Aronimink Golf Club, designed by renowned course architect Donald Ross, opened a century ago in 1926 on the current Newtown Square plot. This year, the Philadelphia suburb layout is hosting the men’s second Major on the calendar, the PGA Championship.
It is the 108th edition of the Championship, and the first time in 64 years Aronimink plays host.
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Aronimink is a par-70 on the card with just two par-fives, the ninth and 16th, making it harder for pros to go low, forcing the game’s best to be aggressive on the two-shotters.
Moreover, there is just one par-four under 400 yards off the championship tees, and three of the four par-threes stretch out to over 200 yards. This makes it even more impressive when someone goes low around the Pennsylvania course.
So who holds the course record, for both the men and the women, and what scores have been posted?
Aronimink Course Record
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The men’s course record at Aronimink Golf Club is 62, eight-under par.
However, this is not held by just one golfer; it has been recorded six times, including twice by the same player in consecutive rounds.
Nick Watney was the first to shoot the remarkable total back in 2011 when the AT&T National was played there on the PGA Tour. 30-years-old at the time, Watney fired the course record in the third round en route to victory. The Sacramento native notched five career PGA Tour wins and made over 500 starts on the US circuit.
Watney would hold the record on his own for seven years, until the PGA Tour returned to Aronimink for the 2018 BMW Championship, as the penultimate event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
On that weekend in September eight years ago, the elusive 62 was shot five times. In the opening round, it will come as no surprise that Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, two generational talents, fired eight-under to get their tournament underway.
American Kevin Na then followed suit on Friday, before Tommy Fleetwood also…
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