<P> There are many theories about the origin of the term . The United States Golf Association (USGA) cites three stories explaining that the term derived from the name of a Canadian golfer, David Mulligan, one time manager of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, who played at the Country Club of Montreal golf course, in Saint - Lambert near Montreal during the 1920s . One version has it that one day after hitting a poor tee shot, Mulligan re-teed and shot again . He called it a "correction shot," but his friends thought it more fitting to name the practice after him . David Mulligan then brought the concept from Canada to the famous U.S. golf club Winged Foot . A second version has the extra shot given to Mulligan due to his being jumpy and shaky after a difficult drive over the Victoria Bridge to the course . The final version of the David Mulligan story gives him an extra shot after having overslept, rushing to get ready to make the tee time . </P> <P> An alternative, later, etymology credits a different man named Mulligan--John A. "Buddy" Mulligan, a locker room attendant at Essex Fells Country Club in New Jersey . In the 1930s, he would finish cleaning the locker room and, if no other members appeared, play a round with the assistant pro, Dave O'Connell, and a reporter and member, Des Sullivan, who was later golf editor for the Newark Evening News . One day his first shot was bad and he beseeched O'Connell and Sullivan to allow another shot since they "had been practicing all morning" and he had not . Once they agreed and the round finished, Mulligan proudly exclaimed to the members in his locker room for months how he had gotten an extra shot from the duo . The members loved it and soon began giving themselves "Mulligans" in his honor . Sullivan began using the term in his golf articles in the Newark Evening News . The Today Show TV program ran this story around 2005 and have it in their archives . Mulligan was located in the 1970s at the Lyons, New Jersey VA Hospital, helping with their golf facility . Des Sullivan, now semi-retired, wrote of this find in his July 22, 1970 column, in the Myrtle Beach Sun News . </P> <P> In golf, a mulligan is a stroke that is replayed from the spot of the previous stroke without penalty, due to an errant shot made on the previous stroke . The result is that the hole is played and scored as if the first errant shot had never been made . This practice is disallowed entirely by strict rules in formal play and players who attempt it or agree to let it happen may be disqualified from sanctioned competitions . However, in casual play, mulligans speed play by reducing the time spent searching for a lost ball, and reduce frustration and increase enjoyment of the game, as a player can "shake off" a bad shot more easily with their second chance . </P> <P> The opposite of a mulligan is a "gilligan", which is to redo a successful stroke when so requested by your opponent . </P>

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