PGA Tour Hopeful Shoots 55 (to Break World Record)

[Friz]

This guy is playing the Monday qualifier at the John Deere next week, shot a 55, 17-under at this course.  

Oak Ridge Golf Club Muskegon MI

it's over 1000 yards shorter than what he would play for PGA but consider me intrigued, at the very least it ties the lowest officially recorded round of golf...and is the lowest ever on a par 72.  Hope he makes it through Monday to see what happens

 

PGA Tour hopeful shoots 55 (!) to break world record, eyes John Deere

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PGA Tour hopeful Andrew Ruthkoski shot an incredible round of 17-under 55 recently to break all kinds of world...

 

[iacas]

Glad someone posted about this. And… yeah, that's pretty low. Still not quite the $54M prize from LIV. 😄

[Shindig]

That's incredible.  For contrast, Tiger Woods's PGA Tour career best-ball at Torrey South comes out as a 50.  On one hand, Tiger's is 5 lower on a longer course during competition.  On the other hand, that's one round versus Tiger having typically three goes at a course (plus another five one year) quite a bit during his prime.  You could also compare to Jack at Augusta, where he once went a decade without finishing outside the top eight, and that best ball is a 48.

I should add this guy's scorecard to my growing list of players who have succeeded in the "no fives" challenge.

On a related note, from the article, what is pre-qualifying?  Is Monday qualifying akin to something like trying to qualify for the Open where there are various stages and some people are exempt past one?

[Carl3]

Did everyone forget about the exploits of the former Supreme Leader of North Korea who shot a 34? 🤣

[boogielicious]

21 minutes ago, Carl3 said:

Did everyone forget about the exploits of the former Supreme Leader of North Korea who shot a 34? 🤣

Sadly, no!😜

[ChetlovesMer]

26 minutes ago, Carl3 said:

Did everyone forget about the exploits of the former Supreme Leader of North Korea who shot a 34? 🤣

I'm pretty sure something was lost in the translation. When he said "He'd shot 34". That's not exactly what he meant. 🤪

I know the John Deere has been known for producing some low scores.
But this is still impressive.

Edited June 25, 2022 by ChetlovesMer

[Friz]

19 hours ago, Shindig said:

 

On a related note, from the article, what is pre-qualifying?  Is Monday qualifying akin to something like trying to qualify for the Open where there are various stages and some people are exempt past one?

"At almost every PGA Tour event, there are four spots reserved for Monday qualifiers. To be eligible for one of these spots, you have to advance through a pre-qualifier tournament with a field of roughly 150 players. Those who advance then play in the Monday qualifier, where 50 to 125 players compete for those four spots."

 

From this article, interesting read

Meet the leading expert on PGA Tour Monday qualifiers and learn why the life of a tour pro is tougher than it looks | Golf News and Tour Information | Golf Digest

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