In the history of the PGA Tour, there has been only one ace on a par-4, and it came at the TPC Scottsdale, home of the FBR Open. The hole was No. 17, the year was 2001, and the golfer was Andrew Magee. But the circumstances were anything but normal.
Magee, just an average driver of the ball, didn't think he'd be able to reach the green on the 332-yard par-4. So he didn't wait for the group ahead to clear the green. Instead, he teed up, and - steaming over a double bogey two holes earlier - muscled up. He let her rip, and the ball went farther than he expected.
So far that it ran up onto the green while the group of Steve Pate, Gary Nicklaus and Tom Byrum were still putting. Byrum was in the address position, ready to putt, as Magee's ball bounded onto the green.
The ball kept rolling. Pate and Nicklaus followed its path, their heads turning to the track the ball. And the ball rolled right into Byrum's putter! It clanged off Byrum's putter, caromed about 10 feet, and dropped right into the cup.
Hole-in-one. Still the only par-4 ace on the PGA Tour, and surely one of the more unusual aces of any kind on the tour.
Magee, just an average driver of the ball, didn't think he'd be able to reach the green on the 332-yard par-4. So he didn't wait for the group ahead to clear the green. Instead, he teed up, and - steaming over a double bogey two holes earlier - muscled up. He let her rip, and the ball went farther than he expected.
So far that it ran up onto the green while the group of Steve Pate, Gary Nicklaus and Tom Byrum were still putting. Byrum was in the address position, ready to putt, as Magee's ball bounded onto the green.
The ball kept rolling. Pate and Nicklaus followed its path, their heads turning to the track the ball. And the ball rolled right into Byrum's putter! It clanged off Byrum's putter, caromed about 10 feet, and dropped right into the cup.
Hole-in-one. Still the only par-4 ace on the PGA Tour, and surely one of the more unusual aces of any kind on the tour.
