75th Anniversary
The 75 coolest records in golf

We can all pretty much agree who has played the greatest golf in the history of the game. It starts with the men and women in the World Golf Hall of Fame and ends somewhere near the top of the current World Rankings. But winning isn’t everything. The coolest records in golf come from grit and talent, yes, but derive also from intangibles. Fate, luck, dedication and often a dose of weird. Whether accomplished by a pro, a Joe or even an abject beginner, these records hold up over time. Here, a current committee of Golf Digest editors ranks the 75 coolest feats we’ve covered since 1950.
1. MOST MAJORS
Some say the count is 18, while others argue Jack Nicklaus’ two U.S. Amateurs make 20. Either way, the man who took up golf when he was 10 years old in 1950—the same year Golf Digest was founded—holds the game’s coolest record. Nicklaus also appeared on our cover 38 times, more than any other subject.
2. SIX STRAIGHT USGA TITLES
Of all Tiger Woods’ countless and sublime feats, it’s inconceivable his winning streak of three U.S. Junior Amateur titles (1991-93) followed by three U.S. Amateur titles (1994-96) will ever be matched. Achieved during ages 15-20, he became Golf Digest’s youngest playing editor at 22.
3. MOST CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
As of this writing, Arlene McKitrick, 78, of Longboat Key Club in Florida, has won 116 club championship titles across 12 clubs. She started playing golf at age 30 at Congressional C.C. near Washington, D.C., and her passion for the game has survived several medical trials, including receiving an artificial pancreas.
4. ONE DRIVE O.B.

Augusta National
Across a PGA Tour career that included 12 wins and more than 1,200 rounds, Calvin Peete hit only one (!) drive out-of-bounds. He led the tour in driving accuracy from 1981-1990, and Golf Digest collaborated with Peete to capture his swing sequence in 1982.
5. OLDEST TO SHOOT THEIR AGE
Arthur Thompson was 103 when he shot 103 in 1972 at his home course, the 6,215-yard Uplands G.C., in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A walker, his other key to longevity was avoiding “hot” weather of over 75 degrees.
6. BOGEY-FREE STREAK

Mike Stobe
While World No. 1, Jin Young Ko went 114 holes at par or better. The streak ended with a pulled three-footer in the same round she eclipsed Tiger Woods’ record of 110 holes. Unfazed, she still won the tournament, the 2019 Cambia Portland Classic.
7. LOWEST ROUND RELATIVE TO PAR
Aussie pro Rhein Gibson’s 12 birdies and two eagles (55, -16) on the 6,698-yard River Oaks G.C. in Edmond, Okla., in 2012 is as close to an immaculate round as Golf Digest has seen.
8. 74, BLIND
Winner of 23 Blind Golf National Championships (including 20 consecutive), as well as the longtime president of the U.S. Blind Golf Association, Pat Browne shot 74 at Mission Hills C.C. in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in 1980, a feat that defies understanding by any sighted golfer who has ever attempted to play blindfolded.
9. MOST USGA EVENTS

David Cannon
At a certain level of competitive amateur golf, nobody brags about a handicap, only the number of USGA events he or she has played in. Two? Four? Five? The all-time leader at 121 events is as modest and gracious as they come. Carol Semple Thompson, still competing at age 76, won seven.
10. LONGEST DRIVE

Brent Humphreys
Kyle Berkshire smashed a 579-yarder at Rochelle Ranch G. Cse. in Rawlins, Wyo., in 2023. It was also a record for ball speed at 241.6 mph, which Berkshire prophesied as a goal three years earlier in a Golf Digest feature.
11. STREAK OF BEATING FIELD AVERAGE
Possibly Tiger’s most overlooked feat? Between August 1999 and November 2000, Woods posted a tournament score better than the field average for 89 consecutive rounds. The next-best streak, by Mark O’Meara, covered 33 rounds.
12. BACK-TO-BACK ACES
When Frank Bensel Jr., a decorated club professional out of Century C.C. in Purchase, N.Y., aced consecutive par 3s—the 184-yard fourth and 203-yard fifth at Newport (R.I.) Country Club—during the second round of the 2024 U.S. Senior Open, it didn’t propel him into contention. The 56-year-old was so amped, he bogeyed the next four holes, shot 74 and missed the cut.
13. MOST TOUR WINS

