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57! Korn Ferry Tour player ties all-time pro record with astounding round

Cristobal del solar crafted one of the most impressive rounds in professional golf history thursday.

Cristobal del Solar set one record and tied another on Thursday with a magnificent round of 57 at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Astara Golf Championship in Bogota, Colombia. Del Solar’s 57 is the lowest score ever recorded in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event, and matches the lowest round in any professional tournament ever.

Del Solar came out of the gate hot, recording an 8-under 27 on the front nine. He finished 13-under with nine birdies, two eagles and no bogeys. He could have gone even lower; he had a 15-footer for birdie on the 18th hole, but missed that putt.

The other two members of del Solar’s grouping, Kris Ventura and Trevor Cone, shot 62 and 63, respectively. (Imagine shooting 63 and coming in third in your group, six strokes behind the leader.) In terms of course logistics, Country Club de Bogota is about 8,600 feet above sea level, and played at 6,254 yards for Thursday’s round.

Del Solar turned pro in 2017 after playing his college golf at Florida State. He has won four times on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica since then.

David Carey of Ireland shot a 57 on the Alps Tour in 2019, although he did so on a par-68 course. The lowest Korn Ferry Tour score prior to Thursday was Stephan Jaegar’s 58 in 2016. Five players have carded 58s on sanctioned tours, including Jim Furyk on the PGA Tour, and Bryson DeChambeau recorded a 58 last year at LIV’s Greenbrier event .

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Remember the days when breaking 60 was the ultimate golf milestone? Well, thanks to an epic round by Korn Ferry Tour player Cristobal Del Solar on Thursday, there’s a new standard in town.

Del Solar fired a 13-under 57 at Country Club de Bogota-Pacos in Bogota, Colombia, to take the first-round lead at the Korn Ferry’s Astara Golf Championship and become the first player ever to post a 57 in a PGA-Tour sanctioned event.

Del Solar got off to a fast start on what is an unusually short setup for a KFT event: a 6,254-yard par-70 at nearly 9,000 feet of elevation. He posted six birdies and an eagle to make the turn at 27 strokes — good enough to tie the Korn Ferry record for lowest nine-hole score. Del Solar kept the pedal down on the back with three more birdies and another eagle. He parred his final four holes to sign for the historic number.

LIV Golf’s Joaquin Niemann shoots a 59. Then came an epic admission

Before Del Solar’s round, there had been two 58s posted at PGA Tour-sanctioned tournaments, both in 2016: Stephan Jaeger was the first to shoot the number at the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae, and Jim Furyk followed soon after, signing for 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship. Twelve players in all have broken 60 in PGA Tour-sanctioned events, and on the LIV tour, which is only its third season, players already have shot a 58 and 59.

During a post-round virtual press conference, Del Solar acknowledged that the course was gettable. His 57 leads the field only by four with three rounds remaining. On Thursday, there also were two 61s and eight 62s. In addition to the short setup and balls carrying at elevation, thanks to recent rain, the greens were soft; the field also played preferred lies. Del Solar said the longest club he had into a green was a 6-iron — on a par-5.

“The course was definitely set up to shoot a very low score,” Del Solar said. “The pins were tucked, but the greens were so soft that I could just hit driver just as close as I can to the green, and if you’re chipping it well, then you’re gonna get it close because the ball will stop near the hole.”

Still, you have to hit the shots. And Del Solar had to execute every drive, approach, chip and putt all the way to 57. It’s common in golf to feel as though you left a few out there, no matter what you shoot. Did Del Solar think his score could have been any lower? On the front: no, he said. But there were instances on the back — a lipped 6-footer on 18, for example, that led Del Solar to believe that his score could have been even better.

“I would say around three missed opportunities that could have been a potentially even greater round,” he said.

A 54?! Maybe there’s hope for that perfect score yet.

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2024 Compliance Solutions Championship final results: Prize money payout, Korn Ferry Tour leaderboard and how much each golfer won

T he 2024 Compliance Solutions Championship final leaderboard is headed by winner John Pak, who topped the Korn Ferry Tour lederboard this week at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Course in Norman, Oklahoma.

Pak won his first Korn Ferry Tour event of the season, in his 28th-career start on the tour, with a three-shot victory after opening the final round with a huge lead.

Pak shot 2-under 70 to hold off Jackson Suber, his closest chaser, to win on 23-under 265.

Steven Fisk, continuing his great season, finished in solo third and six shots back of Pak.

Pak won the $180,000 winner's share of the $1,000,000 purse.

Korn Ferry Tour Championship recap notes

Pak earned 13.9 Official World Golf Ranking points with the win, which does help his world ranking, as he also gains 500 Korn Ferry Tour points. The top 30 players in the points standings at the end of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship earn PGA Tour cards for 2025.

