Jake Knapp shoots a 59 at PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic

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Jake Knapp shoots a 59 at PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic

Jake Knapp has joined the PGA Tour’s sub-60 club, shooting a bogey-free 59 in the opening round of the Cognizant Classic at PGA National.

The 30-year-old Californian, ranked No.99 in the world, was left celebrating the 15th time that someone has broken 60 in a PGA Tour event on Thursday.

Knapp finished one shot off the tour scoring record of 58, achieved by Jim Furyk in the final round of the 2016 Travelers Championship.

He became the 14th player to shoot a sub-60 round, with Furyk having achieved the feat twice.

Knapp even had a putt for eagle at the par-five 18th that would have tied Furyk’s record mark of 58 — 18 feet 8 inches was the measurement given by the PGA Tour. The eagle putt didn’t have the speed, and he tapped in for 59.

The 12-birdie round on the par-71 course also broke the previous Cognizant scoring record of 61, achieved in 2012 by Brian Harman and matched in 2021 by *********** Matt Jones.

There was barely any wind and PGA National was largely defenceless in the morning session.

Nobody had an easier time than Knapp, who’s finished no better than a tie for 17th in any of his first seven starts of 2025.

Knapp, who has one PGA Tour win at last year’s Mexico Open, started Thursday with five straight birdies, that stretch highlighted by a 60-foot putt at the par-four second hole.

The birdies kept coming in bunches; three in a row on 9, 10 and 11 and three more coming on 13, 14 and 15 — the last of those a big breaking putt from 31 feet, going across the green before dropping dead centre into the cup.

A 12-footer for birdie on the par-three 17th hit the outside right edge of the cup and spun off, leaving him at 11 under with only the par-five finishing hole left.

A 335-yard tee shot left him 200 yards to the hole at No. 18, and a simple two-putt was all that remained to cap the history-making round.

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