2022 Scottish Open leaderboard: Cameron Tringale scores 61 en route to record-setting day in Round 1

8 July، 2022

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The first round of the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open featured everything you could possibly want from the first of eight straight rounds of golf in Scotland. Cameron Tringale holds the lead after shooting a shocking and record-setting 61, and many big time stars were flummoxed all day by the heavy wind and slow greens.

Justin Thomas (again!) caught the wrong end of the draw, which emerged as a prominent storyline in Round 1, Will Zalatoris did something I’ve never seen happen on a golf course (and I doubt anybody else ever has, either) and somehow — in one of the strongest fields of the entire year — there’s only one top-10 player in the world inside the top 14 after 18 holes of play.

We’ll get to all of that and more in this Round 1 recap.

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The leader
Other contenders

The leader

1. Cameron Tringale (-9): More amazing than Tringale’s 61 is the fact that he gained 11 strokes on the field in the process. Eleven! That hasn’t happened many times on the PGA Tour in the last several years — only twice since 2010, in fact — and part of it certainly was that Tringale caught a heater at the right time in the much easier wave.

Tringale made six straight birdies to start his second nine and only hit one approach on that side outside of 17 feet. He only needed nine putts in his 29 strokes on the back to touch off the 61.

“I believe it’s course record over here,” said Tringale. “The putter was the story. I got off to a slow, uncommitted start and I decided if you’re going to be out here, let’s make some positive swings. Started to hole a couple putts. Honestly, that’s what happened. My putter was en fuego. Middle of the round, my striking matched my putting. It’s the only way it can happen.”