{"id":837651,"date":"2026-07-31T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837651\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:10:21","slug":"michael-brennan-did-something-no-other-pga-tour-player-has-all-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837651\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brennan did something no other PGA Tour player has all year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Cantlay might have gotten into the clubhouse with the lowest score (64) of any afternoon player at the Rocket Classic<\/a> on Thursday but it was Michael Brennan who stole the show with a birdie blitz that saw him challenge a Tour record.<\/p>\n

Brennan faced some early adversity at Detroit Golf Club, bogeying the third and fourth holes.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old responded with a string of eight consecutive birdies to skyrocket up the leaderboard and move inside the top 5 during his back nine. A bogey at the par-4 17th sent him back down but only two spots. He pared the final hole to card an 5-under 65 and sits T-6 entering Friday\u2019s second round<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Brennan extended the streak to eight with a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-4 13th. A ninth birdie could not be found at No. 14 as Brennan putted in for par. <\/p>\n

The Wake Forest alum became the first player on the PGA Tour with eight straight birdies or better since Matt McCarty\u2019s final round at the 2025 Baycurrent Classic.<\/p>\n

Nine consecutive birdies is the Tour record, shared by Mark Calcavecchia (2009 RBC Canadian Open) and Kevin Chappell (2019 Military Tribute at Greenbrier). <\/p>\n

Brennan, who is playing in his fifth straight event, ranks 106th in FedExCup points. He finished T-24 at TPC Twin Cities a week ago, good for his third finish inside the top 25 this year. <\/p>\n

He sits four shots off Peter Malnati\u2019s lead<\/a> after 18 holes. Cantlay is T-4 alongside Patrick Fishburn.<\/p>\n

Rickie Fowler and Ryan Gerard are T-2, two shots back from Malnati. <\/p>\n

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The second round of the Rocket Classic is underway at the Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Mich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Cantlay might have gotten into the clubhouse with the lowest score (64) of any afternoon player at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-837651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}