But anyone who has played golf should know very well -
This sport is really hard!
Whether it's us amateur golfers who usually play "tricycles" on the field, or top professional players missing key pushers in The Grand Slam, "high fans" at every level have faced embarrassing or heartache situations.
However, when an incredibly ugly 18-hole scorecard appears in a game with the title of "PGA Tour", this "capitalized 囧" becomes a bizarre event at the level of "Living Hisami"...
Zaki, Tsang
Late last night Beijing time, a well-known American blogger posted a shocking scorecard, which showed that in the qualifiers for the PGA Tour's Mexico Open last week, a player scored 63 - 135 above par!
You read that right, +63,135, the PGA Tour qualifiers.
135-stroke PGA Tour qualifier scorecard
The incident took place at The Clubs of Kingwood, Texas, at The Forest Stadium, where the number of yards was 7,058 yards, par 72, and the course's level was 74.9 and the slope index was 142 — a not-so-difficult course setting. On this day, however, the level of "popping holes" of American golfer Syed Zaki was jaw-dropping.
On 18 holes, Zaki played 1 bogey, 4 double bogeys, 3 three bogeys, 4 single holes +4, 1 +6, 2 +7, 1 +9 – that is, in addition to not playing +5, he almost completed the bogey "family portrait" from +1 to +9!
In the end, the top nine +29, the bottom nine +34, Zaki's overall score +63. There's no doubt that the 135-stroke "tricycle" put him at the bottom of the 45 finishers – and 47 more than the penultimate finisher!
Seeing this, you may ask: How can a qualifier with a seat on the PGA Tour allow players of this level to participate?
Triple Jump: Qualifier Monday Qualifier PGA TOUR Main
First, it needs to be clarified that Zaki's "Pre-Qualifier" is not the PGA Tour's "Monday Qualifier," as we usually know it, but the "Monday Qualifier." In this tournament, for example, the top 11 of the 45 players will be able to participate in the Mexico Open Monday Qualifier next Monday, while the top 4 of Monday's Qualifying Tournament will be finalized for the Mexico Open PGA TOUR that starts next Thursday.
Although it was only the initial level in the "triple jump" system of qualifying, the level of this qualifier was still not low - Chinese player Zhang Huachuang participated in the competition, but unfortunately ranked 19th with a stroke of 72, and the difference of 3 strokes did not qualify. Among the 11 lucky winners who made it to Monday's qualifiers was Norman Xiong, a famous Chinese-American golfer who shot a 68 and tied for no. 2.
But because it is the most junior qualifier, the threshold for qualifiers is not high, even if you are an amateur player, as long as you pay a registration fee of 250 US dollars (about 1600 yuan) and provide a USGA handicap certificate, you can participate in the game. According to Uncle Bird's query on the US High School Handicap system, Saeed Zaki reported a handicap of 8.3 - in a sense, it is still a "single handicap" master!
Judging from Zaki's signing up for the Florida Veterans Tour (both games are not finished), he seems to be an elderly amateur player. Today, under the rigors of the PGA Tour qualifiers, the benevolent brother's skills have shown their "original form" - 4 par-5 holes (the longest hole is 610 yards), and his total score is a miserable +36! The total score was +37 for 10 par four holes, and a slightly better four par three but also +10.
Zaki's handicap in the USGA report was 8.3...
It was a little surprising that Zaki was able to shoot two pas on the 6th hole of 381 yards and the 8th hole of 196 yards! In fact, this is not his first time in the PGA Tour qualifiers, last month's Puerto Rico Open qualifiers, Zaki also handed over the "tricycle" - "only "that time, it was +38 110 ...
Par 57! Break six!
But the magic of golf is that this sport that is difficult to get on the sky, if you play smoothly, it seems to become an infinitely wide fairway, an infinitely large hole cup, how to play how to have, everything will be surprisingly simple!
Just three days after Brother Zaki broke the +63, on April 16, on the other side of the world, in Australia, a professional player named Ben Murphy actually handed over a scorecard of 57 and 15 under par in a charity game!
