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Jim Furyk shoots all-time PGA Tour record 58
Jim Furyk shot 58 on Sunday at the Travelers Championship, the lowest round in PGA Tour history. After making the turn in 27 (he holed out from 135 yards for eagle on the third hole), Furyk recorded birdies at Nos. 10, 11, 12 and 16 to shoot 12-under par on the par-70 course.
Since Al Geiberger shot the first-ever 59 on the PGA Tour in 1977, more than 600,000 rounds have been played on the PGA Tour, as per Golf Channel’s live telecast. That mark had since been tied by Chip Beck (1991 Las Vegas Invitational), David Duval (1999 Bob Hope Classic), Paul Goydos (2010 John Deere Classic), Stuart Appleby (2010 Greenbrier Classic), and most recently, Furyk himself at the BMW Championship in 2013.
History!
Jim Furyk shoots 58!
It’s the lowest round in PGA TOUR history.
Incredible. https://t.co/mzggwHU6tT
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 7, 2016
After Furyk’s 58 on Sunday, however, the all-time record has been broken.
He began the final round of the Travelers Championship at 1-over, 16 shots behind 54-hole leader Daniel Berger. Furyk finished the week at 11-under, and although he most likely will not come away with a victory, he did cement himself in PGA Tour history.
See the clubs Jim Furyk used to shoot 58, the all-time PGA Tour record.
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Tommy Fleetwood has been attached to his Odyssey White Hot Pro #3 putter for years now. However, this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, we did spot him testing a new putter that is very different, yet somewhat similar, to his current gamer.
This new putter is a TaylorMade Spider Tour X head but with a brand new neck we haven’t seen on a Spider before. A flow neck is attached to the Spider head and gives the putter about a 1/2 shaft offset. This style neck will usually increase the toe hang of the putter and we can guess it gets the putter close to his White Hot Pro #3.
Another interesting design is that lack of TaylorMade’s True Path alignment on the top of the putter. Instead of the large white center stripe, Tommy’s Spider just has a very short white site line milled into it. As with his Odyssey, Tommy seems to be a fan of soft inserts and this Spider prototype looks to have the TPU Pure Roll insert with 45° grooves for immediate topspin and less hopping and skidding.
The sole is interesting as well in that the rear weights don’t look to be interchangeable and are recessed deep into the ports. This setup could be used to push the CG forward in the putter for a more blade-like feel during the stroke, like TaylorMade did with the Spider X Proto Scottie Scheffler tested out.
Tommy’s putter is finished off with an older Super Stroke Mid Slim 2.0 grip in blue and white. The Mid Slim was designed to fit in between the Ultra Slim 1.0 and the Slim 3.0 that was a popular grip on tour.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
…The Jailbird craze hasn’t really slowed down in 2024, either. According to Odyssey rep Joe Toulon, there are about 18-20 Jailbird putter users on the PGA TOUR.
Most recently, Akshay Bhatia won the 2024 Valero Texas Open using a broomstick-style Odyssey Jailbird 380 putter and Webb Simpson is switching into a replica of that putter at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
Now, Fowler, who essentially started the whole Jailbird craze, is making a significant change to his putter setup.
Fowler, who has had a couple weeks off since the 2024 RBC Heritage, started experimenting with a new, custom-orange Jailbird 380 head that’s equipped with a standard 35-inch putter build, rather than his previous 38-inch counter-balanced setup.
According to Fowler, while he still likes the look and forgiveness of his Jailbird putter head, he’s looking to re-incorporate more feel into his hands during the putting stroke.
He told GolfWRX.com on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship that the 38-inch counterbalanced setup “served its purpose” by helping him to neutralize his hands during the stroke, but now it’s time to try the standard-length putter with a standard-size SuperStroke Pistol Tour grip to help with his feel and speed control.
Although Fowler was also spotted testing standard-length mallets from L.A.B. Golf and Axis1 on Tuesday, he confirmed that the custom Odyssey Jailbird 380 is the putter he’ll use this week at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
So, with a couple of weeks off following his latest start at the 2024 RBC Heritage, Thomas sought to re-address his driver setup with the remote help of Titleist Tour fitting expert J.J. Van Wezenbeeck. About two weeks ago, Thomas and Van Wezenbeeck reviewed his recent driver stats, and discussed via phone call some possible driver and shaft combinations for him to try.
After receiving Van Wezenbeeck’s personalized shipment of product options while at home, Thomas found significant performance improvements with Titleist’s TSR2 head, equipped with Thomas’ familiar Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX shaft.
Compared to Thomas’ longtime TSR3 model, the TSR2 has a larger footprint and offers slightly higher spin and launch characteristics.
According to Van Wezenbeeck, Thomas has picked up about 2-3 mph of ball speed, to go along with 1.5 degrees higher launch and more predictable mishits.
“I’d say I’d been driving it fine, not driving it great, so I just wanted to, honestly, just test or try some stuff,” Thomas said on Tuesday in an interview with GolfWRX.com at Quail Hollow Club. “I had used that style of head a couple years ago (Thomas used a TSi2 driver around 2021); I know it’s supposed to have a little more spin. Obviously, yeah, I’d love to hit it further, but if I can get a little more spin and have my mishits be a little more consistent, I felt like obviously that’d be better for my driving…
“This (TSR2) has been great. I’ve really, really driven it well the week I’ve used it. Just hitting it more solid, I don’t know if it’s the look of it or what it is, but just a little bit more consistent with the spin numbers. Less knuckle-ball curves. It has been fast. Maybe just a little faster than what I was using. Maybe it could be something with the bigger head, maybe mentally it looks more forgiving.”
