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Furyk sets PGA Tour record with 58
CROMWELL: Golfer Jim Furyk shot the lowest-ever PGA Tour round on Sunday, returning a 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship at the TPC River Highlands
CROMWELL: Golfer Jim Furyk shot the lowest-ever PGA Tour round on Sunday, returning a 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship at the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell, Connecticut.
The 12-under-par round took Furyk to 11-under for the tournament and fifth place in the clubhouse. His first three rounds were a three-over 73, a four-under 66 and a two-over 72.
America’s Daniel Berger led after the third round at 15-underpar, and had not teed off when Furyk two-putted the 18th for his record. Russell Knox of Scotland, Tyrone Van Aswegen of South Africa and another American, Russell Henley, were tied for second at 12-under.
Furyk set a course record on the opening nine holes, reaching the turn in 27 shots. That score tied the 46-year-old American for the second-best nine holes in PGA Tour history: Corey Pavin shot 26 on the front nine at US Bank Championship in Milwaukee in 2006.
The previous nine-hole record at the TPC River Highlands course was a 28, shared by three golfers who did it on the course’s back nine. The previous best front-nine score was a 29, a feat accomplished by six golfers since the course in Cromwell began hosting the Connecticut PGA Tour stop in 1984.
Furyk, who was said by former pro and commentator David Feherty to have a swing “like an octopus falling out of a tree”, has 17 PGA Tour victories, and is one of six golfers to have shot a 59. He did that during the second round of the BMW Championship in 2013.
