Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five, a two at a par six would also count.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Only six condors have ever been recorded:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The most recent was Kevin Pon, who made a 2 on a par 6 at Lake Chabot Golf Course on the 10th December 2020. Pon was playing the 667-yard par-6 18th hole at the course, which has one of the few par-6 holes in the country. The 54-year-old came to the hole, which plays severely downhill, and he pounded a 540-yard drive flew, bounced, bounded and rolled out to leave him just 120 yards to the hole from the bottom of the hill. With a cart path that zig-zigs across the fairway, it’s almost certain Pon’s ball struck the path once or several times on the way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\nThis is the CRAZIEST golf shot I have ever seen in my life!! Wait till the end!!!! @bubbawatson<\/a> giving a new meaning to cutting the corner on the par 5 @zozochamp<\/a> 👀 🤯 pic.twitter.com\/UTHf0nfGl6<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u2014 Seb Carmichael-Brown (@sebcbrown4) October 27, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
To give you an idea of odds, it has been estimated a hole-in-one can reach up to 1 in 12,500 for an amateur player, while a double eagle has been assigned odds that have ranged between 1 in 1 million, and 1 in 16 million. The odds of scoring a Condor have not been officially worked out but you can imagine they are significantly higher than the double-eagle. A select number of\u00a0online bookmakers<\/strong><\/a>, have in the past offered odds on double-eagles during championship events, not condors however. Clearly if you choose to place a condor bet with any bookmaker like 1xbet<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, make sure to get odds of at least above 1 million to one!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
There is no other explanation for the name ‘condor’ apart from its continuation of the ‘bird’ theme in naming under-par scores, and the size of the bird becoming bigger as the score gets lower (birdie – eagle –\u00a0albatross<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0– condor).<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"