Snedeker shoots 59 for Wyndham lead
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Brandt Snedeker predicted low scores at the Wyndham Championship — but not this low.
Snedeker shot an 11-under-par 59 on Thursday, falling one shot shy of matching the PGA Tour record.
He made a 20-foot putt on his final hole to become the 10th player in tour history to break 60. Jim Furyk set the record with a 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship in 2016.
This is the third consecutive year the PGA Tour has had a sub-60 round. Snedeker is the first to shoot 59 since Adam Hadwin in the third round of the 2017 Careerbuilder Challenge.
It gave him a four-stroke lead after one round. UNLV products Ryan Moore and John Oda shot 63s, and Martin Flores, D.A. Points, Brett Stegmaier, David Hearn, Abraham Ancer, Ollie Schniederjans and Jonathan Byrd had 64s.
Moore, who won here in 2009, made a move up the leaderboard with five birdies in a six-hole span on the front nine. Oda, a second-year pro coming off a tie for third this month in the Barracuda Championship, had three consecutive birdies on the back nine to pull even with Moore.
Snedeker — who said a day earlier that the tournament would turn into a “birdie-fest” — began the round at par-70 Sedgefield Country Club with a bogey at No. 10 and took off from there. He played the front nine in 27, including an eagle 2 on the par-4 sixth hole when he holed out from 176 yards.
At Indianapolis, Lizette Salas matched the Brickyard Crossing record with a 10-under
62 in the Indy Women in Tech Championship for a two-stroke lead over Angel Yin and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka. Yin, 19, of Monterey Park, California, birdied eight of the first nine holes for an 8-under 28, one short of the tour’s nine-hole record.
Atgothenburg, Sweden, Clement Sordet of France opened the Nordea Masters with four straight birdies en route to an 8-under 62 for a two-shot lead over Scott Jamieson of Scotland and Lee Slattery of England.
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