PGA Tour players have been taking advantage of prime scoring conditions at TPC Boston in the first event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, but while we’ve seen several 64s and 65s over the first two rounds, no player has dominated the course quite like 24-year-old American Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler has been playing excellent golf late in the season, and is coming off a T4 finish at the PGA Championship. On Friday, Scheffler was flawless. After an opening round 70, Scheffler birdied five of his first seven holes to vault up the leaderboard, and made the turn at 6-under par for the round. At the 14th tee Scheffler was 8-under, and he went on to birdie holes 14, 15 and 16 consecutively. He missed the fairway on 17 and settled for a par, and came to the par-5 18th needing a birdie to post a score of 59. A solid approach shot short of the green and a pitch onto the surface left him with a five-footer to make history, and Scheffler drilled it. His 59 is just the 12th score under 60 in PGA Tour history, one shot behind Jim Furyk’s record 58.
Unfortunately for Scheffler, the greatest round of his life wasn’t televised. Scheffler went out well before TV coverage began on Friday, and most of his round wasn’t covered by PGA Tour Live.
The PGA Tour did share a highlight of Scheffler’s final shot of the day – a relatively comfortable 5-footer for birdie.