This week the cut was made at 5-under 139 or better, with 70 players getting through to the final two rounds.

The 2024 Korn Ferry Tour schedule continues next week with the Memorial Health Championship in Illinois.

2024 Compliance Solutions Championship final leaderboard, results and prize money payouts

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Miles Russell, age 15, made his PGA Tour debut. It was oddly normal

DETROIT — Miles Russell’s pants don’t fit. He didn’t mean to show off his ankles during Thursday’s first round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. It’s just, the inseam he was measured for recently no longer applies. He hit a growth spurt soon after and now measures 5-foot-7, but stuck with pants meant for a wee 5-6. His waist, meanwhile, remains near-nonexistent. At 120 pounds, he wears a 28-inch waistline “with a scrunched belt.”

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So there was Russell on Thursday, walking around Detroit Golf Club, flashing those ankles with each step.

Such is the life of a 15-year-old.

Russell made his PGA Tour debut at the Rocket Mortgage, shooting a 2-over 74. Born in 2009, he signed autographs for 7-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 15-year-olds and some adults. He took every swing with a PGA Tour Live cameras a few feet behind him. He held a press conference the day before his first round and afterward. He played from tees measuring 7,370 yards. He played in a field with 10 of the top 50-ranked players in the world.

And the strangest thing about it all?

It felt oddly normal.

This year has already seen two 16-year-olds make the cut on the PGA Tour — Kris Kim at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, and Blades Brown at the Myrtle Beach Classic. Last year, 15-year-old Oliver Betschart survived a 54-hole qualifier to play in the Bermuda Championship, becoming the youngest player to play in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event in almost a decade. He was three months younger than Russell is now.

First birdie on TOUR for 15-year-old Miles Russell 🤩 pic.twitter.com/5tLfnf5HuW — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 27, 2024

Now it’s Russell at the Rocket Mortgage. In April, he played in the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, shooting rounds of 68 and 66 to become the youngest player to make the cut in the developmental tour’s history. Headlines followed. Then Russell followed with rounds of 70 and 66 to finish T20. The winner, Tim Widing, was 11 years older than him.

Tournament organizers from the Rocket Mortgage took notice and contacted Russell following his performance at the Suncoast Classic, hoping to capitalize on the story. Because that’s what a tournament like the Rocket desperately needs — attention, however it can get it. Big names are scarce in Detroit, so compelling storylines are required. The Nos. 2, 4 and 5 ranked amateurs in the world — Jackson Koivun, Benjamin James and Luke Clanton — are all in this year’s field. Clanton is making his PGA Tour debut, as is Neal Shipley, the low amateur at the Masters and U.S. Open who recently turned pro. As Shipley walked off the course on Thursday, he was told next week’s John Deere Classic, another non-elevated PGA Tour event, has a spot for him.

Those names are all at least in or out of college, though.

Russell just finished his freshman year of high school, even though he doesn’t attend a physical school. The Jacksonville Beach, Fla., native began playing at 2 years old, broke par at 6, and has been on a prodigious path ever since. He is home-schooled and already operating as a small business. He has an agent and holds Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals with TaylorMade and Nike.

Because 15 sounds so jarring, there’s the tendency for some to see Russell as a novelty.

In reality, this is all less and less uncommon.

Russell did not come to Detroit like some kid looking to high-five his heroes.

Rico Hoey, one of Russell’s playing partners on Thursday, was on the practice green after their round and still in a bit of disbelief. Now 28, he was trying to break 80 at Russell’s age. Coming into the first round, he assumed he and Pierceson Coody, a 24-year-old PGA Tour rookie with three Korn Ferry wins to his name, would need to keep things light and easy for the young star. Then they met him.

“As a 15-year-old, I’m sure I’d be pretty nervous out here, so we tried to make it easy on him, and make him feel comfortable, but, really, I don’t even know how much he needed that,” Hoey said. “He was cool. His short game is really good. He has a lot of length for his size. His game is just really good and he’s really calm.”

Some will always be inherently uncomfortable with young mega-watt talent being expedited to play among pros in any sport. But that’s never stopped it from happening. And golf appears to be revving more and more, and going younger and younger. It’s reasonable to expect someone soon emerging to surpass Michelle Wie West as the youngest player to ever tee it up in a PGA Tour event. She was 14 years, three months and seven days old when she played in the 2004 Sony Open.

What’s most eye-opening isn’t the ages, but how narrow the gap is between the kids and the pros. Russell is not some beefed-up bomber. He is instead elastic and has crafted a swing with his coach, former Korn Ferry player Ramon Bascansa, that generates enough clubhead speed to hang with the pros. He averaged 292 yards off the tee on Thursday, tied for 78th in the 156-man field.

