Harold Varner III set a PGA Tour record on Friday at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
“It’s not a record I wanna have,” he said after his round.
Varner parred his first 14 holes in his second round, this after parring every hole during his first round on Thursday.
Add ’em up and that’s 32 straight pars, now the Tour benchmark for most pars to start a tournament.
It should be noted that this record is for the Tour’s Shotlink era.
What told after his round he now held the mark, he said “No, I did not know that. Not a record you really wanna hold and usually that just doesn’t happen. I wasn’t trying to make pars out there for sure.”
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Had he ever come close to anything like that before?
“No and I didn’t really want to.”
He was then asked how the course was playing.
“Average,” Varner dead-panned then chuckled. “But I finally made a birdie so I was pretty ecstatic.”
His birdie came on the par-5 15th hole from the greenside bunker.
In fact, after those 32 straight pars, Varner finished birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey. So on his last four holes “I didn’t make any pars. That’s how I usually play,” he said.
Varner’s bogey on the last though did him in, as he missed the cut by a shot.
K.J. Choi had the previous mark of 27 straight pars to open the Charles Schwab Challenge in 2006.
