Armchair Golf Blog · Aug 8, 2016
Jim Furyk's 8:41 Tee Time and Unexpected Excitement
What history looks like #58 #TravelersChampionship pic.twitter.com/H9EDu7Qy21
AT 46, JIM FURYK ISN'T OLD ENOUGH to shoot his age, but he did something even more impressive: He fired a record-setting 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship. Hitting all 18 greens in regulation and needing only 24 putts, Furyk carded nines of 27 and 31 to set a new scoring standard on the PGA Tour nearly 40 years after Al Geiberger was the first player to break 60.
Furyk said it helped that he had shot 59 three years ago at the BMW Championship.
"Having that experience in the past, and this one mimicked it a lot, it was comforting for me," he said in a Golf Digest story by Brian Wacker.