Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama had also recorded a round of 58 in qualifying for a US Open in 2000 but to have become the first on the demanding PGA Tour will establish a mark that Furyk might hold on to for a long time to come. You may be saying, “Yeah, that’s what they all say”.
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Aug 7, 2016; Cromwell, CT, USA; Jim Furyk during the final round of the 2016 Travelers Championship … You’re making for the exits. But if you do it again, then it’s like, okay, well now I can start believing in myself even more and be like, okay, I’ve beaten everyone over four days two times now. Maybe that number is out there? The lowest round ever in a PGA tournament.
After this important and memorable round, it’s hard to imagine how euphoric it felt for him to write his score on the board before walking off the course. Geiberger would go on to claim the 10th on his 11 career victories. Eleven if you included his caddy, Mike “Fluff” Cowan.
Daniel Berger started the round with a three-shot lead, looking to bag his second million-dollar payday this summer. If I don’t make the team, I can’t think I’m worthy of a pick. Eight, I hit a 4-iron less than 15 feet, knocked that in, and then nearly holed a wedge on nine, where again it was a tap-in.
“There wasn’t a lot of people out there, not a lot of cameras, not a lot of media”. “I made a pathetic swing”. It takes a lot out of you.
Furyk had become the king of the terrain he was traversing. Central. He finished his round before Golf Channel coverage began.
“This 58 and 59, no one else can say they’ve done that on the PGA Tour, so it is really special”, Furyk said. He couldn’t save par from a little over 11 feet.
“I guess if I’d never shot 59 before I probably would have been thinking the barrier”.
“I told my caddie I wasn’t going to look at leaderboards, and then I’m going to the first tee and I hear what he’s doing and I’m like, ‘I have to look now, ‘ just because I wanted to watch history”, Thomas said. He missed a 12-foot birdie attempt on the 14th hole and, after almost driving the par-4 15th, his 8-foot birdie putt lipped out.
Kelly followed his opening birdies with a third on the par-3 5th.
“I have finished second a few times before”.
“The putt at 16 was huge”, Furyk said.
But he went one better over the TPC Highlands thanks mostly to his incredible first nine holes and said he was “humbled” to do so. I hit one in the water earlier this week.
Furyk summed up going from a 72 in the third round to 14 shots lower and the scoring record in the fourth. He couldn’t save par but escaped with a bogey after chipping within 10 feet of the cup. “I thought about it on the last tee to be honest. It’s nice when the second ones are mindless and they’re up there about a foot”. But then he fell apart with four straight bogeys on the back nine (10-13) to end his chances at a second tour win this season.
“I’m still a little stunned and a little flabbergasted”, he said.
The round moved Furyk up 65 spots in today’s final round.
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It worked better than any round in golf history. Kelly, a Madison, Wis. native, played four seasons of college golf at the University of Hartford, which is just miles from the course. “This wouldn’t have been a round I would have expected coming”.