Kathy Whitworth surpassed Mickey Wright’s previous record of 82 LPGA wins in 1982, then added six more to become the winningest golfer of any major tour. Along the way, she also became the first LPGA player to eclipse $1 million in a career.
14. OLDEST MAJOR CHAMP

Patrick Smith
Phil Mickelson’s win at the 2021 PGA came at 50 years, 11 months, and seven days. Phil wrote instruction articles exclusively for Golf Digest starting at age 23, and we covered his fitness regimen and magic coffee recipe when he was a senior.
15. NO. 1 GOLF COURSE, LIFETIME
Pine Valley G.C. in New Jersey has occupied the top spot in the Golf Digest America's 100 Greatest list for 32 out of 40 years since 1985 when we began listing courses in order of score. Augusta National has spent six years at number one and Pebble Beach two.
16. MOST U.S. AMATEURS

Jimmy Sime
Glenna Collett-Vare collected her six U.S. Women’s Amateur titles in a career in which she won 49 times, all as an amateur. Although her career preceded the founding of the LPGA Tour, the tour honors her legacy by awarding the Vare Trophy to the player who ends the season with the lowest scoring average.
17. THE IMPREGNABLE QUADRILATERAL

Bettmann
Bobby Jones’ captured his five U.S. Amateur titles when amateur golf was deemed as or more competitive than the fledgling pro game. The last of those U.S. Am wins, in 1930 at Merion, capped Jones’ completion of what was called the “impregnable quadrilateral” of the U.S. Open and Amateur and British Open and Amateur all in the same year.
18. ACED FIRST HOLE
At age 62, Norwegian-born Unni Haskell’s first outing on a golf course was at the par-3 Cypress Links in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 2009. Using a driver from 75 yards on the first hole, she jarred it for the quickest ace in history. With this luck also came the unexpected challenge of a bar set impossibly high for the rest of her career.
19. MOST BIRDIES IN A ROW
Playing with three friends on Aug. 24, 1989, amateur Mike Allen bogeyed the first hole at Jimmy Clay Municipal Golf Course in Austin, Tex., and then the fourth. From there he embarked on a heater unmatched in the sport. Beginning with the 171-yard par-3 fifth hole and ending with the 307-yard par-4 15th, Allen birdied 11 consecutive holes, as well as the last, to card 63.
20. MOST TOP-3 MAJOR FINISHES

R&A Championships
As much as Jack Nicklaus’ career greatness will be defined by his major wins, his total of 46 top-three finishes showcases how good he was for so long. Nicklaus’ second-place finish in the 1960 U.S. Open while still an amateur was the first of 19 runner-up major finishes—four each in the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA, and seven times in the Open.
21. OLDEST HOLE-IN-ONE
In 2014, Gus Andreone was the oldest-living member of the PGA of America when he added another feat. With a driver from 113 yards on the par-3 14th hole at Palm Aire Country Club in Sarasota, Fla., Andreone carried his tee shot 80 yards, then watched it roll the rest of the way into the cup. At 103, he became the oldest person to record an ace, eclipsing by one year the previous record-holder. Arguably more impressive? He beat his age by 30 shots.
22. LARGEST MAJOR MARGIN OF VICTORY
“You just don’t win a U.S. Open by 15 shots.” When Golf Digest’s Dan Jenkins chronicled Tiger Woods’ outlandish runaway at Pebble Beach in 2000, no hyperbole was needed. Just a simple summation of greatness. Louise Suggs won the 1949 U.S. Women’s Open by 14, and gone after 138 years was Old Tom Morris’ previous male record. If Tiger’s mark is broken in less time, we’ll be shocked.
23. MOST AGE-DEFYING ROUND
In 2015, Pat Willis, a former marine carrying a plus-four handicap at age 59, shot 57 at Virginia’s Laurel Hill G.C., propelled by making three holes-in-one on the day—including two on par 4s. The Director of Golf, Gene Orrico, PGA, verified the scorecard, and Willis’ reputation as a well-respected and honorable man.
24. LOWEST COMPETITIVE ROUND
Although the course was only 5,002 yards and a par 70, Homero Blancas carded a 55 in the final round of the 1962 Premier Golf Invitational, making it the lowest competitive round ever. Blancas showed Golf Digest readers how to make more birdies, too.
25. MOST WEEKS AT NO. 1

