Jake Knapp turned the primary individual in PGA Tour historical past to interrupt 60 and shoot a 61 or decrease in the identical season.
He shot an 11-under 61 on Friday, within the course of breaking a Rocket Basic document that stood for lower than a day.
However that also wasn’t sufficient to place him within the high six, getting into the weekend at Detroit Golf Membership.
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Chris Kirk (65), Philip Knowles (64) and Andrew Putnam (66) share the second-round lead at 14 beneath. Jackson Suber (65) was one other shot again.
Aldrich Potgieter, who had a 70 after sharing the 18-hole lead with Kevin Roy after each shot a record-setting 62, and Mark Hubbard had been one other stroke behind the chief.
Knapp was in a big pack of gamers, together with Collin Morikawa (64), Hideki Matsuyama (66) and Roy (71), three photographs off the lead going into the third spherical.
The 31-year-old Knapp, who received the Mexico Open final 12 months as a rookie, began the second spherical a hundred and thirtieth within the 156-player subject after opening with a 72. He surged into rivalry with 9 birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free spherical.
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Hideki Matsuyama produced two superb photographs on the twelfth and thirteenth holes on the Rocket Basic
“I used to be simply most likely upset all night time and this morning, so I feel that perhaps helped a bit bit,” he stated.
Knapp, ranked No. 99 on the planet, is the one participant on the tour to shoot 61 or higher in two rounds this season.
He shot a 59 – one off the tour scoring document of 58 set by Jim Furyk in 2016 – on the Cognizant Basic 4 months in the past, when he broke the event scoring document earlier than cooling off and tying for sixth.
Knapp broke the 18-hole document at Detroit Golf Membership that was set Thursday within the first spherical when Potgieter and Roy each shot a 62.
“I really feel like after I begin making birdies, I need to make extra,” Knapp stated. “I used to be even sort of fascinated about 59 after I caught it shut on my third to final gap.”
The 28-year-old Knowles, taking pictures for his first PGA Tour win, made the minimize for simply the third time in 11 occasions after failing to make it to the weekend at 5 straight tournaments.
“It isn’t been my greatest 12 months to date by any stretch of the creativeness, however golf is humorous,” he stated. “While you’re enjoying unhealthy, you by no means really feel like you are going to play good once more. And when you have got days like at this time, you simply do not perceive how you could possibly ever shoot a foul spherical of golf.”
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Andrew Putnam holds a share of the lead. (AP Picture/Paul Sancya)
The 40-year-old Kirk, whose sixth win was the season-opening event final 12 months at Kapalua, opened the second spherical with three straight birdies and completed with 9 birdies and two bogeys.
Many of the leaders had been in morning teams, when situations had been extra beneficial, and Putnam was an exception.
Putnam performed within the afternoon when the wind was stiff and swirling on a sizzling and steamy day. He began robust with three birdies and a bogey on the entrance 9 earlier than getting just one birdie on the again, placing him able to probably win his second PGA Tour occasion and first since 2018.
“The wind got here up, received a pair tough holes on the market,” he stated, “so glad I might grind it out.”
Watch the second spherical of the Rocket Basic dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf on Saturday June 28 from 5pm and on Sky Sports activities Predominant Occasion from 6pm.
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