Statistically speaking, it\u2019s unlikely Davis Thompson will ever have another round his Saturday 65 at the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n
Not because 65 is a particularly unusual score for Thompson, who shot a Saturday 63 at the 3M Open just two weeks ago. But because of what happened inside that 65: A collection of not one but two of the more statistical anomalies in all of professional golf \u2026 in just one round.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s explain.<\/p>\n
Thompson\u2019s day in North Carolina started off slow. After four even par holes to start his Saturday, Thompson turned for the par-5 fifth hole knowing he needed to make some magic. <\/p>\n
\u201cKind of got off to a slow start,\u201d he said Saturday afternoon. \u201cAnd then, you know, making an albatross usually helps get things going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, it does. And indeed it did for Thompson on Saturday, whose double-eagle two on the fifth hole was so unexpected he needed the ShotLink cameras just to capture it. (They did, delivering one of the funnier Jim Nantz highlight calls<\/a> of the \u201926 season.)<\/p>\n Thompson\u2019s 186-yard approach rolled off a slope and straight into the bottom of the hole for the albatross \u2014 the so-called \u201crarest\u201d play in golf, with odds of 5-million-to-one. Except it wasn\u2019t all that rare for Thompson, who admitted afterward it was the second double-eagle of his young life.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it\u2019s my second one. Other one was at Bay Hill, not in a Tour round but it was in the Palmer Cup on No. 16,\u201d Thompson, the apparent king of understatement, said. \u201cI\u2019ve had two pretty good ones.\u201d<\/p>\n Unlike his last albatross, though, Thompson didn\u2019t get too long to bask in the goodness of three shots made up on the field for too long. After three more birdies at the turn, a switch flipped in the wrong way down the back nine. He made a bogey on the 13th, then hit a very wayward drive on the 14th when he realized that something was wrong. <\/p>\n \u201cCall the rules official over,\u201d he called out almost immediately.<\/p>\n