Cameron Younger charged into rivalry on the Vacationers Championship after carding a historic ’59 spherical’ throughout day three in Connecticut.
Younger carded two eagles and 7 birdies on his solution to a bogey-free 59 at TPC River Highlands, simply the thirteenth sub-60 spherical in PGA Tour historical past and the primary since Scottie Scheffler’s whole throughout the second spherical of the Northern Belief in 2020.
The American’s whole strikes him to 13 beneath for the match and in prime place to problem for a maiden PGA Tour title, having been a seven-time runner-up with out having the ability to safe a breakthrough victory.
Cameron Younger carded an 11-under 59 throughout his third spherical to maneuver to 13 beneath for the match
“It was good from the beginning,” Younger stated. “I am unable to say I used to be anticipating it. I have been enjoying higher than my outcomes have proven, however waking up this morning I wasn’t actually considering I would be 5 beneath by way of 4 after which preserve going! It was plenty of enjoyable to do and I really feel like I managed my thoughts all day.”
Heading into the weekend 11 strokes behind midway chief Tom Kim, Younger began his third spherical with back-to-back birdies after which sensationally holed out from 142 yards to eagle the par-four third.
Younger rolled in from 20 ft on the fourth after which ended a run of pars by going inches away from a hole-in-one on the par-three eighth, leaving a tap-in birdie to go six beneath for his spherical.
The world No 23 added one other birdie on the ninth to shut a front-nine 28, then took benefit of the par-five thirteenth and left himself a close-range eagle after a surprising tee shot on the driveable par-four fifteenth.
Needing to birdie two of the final three holes to match Jim Furyk’s 58 on this course in 2016, he left a seven-footer by the facet of the cup on the sixteenth however hit his method on the subsequent even nearer to get to 11 beneath.
An additional birdie left Younger requiring a final-hole birdie to equal the bottom spherical in PGA Tour historical past, though he missed the green off the ultimate tee and needed to gap from 10 ft to avoid wasting par and shut out a bogey-free day.
Who else has carded a 59 spherical?
Al Geiberger was the primary participant to card a sub-60 spherical on the PGA Tour throughout the 1977 Memphis Basic, with Chip Beck the subsequent to on the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational.
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David Duval, Paul Goydos, Stuart Appleby, Furyk (twice), Justin Thomas, Adam Hadwin, Brandt Snedeker, Kevin Chappell and Scheffler are the opposite gamers to card rounds of 59 or higher in PGA Tour historical past.
Cristobal del Photo voltaic carded a 13-under 57 on the Korn Ferry Tour earlier this season, one among three sub-60 rounds on the second-tier circuit this yr. The bottom spherical in DP World Tour historical past stays the ’59 spherical’ shot by Oliver Fisher throughout the 2018 Portugal Masters.
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