In the course of the management of Kim Jong II of North Korea, the Supreme Chief apparently displayed a preternatural capacity for golf. In the one spherical he ever performed, he carded 5 holes in a single and racked up a rating of simply 34 strokes over a testing 18-hole format in Pyongyang. Effectively, that’s it then – the bottom ever rating in golf… Cease…
No wait… It’s not fairly so simple as that. Nobody is doubting the integrity of the erstwhile Korean dictator (Supreme Chief, sorry,) his unblemished document speaks for itself. However there might have been a small downside with the scoring system used.
Loyal servants (scoring officers, sorry,) truly used a modified scoring system to mark Kim Jong’s card. They had been giving him factors – 0 for par, 1 for bogey and a couple of for double bogey… So his 5 aces had been truly 5 bogeys… Had been they actually? For somebody who had by no means swung a membership earlier than, it appears far-fetched… however who’s to query the Supreme Chief…? Not this writer, that’s for certain.
Besides, we now can’t have that because the lowest ever rating in golf. It’s nonetheless slightly extra sophisticated than being a single quantity although, there are a number of rounds worthy of point out.
Lowest Rating over 18 holes
Remember Homero Blancas
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Australian Rhein Gibson managed a 55 on the River Oaks Golf Membership in Edmond, Oklahoma on 12 Could 2012 (6,700yds par 71). The spherical included two eagles and 12 birdies.
Different rounds of 55 have been documented however most have been discounted both as a result of size of the course or the kind of spherical being performed.
Homero Blancas shot a 55 within the 1962 Premier Invitational whereas nonetheless an newbie. It’s a course that not exists however was apparently extraordinarily quick however very tight and tough.
Lowest 18-hole Rating on Essential Skilled Males’s Excursions
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Jim Furyk carded a 58 within the 2016 Vacationers Championship. It’s the bottom rating on the PGA Tour.
Different 58s have been recorded by Ryo Ishikawa – in 2010 on the Japan Golf Tour – and by Kim Seong-hyeon, additionally on the Japan Golf Tour in 2021.
The bottom rating ever posted on the DP World Tour is a 59 by Oliver Fisher within the Portugal Masters of 2018.
The bottom rating in a males’s Main championship is a 62 by South Africa’s Branden Grace within the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
Lowest 18-hole Rating on Essential Skilled Ladies’s Excursions
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59 – It was posted by the nice Annika Sorenstam within the Customary Register PING match on the 2001 LPGA Tour.
The bottom rating in a ladies’s Main is a 61, recorded by three gamers – Kim Hyo-joo and Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea, and Eire’s Leona Maguire. All posted their 61s in The Evian Championship.
Low 9-hole Scores
Corey Pavin shot 26 over 9 on the PGA Tour
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Corey Pavin holds the PGA Tour document for 9 holes – a 26 over the entrance 9 within the first spherical of the 2006 US Financial institution Championship in Milwaukee.
On the entrance 9 of the 2011 Stanley Women Golf Event on the Japan LPGA Tour, Shinobu Moromizato shot a nine-under par 27.