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Hayden Springer earned his spot successful PGA Tour folklore connected Thursday aft shooting a singular 59 astatine nan John Deere Classic.
The 27-year-old ended his opening information astatine TPC Deere Run pinch a four-shot lead atop nan leaderboard aft a singular 12-under-par 59.
Springer, classed No 236 successful nan world, only earned his PGA Tour paper backmost successful December. Seven months on, he changeable only nan 14th sub-60 information successful circuit history.
He changeable six birdies and an eagle connected his beforehand 9 to scope nan move successful conscionable 27 shots.
Then, aft a drawstring of pars, Springer closed pinch 2 much birdies - and 1 much eagle - successful nan last 4 holes.
It meant he vanished his opening information pinch 2 eagles, 8 birdies, 8 pars and not a azygous bogey. That near nan American 4 clear of Englishman Harry Hall.
Hayden Springer earned his spot successful PGA Tour folklore pinch a 59 astatine nan John Deere Classic
He vanished his opening information pinch 2 eagles, 8 birdies, 8 pars and not a azygous bogey
Nashville autochthonal Springer turned master backmost successful 2019 and has yet to triumph connected nan PGA Tour. He has made a small complete half a cardinal dollars successful prize money since joining nan paid ranks.
The 27-year-old secured a top-10 decorativeness astatine nan Rocket Mortgage Classic past week but that collapsed a tally of six consecutive missed cuts.
Springer precocious suffered nan calamity of losing his girl Sage, who passed distant past November. She was conscionable three.
Sage was diagnosed pinch Trisomy 18, a terrible upset resulting from an other chromosome. She wasn't expected to spell location from nan infirmary but alternatively lived for 3 years.
Sage died conscionable weeks earlier Springer entered PGA Tour Q-School, wherever he earned his first PGA Tour Card.
