To what does the term honor refer to in golf?

Answer 1

AnswerGenerally speaking, to have the "honor" means you are the first to hit your tee shot on a particular hole. On the first tee box, honors used to be determined by flipping a tee and seeing where it pointed after landing to select golfing order. This would have to be done at least 3 times in a foursome. Today, there's a new device called the Starter Coin that golfers flip once to decide who tees off 1st, 2nd, 3rd and last all in one flip.

You receive the "honor" when you beat all the members in your group outright on the previous hole. For example, I birdie and the other 3 guys par. I have won the honor on the next tee.

The rest of the order defaults to the lowest score first. If there is a tie, then you revert to the order of the previous tee and so on and so forth.

Another Example:

Bob tees off 1st and gets a par.

Bill tees off 2nd and gets a bogey.

Chuck tees off 3rd and gets a birdie.

Larry tees off last and gets a birdie.

Chuck earns the honor for the next hole, followed by Larry, followed by Bob and then finally Bill.