@Ballyliffin Bros An eagle is 2 under par, an albatross is 3 under par it isn't 4 under par so double eagle makes no sense at all, no one says double birdie for an eagle do they.
One thing I love about golf is that you can be in the middle of a grueling tournament with your competitors right there next to you, but if you make an albatross or a hole in one, everyone is all smiles and high fiving you. That is such cool sportsmanship.
I prefer albatross, since double-eagle makes me think it's 2x an eagle or 4 under (which would not really be possible, unless it's some wild fluke of a hole in one on par 5)
HELP NEEDED TO SETTLE A DISPUTE...Does a hole in one count on a par 4 when the Winter green is being used ? It was a 350yd par 4 and the winter green was about 20 yards from normal green (Im Angela's boyfriend..she cant hit the ball that far...yet :-D)
Jeff K I agree. It’s like a hat trick and a double hat trick in cricket. A hat trick is 3 wickets in 3 balls. A double hat trick is 4 in 4. That doesn’t make sense to me and my understanding of double.
Daniel Berger’s is by far the most impressive. Not really a pin anyone would even think to shoot at on their 2nd and he takes it 1 yard over the water. Absolutely beautiful shot one of the best I’ve ever seen.
It SHOULDN'T be what they are paid to do. Showing the ball close up in flight is just plain fucking stupid. IT makes all shots look EXACTLY THE SAME! Just a ball against he sky. So viewers can't tell the difference between a perfect shot 325 yards down the middle of the fairway and a bad slice that lands in the adjacent fairway. A TV sports camera is supposed to be the eyes of the TV viewer, to allow them to watch the same thing that they could if they were there in person. And I guarantee you NO ONE in the gallery of a golf event watches with binoculars and follows the ball in flight.
Actually, when you watch someone hit a golf ball in person you do follow the ball in the air to see where it is going. What would you propose that the camera men do instead of following the ball?
seurynck, as someone who has been to many pro tournaments, and I mean from the start to the finish, you are 100% correct. However, the spectators do have the peripheral vision to see where it will probably land. Following the flight of the ball with the camera is just the way it is done. Not right, not wrong, just because. However, if the way they followed the ball was KKK's way, I guarantee you would not see the ball on your television. And I have stood side by side with those cameramen, and I admire their ability to do that.
"The rarest shot in golf"... Man, I just watched about 20 of 'em! There's something special about these. The last one came closest to the ultimate shot - hits ball, flight and *straight in the hole without bouncing on the green.* I saw it on UK TV in last year in one of the big Tournaments but it must be ultra ultra rare. Hats off to all the golfers featured in this video montage. Great skill!
Hole in one better. One stroke could mean difference in winner or second place. Look at the fed ex cup last year. Tiger almost won both, and the tour championship But lost by one shot to justin rose, who need to par the par 5 on the 18th hole. It cost tiger $10 million dollars. I'll take the hole in one 🕳 ⛳. Hole in one Is a 1 on your score card, a double eagle is 2. It's a no brainer
Achieving a shot like any of these is my dream. In a video I saw of Gary Player he said he always aimed at the flag because if you don’t you’re never going to get it in. Every time I play now this is my strategy. A great compilation of golf
Oosthuizen's will always be favorite. First and only one I've seen on live TV, and he did it the right way - second shot on a par 5 in normal playing conditions.
1:25 was the 2011 Australian open which I went to, it was awesome because the presidents cup was played in Melbourne, so all the big players played in the Aussie open to get somr practice on Australian courses Tiger, Bubba, Couples, they all came and it was awesome!
