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Whiffs and Aces: Birdie Wings' Mixed Depiction of Golf

Here a player's mistake won't cost them a single point or end a match outright, but instead every extra stroke is carried with them for the rest of the match. There is nothing more humbling in all of sports than to be ahead in a golf game, having to tack on a few extra strokes because of a dumb mistake, and then, maybe becuause your opponent saw weakness and played their best hole of the match, you suddenly find yourself down one or more strokes with a finite number of opportunities to catch up.

While this opening succeeds in immediately grabbing viewers with any fondness for the ridiculous, it also makes clear how much this show cares about getting the ins and outs of golf right—it doesn't, like, at all.

As someone who saw half a dozen kids ejected from high school golf practice for wearing jeans instead of khakis, my eye twitched every time Eve took the course while dressed like a valley girl on a summer vacay to Big Bear.