Walter Iooss Jr.
If Scottie Scheffler can remain World No. 1 through the 2025 Masters, he’ll have held the top spot for 135 weeks in his career. That will mean he’s only 548 more weeks (another 10½ years) away from matching Tiger Woods’ 683 total.
26. CONSECUTIVE PGA TOUR WINS
Among active PGA Tour pros through the end of 2024, just 10 had won 11 or more titles in their careers. The idea then of winning 11 straight starts—and 18 in a season—borders on incredulity. Even more remarkable is the story Byron Nelson would tell Golf Digest about walking away from the game afterward.
27. LONGEST ACE
A 447-yard hole-in-one? On a course called Miracle Hill? Too good to be true, right? Well, we chronicled Bob Mitera’s one and only career ace a year after the 5-foot-6 college golfer pulled it off on Oct. 7, 1965, and revisited it in 2001, talking to surviving witness. The hole was originally documented at 444 yards but was remeasured in 1976 and found to be 447. It was downhill and downwind.
28. WORLDWIDE WINS

Photo by Andrew Kaufman
Roberto De Vicenzo won more pro tournaments worldwide (231) than any golfer. Yet he might be best remembered for the one he didn’t win—the 1968 Masters and the scorecard error that kept him out of a playoff. The Argentine seemed at peace with it when we caught up with him that summer.
29. CONSECUTIVE U.S. AMATEURS

To play in the U.S. Amateur is the pinnacle of many golfers’ career. To play in it 33 straight times? You need to be an ageless wonder like William C. Campbell. Winner in 1964, the late Campbell played in the USGA’s oldest championship on 37 occasions overall beginning in 1941.
30. SHOOTING AGE LEFTY AND RIGHTY
Jim Kaat, now 86, is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but that’s somehow not his greatest accomplishment as an athlete. Instead, it’s shooting his age (75 and 70) as both a righty and a lefty. Kaat is naturally left-handed, and struggles with his short game had him trying things out from the other side.
31. MOST ROUNDS IN A YEAR
Averaging around 3.4 rounds per day—all walking for a total of 8,424 miles traveled by foot—retired IBM executive Barry Gibbons played 1,235 rounds in Austin where he’s a member at The Hills at Lakeway in 2022. He had originally planned to play 1,234 because it sounded better, but he couldn’t resist one last round on New Year’s Eve.
32. THREE ACES, THREE DAYS, SAME HOLE
Robert Taylor somehow aced the 16th hole at Hunstanton Golf Club in Norfolk, U.K., every time he played it over the span of three consecutive days from May 30 through June 1 in 1974. Witness and photographer David Cannon called it one “of the world’s greatest sporting miracles.”
33. MOST BIRDIES IN A ROW, PGA TOUR
Just twice has a pro been able to record nine birdies in a row on the PGA Tour: Mark Calcavecchia in the second round of the Canadian Open in 2009 and Kevin Chappell in the second round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier just over 10 years later. Neither won their respective event.
34. TWO SUB-60 ROUNDS

Jim Furyk doesn’t just have the lowest score on the PGA Tour, a 58. He also has a 59, which makes him the only player in PGA Tour history with multiple sub60 rounds. The round of 58 at the 2016 Travelers Championship nearly didn’t count as his playing partner, Miguel Ángel Carballo, incorrectly marked him down for a birdie 3 on the 14th. Thankfully, the mistake was caught before the scorecard was signed.
35. CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE TOP 50
Phil Mickelson is currently in the 300s in the OWGR, mainly due to his switch to LIV Golf. However, his record of 1,305 consecutive weeks (25 years) in the Top 50 still stands. He had 167 top-10 finishes during that time period.
36. THREE EAGLES IN A ROW IN COMPETITION
Adam Petrasovic made a 15-foot eagle putt on the 440-yard par-5 fifth, holed out a sand wedge from 105 yards on the 375-yard sixth and once again holed out his sand wedge from 105 yards on the 367-yard seventh, all in a row at the 78th annual Essex-Kent Boys Golf Tournament, at Roseland, Windsor, Ontario, in 2005. The Sacred Heart golfer ultimately shot eight under and won his quarterfinal match that day.
37. GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS

