Conference 7.286::golf

     I think that there are several players on the tour who are
    capable of shooting a 59. The name Norman comes to mind right
    of the bat. He can post a lot of birdies and eagles real fast
    so if he just stayed out of trouble for an entire round who
    knows how low he can shoot ! Ken Green might have a chance at
    it, he has a lot of subpar holes but tends to get bogies to
    offset them. Ian Bakker-Finch also can fire some low scores.
    Many players have the talent to shoot low scores, you just
    need a couple of breaks for it to happen . If I can string
    5-6 pars together then these guys can just as easily string
    birdies. 
       As far as course go, just about any of the courses played
    at the Bob Hope Desert CLassic could yield a low score, TPC
    of Conn. is really short for the pros, Harbortown is relatively
    easy for the straight hitters, Kemper Lakes, etc.
        BUt what is really amazing, is that with all this high-tech
    golf equipment, better conditioned players, better instructed
    players, etc. , we don't see tournament records being broken.
    
    Mad Hacker

    If Calc or norman get hot one day yeah I think it is possible.
    
    TEd

     If somebody EVER shoots 59 at Harbour Town, I'll be a Teenage Mutant
    Ninja Turtle and do 100,000 on "Super Mario Brothers."
    
    --Jack Varley (The Skoal Bandit)

>     If somebody EVER shoots 59 at Harbour Town, 

	I did it the first time I played there....but I did better on
	the back nine!  ;-)

	Larry

It ain't gonna happen at Kemper Lakes, either. It's loooong and 
tougher than the past PGA made it look.

    Remember now, we aren't talking about guys that play like us !!!
    They play a whole different game than most of us can ever hope
    to play. But okay, maybe Harbor Town was a bad choice !!
    
    Mad Hacker

    
    Speaking of Al Gieberger does anyone recall how his historic round
    	was scored on each nine? Did he have to birdie the 18th to
    	break 60? Or hang on and make par?  Either way the pressure
    	must have been immense !
    
    	Just curious,
    
    	Walta

    They did a feature on Geiberger's 59 on the US network that was
    covering the Memphis Classic this year.
    My memory isn't brilliant on it but this is close to what happened.
    
    Geiberger started on the 10th in the 2nd round and this happened
    
    PAR,BIRDIE,PAR,PAR,BIRDIE,BIRDIE,BIRDIE,EAGLE,BIRDIE = 29 OUT
    
    BIRDIE,BIRDIE,PAR,PAR,BIRDIE,BIRDIE,PAR BIRDIE,BIRDIE = 30 BACK = 59!!
    
    I believe he was going for a record equalling 8 sub-par holes in a row
    until he parred the 3rd ( his twelfth ).
    He did have to make a birdie on the last, which was a 12 footer , i
    think.
    
    Some round of golf.
    
    Correct me if i'm wrong but i believe the next best round to the 59
    that week in Memphis was a 68. If true, it makes the feat really
    amazing.
    
    martin o'g ( who remembers his first 59 for 18 holes, even though it
    was on a pitch and putt course ).

    Olazabal came close yesterday. he needed 2 birdies on the last four.
    he missed a 3 footer,6 footer and a ten footer. thta's fifty eight
    if he makes them both.
    
    Ted

    
    hi Martin,
    
    	Thanks.. that was great to come up with the info ! 
    
    	It got my heart pumpin' just reading the incredible scoring Al
    	did ! I'd love to hear his thoughts about the putt on 9 (his 18th)
    	if it was a 12 footer... that must have been THE most exciting
    	moment of his life, watching the ball roll the 12 feet and find
    	the bottom of the cup !!!!  
    
    	Does anyone have any quotes, or any info from Al Geiberger about
    	the round? It would be fun to read .
    
    	thanks  Walta

    
    I beleive Ian Woosnam shot a 60 in a tournament he played in last
    month, close but not close enough. 
    
    To get back to Gieberger and the rest of the scores, in his other 3
    rounds he shot over 70 in each of them, so he won the tournament
    without having a score in the 60'. If my memory serves me right I
    believe preferred lies were in operation throughout the tournament.
    
    POL.

    Re .9
    
    Olazabal did come close. He shot 61 at Firestone. Not exactly your 
    Pitch and Putt. 
    
    A couple of short putts and we see history made again. How ironic we
    talk about 59 and somebody comes close. 
    
    Maybe I'll make an entry in the Hole N One file 
    Ken

    I saw an interview with Geiberger recently about the 59.  He said that
   he was making everything from anywhere on the greens.  None of them went
   in the side door. They were all going in dead center.

    On his last putt, after he hit it, he turned around to see the crowd
   reaction because he knew it was going in!  Amazing.  He said it was the
   biggest thrill in his life.

    He mentioned that he was also pleased that it happened on one of the
   longest and most difficult courses that the tour played.  It wasn't a
   cheap 59.  Hey, I'd take even a cheap 59!

     Wish I could remember where I saw this interview......

-rick

    I believe it was in USA TODAY which I read on my vacation; probably
    dated thurs. aug 8, 1990.
    
    Excellent piece, no mention of preferred lies.  
    
    bb

    Two 61's in one weekend Olazabal in the first round at the World
    Series and Kenny KNox at the Chatanooga classic.Some awesome golf
    boys.
    
    Ted

     Homero Blancas shot 59 while he was in the U. of Houston in a college
    match. Jimmy Grant was a teammate of his and said he did it "with a
    SEVERE hangover..." I've got a friend from Illinois, Doug Dechert, who
    also shot 59 in college. I asked him what it felt like to shoot 59 and
    he said "Aw, I didn't hit it that great, I just made everything..." I
    saw Doug shoot 72 at Crumpin-Fox with double bogies on #9 and #18, so I
    can tell you that this cat can play...
    
    --Jack

    Dan Jenkins' book "The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate" (great
    golf book!) covers the Blancas round of 55. Now , Homero can play,
    so question. But Jenkins points out that the Premier or Presidents'
    course, or whatever it's called, was a short, flat piece of junk.
    It doesn't sound like much of a course.
    
    Big Al, on the other hand, did it under tournament pressure on a
    "real" PGA course. I think they were playing preferred lies, because
    Memphis in that year was in bad shape. I don't think Geiberger ever
    turned the ball, though. And anyway, I think a beat-up course is
    a bit harder to score on, don't you?
    
    Olazabal shooting 61 at Firestone has to be one of the greatest
    rounds ever played. That's a 7300 yard par 70!
    
    I rented a golf video that showed the conditions under which Watson
    shot something like 68 in some tournament in the early 80s. Ah,
    it was the Memorial. You can't believe it. It was about 35 degrees
    out, raining, with 60+ mph winds. Trees were falling over. To break
    par under those conditions is incredible.