If you have never heard of a par 6, you are not alone; there are very few of them in the U.S., but most courses with that kind of yardage take advantage of the extra swing (seven of our top ten are par 6), although some golfers don't need it.
The longest hole in the world is the third hole of the Jeongeup Course at Gunsan Country Club. It is a par 7 and not surprisingly it has a stroke index of 1.
Do par-6 holes exist on golf courses around the world? Yes, but they are not common. How long does a hole have to be to be called a par-6? Nearly 700 yards for men, nearly 600 yards for women — but there are other factors besides length that determine what the par rating of a golf hole is.
Hole 12. The 12th is a 635 metre Par 6. The only rated Par 6 in Australia. An elevated tee shot to a fairway that is split with a water hazard 300 metres from the tee.
But there's only one place in the world where you'll find a Par 6 hole so long that golfers tee off in one state and putt in another. Farmstead Golf Links in Calabash is one of several popular courses along the Brunswick Islands, a noted golf area at the southern tip of North Carolina's coast.
Supposedly, this is the name assigned to completing a hole having struck the ball five fewer times than par. In other words, this is what happens when you hole-out a Par 7 with two strokes or shoot a Hole-In-One on a Par Six.
But has there ever been a hole in one on a par 5? Believe it or not, yes. According to liveabout.com, it has occurred five times, with three of them coming on severe doglegs or horseshoe-shaped holes where the listed yardage could be mitigated by going at the green as the crow flies.
Playing from the 649-yard white tees on no. 18, Pon sank his second shot on the course's infamous par-6 finishing hole. The 2 is believed to be the first condor - 4 under on one hole - on a par 6 in the history of golf.
An ace of a par 5 – typically one of the longest holes on any golf course – is known as a “condor.” Through 2021, there are only six known official condors in the world.
It is, according to the San Francisco newspaper Mercury News, the only recorded condor on a par-6 in US golf history. For context, the odds of hitting a hole-in-one on a par 3 are 12,500-1, while the odds of holing an albatross move into six figures.
A score of 2 on a par-4 hole is called an eagle. A score of 2 on a par-5 hole is called a double eagle or an albatross. A score of 2 on a par-6 hole is called a condor.
What is an ostrich in golf? An ostrich is, according to golf lore, the score assigned to scoring five below par on a hole. On most traditional golf courses, this is not possible, as the lowest score possible on a par five is four under the assigned par.
3.1a Before a Handicap Index Has Been Established
For a player submitting their first scores to obtain an initial Handicap Index, the maximum score for each hole played is limited to par + 5 strokes (see Diagram 3.1a).
"Turkey" is another term, a slang term, for the golf score better known as a quadruple bogey, or 4-over par. And quadruple bogeys are scores you want to avoid. Scoring a turkey means a golfer used this number of strokes on a hole: On a par-3 hole, a turkey is a score of 7.
A 9-hole course is exactly what it says – a golf course with 9 holes. Like 18-hole golf courses, a 9-hole golf course is mostly comprised of par-4 holes plus a combination of par-3 and par-5 holes.
Scoring Stats on Augusta National Hole 8
Yellow Jasmine is a birdie hole: It has played, over the course of the Masters' history, below par with an all-time stroke average of 4.82.
Woods has hit a hole-in-one 20 times in the course of his lifetime, his first at the age of six. Three have come in PGA Tour competitions - at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open, 1997 Phoenix Open, and 1998 Sprint International. Woods is the only professional golfer to win four majors in a row.
A golf course is nothing but a collection of holes. To be precise, a golf course consists of 18 holes. Sometimes, such a golf course is also referred to as a 'full-sized' golf course. The size of a golf course is determined by the amount of distance you cover as you play all 18 holes.
The longest recorded straight drive hole-in-one is believed to be 517 yards or 473 metres, on the par-5 No. 9 hole at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver in 2002, aided by the thin air due to the high altitude.
A condor is also known as a double albatross, or a triple eagle. This is the lowest individual hole score ever made, relative to par. A condor would be a hole-in-one on a par-five (typically by cutting over a dogleg corner), a two on a par-six, or a three on a par-seven (which is not known to have been achieved).
First of all, have you even heard of a condor? We're not talking about the bird (a vulture), but the absolute rarest shot in golf. It's a "1" on a par 5, which believe it or not, has actually happened a handful of times. As of late, there have been 5 recorded condors in history.
It's only happened once in PGA Tour history. Andrew Magee did it at the 2001 Phoenix Open on the 332-yard, par-4 17th hole at TPC Scottsdale. And it was under strange circumstances.
So Nicklaus did not win any of the tournaments in which he aced, and only one of his 21 career aces happened in a major — none in a "regular" (meaning not senior) major. But Nicklaus did score holes-in-ones twice during practice rounds prior to major championships.
Jack Nicklaus achieved the longest putt recorded in professional golf in the 1964 Tournament of Champions, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The putt Nicklaus sank to earn this remarkable record was a massive 110 feet long, which is longer than several golf greens!
Carl Cooper – 787 Yards
While Cooper holds the record for the longest drive, it's worth saying that while his ball ended up 787 yards off the tee, it had some help to travel the distance. At the 1992 Texas Open, Cooper's ball ended up on a concrete cart path, which also happened to have a steeper angle.