Monday Scramble: History to history in the making

Jim Furyk shoots golf's (new) magic number, Russell Knox takes another title, Wesley Bryan earns a brief promotion, Nike closes up shop and more in this week's edition of Monday Scramble:

In an era where distance is king, the owner of the best score in PGA Tour history is not a guy who can pound the ball into another zip code.

Just the opposite, in fact.

Jim Furyk is a 46-year-old with a surgically repaired wrist, a loopy backswing, a dink-and-dunk approach ... and he is the only player to shoot in the 50s twice on Tour.

Nothing in Furyk’s career has been aesthetically pleasing – not his swing, not his U.S. Open victory, certainly not his Ryder Cup record – but even after all of these years he…