Gary Woodland’s albatross turns out to be just a plain old ace at soggy Byron Nelson

When is an albatross on a 104-yard par-4 not an albatross? When Gary Woodland aces the 14th hole at the AT&T Byron Nelson that the PGA Tour originally set up as a 406-yard par-4, cut down to a shorter 100-yard par-4 because heavy rains made the fairway unplayable, and changed it yet again in the middle of a round to a par-3.

Huh?

A confusing but true story.

Torrential downpours forced the Tour to pare the hole from its original 406 yards because of flooding on the fairway. So when word of Woodland’s ace went viral, golf watchers believed he had made only the second hole-in-one on a par-4 in PGA Tour history.

Turns out, though, that the Tour had decided to make the 14th a par-3, nullifying Woodland’s albatross but preserving his ace. The change came after the round started with the hole as a 104-yard par-4. Several players had played the hole before the Tour confirmed that it was now playing as a par-3.

Follow along.

And then ... boom ... it was a par-3.

So Andrew Magee’s record is safe for a while longer. Magee carded a hole-in-one on a 300-yard par-4 during the 2001 Phoenix Open.

Also, no asterisk needed.

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