But that doesn’t mean everything surrounding him isn’t still misfitting. He is technically not old enough to use Detroit Golf Club’s men’s locker room, though exceptions are made this week. He is not able to drive, let alone rent a car or check into a hotel alone. One group behind Russell’s, 36-year-old Rafael Campos played his round while ripping a few cigarettes — a vice that Russell can’t legally buy for another three years.

Afterward, Russell played along with questions about the experience, but was really only concerned with the golf. He talked about unforced errors and missing some makable puts. He said he learned watching Coody and Hoey how tour pros manage to “grind it out and shoot a couple under.” He said, sure, he was nervous to start the round. How much out of 10? “I’d probably give it a seven.” But sort of shrugged off the idea of being intimidated.

Russell’s voice was soft and he was obviously still a little peeved. A missed 3-footer on the final hole left him with a closing bogey.

“We live, we learn, we move on,” he said, sounding like someone who is not only used to playing on tour, but damn near expects to.

Maybe, for better or worse, that’s not so crazy anymore.

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ATB Classic: Players to watch, tournament history and more

Chase Sienkiewicz is in the field this week at the ATB Classic. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR)

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This week, PGA TOUR Americas will head to Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, for the eighth of 16 events and the second of 10 events belonging to the North America Swing, the ATB Classic. The winner will receive 500 Fortinet Cup points, with a purse of $225,000 ($40,500 winner).

Field summary (as of June 25, 2024)

156 players from 21 countries:

• 99: United States
• 10: Argentina
• 3: Mexico, China
• 2: Australia, England, Denmark, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei
• 1: Brazil, South Africa, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, France, Dominican Republic, Japan, Zimbabwe, Czech Republic, Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong

Players to watch

Matthew Anderson (Canada): The Mississauga, Ontario, native has been No. 1 in the Fortinet Cup Points List since winning the 69th ECP Brazil Open in April; Anderson made his first cut as a professional at the 2023 ATB Classic, where he finished T13.

Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira (Argentina): The Buenos Aires native carded the best finish of his professional career in Victoria, finishing second at 20-under par, after firing back-to-back rounds of 7-under 63 to close out the weekend.

Chase Sienkiewicz (United States): Finished T5 at the 2023 ATB Classic; has three top-20 finishes this season, his best coming in a T3 at the Inter Rapídisimo Golf Championship.

Cole Sherwood (United States): The No. 7 player in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking will make his PGA TOUR Americas debut in Edmonton after making two starts on the Korn Ferry Tour; Sherwood appeared at the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open.

Ben Lorenz (United States): Another member of the PGA TOUR University class of 2024, Lorenz solidified his spot inside the top 25 after winning the NCAA Rancho Sante Fe Regional; Lorenz was not in the field in Victoria, and will make his PGA TOUR Americas debut at the ATB Classic.

William Holan (Canada): An Edmonton native, Holan is in the field via a sponsor exemption. Holan won the individual Atlantic Sun Conference championship and led Lipscomb to their first conference title as a team in program history. Holan made his first PGA TOUR-sanctioned start as an amateur at the 2023 ATB Classic.

Jorge Villar (Mexico): Finished T2 at the 2022 ATB Classic; Villar has five top-25 finishes this season in seven starts, and is currently No. 29 in the Fortinet Cup Points List.

Tournament history

Returning to the Northern Bear Golf Club for its second year, the ATB Classic became a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event in 2013. The event has featured current PGA TOUR members such as Tony Finau, Nick Taylor, Mackenzie Hughes and 2019 ATB Classic winner Hayden Buckley, as well as current Korn Ferry Tour member and 2023 ATB Classic winner Davis Lamb.

This week’s field features five players who finished inside the top 15 at the 2023 ATB Classic event: Chase Sienkiewicz (T5), Noah Steele (T5), Sam Choi (T5), Matthew Anderson (T13) and Gunn Yang (T13). Anderson, the No. 1 player in the Fortinet Cup Points List, made his first career cut as a pro at Northern Bear in 2023.

Fortinet Cup overview

The ATB Classic is the second stop of the North America Swing and the eighth event of the season. The 10-event North America Swing is comprised of nine events in Canada and one in the United States. The 156-player field features 54 of the top 60 players who earned exempt membership for Segment II from the Latin America Swing, including five of the six tournament winners this season.

After the North America Swing’s ninth event (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens, Aug. 29-Sep. 1), the top 120 players in the Fortinet Cup will be exempt into the Fortinet Cup Championship (Sep. 5-8), the final event of the season. The season will conclude in Caledon, Ontario, at TPC Toronto with the top 10 players in the Fortinet Cup earning exempt membership into the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour.

PGA TOUR Americas: 2024 season summary

Up to 15 Korn Ferry Tour cards are on the line during the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas season. Five conditional memberships will go to the top players from the Latin America (Matthew Anderson, Harry Hillier) and North America (top three players) Swings and the top 10 players in the season-long Fortinet Cup points list will earn exempt membership.