shotgun start

名词 n.
英 /ˈʃɒtɡʌn stɑːt/    美 /ˈʃɑtɡʌn stɑɹt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tournament format in which all groups of contestants tee off simultaneously from different holes.
    — Also, since the players teed off simultaneously, the infamous "shotgun start," with several foursomes at each tee box, the tournaments ran notoriously slow.

词形变化

shotgun starts plural

词源

From the first reported use of this format in 1956, wherein a shotgun was fired to alert all players from each of the 18 holes that the tournament had started.
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