Kevin C. Cox
With her gold medal at the 2024 Olympics, Lydia Ko became the first golfer to take home gold, silver and bronze medals in a career. She was already the youngest to win on the LPGA, the youngest to win a women’s major and the youngest to reach World No. 1 at 17, so it’s hard to pick her coolest record.
38. ONLY 59 ON THE LPGA TOUR
Annika Sorenstam added yet another LPGA Tour accolade in 2016 during the second round of the Standard Register PING in Phoenix. She went around Moon Valley Country Club with a 59 that featured 12 birdies over her first 13 holes. A playing editor for Golf Digest, her solo cover appearance in 2007 was the first by a woman in 30 years.
39. LONGEST STRETCH BETWEEN USGA WINS
Patience is a key attribute of a champion golfer, and Marvin “Vinny” Giles knows how to wait. He finished second in the U.S. Amateur three consecutive years (1967-69) before finally triumphing in the event in 1972. Then he won the 2009 U.S. Senior Amateur 37 years later at age 67.
40. ALL 100 GREATEST IN A YEAR

Photo by Nathaniel Welch
Jimmie James, a Black middle-handicapper with average connections, had an audacious idea for retirement—play every one of Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Courses in a calendar year. He needed all 365 days to finish the feat on June 11, 2018, having relied on meeting hosts organically along the way. Golf Digest chronicled his feat and later excerpted his book, a positive testament to an underlying unity in our nation.
41. THREE ACES, SAME HOLE, SAME GROUP
On April 13, 2005, on the par-3 15th hole at Antelope Greens Golf Club, Dave Schumacher missed the green, and what followed were three consecutive aces by Bob Fleming, Marc Arcuri and Dan Condie. The golfers were determined to convince the public of their feat and requested and paid for a polygraph test. The head professional vouched for them, too.
42. WINNINGEST SENIOR

Patrick McDermott
Bernhard Langer had his Achilles repaired on Feb. 1, 2024, and eight months later the now 67-year-old won his 47th PGA Tour Champions title, keeping alive a streak of 18 consecutive years with a victory. In 2019, Langer told Golf Digest that taking breaks from golf was one of the secrets to his unexplainable longevity.
43. YOUNGEST U.S. AM QUALIFIER
At 10 years old, Allisen Corpuz qualified for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links at Erin Hills in 2008. Quickly delivering greatness in her anticipated professional career, she won the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
44. MOST COURSES
Ralph Kennedy was born in 1882 and began playing golf in 1910. He was a founding member of Winged Foot Golf Club and holds the record for most rounds at unique courses with 3,165, meticulously recorded.
45. BACK-TO-BACK AGE-BREAKING ON TOUR

Joan Roth
Sam Snead holds the record for the youngest person ever to shoot their age on the PGA Tour, posting 67 in 1979 in the second round of the Quad Cities Open. Snead would follow that performance with a final-round 66 to cap off his age-breaking weekend.
46. MOST GREENS IN A ROW
Bob Lohr set the record for consecutive greens hit in regulation on the PGA Tour with 51 in 1993. Lohr turned pro in 1983, and his only career win came at the 1988 Walt Disney World Classic.
47. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS, DIFFERENT CLUBS
Neil White won 21 titles at 13 clubs in eight states with at least one title in every decade from the 1920s to 1980s. The first was in 1927 at White Lakes G.Cse., Topeka, Kan., and the last at Desert Hills GC in Arizona in 1987.
48. MOST RANKED DESIGNS
Designer Tom Fazio has placed 51 courses on our national rankings of the 200 Greatest, including four with his uncle George in the 1970s and 80s. His highest-ranked is Shadow Creek, which scored eighth in the 1993-1994 ranking.
49. MOST COURSES IN A YEAR

Patrick Koeing
Most golfers can only dream of playing 580 different courses in a lifetime. Patrick Koenig accomplished that feat in just 365 days. The golf photographer went on an RV journey that covered 41 states in 2023.
50. LONGEST MADE PUTT ON TELEVISION
At the 150th Open at St. Andrews, Ian Poulter holed a 162-foot putt on the flat green of the par-4 ninth hole for eagle. His read was “two cups right.” He bested Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps, who made a 159-foot eagle putt at the par-4 sixth just up the road at Kingsbarns in the DP World Tour’s Dunhill Links Pro-Am a decade earlier. Phelps’ triple-breaker traveled for 16 seconds before kissing the flagstick and dropping in.
51. MOST CUTS MADE
Making the weekend used to mean more on the PGA Tour, and nobody made the weekend more than Jay Haas. The nine-time tour winner and Wake Forest legend made 592 cuts in a career that spanned 799 events, meaning he made it to round 3 a whopping 74.09 percent of his PGA Tour career. Only two other players, Raymond Floyd and Tom Kite, were able to make more than 580 trips to Saturday, doing so in 726 and 714 starts, respectively.
52. A 68 IN 53 MINUTES

