Became Cameron Young 12th different player to record a sub-60 score on the PGA Tour at the Travelers Championship on Saturday.
Young shredded TPC River Highlands with an 11-under 59, a score that tied Young for the lead with Tom Kim, although Kim still had 20 minutes left when Young finished the game.
“Woke up and wanted to go back to sleep,” Young said. “.
After playing the 11th group on Saturday — 4 hours, 15 minutes before Kim’s final par — Young birdied three of his first four holes. The hole he didn’t birdie during that stretch? He stretched out a pitching par from 142 yards on the par-4 third.
Young added a second eagle on the drivable par-4 15th, where he putt 280 yards with a 3-iron to 4 feet.
“I hit that club all over the place and finally hit one straight,” Young said. “Give me the right bounces. And it did. I mean, it’s going to be a big pitch off the front of the green where it ends up. So it’s, you know, a good swing and a great strike, but it’s impossible for you to basically hit it for 2 for it to end up somewhere.”
“You can hit the same shot a hundred more times and you’ll get that plateau twice right here.”
Young’s 59 was the first sub-60 score on Tour — and 13th overall — since Scotty Scheffler’s 59 at the Northern Trust at TPC Boston in 2020. That’s just shy of the Travelers record of 58 set by Jim Furyk in 2016.
Furyk is the only player to score two sub-60s on Tour, as he shot a 59 at the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms.
Young says his 59 doesn’t top the list when it comes to career accomplishments for Young, who hasn’t won on Tour but owns seven career runner-up finishes, including a lone runner-up finish at the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews.
“I played some good golf,” Young said. “I think there’s definitely a few things in front of me in terms of a lifetime achievement. It’s a day, it’s a day you shoot under a million. It’s great, I’m grateful that my name is on that short list, but there’s a whole lot of tournaments that I’ve played.
