When 2024 began, it would have been hard to predict quite how many golfers would break 60 as it progressed. However, it was only a matter of weeks into the year when the first player chalked up a sub-60 round, and the remarkable feat has been achieved several more times as 2024 has progressed.
Here are the nine players who have carded a round below 60 this year so far.
Joaquin Niemann
Joaquin Niemann hit the first sub-60 round of the year
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- Score: 59
- Event: LIV Golf Mayakoba – LIV Golf
- Date: 2 February
The year was still young when 60 was bettered for the first time, and that honor fell to LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann. Perhaps most remarkably, he made 59 it in the first round of the first tournament of the LIV Golf season, at Mayakoba in Mexico.
He made 10 birdies and an eagle on the Friday at El Camaleon Golf Club, which set him on his way to his maiden LIV Golf title.,
Helped by that remarkable round, the Torque GC captain could even afford a two-shot penalty on the Sunday before he beat Sergio Garcia in a playoff as darkness fell.
Cristobal Del Solar
Cristobal Del Solar carded the lowest round of the year at the Astara Golf Championship
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- Score: 57
- Event: Astara Golf Championship – Korn Ferry Tour
- Date: 8 February
Six days after Niemann’s 59, Cristobel Del Solar became the second Chilean of the year to card below 60 with a truly remarkable 57 in the first round of the Korn Ferry Tour’s Astara Golf Championship. That didn’t turn out to be just the lowest score of the year so far, it was the lowest round ever recorded on a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.
One caveat was the short 6,254 yard par 70 course at Colombia’s Country Club de Bogota, while it was also played at altitude, making it even shorter. However, veteran caddie Kip Henley defended his achievement, writing on X: “This dude shot 57 today on a course that just isn’t that easy.”
Del Solar’s round included nine birdies and two eagles, but it wasn’t enough to claim the title as he finished fifth.
Aldrich Potgieter
Aldrich Potgieter followed Cristobal Del Solar’s feat with his own sub-60 round the following day
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- Score: 59
- Event: Astara Golf Championship – Korn Ferry Tour
- Date: 9 February
Remarkably, we only needed to wait another day…
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