Adam Levey
There have been lower scores in less time on flatter and shorter courses, but Christopher Smith’s 68 in 53 minutes at Bandon Dunes, running and carrying his bag while being filmed, is damn cool. Smith applied speed golf lessons to regular rounds in our popular Breaking 100/90/80 series.
53. A FAMILY SWEEP OF CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
It’s happened twice. In 1967, the DeBons family won every club championship at Fox Hills G.C. in Paragould, Ark. John, 17, won the men’s, sister Kathy, 16, and brother Mike, 14, won both junior titles and mother Frances won the A-flight women’s title. In 1994, at Towson G&CC in Phoenix, Md., patriarch Joseph Soliman won the 1994 Senior Club Championship, his son Jack won the men’s, his daughter Pam won the women’s and his other son Michael won the junior.
54. MOST HOLES IN A DAY
Cart or no cart, 36 or 54 holes in a day is tough on the body. How about 612? That was the total number of holes played in just 16 hours by pro Ben Berger during a fundraiser tournament in 2010. Berger averaged two 18-hole rounds per hour for a grand total of 34 full rounds played, never shooting worse than 82. On the final hole, Berger chipped in for eagle.
55. MOST MAJOR WINS CADDIEING

Andrew Redington
With some good fortune Steve Williams found his way to Tiger Woods’ bag, but retaining that job for 13 major wins took earning trust and consistently meeting high expectations. Add in one more major on the bag of Adam Scott at the 2013 Masters, and Williams checks in with 14 majors, the most of any looper in golf history. In 2015, the New Zealander told us he hadn’t watched a single golf shot in retirement.
56. BEST FAIRWAYS PERCENTAGE
There are stripe shows and then there is Mo Martin, who hit fairways at an 86.25 percent clip over her professional career. In total, Martin hit 8,446 out of 9,792 fairways. It only translated to one LPGA Tour victory, but it was a sweet one—the 2014 Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale, where Martin (obviously) hit the fairway on the 72nd hole and then nearly holed out for an albatross with a 3-wood to secure the title.
57. NATIONAL OPENS, MOST CONTINENTS

R&A Championships
Gary Player is the only player to complete the career major grand slam on both the regular and senior tours. He’s also boasted that no one has logged more airline miles. Perhaps that makes his coolest feat winning national opens on five continents: North America (the U.S. Open), Europe (Open Championship), South America (Chilean Open), Australia (Australian Open) and Africa (the South African Open). If only Antarctica had a championship.
58. LARGEST WINNER’S CHECK NOT ACCEPTED
Nick Dunlap became the first amateur in more than three decades to win on the PGA Tour with his victory at the American Express in January 2024. Because of his amateur status, Dunlap couldn’t claim the $1.51 million winner’s check. He promptly turned pro, quickly became a Golf Digest cover boy then went on to win the Barracuda Championship—and this time collect the first-place prize money.
59. HIGHEST SCORE IN A MAJOR QUALIFIER
Maurice Flitcroft had never played 18 holes. That didn’t stop him from signing up for the 1965 Open Championship, listing himself as professional because he didn’t have a handicap. He proceeded to shoot 121 (+49) at the qualifier and received a lifetime ban from the R&A. Flitcroft later used aliases for future attempts to qualify, and a movie was eventually made about his endeavors, “The Phantom of the Open.”
60. YOUNGEST HOLE-IN-ONE

Photograph courtesy of the Paine family
In 2001, Jake Paine of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., aced the 66-yard sixth hole at the Lake Forest (Calif.) Golf and Practice Center, at 3 years old to become the youngest player to ever record an ace.
61. MOST NCAA TEAM TITLES
The Houston Cougars haven’t won an NCAA men’s title in nearly four decades, but their 16 titles are still five more than any other school. Special shoutout to Yale, which won 20 National Intercollegiate Golf Association titles, the precursor to the NCAAs.
62. MOST PGA TOUR STARTS
By wins, Mark Brooks had a good career with seven victories, highlighted by the 1996 PGA Championship. Those wins were packed in an eight-year stretch, which fails to convey his longevity of 803 PGA Tour starts.
63. MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS, SAME EVENT

