Patrick Reed hit the rarest shot in golf on a big-time stage — however he wasn’t impressed.
The previous Masters champ hit the albatross on the 622-yard, par-5 fourth gap on the U.S. Open at Oakmont Nation Membership Thursday, knocking his second shot from 286 yards into the outlet with a 3-wood.
The ridiculous shot was simply the fourth albatross within the U.S. Open because the match started maintaining data 42 years in the past, however Reed performed it cool afterwards nonetheless.
“There’s 71 other holes we have to play,” Reed mentioned after his spherical. “One hole doesn’t mean jack, to be honest with you.”
When a reporter replied, “To our readers, it actually means a little…” Reed reduce them off, saying: “It was a 3-wood I hit from 287, and it went in.”
Regardless of his historic shot, Reed might have been irked after happening to shoot a 3-over 73 within the opening spherical, together with a triple bogey on the 18th.
The Athletic’s Gabby Herzig did observe that Reed “got a lot happier” over the remainder of what was an eight-minute post-round interview.
When the albatross dropped in, Reed raised his arms in bewilderment earlier than making a pointing movement to ask if the ball had gone in, because the golfer didn’t have a view of the inexperienced from the place he shot.
As soon as he realized what had occurred, he gave an incredulous smile as if to say: “I’ll take it.”
Reed, 34, joins T.C. Chen (1985 at Oakland Hills), Shaun Micheel (2010 at Pebble Seashore) and Nick Watney (2012 at Olympic) as the one golfers to hit a recorded albatross on the U.S. Open.
There are just a few hundred albatrosses per yr globally, in comparison with greater than 30,000 holes-in-one every year.
After his spherical, Reed famous that this was the third albatross of his profession.
