The intense Saturday in Cromwell (Connecticut) that stops the leaders It did not end until 8:22 p.m., when the third day of the Travelers Championship could be finished, after almost three hours of stoppage due to the threat of an electrical storm, with Cameron Young as a prominent figure, elated long before all this after having thrown 59 blows in the morning.
Young jumped 33 positions on the table after making two eagles on par 4s – on the 15th she touched the hole on 1, leaving her just one meter away after playing a 3-iron at 254 meters – and seven more birdies in a round in which everything went to her. He was the 12th player and 13th scorer, Furyk shot 58 (also at Cromwell in 2016) and 59 in his day, to score below 60 in PGA Tour history, the first since Scottie Scheffler at the 2020 TPC in Boston, when the world was emerging from the pandemic.
It was something so extraordinary that it only took six streetsbut the small route of River Highlands, the one with the least yardage in the history of the cards in the fifty-odd (only 6,200 meters) doubled before the punch of Young – one of those that exceeds 300 yards on average with the driver -, who also relied on a stroke of luck when he holed out from 130 meters on the 3rd hole.
“I didn’t do anything special before playing. Everything was normal. Suddenly I started playing well with two birdies, the eagle on 3 and another birdie on 4 and I was inspired. It was wonderful,” said the American, who had no option on the 18th hole to have reached 58 because he played a third-shot approach and had to make a putt of more than three meters to save par.
Young placed tenth, five shots behind Korean Tom Kim, the budding star who is going for his fourth title on the PGA Tour, and four, of course, for Scottie Scheffler, the undisputed best golfer of the season. However, nothing has been decided in the Travelers, with nine players in four shots.
