Snedeker grabs four-stroke lead after sizzling 59

Brandt Snedeker predicted low scores at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., but not this low.

Snedeker shot an 11-under 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.

“I better be smiling,” Snedeker said. “I don’t do this every day.”

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. 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.

Madison’s Steve Stricker opened with a 70.

LPGA Tour: Lizette Salas matched the Brickyard Crossing record with a 10under 62 in the Indy Women in Tech Championship in Indianapolis, birdieing the final three holes for a two-stroke lead over fast-starting Angel Yin and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka.

Yin birdied eight of the first nine holes in her morning round for a frontnine 8-under 28 – one short of the LPGA Tour’s nine-hole record. It matched the third-lowest nine-hole score in relation to par in tour history.

Salas matched the course record set by Mike McCullough in the PGA Tour Champions’ 1999 Comfort Classic.