DETROIT — Jake Knapp has pulled off a feat nobody else has in PGA Tour historical past.
Knapp shot an 11-under 61 on Friday to interrupt a Rocket Basic document that stood for lower than a day and have become the primary on the tour to interrupt 60 and shoot a 61 or decrease in the identical season.
That also wasn’t sufficient to place him within the prime six, getting into the weekend at Detroit Golf Membership.
Chris Kirk (65), Philip Knowles (64) and Andrew Putnam (66) share the second-round lead at 14 below. 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 with Collin Morikawa (64), Hideki Matsuyama (66) and Roy (71), three pictures 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 area after opening with a 72. He surged into competition with 9 birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free spherical.
“I used to be simply most likely upset all evening and this morning, so I feel that possibly helped somewhat bit,” he mentioned.
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 match 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 mentioned. “I used to be even form of enthusiastic 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 lower for simply the third time in 11 occasions after failing to make it to the weekend at 5 straight tournaments.
“It’s not been my greatest 12 months so far by any stretch of the creativeness, however golf is humorous,” he mentioned. “Whenever you’re taking part in dangerous, you by no means really feel such as you’re going to play good once more. And when you may have days like at the moment, you simply don’t perceive how you may ever shoot a foul spherical of golf.”
