White River's Joe Cameron records rare ALBATROSS in Murdo
Aug 20, 2017
From the this is pretty cool category, 2012 White River graduate, Joe Cameron recorded a double-eagle, or albatross, on the No. 2 hole in Murdo, the 480-yard Par-5.
Cameron, a member of the White River state champioship basketball and golf teams hit his tee-shot 315 yards and then holed out with a 9-iron from about 165 yards out.
While the hole in one is often celebrated as THEE shot of a lifetime, the albatross is far more rare.
Among all golfers, there are typically 40,000 holes-in-one in a given year, with just a few hundred albatrosses, according to About.com. The odds, according to former USGA employee Dean Knuth, of making an albatross are about 1 million to 1. The odds of making a hole-in-one are around 13,000 to 1.