An Albatross

[Bucket92]

Simple question; has anyone on here ever had an albatross or seen one scored? A very rare feat I imagine...

 

[3offTheTee]

Yes I had one but it was a Tempory Green!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I have had one

Dunked my second shot on our 7th

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

I have had several hole in ones but still awaiting the albatross, which I would rate higher than my aces.

 

[Junior]

Yip , holed a 240 yard 4 wood on our 15th to half a match with my brother....still remember his face when i was hunting for the ballat the back of the green and he walked up to the hole and saw the ball :-D :-D :-D

 

[Foxholer]

I've seen one - by the opposition, canning his 2nd on a Par 5 - in a match!

 

[Imurg]

I believe Swinger has had a few....
Nearest I've been is about 2 feet - although I've hit the pin and bounced away a few times.

 

[NWJocko]

I've had one

Come fairly close on a couple of other occasions, one about 6" from the hole in the same round as my hole in one last year

 

[Hacker Khan]

What flavour is it?

 

[Svenska]

Never had one, nor a hole in one. I came very close a couple of weeks before Christmas where I hit a 3 iron in to about 4 inches in a competition. I also lipped out for one a year or so ago by accident. I was playing a course with a split green and got mixed up and pulled a 4 wood that I thought was heading for the wrong pin but turns out it was the hole I should be playing to. Thankfully my playing partner told me that otherwise I faced about a 125 foot putt.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

What flavour is it?

Tastes a bit like swan.

 

[rosecott]

I posted some time ago about a 27 handicapper at our place who had a 2 on a 503 yard par 5 SI8 for 7 points.

 

[Swinger]

3 for me. Haven't added to the tally for awhile though. Hole in one on a par 4 and holed two second shots on different par 5s.
There was a guy last time we had a thread about this who had done about 7 or something.

 

[delc]

I had 4 albatrosses, all 2's on par-5's before I had my first, and so far only, hole-in-one in 2013. I think that a 2 on a par-5 is actually better than a 1 on a par-3, because it's 3 under par rather than only 2 under!

 

[Paul_Stewart]

My first ace was on a 267-yard par-4 in 1997. Golf Monthly ran a feature as I am the only person to have had an albatross and been struck by lightning as apparently the chances of getting an albatross are the same.

 

[john0]

I had 4 albatrosses,

What size where the holes though?

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I think that a 2 on a par-5 is actually better than a 1 on a par-3, because it's 3 under par rather than only 2 under!

Well I never knew that :rofl:

 

[delc]

What size where the holes though?

Standard 4.25" holes thanks! My previous club was in the habit of having a spare open hole on each green, and I once made a sort of unofficial albatross by holing my 2nd shot on a downhill par-5 into the wrong hole. I had to place the ball alongside the hole and putt from there to the correct hole. I then 3-putted, so that was doubly annoying!

 

[CMAC]

What flavour is it?

..it's not any bleedin' flavour, it's an albatross! :smirk:

..and you don't get wafers with it either




Never had a 'double eagle' closest is about 3 feet away on a par 5.

 

[chillicon]

I haven't had this rare bird, but did see Greg Owen make one at the 2001 Open at Lytham. Was stood about 10ft from him when he hit his shot too.