In golf’s history, there were just four previous condors reported through 2018 - all of them holes-in-one on par 5s, starting in 1962 when a golfer in Hope, Ark. So rare the PGA doesn’t even list any odds of a golfer achieving it. The odds get exponentially longer - at least 1 million-to-1 - that a regular golfer can shoot a double eagle, or an albatross.Ī condor, though, is golf’s rarest of birds. The PGA has long calculated the odds of an average golfer hitting a hole-in-one at 12,500-to-1. How rare is a -4 Condor? So rare that the PGA doesn’t even list odds for it: Miraculously, a marshal was with a nearby group and looked over to see Pon’s pitching wedge shot take a big bounce, hit the stick, and go in the hole so there was no doubt that this was legitimate. He then pulled his PW for a 120-yard shot into the cup. Kevin Pon became the first golfer in history to record a 2 on a Par-6 after launching his drive 540-yards downhill with some enormous bounces. There’s not a club in my golf bag that I hit better than my 3-wood. This happened at Lake Chabot Golf Course in Oakland, California which is home to ‘one of the only par-6 holes west of the Mississippi.’ I’ve never played one myself but it sounds great. Here’s a look back at the par-6 18th hole if you are standing on the green: This is the first-ever 2 on a par-6 according to Mercury News. But that’s exactly what happened, and prior to his ‘2’ on a Par-6 the previous condors were all holes-in-one on par-5’s. My buddy plays this course out in the Bay Area regularly and tells me all about this wild Par-6 hole but never once has it crossed my mind that someone could score a 2 on the hole. He hit a ‘condor’, which is scoring a 2 on a par-6. And he’s just achieved a feat that has only happened 5 times in the history of golf. The problem is I’m just not a great golfer.ĥ4-year-old Kevin Pon is an East Bay golfer in Northern California who carries a 10 handicap. Three holes-in-one last week! My wife hits me with ‘if they’re so common and everyone’s getting them, why don’t you have a hole-in-one yet?’ I’m working on it.

There were TWO last Sunday and one on Tuesday of last week. My golf club sends out emails anytime a member hits a hole-in-one. It’s currently a sore subject in my household.

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