A famous PGA Tour course sees a golfer make a six million to one hole-in-one.
The only hole-in-one in PGA Tour history, by American player Andrew Magee at the 2001 Phoenix Open, occurred on the TPC Scottsdale’s 17th hole, a famously driveable par four.
The 17th hole at TPC Scottsdale’s “Jeff” course may have produced the second-known hole-in-one by an American golfer.
The unnamed man is seen in a social media video running from the tee to the green to see if he succeeded in accomplishing the nearly impossible.
The odds of someone hitting a par four are six million to one, according to the PGA website.
On the Tour, only one professional player has ever accomplished this before.
In the history of the 2001 Phoenix Open, another American named Andrew Magee made an Albatross on the same hole.
And that 332-yarder wasn’t just a lucky break.
According to the legend, Magee’s drive rebounded off of a fellow countryman’s putter and entered the cup after striking it and landing eight feet away.
Despite the fact that there is no video of that hardly believable moment in time, fortunately nothing occurs today without someone using a smartphone to record it. And that’s precisely what a couple of Jake’s golfing companions did.
The one-minute video, with the caption “I love golf,” was posted by a person going by Cooper Opheim.
It opens with the main character running alongside his friends who are riding a golf cart.
They tell Jake to “just run” as he sprints up the fairway while still holding his driver.
One says, “I think it might have gone in.”.
The video then switches to the front-facing camera to show a man with a mustache starting to call the action.
He begins by describing the situation: “We might have a hole-in-one on a par-four.
Jake just scored.
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The realization suddenly hits our videographer as he searches for a shot of the ball.
As they get close to the 17th hole, they yell, “Holy s, holy s, it’s nowhere, it’s nowhere.”.
Then, after a caricature-like screeching of the brakes, his friend motions for him to stop the cart.
Then they start moving in the direction of the green.
The camera flashes briefly down towards the cup as Jake and the man with the moustache approach the hole from different directions.
It is present there.
As the quartet hugs each other and Jake raises his arms in celebration, there are cries of joy that follow. The man in question finally pulls the ball out of the hole after momentarily stooping to tie his shoelace.
Consequently, Jake joins Magee in the exclusive group. And over the past ten years, a number of additional PGA players have come perilously close to raising those totals even higher.
Jake is joined by Jason Kokrak, who won the 2013 McGladrey Classic on the Tour by nailing a 409-yard par-four.
The fact that it happened during the pro-am before the tournament, as opposed to the actual competition, is what distinguishes him from Magee.
At the Valero Texas Open two years later, Aaron Baddeley also aced the 17th hole. However, it was his second drive after his first one went for a three-point loss and went out of bounds.