{"id":763027,"date":"2026-06-27T04:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:47:19","slug":"scheffler-storms-to-lead-misses-out-on-sub-60-round-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763027\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler storms to lead, misses out on sub-60 round &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scheffler had to settle for a 10-under 60 on the soft TPC River Highlands course on Friday, setting an early target atop the scoreboard on a day of extreme low scoring at the final signature event of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going out yesterday in the afternoon, when the greens get firm out here and the wind starts to blow, it can get tricky pretty quickly,&#8221; Scheffler said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going out this morning, you definitely had a feeling the conditions were going to be easier, so you need to go out there and try to take advantage of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler was at 16-under (124), two shots ahead of Viktor Hovland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I was very focused on just my execution out there,&#8221; Scheffler said. &#8220;Who knows what the lead is going to be after today. I have put myself in position now this week. Go home, get some rest, and get ready for tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A narrow miss at history.<\/p>\n<p>With a second-round 60, Scottie Scheffler comes just short of joining Jim Furyk as the only players with two sub-60 rounds on TOUR. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PGyla8kHPq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PGyla8kHPq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2070585476331741427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing three groups in front of Scheffler, Hovland needed to birdie the final two holes for a 59. He settled for a pair of pars and a 61, matching his career-best on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly it was more gettable today than it was even yesterday,&#8221; Hovland said.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay Bhatia had a 62 to match first-round leader Eric Cole at 12-under.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know how this golf course can play,&#8221; Bhatia said. &#8220;You have to kind&#8217;ve keep making birdies and try to limit mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cole parred the final eight holes in a 65.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe just being tired or something and making some tired swings,&#8221; Cole said.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Fitzpatrick, Bud Cauley and Ben Griffin were tied for fifth at 10-under, each shooting 66.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler shot 59 in his rookie season in 2020 in the second round of The Northern Trust at the TPC Boston, another rain-softened course which featured low scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furyk shot his first sub-60 round in the second round of the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms outside Chicago; a 59 that included a bogey on his card. Three years later, he set the PGA Tour record at the Travellers Championship with a 58 in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Day (70-68) is the leading Australian at two-under, while Min Woo Lee (68-73) is a shot behind.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Scott (71-71) is at two-over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scheffler had to settle for a 10-under 60 on the soft TPC River Highlands course on Friday, setting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-763027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}