You read that right, the five-character head, -15!
A human who shoots a 57
Since the charity match uses the Strobel scoring system (stableford, the number of poles per hole becomes points, the eagle is 5 points, the birdie is 2 points, pa 0 points, bogey -1, double bogey or worse -3), which is significantly more encouraging to attack than the average event (the worst is only deducted 3 points), Murphy is full of fire - he shot 1 eagle and 1 bird on the first three holes, and then he caught all the birds on the next 5 holes, and the first nine flew out 28!
In the second half, Murphy grabbed four more birds on the 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th holes, added an eagle on the 17th hole, and won the finishing birdie on the last hole, and the last nine29! In the end, with 11 birds, 2 eagles, and no bogey, he handed over an equally shocking scorecard , 57.
Although it was an informal charity game, even considering that Murphy's handicap was professional-level -/+4, his overall score was 11 strokes lower.
Brightly blind scorecards
Funny and coincidentally, Australia's five-headed course, called Peninsula Kingswood CGC , is just a letter away from the 135-shot PGA Tour qualifier...
The most beautiful and the most difficult of the PGA Tour of Europe
57 vs 135, two scorecards that are as different as 78! In the same week, the two players were featured in the global golf media. It also reflects the unique temperament of golf, which is "both loved and hated" and "makes me happy and makes me worry".
So what does the most beautiful VS the ugliest scorecard look like on the highest level of professional tour stage?
58 Rod Mr. Forek
The PGA Tour's lowest 18-hole minimum is no stranger to many people – it happened on August 7, 2016, when American Jim Furyk shot 10 birdies and 1 eagle in the final round of the Voyager Championship, did not swallow a bogey, and scored a 12-under-par, 58 that has never been done before in the history of the PGA Tour!
The PGA Tour's highest single-round stroke was "exploded" at the Tallahassee Open on April 28, 1974, when Mike Reasor, 32, scored a +51 123 in the third round! And the next day's final round, he exploded a +42 shot of 111...
Lisse Buddha-figure
How can there be two consecutive rounds of bursts? Can this result still be advanced? The reason is that Reese is playing with an injury.
In fact, his two rounds were a 144 strokes of a flat par, ensuring that he was finalist. Who would have guessed that after the second round, this guy actually ran to ride a horse, and the horse was frightened and crashed into a tree, causing Reese's ribs to tear, knee damage, and dislocation of his left shoulder. Due to PGA Tour rules at the time, Reese had to finish the race (even if at the bottom) to qualify for next week's Byron Nelson Tournament...
As a result, he was forced to use only one arm and swing the No. 5 iron to survive the two rounds of the weekend. As a result, Lesser not only wrote the disgraceful record of "the king of the PGA Tour's single round burst" with +51, totaling +93 in two rounds, but also put him in the history of professional golf's shame...
In the history of the European Tour (DP World Tour), the record for the lowest single round belongs to Englander Oliver Fisher – on September 21, 2018, in the second round of the Portuguese Masters, Fisher soared a 59 (-12) of 1 eagle, 10 birds and 0 bogeys, becoming the first player in european Tour history to "break six".
Mr. 59: Fisher
As for the worst record on the 18 holes of the European Tour, it comes from former Ryder Cup captain Mark James – but it is also "for a reason".
On May 5, 1978, the second round of the Italian Open, bad weather and venue conditions made James feel uncomfortable on his left wrist, but he did not dare to withdraw from the tournament - the reason was that in the previous year's tournament, he had been fined 50 pounds by the European Tour official for forgiving up the game - as a result, in order to protest the European Tour, the 22-year-old James near the end of the game simply played with one arm, resulting in a few holes bursting 51, so that his single round result reached +39 to 111, writing the black history of the European Tour...
James protested against the European Tour with a blast
Ironically, James, who has a total score of +40 in two rounds, is so "self-black" that he is not the last in that European Tour - a French brother named Francois Berthet has two rounds of 94-96, a total score of +46, more than 6 strokes, "grabbed" the bottom...
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