The PGA Tour confirmed no one has ever scored better than Garrigus did for one hole across a tournament since detailed stats began being kept in 1983. It couldn’t say if it had been done before that.
With the USGA and R&A having released the preliminary results of their Distance Insights Project – and concluding that something needs to be done to keep the cycle of distance increases from continuing – it seemed a worthwhile exercise to ask the players responsible for much of the handwringing what it is, exactly, they think needs to be done.
J.J. Spaun shot a 66 in the second round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas on Friday to open a three-stroke lead, though darkness postponed the completion of the second round until Saturday morning.