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Jim
Aug 14, 2016 at 8:01 pm
Maybe instead of a Gold Medal the Olympics should award PXG’s
that’d get more comments than the whole stupid thing did
Ken
Aug 9, 2016 at 2:00 pm
This round deserves praise, an incredible feat that the best in the world can only dream of. Shooting 12 under is 14 shots better than my best score ever and saying I am impressed is an understatement. Furyk is not a young man and to pull this incredible score gives hope to a lot of other golfers out there.
With all that being said, some of the people posting in the comments appear to be speaking negatively; however, I am leaning towards their side. I feel highlighting the 58 is just to grab media attention after all, 12 under par is something that has been done 9 times so far on the PGA Tour and 3 of the “59’s” were actually 13 under par. Sure, there has never been a 58 carded on tour before Furyk’s round, but there were other scores that matched or beat the under par number. To use an analogy, driving 55mph on the highway is fine, driving 55mph in a 25 is not. We shouldn’t be focusing on the speed limit, i.e. the “58” we should be focusing on the fact that the driver was going 30mph over the limit i.e. the 12 under par. Context is important when dealing with a record of this caliber.
Messico Smizzle
Aug 7, 2016 at 10:09 pm
Great round by a great guy. All class and gives us all hope that we can own our unique and beautiful swings. Very hard worker and family man too. Congrats
Bogeyman 22
Aug 7, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Jims the best ever! How about the rider cup team, Jim? Want to be a captains pick? Or assistant captian?
Scott
Aug 8, 2016 at 9:12 am
Maybe you have not paid attention to his miserable performances in the last few team competitions. Ryder Cup captain’s pick? Not if the US wants to win.
Dave
Aug 7, 2016 at 9:14 pm
Hey Smizzle the home is looking for you ,they put out the alert.
Philip
Aug 7, 2016 at 8:10 pm
The course is a 72.7, regardless of what the tournament officials want to make par. If one wants to compare course rating for the 59s versus this 58 – fair enough, but otherwise – par is a made up number, irrelevant to one’s actual score.
Underdog
Aug 7, 2016 at 7:01 pm
If you take the 2 longerest par 4 and play them as par 5 like the members do it would have been still a 58 but he would have been 14 under!
Heels1
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:40 pm
Well done Jim!
COGolfer
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:34 pm
I’m happy to see it was Furyk who set the record. As someone who wasn’t gifted with a natural golf swing, I root for the grinders on tour.
JThunder
Aug 7, 2016 at 5:56 pm
What a classless and clueless bunch. “Only a par 70”? Are you kidding? What a waste of electricity. Detract all you want, but Nicklaus and Tiger didn’t manage this is a par 70, just like everyone else in a PGA Tour event ever. If there was world peace, you’d find plenty of negative reactions in comments sections. Morons.
Messico
Aug 7, 2016 at 5:55 pm
PGA Tour is turning into WWE.
Planned out storylines and lies just for ratings.
Guess with lack of stars, they gotta do something.
Mooka
Aug 7, 2016 at 5:20 pm
FYI: Golf is measured in strokes
fu
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:09 pm
You will feel fear
Steve
Aug 7, 2016 at 5:02 pm
Par 72 is two more par 5’s , he wouldnt have birdied atleast one or maybe both? For 58 or 59. Either way it is 58. All you d***heads saying it was a par 70 are still hoping to crack 90. Just a bunch of envious losers
MShank
Aug 7, 2016 at 5:09 pm
It’s really easy to be a keyboard commando. All you have to do is read the comments of certain people and you are aware they are just trolls. I have no doubt jizzle can back it up on the course though, look out Furyk! Lol
Christopher Feltham
Aug 7, 2016 at 4:28 pm
Why can’t they do that at the British open?
fu
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:09 pm
I will find you, Smeagol
Mat
Aug 7, 2016 at 3:58 pm
You idiots complaining it was a par 70… for all the par 70s on tour before, how often has a 58 been posted? Oh, right…
Jack Nash
Aug 7, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Tigers Woods NEVER won a major on a Par 70 course. Jim had a fantastic round. Glad for Fluff too. Well said Mat!
Lift, Clean and Cheat
Aug 7, 2016 at 10:33 pm
Happy for Jim, as he often plays better than he scores.
But Fluff? Check out any interview he’s ever had and get back to us.
Truther
Aug 7, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Let’s be real here folks! He shot a 60!
Scott
Aug 8, 2016 at 9:22 am
They have played this course numerous times and no one else has shot 58. So it is a 58.
Jim
Aug 14, 2016 at 8:04 pm
I couldn’t be happier for him. God bless.
A new course record…A new PGA record.
But,
kinda like the “Tiger Slam”
Tom
Aug 7, 2016 at 2:03 pm
Fantastic round. Congratulations to Furyk
Joe
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:08 pm
You are all the proof you need.
fu
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:10 pm
Proof is all over this site. We don’t need any more. You will be punished. You will pay.
M Shank
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:19 pm
just get banned already.
58
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Proves his point, Smiz
Joe
Aug 7, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Is that the best you’ve got Smizzle? Resorting to talkin’ about my Momma… Sad.
ce
Aug 7, 2016 at 8:23 pm
More like completely empty