{"id":805056,"date":"2026-08-06T22:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:24:21","slug":"pga-tour-record-for-most-birdies-to-open-a-round-sahith-theegala-starts-out-hot-ties-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805056\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour record for most birdies to open a round? Sahith Theegala starts out hot, ties mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week after Michael Brennan threatened to tie the Tour\u2019s record for most consecutive made birdies in a round<\/a>, Sahith Theegala challenged \u2014 and eventually tied \u2014 the mark for most birdies to open a round by carding six consecutive circles to start his Wyndham Championship. <\/p>\n

Theegala\u2019s attempt at the record seventh straight birdie came at the par-3 7th, where he bogeyed to fall back to 5 under through seven holes. He did respond with a pair of birdies to finish off the front nine, carding a 28 to put himself officially on sub-60 watch at the Tour\u2019s regular season finale.<\/p>\n

And all that drama came within an hour after Beau Hossler signed his first round 61 to become the clubhouse leader<\/a> \u2014 the fifth such low score in three weeks. <\/p>\n

Theegala was steady on his back nine, posting a 34 behind eight pars and a birdie at the par-4 18th \u2014 the circle that broke his \u201ctale of two nines.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst time I ever started a round with six in a row, and it didn\u2019t feel like a fluke or anything,\u201d Theegala said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to the back nine and stopped hitting fairways and that cost me a lot of opportunities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

After putting together a 62, Theegala now trails Hossler by a shot heading into Friday\u2019s second round at Sedgefield Country Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Theegala, 28, has made 21 of 22 cuts in 2026 and sits No. 43 in the FedExCup standings ahead of next week\u2019s playoff opener in Memphis. <\/p>\n

\u201cI got some nice rolls today,\u201d he told Golf Channel\u2019s Ryan Lavner. <\/p>\n

Brennan, who made eight straight birdies at the Rocket Classic, fell one shy of tying the record for most consecutive birdies at any point during a PGA Tour round. Mark Calcavecchia (2009 RBC Canadian Open) and Kevin Chappell (2019 A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier), who started their streaks on the back nine rather than hole No. 1, each recorded nine straight circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after Michael Brennan threatened to tie the Tour\u2019s record for most consecutive made birdies in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-805056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}