Cameron Young scores 59, the lowest score on the PGA Tour in 4 years

CROMWELL, Conn. — Cameron Young holed a par putt from just inside 10 feet for an 11-under 59 Saturday at the Travelers Championship, the first sub-60 round on the PGA Tour in nearly four years.

Young made two eagles on the par 4s, holed out with a 142-yard wedge on the third hole and drove the 280-yard 15th hole to within 4 feet.

It was the 13th round of under 60 since Al Geberger first called golf’s “magic number” at the Memphis Classic in 1977. Scottie Scheffler was the most recent at TPC Boston in 2020 at The Northern Trust.

“I can’t say I was expecting it,” Young said. “I played better than the results showed. When I woke up this morning, I didn’t really think I was going to be five until I was four. It was a lot of fun doing it.”

This didn’t even give Young the privilege of owning the course record at TPC River Highlands. Jim Furyk scored 58 in the 2016 Travelers Championship, the lowest round in PGA Tour history.

Young was able to lift the golf ball, clean it and place it in the short grass due to wet course conditions and the possibility of more rain.

It could have gone even lower than that. After his eagle on the 15th hole, Young hit his tee shot to 7 feet on the par-3 16th hole and missed a short birdie putt. On the closing hole, needing a birdie to tie Furyk’s record, his drive came to rest on the steep face of the fairway bunker and Young couldn’t put it on the green.

He remains at par at seventh round of 59 or less this year on World Tours.

“To have a day like this where things start to fall into place and it’s like you’re getting rewarded for good shots, it leaves a good taste in my mouth,” Young said.

He finished at 13 under par and was tied with Tom Kim, who was watching some of Young’s rounds on a video screen on the practice field as Kim prepared to start his third round. Young made one of six rounds of 64 or better before the leader took off.

The other six rounds at 59 or lower this year include Joaquín Niemann on LIV Golf and a 57 scored by Cristobal del Solar on the Korn Ferry Tour in Bogotá, Colombia.