Last year there were just four albatrosses (a 2 on a par 5) during the entire PGA Tour season. In the three years before that there were just two each year. In fact, since 1970 there have been just 126. Contrast that with the fact that there have been over 150 holes-in-one over the last five years alone. The albatross is the most elusive score on a single hole in all of golf.
On Thursday, in the first event of the 2016-17 PGA Tour season (yes, the new season has already started), former Cowboy Morgan Hoffmann made the first albie of the new year on the ninth hole of his first round.