Taylor Pendrith made an albatross on Sunday in the final round of The Sentry, becoming the first player to make such a score in the history of the event's record-keeping.
Albatrosses -- often mistakenly called double eagles -- are exceptionally rare, even on the PGA Tour. Since record keeping of hole-by-hole stats in 1983, there have been 142 albatrosses on the PGA Tour, including Pendrith's on Sunday.
Making an albatross is a special feat, with just a few hundred happening every year around the world, according to estimates. The odds of making an albatross for the entire golf population is 1 million to one, though the odds are better for a PGA Tour player.
However, for Taylor Pendrith, apparently making an albatross is a fairly common thing.
"That's actually number eight," Pendrith said Sunday of his albatross, which came with 2 on the par-5 fifth hole. "Which is weird. I've got three hole-in-ones and that's number eight albatross. First one in a tournament. It was pretty cool."
Pendrith has more albatrosses than aces, which is staggering, considering the odds of making a hole-in-one are about 13,000 to 1.
"It's been like four years probably since I last made one, but they're obviously super rare and, yeah, it was awesome to see it go in, but I knew it was going to be close for eagle, and to have it drop was a huge bonus," Pendrith said of the 6-iron he hit to make the deuce.
"We had 203 (yards to the) pin, I think, and the wind was kind of laying down at the time," he said. "It was a little bit in off the right, and just had to hit it solid and let it do its thing and chase back to the pin. And, so, yeah, I was feeling pretty comfortable."
