PGA Tour report for many fairways in a row damaged at Bermuda Championship

The report for many consecutive fairways hit on the PGA Tour stood for a very long time.

Thirty-one years, to be actual.

However after hitting 56-of-56 fairways finally week’s Worldwide Applied sciences Championship, and since he discovered his final three fairways on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open, Adam Lengthy solely wanted to seek out his first two fairways on Thursday to interrupt the report.

He did so with ease.

“Had everybody not come up and mentioned one thing to me the final 24 hours, I most likely wouldn’t give it some thought as a lot as I did,” Lengthy admitted after opening with a 5-under 66 on the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

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“However it was in my thoughts, for certain, to start out. Hit a hybrid on the primary, after which the second fairway’s actually exhausting to hit. Fortunately, it was type of into the wind, so I hit a driver and hung within the fairway one way or the other and completely within the center, so after that, I used to be simply type of coasting.”

When his ball landed on the quick grass on the par-5 second, it marked Lengthy’s sixtieth consecutive fairway hit.

That snapped the report of 59 straight fairways, set by Brian Claar in 1992. Claar by no means gained on the PGA Tour, however he completed solo fifth on the 1989 U.S. Open at Oak Hill and tied for ninth on the 1992 PGA Championship at Bellerive.

Nonetheless, Lengthy, who gained the 2019 Desert Basic on the PGA Tour, continued to stripe it on Thursday in Bermuda.

After discovering the golf green on the primary two holes, he discovered the quick grass on the following eight holes—not counting the par-3s, after all.

However his streak got here to an finish on the troublesome par-4 fifteenth, which measures 412 yards.

“I felt dangerous for the media guys following me,” Lengthy joked concerning the streak ending.

“I informed them a few holes earlier, I’m like, one in every of these occasions you’re going to have the ability to get out of right here, sorry about this. There have been just a few fortunate ones like on 11 and 12 that one way or the other discovered the golf green. The one which missed, yeah, it was a 3-wood that I type of hit up within the air a bit of too spinny and the wind caught it. Didn’t fairly go far sufficient so it stayed within the tough. Yeah, it was a bit of little bit of aid that that half was over.”

That missed fairway at 15 didn’t do an excessive amount of harm, nevertheless, as Lengthy discovered the inexperienced and two-putted for par. He then made a 3 on the troublesome par-3 sixteenth after which completed par-par for his 66. He’s 5 photographs again of chief Alex Noren, who went wild with a 61 Thursday.

However Lengthy’s miss at 15 ended the streak at 69 consecutive fairways hit, which is fairly outstanding.

Will it take one other 31 years for somebody to interrupt Lengthy’s report? Who is aware of! However whoever breaks it must hit 70 straight, which clearly spans multiple match.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By way of. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Make sure to try @_PlayingThrough too.