{"id":566477,"date":"2026-07-24T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:57:12","slug":"kim-equals-pga-history-with-round-of-59-at-3m-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566477\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim equals PGA history with round of 59 at 3M Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Michael Kim leapt to the top of the leaderboard at the 3M Open in Minneapolis with a remarkable second round of 59.<\/p>\n<p>Kim carded 12 birdies \u2013 four of them on the last four holes \u2013 and no bogeys as he completed just the 16th round of 59 or under in PGA Tour history to set a clubhouse lead of 14 under par.<\/p>\n<p>He sealed his eye-catching feat with a 24-foot putt on the 18th green to claim a career-best score and set a new course record at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">This putt for 59 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HISTORY for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mike_kim714\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Mike_Kim714<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCyOOWeeEP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XCyOOWeeEP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/2080696621176647924\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s second round was a significant improvement on his first, when he managed just three birdies and a bogey five in a two-under-par round of 69.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9amus Power, the only Irish player in the field, sits tied-15th after a second successive 68 leaves him at six under par.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on the back nine, the highlight of Power&#8217;s second round was his eagle on the 18th, with further birdies arriving on the first, third and ninth holes, alongside two dropped strokes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/pga-tour-1\/28348\/3m-open-908491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Michael Kim leapt to the top of the leaderboard at the 3M Open in Minneapolis with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-566477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}