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Cameron Younger is the second participant to interrupt 60 at TPC River Highlands.
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This yr’s Travelers Championship was already figuring to be a wild shootout, with final yr’s match report of 23 below in jeopardy by means of 36 holes. However now it’s historic.
Going off in simply the eleventh group of the day, greater than 4 hours earlier than the leaders, Cameron Young set hearth to TPC River Highlands, making seven birdies and two eagles (each on par-4s), posting an 11-under 59 to tie Tom Kim’s 36-hole lead earlier than he even began his third spherical.
Younger made a clutch par on the 18th gap after hitting his tee shot on the closing gap right into a bunker face and being pressured to play his second from a clumsy stance. His strategy got here up nicely brief, as did his chip, however from 10 toes, his par effort simply snuck within the left aspect of the outlet for the report spherical.
It’s the thirteenth spherical of 60 or higher on the PGA Tour, however the first in 4 years when Scottie Scheffler, then a PGA Tour rookie, made 12 birdies at TPC Boston for a 59. Nonetheless, Younger’s spherical doesn’t even set the TPC River Highland’s course report as Jim Furyk owns that mark after setting the PGA Tour scoring mark with a 12-under 58 in Cromwell, Connecticut in 2016.
Younger began the day in a tie for forty third within the limited-field, no-cut Signature Occasion however started his third spherical by taking part in the primary 4 holes in 5 below, highlighted by holing his second shot from 142 yards on the par-4 third. He added two extra birdies on 8 and 9 to show in 28.
The proficient third-year PGA Tour professional, who continues to be trying to find his first PGA Tour win cruised by means of the day, regardless of hitting simply six fairways. He made up for it by hitting 15 greens and making 115′ 11 price of putts on simply 24 strokes on the greens.
After a birdie on 13, Younger stuffed his tee shot on the drivable par-4 fifteenth to only 4 toes for almost a kick in eagle. The 27-year-old birdied 17 to get to the magical quantity in relation to par after which made the clutch up and down on the final to etch his identify into historical past.
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Younger’s low spherical is the most recent in a report run of low scores currently in skilled golf. U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau shot a 58 last summer throughout a LIV Golf occasion. Joaquin Niemann also broke 60, posting a 59, in February at one other LIV occasion.
The very subsequent week, Cristobal Del Solar became the first player to shoot a 57 in a PGA Tour-sanctioned occasion Korn Ferry Tour’s Astara Golf Championship. The subsequent day, 19-year-old Aldrich Potgieter added a 59 of his personal. Younger’s spherical is the seventh sub-60 spherical on a world tour in 2024.
Nick Dunlap, Wyndham Clark and Nick Taylor every had shot 60 this season on the PGA Tour, the bottom rounds of the season till Saturday. Every participant received the respective occasion, Dunlap engaging in the feat whereas nonetheless an beginner.
Clark and Taylor each performed their rounds under lift, clean and place conditions, as Younger did Saturday. Most well-liked lies have been additionally in impact Friday on the Vacationers on account of forecasted heavy rains which in the end delayed play by greater than three hours.
Except for Furyk’s 58 eight years in the past, TPC Riverlands continues to be no stranger to gamers taking it deep. Each Denny McCarthy and Rickie Fowler shot 60 final yr as Keegan Bradley ended up setting the four-day match scoring report of 23-under 257.
TPC River Highlands now joins the Greenbrier’s Outdated White TPC course as the one PGA Tour hosts to surrender a number of sub-60 rounds. DeChambeau’s 58 final summer time additionally got here on the Outdated White.