Koichi Kamoshida
Annika Sorenstam won the LPGA's Mizuno Classic in Japan five straight years from 2001 to 2005. The PGA Tour record for consecutive victories in an event is four, a mark shared by Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen and Tiger Woods.
64. MOST ROUNDS WITH ONE GOLF BALL
According to Golf Digest records, Judge Michael Nehemiah purchased a Pro-Flite ball in November 1928 and used the same ball until Jan. 28, 1929, for a total of 46 rounds. You could have told us the record was 46 holes and that would’ve been impressive.
65. EAGLED EVERY HOLE ON A COURSE
The feat of eagling every hole on a course over a career has been accomplished at least seven times. Del Walker at Virginia C.C, in Long Beach, Calif.; Bernie Mathias at Pebble Creek Golf Course in Lexington, Ohio; Jerry Nelson at Rozella Ford G.C., Warsaw, Ind.; Tony Blom at Maketewah C.C. in Cincinnati; Jim Gray at Gaston C.C. in North Carolina; Bob Trombino at Glen Flora C.C. in Waukegan, Ill; and Pete Mahovlich, Glens Falls C.C. in New York.
66. 62 IN A MAJOR

Richard Heathcote
For decades it seemed like the golf gods wouldn’t allow anyone to break 63 in the four biggest men’s events, a mark set by Johnny Miller in the final round to win at Oakmont in 1973, but that changed with Branden Grace’s 62 at Royal Birkdale at the 2017 Open Championship. Six years later, both Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele shot 62 in the first round of the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles C.C. While the three men share the record, they also share the fact that none won those tournaments.
67. WINNING THE MASTERS AS A CLUB PRO
Seventy-five years before club pro Michael Block’s impressive performance at the PGA Championship, Claude Harmon, then the head pro at Winged Foot G.C., won the 1948 Masters. Harmon would wind up with five career top-five finishes in majors, including a T-3 when Winged Foot hosted the 1959 U.S. Open.
68. NO. 1 TEACHER, MOST YEARS

Photo by Dom Furore
Butch Harmon has coached four players to No. 1 in the world—Greg Norman, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott and Tiger Woods. Harmon also holds a No. 1 claim of his own. His teaching peers voted him Golf Digest’s top-ranked instructor for 22 years in a row, then in 2024 he topped the inaugural list of Golf Digest’s Legends of Golf Instruction.
69. FEWEST PUTTS, NINE HOLES
We offer a special nod to longtime Golf Digest instructor Stan Utley for sharing this PGA Tour record with Chris Riley and Marcus Fraser. All three needed only six putts to complete nine holes, with Utley setting the mark first during the front nine of his second round at the 2002 Air Canada Championship at Northview Golf & C.C.
70. MOST EUROPEAN TOUR ORDERS OF MERIT

Andrew Redington
In today’s parlance, this would be the most DP World Tour Race to Dubai wins but, regardless, an impressive accomplishment by Colin Montgomerie. The Scot finished atop the tour’s season-long money list eight times, including seven consecutive years from 1993 to 1999. It might not be his record for much longer, however, with Rory McIlroy winning the Race to Dubai for a sixth time in 2024.
71. FASTEST TOUR ROUND
Known for being a trick-shot artist before finding success as a tour pro, Wesley Bryan pulled off a cool trick on the PGA Tour. Playing as a single during the final round of the 2017 BMW Championship at Conway Farms, he took only 89 minutes to shoot 69.
72. 18 PUTTS
OK, it was a four-person scramble, but still, an immaculate performance on the greens. Playing in an event at Maple Dale C.C. in Dover, Del., in 1981, golfers Dave Miller, Micko Miller, Mike Potts and Tina Potts one-putted each green to card a 59.
73. MOST MINOR LEAGUE GOLF TOUR WINS
Sunny Kim turned pro in 2007 and has managed just three Korn Ferry Tour starts, but his success on the Minor League Golf Tour in Florida has been staggering—87 wins! At 35 years old, there’s no reason to believe he can’t hit the century mark.
74. MOST CONSECUTIVE CHIP-INS
Amateur Ron Stutesman had five consecutive chip-ins on holes 4-8 during a round at Orchard Hills Golf & C.C. in Washougal, Wash., in 1978. Stutesman shot 33 on that front nine—not too shabby considering he missed at least five greens in regulation.
75. Most Holes-In-One

Darren Carroll
Mancil Davis, known as the “King of Aces,” made his first hole-in-one in 1967 and is sitting on 51. Norman Manley was previously regarded as the record holder with 59, and Golf Digest covered the controversy about a lack of witnesses. Phil Mickelson says he’s made 47 aces.
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