My name is Robbie Hardcastle from Australia. I played golf for 20 years all up and I have never had an Albatross or an Ace on a 4. Would have been nice to have it as a memory BUT 20 years of golf has so many outstanding shots together with spectacular melt downs that cost me dearly in my child hood obsession to play on the circuit and run something. I have been more than 3 in front more times than I would like to remember to choke on the final holes and feel lower than any other event in my life by a factor of 10. Those memories haunted me and I was left like a ....... Well, there are no words to describe my despair of these rounds of golf that are just supposed to be a game. Nothing helped me overcome my dreadful feelings of failure that I once again have no adequately terrible words to describe. I am writing this in the vain hope that it may help me or someone else so that they might know they are not alone. THERE are alot of people with this story as I have found. It is an obsession drilled home in childhood under varying circumstances and are experienced in this terribly sole destroying way all the time. All I ever saw anywhere was the game of the winners. Let me tell you that there are 98 % of losers who suffer in silence and try anything to become a winner as the destruction of losing in the melt down towards the end becomes a self fullfilling prophecy until there is nothing left to try OR the pain of being defeated by the implosion of the mind and sole becomes to great. It is not because of the lack of talent, conversely it is the inability to overcome these all intensive power sucking emotions that intensify when the pressure starts or the winning line draws near. The winning for people like me NEVER comes when it counts for anything. Sad isn't it. I am a shell of a man at the age of 63 BUT...... there always seems to be a but in these awefull stories Aye! Well here's mine. I am now a Christian and whatever path has led me to Eternal life with our Heavenly Father through his Son, The Lord Jesus Is a very, very good path and we'll worth anything. I didn't intend to mention I became a Christian BUT since it is far more important than what disaster Golf played in my life I have said it. I was at a very low point in my life again 6 years ago and I got on my knees and said a prayer to God for help. I had a little radio and tuned in to the Christian station of which you will find one anywhere in Australia and did that constantly. It scared me, it fascinated me and I kept doing it. I hope that may help somebody while glorifying God for his love, mercy and power to what I thought was somebody that definitely didn't deserve it. God bless.
It is funny that almost every announcer couldn't figure out what to call it so they all called it both. Technically, it is a double eagle. Albatross is not official. However, those who are mathematically inclined will say that a double eagle should technically be 4 under par since and eagle is 2 under par. I prefer albatross because it does not offend my math sensibilities.
IT has nothing to do with math but English. There are lots of words or phrases that are combinations of multiple words, and many mean something very different from simply adding the definitions of those words
Ive gotten one before, it was total luck. I never go for the green in two, but I had a perfect drive and decided to use a hybrid and go straight at it. A couple of lucky bounces later and it went in! I've never even gotten an eagle before, but I've gotten a double eagle. Lol.
Luck will always be a factor of course. A couple of the shots in this video were wildly off the mark and took a lucky bounce. I'm glad you had that experience Shane. What course were you playing?
All of these are fairly impressive, but I think the award for best of all goes to Louis Oosthuizen at 7:08. It's one thing to go pin hunting and have it roll 15-20 feet to the hole, but to have it hit the front of a green and roll, I would have to guesstimate, probably 75 feet or so is quite another. That was incredible.
... yep good on you for a huge drive, but when you see albatrosses being made by holing a mid-iron? In his college days JB Holmes treated all reachable par fives as par fours and adjusted the par for the course (mentally) to reflect this. Having said all that, this is a great video!
Fun fact: the rarest feat one can obtain in golf is a Condor (-4). According to the PGA, this has happened only 4 times, all of which occured as hole-in-ones on par 5s. Though it has never happened, it is also possible to obtain such a feat by hitting a 2 on a par 6, or, by some actual miracle from God himself, a 3 on a par 7 (look up the par 7 in South Korea. The hole is about 1100 yards long from the back tees, and about 1000 yards long from the front ones).
A man named Kevin Pon actually achieved a Condor (Dec 20, 2020) *2 on a 667yd Par 6* At Lake Chabot Golf Course in Oakland, CA. It's the only Par 6 West of the Mississippi.
Watching this video made me realize a lot of golfers got class. When the other player makes a great shot they smile and high five each other... not a lot of shit talking against one another like other sports
This is more impressive than a hole because it requires a great drive and then a perfect shot where a hole in one is just a perfect shot with out a good drive being needed
Louis Oosthuizen, and the last shot in this video are the most spectacular, for me...Louie's because it hit on the front of that loooong green and had soooooo far to go, and the last one because he bounced and hit the flag stick!
Closest I ever came to a hole in one was the first year I ever played and hardly knew what I was doing. Pure luck, inches from the hole, par 3...could have got my name on the wall and everything.
Watch at 3:13, the guy hands his club to another player, not his caddie! Ha! Well I guess when you take a deuce on a par 5 you can get away with that. "Here you go, my good man, please make sure that gets put away properly."
