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Cam Starr, a Minor League Golf Tour golfer and former LaGrange College Panthers golfer, just pulled off a feat so rare in Las Vegas that it has only ever happened once in a PGA Tour event: he had two albatrosses in one round.
This story comes to us by way of the Monday Q Info account on X (@acaseofthegolf1). I’ve said it before and I will say it again, if you are a fan of the game of golf then this is probably the best account to follow on social media when it comes to cool stories you won’t find anywhere else.
This story starts at the recent Barracuda Championship PGA Tour stop which was won by Ryan Gerard. Ryan and Cam Starr are friends and prior to the Barracuda Championship, Ryan told Starr that if he won they were going to Las Vegas to celebrate.
That alone is tall odds. The Barracuda was Gerard’s only PGA Tour win so far. But he won and called up Cam Starr and said let’s head to Las Vegas, so they did.
While there, they hit up TPC Summerlin. When I’m in Las Vegas I prefer to play Rio Secco but to each his own…
Minor League Golf Tour golfer Cam Starr has two albatrosses in one round
After teeing off on the back nine at TPC Summerlin, the magic started on the 15th hole. The short par-4 was playing 305 yards.
Cam Starr striped his drive and the pair thought they heard a ‘clink’ but couldn’t see it. When they got up to the green the ball was, in fact, in the hole for his first albatross. A 1-in-1 million shot for a pro golfer.
According to MondayQInfo’s retelling, the pair were so pleased with the albatross they thought about calling it a day and not making the turn and playing the front-9. But they forged ahead.
On Hole #3, a reachable par-5, Starr striped another drive and only had a wedge left on approach.
MondayQInfo says “as soon as he hit it, he knew it was good” and the ball, against all odds, went into the hole. That gave him his second albatross in one round.
Check out that scorecard:
There is no way this has ever happened (on a legit golf course) in the history of golf.
And it includes the latest pga tour winner Ryan Gerard. Buckle up.
On Sunday before his the final round of the @CudaChamp Ryan called his good friend and mini-tour player Cam Starr. Starr… pic.twitter.com/cmqzKHwJz0
— Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1) July 25, 2025
The odds of this happening
I am not a mathematician. The closest I’ve come to that is getting my Minor in Economics back in college. So I consulted AI to ask what the odds of this happening are.
While Cam Starr was a Minor League Golf Tour, he recently decided to quit pro golf and was set to start a new job in 8 days. But we will give him the benefit of the doubt here and assume he qualifies as a ‘professional’ and not an amateur.
The odds of a professional golfer scoring an albatross are about 1-in-1 million, much rarer than holes-in-one. The odds of a professional golfer having two albatrosses in one round? That’s 1-in-1 million x 1-in-1 million, which puts the chances at a whopping 1-in-1 trillion.
Former PGA Tour golfer Jeff Maggert pulled this off in a tour event at the 2001 World Golf Championships. That is the only known instance of it happening in competition.
Only in Las Vegas
Prior to the Las Vegas trip, Cam Starr was planning on starting a new job in 8 days and leaving professional golf behind.
They say ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’ but it would be hard to walk away from pro golf after two albatrosses in one round.