History was made twice at LACC on Thursday.
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It took 128 years for a golfer to shoot the primary 62 in a U.S. Open.
The second occasion took place 20 minutes later.
Moments after Rickie Fowler broke the U.S. Open single-round scoring report with an eight-under 62, Xander Schauffele matched him with a 62 of his personal.
According to stat guru Justin Ray, Fowler’s spherical was the 47,366th in the history of the U.S. Open. Schauffele performed simply two teams behind Fowler on Thursday, with only one threesome separating the 2 historic rounds.
The pair’s rounds are simply the second and third rounds of 62 in main championship historical past. Brendan Grace posted the primary simply six years in the past in the course of the third spherical of the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
While Fowler made a report 10 birdies (with two bogeys) on Thursday, Schauffele, the No. 6 participant on this planet, was bogey-free as he recorded eight birdies.
His probability to shoot the report low spherical might need been jeopardized, nevertheless, when he drove into the barranca in need of the sixth inexperienced. He didn’t rise up and down for birdie on the drivable par-4, which was one of many best holes on the course in Round 1.
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However, he adopted the missed alternative with a birdie on the 258-yard par-3 seventh after he knocked his tee shot to 6 toes. He birdied the next par-5 to achieve eight below for the day.
However, with an opportunity to put up the primary 61 in main historical past, Schauffele left his birdie attempt on his last gap, the ninth, some 4 toes quick.
With a duo of 62s, Schauffele and Fowler maintain a large lead on the remainder of the sphere halfway by Round 1, with Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Si Woo Kim holding the next-best scores within the clubhouse at 67.
No different golfer was on the golf course at higher than three below when Schauffele completed. As the morning wave was wrapped up, the sphere scoring common was 71.6.
It’s not on daily basis you get to witness historical past — and it’s much more uncommon that it occurs twice.
