Rocket Classic: Jake KNAPP creates the history of the PGA tour, but the leaders of Chris Kirk, Philip Nolls and Andrew Putnam | Golf news

Jake Nab became the first person on the history of the PGA tour to break 60 and shoot 61 or less in the same season.

He fired 11 under 61 on Friday, in this operation broke the classic missile record that was standing for less than one day.

But this was not enough to put it in the first six places, as it entered the weekend at Detroit Golf Club.

Chris Kirk (65), Philip Nolls (64), and Andrew Putnam (66) participates in the second round in 14 below. Jackson Super (65 years old) was another shot.

Alrich Potterter, who had 70 after the participation of the 18 -hole lead with Kevin Roy after they both fired at a record 62nd, and Mark Hobard was another blow behind the leader.

Knapp was in a large group of players, including Colin Morikawa (64), Hideki Matsuyama (66) and Roy (71), three shots of the lead in the third round.

The 31 -year -old Knapp, who won the Open Mexico last year as a rising, started the second round 130 in the 156th player after its opening with 72. He rose to a dispute with nine birds and a eagle on a ghost -free tour.

“Maybe you were upset all night and this morning, so I think he might have helped a little,” he said.

KNAPP, ranked No. 99 in the world, is the only player in the round that launches 61 or better in two rounds this season.

He photographed 59 – one of the 58 records record recorded by Jim Furyk in 2016 – at CGNIZANT Classic four months ago, when he broke the record record of the tournament before he cools and linked the sixth.

KNAPP broke the 18 -hole record in Detroit Golf Club, which was appointed on Thursday in the first round when Potgieter and Roy launched 62.

“I feel when I start making birds, I want to make more,” Nab said. “I was even a kind of thinking about 59 when I hung it close to the third to the last.”

Nols, 28, shot his first victory on the PGA tour, reduced for the third time in 11 event after failing to reach the weekend in five consecutive championships.

“It was not the best year for me yet with any extension of imagination, but the golf game is funny,” he said. “When you play badly, you never feel you will play well again. And when you have days like today, you don’t understand how you can launch a bad round of golf.”

Kirk, 40, who was the sixth victory of the opening championship last year in Kabalua, opened the second round with three straight birds and ended with nine birds and two ghosts.

Most of the leaders were in the morning groups, when the conditions were more convenient, and Putnam was an exception.

Putnam played in the afternoon when the wind was harsh and spin on a hot and steam day. He started strongly with three birds and ghosts at the ninth front before getting only one bird on his back, and placing him in a position that allows him to win the second and first PGA round since 2018.

He said: “The wind appeared, and I got difficult holes there,” very happy because I was able to grind it. “

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