I'll take the ace on a par 4, this way I'll get my Double Eagle & HOI in 1 shot. Talk about having your cake and eating it too!

Hole in one... to me it's the ultimate shot

I have to agree. As someone who's had the albatross, I can say I would trade it for a 1 all day.

Hole in One! No doubt about it.

Lol the Par 5 Ace/Triple Eagle is the ultimate 1-upper! I just saw a great article talking about this very subject the other day!


Here are some statistics about making an Ace, courtesy of the National Hole-In-One Registry:
.Odds of a Tour Player making an Ace: 3,000 to 1
.Odds of a Low-Handicapper making an Ace: 5,000 to 1
.Odds of 1 player making 2 Aces in the same round: 67 million to 1

The National Hole-in-One Registry also says that there are roughly 450 million rounds of golf played each year in the U.S., or approximately 25,000-30,000 per course. Each of those courses reports between 10-15 aces per year. That means a hole-in-one is scored once in every 3,500 rounds. Only 1-2 percent of golfers score an ace in a year. The average years of playing golf for a player before making an ace is 24. However golfers between 50-59 account for 25% percent of all the annual Aces, the next highest age group is 40-49 at 24%! For you women out there, you account for 16% of all the Aces and your average age group is 55.


Now on to the Double Eagle. The Double Eagle Club published a story by long time golf writer Bill Fields that states the odds of a Double Eagle are estimated to be 6 million to 1. Mr. Fields wrote the following:

"Dean Knuth, who was senior director of the handicap department at the USGA from 1981 to 1997 and now a Golf Digest contributing editor, says they're lower than that but still great, about a million-to-one shot.

That makes your chances of becoming one of the couple of hundred golfers a year to make a double eagle (as opposed to 40,000 aces) better than being killed by a shark (1 in 350 million) or dying from a dog bite (one in 18 million) but worse than being struck by lightning (one in 555,000) or, for a woman, having quadruplets without the aid of fertility drugs (one in 729,000).

"They're definitely far more rare than aces," Knuth says. "Someone has to hit two great shots. You have to have length and ability. Only a small percentage of golfers, less then 10 percent, ever reach a par 5 in two. That means 90 percent of golfers don't have a chance of making one."


Finally according to Golf.co.uk, there have been four Aces on a Par 5 (also called a Condor), but never a "2" on a rare Par 6. Both are so uncommon that bookmakers don't even offer odds.

From Golf.co.uk: "The first occurred in 1962, when Larry Bruce drove into the hole over a stand of trees on the 480-yard dogleg right par-5 fifth hole at Hope Country Club in Arkansas, USA.

Another condor was achieved by "cutting the corner" of a dogleg par-5 by Shaun Lynch at Teign Valley Golf Club in Christow, England, in 1995, on the 496-yard 17th. Lynch aimed straight at the green with a 3-iron, clearing a 20-foot-high hedge and hitting a downslope on the other side, which allowed his ball to roll down to the green and into the hole.

A condor was scored without cutting over a dogleg by Mike Crean at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver, Colorado, in 2002, when he holed his drive at the 517 yard par-5 9th. This is longest hole in one on record, although it was of course aided by the altitude and thin air of 'mile-high' Denver.

The most recent condor was achieved in Australia by 16-year-old Jack Bartlett on the 467 metre par-5 17th at Royal Wentworth Falls Country Club, NSW, Australia, on November 3, 2007."

Do you listen to Fore play lol? Anyway, they discussed on their podcast and their question was what was better 1 hole in one or 10 double eagles. I personally think 10 double eagles would be much harder to achieve and therefore would rather have that than 1 single hole in one. I have a buddy who has played maybe 10 rounds in his life and he has a hole in one, but I have played a couple hundred and have had 1 double eagle.

Based on your questions of one or the other though, I would take 1 hole in one for sure!

No but I'm going to check out that podcast, thanks for the recommendation!

Double Eagle on a par 4... two birds with one stone!

Hole in one.

Well I’ve had 2 HIO’s and 1 DE. I can’t complain about either since my DE was actually shorter than one of my HIO.

Although I have a buddy that has 8 DE’s and no HIO’s. It’s quite obvious which he feels is a better shot. But he still wishes he’d make a HIO.

I wouldn't mind getting close to either, as s tased a hole in one is easier and I am more likely to achieve this, so an ace for me.

I would take the ace before a double eagle.

It would have to be the ace, I've watched two happen myself, but never got one.

I have a hole in one.
So I need a double eagle... madgolfer
Hitemstraight

Hole in One!

Hole in one!!!

2 double eagles, 1 hole in one. Nobody cares about the albatross, everybody is wowed by the one. Remember what Walter Hagen said; "If I hit 2 feet from the hole it's skill; if it goes in, it's just s@*t luck."

2 double eagles and 0 hole in ones. I have a couple buddies who cant break 100 and they have hole in ones, I'm a 1 handicap and I cant make one lol. Ill take the ace!!

HIO

I've heard the tour pros say there is no such thing as a double eagle. They call it an "Albatross."
Just like there is no such thing as a double birdy, which is called an "Eagle."
A hole in one is the highest accomplishment in golf.
It means you were perfect for one hole.
One in one shot.

I've been fortunate to have experienced both.

I've seen other holes in one but have never seen another albatross.

There's something totally surreal about holing such a long shot (2nd on a par five for me).

Double eagle for sure.

WW

I'll take the Double E all day long. I've had plenty of HIO's over the years, never a LEGIT double eagle. I don't count hitting 8-9 iron into a par 5 and holing it as legit.......lol