Jim Furyk hit the first ever 58 on the PGA Tour as Russell Knox boosted his Ryder Cup hopes claimed victory at the Travelers Championship.
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Aug 7, 2016; Cromwell, CT, USA; Jim Furyk reacts with his caddie after shooting a PGA tour record 58 after the final round of the 2016 Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands.
On Sunday, Furyk carded the lowest round in Tour history when he recorded a 12-under 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
One of those six low scorers has just set the bar even higher, or lower as the case may be. Furyk finished tied for fifth, three strokes back. His final birdie came on the par-3 16th, when he sank a putt from just under 24 feet from the right of the hole. Instead, he went one better, carding a birdie for a 58. He birdied 10, 11 and 12 before the magnitude of it began to tap him on the shoulder the way a good round of golf can.
It might not have happened if Furyk had not gone this road before.
“Amazing, eh?” said Justin Rose from the practice range at the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro. I wish I could share it with you.
Furyk is the first player to break 60 twice in competition on a major professional Tour.
Other examples of 58s in competition include Ryo Ishikawa on the Japan Tour in 2010, Shigeki Maruyama at a US Open sectional qualifier in 2000 and Jason Bohn on the Canadian Tour in 2001.
Among the many players to congratulate Furyk on Twitter was Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland. Overall, the 31-year-old has won three times since November and is in the midst of the finest season of his career.
“I’m still getting a little emotional about it”, said Kelly, a 1989 University of Hartford graduate.
“He was playing flawless golf”, said Fluff with his walrus mustache, “Driving at every fairway and hitting a lot of great iron shots, and like you said, it’s nothing you talk about just go about your business you keep trying to keep it going and he did that, very easily. I was in that position starting this morning (Sunday)”. Thomas made nine birdies on the day, including five in a row on Nos. 5-9. Cantlay shot a bogey-free 60 with an eagle and eight birdies.
“No-one else can say they’ve done that out here on the PGA Tour”, said Furyk, who finished joint-fifth in the tournament. His approach was 40 feet beyond the flag, but he two-putted for par by making a 4-footer.
“It’s pretty cool”, Furyk told Sky Sports 4.
Jimenez birdied the 18th in the playoff, too, before Durant rolled in the right-to-left victor.
Nick Taylor, of Abbotsford, B.C., shot a 72 in his final round to finish the tournament at 1-under 279 and in a tie for 64th. But he survived that hole with a bogey, then gutted out two pars coming in to win. He didn’t win another hole. He finished at 11-under 269.
SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) – South Korea’s Eun Jeong Seong won the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Rolling Green to become the first player to win the event and U.S. Girls’ Junior in the same year.
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The 16-year-old Seong outlasted Italy’s Virginia Elena Carta 1 up in hot conditions in the 36-hole final, the first all-international championship match in 106 years.
