Cameron Younger turned the twelfth totally different participant to report a sub-60 rating on the PGA Tour on Saturday on the Vacationers Championship.
Younger shredded TPC River Highlands to the tune of 11-under 59, a rating that tied Younger for the lead with Tom Kim, although Kim was nonetheless about 20 minutes from teeing off when Younger wrapped up play.
“Wakened, would have most well-liked to return to sleep,” Younger stated. “… Didn’t really feel notably superior. I chunked a number of much less on the vary than I did yesterday. Then, yeah, got here out and simply was very comfy and issues simply began coming down near the opening.”
After teeing off within the eleventh group off Saturday – and 4 hours, quarter-hour earlier than Kim’s remaining pairing – Younger birdied three of his first 4 holes. The outlet he didn’t birdie throughout that stretch? He eagled it, holing out a pitching wedge from 142 yards on the par-4 third.
Younger added a second eagle, on the drivable par-4 fifteenth, the place he drove it 280 yards with 3-iron to 4 toes and made the putt.
“I’ve hit that membership in all places and I lastly hit one simply straight at it,” Younger stated. “I believe I stated one thing to the impact of, simply give me all the fitting bounces. And it did. I imply, the place that ended up can be an ideal pitch from the entrance of the inexperienced. So it’s, you realize, a very good swing and an ideal strike, however for it to finish up someplace you can mainly faucet it in for two shouldn’t be seemingly.
“You can hit that very same shot 100 extra occasions and you’ll get two on that plateau proper right here.”
Younger’s 59 is the Tour’s first sub-60 rating since Scottie Scheffler shot 59 on the 2020 Northern Belief at TPC Boston – and thirteenth general. It’s additionally a shot shy of the Vacationers report of 58, recorded by Jim Furyk in 2016.
Furyk is the one participant to have notched two sub-60 scores on Tour, as he additionally shot 59 on the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms.
So far as Younger’s profession achievements go, his 59 doesn’t prime the record, says Younger, who’s winless on Tour however owns seven profession runner-up finishes, together with a solo second on the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews.
“I performed some very nice golf,” Younger stated. “I believe like when it comes to lifetime achievement there’s positively some issues that go earlier than it for me. It’s at some point, it’s at some point that you simply shot 1,000,000 beneath. It’s very cool and I’m grateful that my identify is on that very brief record, however there’s entire tournaments that I’ve performed that I’m most likely, that I most likely would nonetheless put above it.”
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