 2024
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“Birdie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birdie. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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