Jim Furyk Makes PGA Tour History With Final-Round 58

Chip Beck, Paul Goydo and Furyk didn’t win the tournaments in which they shot 59.

Cromwell, Conn. – Jim Furyk set a PGA Tour record Sunday, shooting a 58 during the final round of the Travelers Championship. “I finished second three times since I’ve won and I mean I really wanted to get another one so I could really show myself that I can win multiple times”.

After choosing to lay up on the par-5 13th because his tee shot landed in a divot, Furyk took the first of three straight pars, leaving him still 1 shot short of history.

Amid this carnage rose Kelly, the 49-year-old alum of the University of Hartford.

Furyk, who has 17 PGA Tour victories, was already one of six golfers to shoot a 59 in his career. “I’m still a little stunned and a little flabbergasted, said Furyk who jumped 65 places to tie for 5th”.

Knox was steady all day but was able to clinch his second win largely because his playing partner, Daniel Berger, flamed out in the final round. Furyk then birdied four holes on the back nine, with no bogeys, to record the seventh round under 60 in PGA Tour history.

Special though Furyk considers his record, he also prides himself on staying competitive for so long.

James Micheal “Jim” Furyk was celebrating after shooting a record setting 58 during the final round of the Travelers Championship at TCP River Highlands. Cantlay shot a bogey-free 60 with an eagle and eight birdies.

CHAMPIONS: In Blaine, Minnesota, Joe Durant made a 10-foot eagle putt on the first hole of a playoff with Miguel Angel Jimenez to win the 3M Championship.

The 31-year-old Knox rolled in back-to-back birdies on Nos.

The last time the 2015 PGA Tour rookie of the year held a 54-hole lead by three shots was in June when he went on to win the St. Jude Classic for his first victory on the US Tour.

Kelly still walked off 18 with a 64 on the day, a cumulative 13-under 267, his best four-round score in his 18 years of coming to Cromwell. Kelly, a Wisconsin native, calls this tournament home.

“Halfway there, I knew it was in”, Knox said. When Knox made par on 18, there Furyk was, in a tie for fifth with Berger (74), Robert Garrigus and Tyrone van Aswegen.

Seong took the lead with a birdie on the par-5 25th hole and won the par-4 29th with a birdie for a 2-up advantage. A 10-foot birdie putt on No. 1 to start.

The Scot hit his tee shot on the par-4 18th right and into the crowd, and his second shot into a green-side bunker below the hole. He actually missed a chance for birdie on 18, which would have given him a 57 for the round. Any time you can finish off a tournament like that is obviously a big positive, and not necessarily a sigh of relief but just kind of a happy moment I guess you can say because I felt like I played well this whole week and just haven’t gotten anything out of it.

In a span of seven holes, Henley went from the top of the leaderboard at 14-under to a tie for 11th at -9.

What a week it was for the Travelers Championship.

“What an honor and a privilege to represent the United States, the country that we love very much”, said Watson, who was showered with “USA!” chants from the gallery Sunday.

Furyk was the most recent PGA Tour player with a 59 at Conway Farms.