CROMWELL, Conn. — Cameron Younger made a par putt from simply inside 10 toes for an 11-under 59 on Saturday within the Vacationers Championship, the primary sub-60 spherical on the PGA Tour in almost 4 years.
Younger made two eagles on par 4s, holing out with a wedge from 142 yards on the third gap and driving the 280-yard fifteenth gap to inside 4 toes.
It was the thirteenth sub-60 spherical since Al Geiberger first shot golf’s “magic quantity” on the 1977 Memphis Basic. Scottie Scheffler had been the newest at TPC Boston in 2020 at The Northern Belief.
This did not even get Younger the excellence of proudly owning the course report at TPC River Highlands. Jim Furyk shot a 58 in 2016 on the Vacationers Championship, the bottom spherical in PGA Tour historical past.
Younger was capable of raise, clear and place his golf ball within the quick grass due to soggy course situations and the potential for extra rain.
He may have gone even decrease. After his eagle on the fifteenth gap, Younger hit his tee shot to 7 toes on the par-3 sixteenth and missed the quick birdie putt. On the closing gap, needing birdie to tie Furyk’s report, Younger’s drive settled on the steep face of a fairway bunker, and he was unable to get it on the inexperienced.
He nonetheless made the par putt for the seventh spherical of 59 or decrease this yr on excursions all over the world, together with a 59 by Joaquín Niemann within the LIV Golf League and a record-tying 57 by Cristobal del Photo voltaic on the Korn Ferry Tour in Bogota, Colombia.
