Brandt Snedeker falls one short of record with 59
Brandt Snedeker fell one shot short of tying the PGA Tour record with an 11-under 59 on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship.
The PGA Tour’s single-round scoring record is held by Jim Furyk, who scored a 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship in 2016.
With Snedeker’s Thursday round at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, the 37-year-old Nashville native becomes the ninth player in PGA Tour history to break 60, joining Furyk (who also recorded a 59 in the second round of the 2013 BMW Championship), Al Geiberger, Chip Beck, David Duval, Paul Goydos, Stuart Appleby, Justin Thomas and Adam Hadwin.
Geiberger was the first to break 60, doing so during the second round of the 1977 Memphis Classic.
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Snedeker’s 59 marks the third straight year the PGA Tour has seen a golfer break 60, with Thomas recording his score in the first round of the 2017 Sony Open and Hadwin’s coming in the third round of the 2017 Careerbuilder Challenge.
