There has been only one of them ever on the PGA Tour.
Now there’s a hole-in-one on a par 4 on PGA Tour Canada.
Davis Shore pulled off that amazing feat Friday at the PGA Tour Canada’s Windsor Championship.
Playing the back nine first in his second round, Shore actually had a roller-coaster of a day. He opened with two pars and was – believe it not – even through six holes after a double bogey-birdie-double bogey-ace. He was still even after two more pars on Nos. 16 and 17 at Ambassador Golf Club in Windsor, Ontario. A bogey on the 18th hole, his ninth of the day, gave him the wildest 1-over front nine you’ll probably ever see.
Back to his ace, Shore did it on a short par 4 that measures 321 yards on the scorecard but was playing 290 yards Friday.
When you’re hot, you’re hot 🔥
Last week’s @OspreyOpen Champ Davis Shore aces the par 4, 15th hole at the Windsor Championship https://t.co/wC2LbYSTSm pic.twitter.com/m00rZTC6vx
— PGA TOUR Canada – Fortinet Cup (@PGATOURCanada) August 4, 2023
There doesn’t appear to be video of the actual shot, so that stinks. He said he reached the green Thursday with a wind-aided 3-wood but used driver Friday.
“I hit it really well and it was right at the pin,” he said. “But the thought of it going in never crossed my mind, to be honest, till it actually went in.”
He said he could hear his ball hit the flagstick from the tee box before it found the bottom of the cup.
“That was pretty incredible,” he said.
✅321 Yards
✅Driver
🚨Ace🚨Davis Shore's first hole-in-one in a competitive round comes on the par 4, 15th at @ambassadorgolf pic.twitter.com/HSbyJFYFZy
— PGA TOUR Canada – Fortinet Cup (@PGATOURCanada) August 4, 2023
After his first nine, he was 2 over for the tournament, and seven shots off the cutline, but on his second nine, he caught fire, making five birdies and three pars to shoot a 67 and get to 3 under for the week. However, he was still short of the projected cut at 5 under.
Shore won the PGA Tour Canada’s event a week ago at TPC Toronto. This week, despite his par-4 heroics, he’s near the bottom of the leaderboard.
His par-4 ace is the first ever on the Canadian circuit.
Andrew Magee has the only ace on a par 4 in tournament play in the PGA Tour, doing so at the 17th hole at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona in 2001.
There have been four aces on par-4s on the Korn Ferry Tour, the most recent coming in 2012 in the then-Web.com Tour Championship by Rob Oppenheim at TPC Craig Ranch in Texas.
Crazy game, this golf.
