CROMWELL, Conn. — Cameron Younger made a par putt from simply inside 10 ft for an 11-under 59 on Saturday within the Vacationers Championship, the primary sub-60 spherical on the PGA Tour in practically 4 years.
Younger made two eagles on par 4s, holing out with wedge from 142 yards on the third gap and driving the 280-yard fifteenth gap to inside 4 ft.
It was the thirteenth sub-60 spherical since Al Geiberger first shot golf’s “magic quantity” on the 1977 Memphis Traditional. Scottie Scheffler had been the newest on the TPC Boston in 2020 at The Northern Belief.
“I can not say I used to be anticipating it,” Younger mentioned. “I have been enjoying higher than the outcomes have proven. Waking up this morning, I wasn’t actually pondering I will be 5 underneath by way of 4. It was lots of enjoyable to do.”
This did not even get Younger the excellence of proudly owning the course file on the TPC River Highlands. Jim Furyk shot a 58 in 2016 on the Vacationers Championship, the bottom spherical in PGA Tour historical past.
Jordan Spieth turned a footnote in historical past as the one PGA Tour participant to twice play with somebody who shot 59. Spieth additionally was within the group with Justin Thomas when he shot 59 within the opening spherical of the 2017 Sony Open.
Younger was capable of raise, clear and place his golf ball within the quick grass due to soggy course situations and the potential of extra rain.
He might have gone even decrease. After his eagle on the fifteenth gap, Younger hit his tee shot to 7 ft on the par-3 sixteenth and missed the quick birdie putt. On the closing gap, needing birdie to tie Furyk’s file, his drive settled on the steep face of a fairway bunker and Younger was unable to get it on the inexperienced.
He nonetheless made par for the seventh spherical of 59 or decrease this yr on excursions world wide.
“To have a day like immediately the place issues begin getting in, and it feels such as you’re reward for good photographs, it leaves me with a very good style in my mouth,” Younger mentioned.
He completed at 13-under par and was tied with Tom Kim, who was watching a few of Younger’s spherical on a video display on the apply vary as Kim was preparing for the beginning of his third spherical. Younger had one in every of six rounds at 64 or higher earlier than the leaders teed off.
The opposite six rounds at 59 or decrease this yr embrace JoaquÃn Niemann on LIV Golf and a record-tying 57 by Cristobal del Photo voltaic on the Korn Ferry Tour in Bogota, Colombia.
