With his first new build and a comprehensive renovation of an existing course, plus more on the horizon, the 16-time PGA Tour winner and 2003 U.S. Open champion seeks to carve out his own space in golf’s latest boom.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – As important as all-out power and bomb-and-gouge golf has become, straight-hitting Jim Furyk remains the only player to break 60 twice on the PGA Tour.
He owns rounds #1 and #22 on DataGolf.com’s list of the best 18-hole performances since 1983: his second-round 59 in the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club (+13.09 Adjusted Strokes Gained) and his final-round 58 at the 2016 Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands (+10.66). In other words, Furyk knows a thing or two about going low. And as he embarks on a new career in golf course design, the exhilaration of low scores is firmly in mind. So are the highest principles of golf course design.
“It’s been in my blood,” Furyk said of his fondness for classic architecture.
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