Possible Clues:

• Large seabird or constant burden
• Encumbrance, so to speak
• In golf, a score of three under par for a hole
• Good score made by a cricketer getting runs in the course of defeat
• Golfing term for a handicap
• Something extremely prized by golfer -- uncomfortable neckwear?
• It's a bad thing
• Cursed bird when draped round neck?
• Bird heard in African lake and southern sea
• Ornithological collar?