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

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

Thirty-one years, to be precise.

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 search out his first two fairways on Thursday to interrupt the file.

He did so with ease.

“Had everybody not come up and mentioned one thing to me the final 24 hours, I in all probability 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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“Nevertheless it was in my thoughts, for certain, to begin. Hit a hybrid on the primary, after which the second fairway’s actually arduous to hit. Fortunately, it was form of into the wind, so I hit a driver and hung within the fairway in some way and completely within the center, so after that, I used to be simply form of coasting.”

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

That snapped the file of 59 straight fairways, set by Brian Claar in 1992. Claar by no means received 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 received the 2019 Desert Traditional on the PGA Tour, continued to stripe it on Thursday in Bermuda.

After discovering the green on the primary two holes, he discovered the brief 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 in regards to the streak ending.

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

That missed fairway at 15 didn’t do an excessive amount of harm, nonetheless, 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 file? Who is aware of! However whoever breaks it should hit 70 straight, which clearly spans a couple of match.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Make sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.