It's true that luck plays a big factor. In this video we saw a tee shot in the rough, and a few second shots that were wildly off the mark and took a lucky bounce. But still, I'm sure you had a healthy mix of skill in your swings 😊
Had the round of my life with 7 birdies and an Albatross!!! 177 7-iron. Couldn’t see it as the green was 30’ higher than my fairway. Congrats to all that have one.
I once thought I had an albatross, but the ball rolled by the hole and off the back of the green. I promptly skulled my chip into the water and managed a solid double bogey. Talk about deflating.
I'll do you one better. A hole in one on a par 5!!! Yes I was playing San Jose Muni golf course in San Jose, Ca. The 9th hole is a par 5. We were playing from the white tees at 485yds. With a blistering wind behind us I must have hit my tee shot 300+ yards in the air. I still think it hit a sprinkler head because it went another 100 yards then hit the cart path and kept going towards the green. The foursome playing in front of us saw the ball bounce past them and yelled at the guys on the green to watch out! Now I'm in our golf cart racing down the fairway past the foursome to see my ball just in time roll on the green, hit the flagstick and drop into the hole!! Everyone who saw the ball go into the hole started yelling and hollering as they couldn't believe what they just saw! EITHER COULD I !!!
Never had an albatross, but plenty of hole outs for eagle. My favorite one was on a par 5 that plays about 510yds uphill. Usually 2 good shots would get me there in 2 but I topped my drive and my 2nd shot putting me about where a decent drive would be. Then I holed out a 3 wood from 235yds for an eagle lol. That's the longest shot I've ever holed in my 40+ years of playing. The 2nd longest was on the very next hole (different round) on a 470yd par 4. I knocked in a 2 iron from 220yds for an eagle. I have witnessed an albatross once. A guy on the competing team holed one out for a deuce on a par 5 from around 200yds during a high school match I was playing in.
Well done Carl.. 👏👏👏 Holing out from anywhere beyond 150m is extremely difficult, and rare enough, but to Hole-out over 200m... I think u said 235m, 😲 , is Top Level stuff my friend. I've actually Never had the fortune/luck/ or more accurately SKILL, to experience my own true Hole-out while playing an official game, although not for lack of trying. 😏 Now I have come "close" a couple times , and by CLOSE , I mean...... probably not very close at all, lol , maybe... around a Foot or so?? And even then, that "Foot" would have to belong to Shaq... 😌 Regardless, your amazing Shot sounds like the type of shot you dream about making...👏👏 And let's be honest here, it's likely the type of shot that keeps the passion for the game burning hot? Thanks for sharing mate, Cheers.
There's a alot of courses in NW Ohio that have driveable par 4 holes...270 -330 yds..I've never had a hole in one but I've had 2 eagles ..both at cherrywood golf course ....both in my early 20s ...I'm 40 now and my dad passed away when I was 29 and I haven't golfed much since ..to emotional still
One more fucking time to all the lifelong fucking virgin idiots... You know why it is called a double eagle...because the guy who coined ALL the terms called it a double eagle.. That is the ORIGINAL term coined by the same guy who coined all the terms that YOU accept. The term albatross came AFTER. And I know you are trying to sound like some genius in math for once in your life...but this isn't a math issue. It is an English issue. Phrases do NOT have to have the same meaning as the combination of all the words that make up the phrase.
@@firebirdude2 as a fellow American you embarrasses me show the game the respect it deserves and call it what it is. You don't call a Eagle a Double Birdie!
@Hairy Chinese Kid let's not get carried away yes every Nation has it's folks that just can't get it right. At least though when the 13 Colonies wanted to break away break away they did.
Double Eagle is the former words of Wii Sports original. In Asia and Wii Sports Resort (with Wii Motion Plus or inside) or Club (on Wii U), it's Albatross.
he problem with watching them all in a row like this is you start to think they happen all the time.......as in, "I played a whole round today and didn't get a single albatross!!"
it would be nice and relatable to see just one of these guys do it with a fairway wood haha edit: thanks gore at 4:22 bob gilder at 7:09 , camillo villegas at 8:20 and the two clips after him and I think the last clip jeff overton 9:33 does it with a hybrid
