Jake Knapp grew to become the fifteenth participant to file a sub-60 spherical in PGA Tour historical past when he shot a 12-under-par 59 within the Cognizant Basic in Florida.
The world quantity 99 started his opening spherical with 5 straight birdies and added an extra seven in his remaining 13 holes at PGA Nationwide in Palm Seashore Gardens.
The 30-year-old had the chance to tie the bottom spherical in PGA Tour historical past however his eagle putt from 19 toes on the 18th rolled vast.
“I knew I had it going actually early, however that may occur after which it might fizzle out fairly shortly,” the American stated.
“I assumed I did a superb job of simply making an attempt to deal with shot by shot and never letting what occurred or what may occur have an effect on something.
“As soon as I made the lengthy putt on 15, it was like, ‘OK, now that is type of right here’. However on the identical time, I did not let it have an effect on the gameplan or something like that.”
Knapp’s sub-60 spherical is the fifth in PGA Tour historical past to have been made within the first spherical of an occasion and two of the earlier 4 gamers to attain that feat went on to win the match.
He bought to forty fifth on the earth throughout his rookie marketing campaign in 2024, when he gained his maiden PGA Tour title on the Mexico Open and completed in a tie for fourth on the Cognizant Basic.
Daniel Berger, Russell Henley and Sami Valimaki are 4 strokes behind Knapp in a three-way tie for second.
Rickie Fowler is amongst a bunch of six on seven beneath with Jordan Spieth one shot additional again in a five-way tie for eleventh.
