Several players at the PGA Tour have shot fifty nine, as have some Web.Com Tour players. The LPGA best has one -- Annika shot that -- however that also makes her a member of the club.
And now the Champions Tour has its first member to the 59 membership, Kevin Sutherland.
And similar to Jim Furyk ultimate yr, he had one bogey at the spherical -- a 3-putt on 18. Coulda been a 58 otherwise!
The reason I'm fascinated by Kevin's accomplishment is his mindset. Most players say they try to think about ANYTHING except shooting 59. But here's what Kevin told PGATOUR.com:
Sutherland, gambling in best his 0.33 Champions Tour event due to the fact that turning 50 in June, remembers asking a number of the gamers at the start of the week if everyone had ever shot fifty nine on the senior circuit and become amazed it had now not been achieved.
He would not have regarded a likely candidate. Sutherland's profession-low round at the PGA TOUR was a sixty two inside the 2010 Canadian Open. Even at home in Sacramento, California, he in no way significantly came near golf's magic range.
On Saturday at En-Joie Golf Club, he couldn't omit.
Sutherland opened with four immediately birdies -- of them longer than 30 ft -- and hit hybrid into 6 ft for eagle at the par-5 fifth hole. He ran off 3 more birdies, which include a bunker shot he holed on No. 7 that hit the pin instead of rolling 10 ft away.
Sure sufficient, after thinking about a fifty nine, he made par on No. Nine to exit in 27.
"When I turned into nine below after 8 I was like, `That goes beyond being an excellent begin,'" Sutherland stated. "At that factor I started out thinking, `What do you have to do to shoot fifty nine.' I commenced thinking perhaps in advance than you have to be, however it labored out all right."
Not most effective did the gallery start to grow, Sutherland stated the players beforehand could watch him hit into the green. He made a 35-foot birdie putt on No. Eleven for his 2nd instantly birdie, and then settled down for three straight pars.
"It got to the factor wherein I failed to want to disappoint them," Sutherland stated. "I had a 10-footer on 13 and missed it, and you will have idea I stole their younger. They had been truly into it."
He drove onto the par-4 16th hollow for a -putt birdie to attain 13 beneath, after which he filled his technique to tap-in distance on the 17th, leaving him a par faraway from fifty eight.
"I wasn't frightened all day, however I become apprehensive on 18," he stated. "You do not get that risk very frequently."Think about what Kevin said for a moment. "At that point [9 under after eight] I started thinking, `What do you have to do to shoot 59?'" And he had asked about 59s earlier in the week. This is a player who is consciously thinking about shooting 59. He's not worried about whether he can do it or not. He's not worried about what barriers might be in the way. He just played his game and let it happen. And he says he plans to play today without comparing today's score to yesterday's.
To quote Yoda, "There is do or do no longer. There is no try."
Look, I'm no longer going to inform you that is a magic intellectual talisman so one can make you circulate mountains of strokes off your scorecard. But I think there IS a few magic in being loose enough to honestly exit and spot what you may do. Don't fear about the percentages against it or how you've got performed in the beyond. Think as a substitute about how you can shave a stroke off your rating on this hole or that hollow, then see if you could do it.
This is a game. Why not try just playing it for a change?
It were given Kevin Sutherland into the records books. Who knows what it'd do for you?
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