The *other* PGA Tour event this week just broke a scoring record (2024)

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Rafa Cabrera Bello broke 70 on both Thursday and Friday, a three-under 69 followed by a four-under 68. Michael Kim followed a 71 with a 67. Chesson Hadley followed a 71 with a 66. Wesley Bryan followed a 72 with a 65.

What do they all have in common? They all missed the cut at this week’s ISCO Championship in Kentucky, the co-sanctioned PGA Tour and DP World Tour event played opposite the Genesis Scottish Open.

Normally, the seven-under-par number Cabrera Bello, Hadley and Bryan all reached would have been good enough to play the weekend. In fact, seven under would have made the cut in every PGA Tour event ever played since 1970 until this week’s tournament in Kentucky.

With an eight-under-par cut, the ISCO Championship has set a new record for lowest cut on the PGA Tour in relation to par since the Tour started keeping detailed records in 1970. The previous record had only ever happened one time, at the 2020 Shriners Children’s Open.

At -8, 66 professionals and one amateur make the cut at the ISCO Championship, marking the low 36-hole cut relative to par in an individual stroke-play event on the PGA TOUR on record (1970-present). The previous record was -7 at the 2020 Shriners Children’s Open.

— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) July 12, 2024

8 under cut at the Isco champ is craaazzyyy 🤯

— Michael S. Kim (@Mike_kim714) July 12, 2024

The record 36-hole cut comes amid record scoring on the PGA Tour which has seen two 59s and winning scores of 20 under or better in two of the last three events since the U.S. Open. The third event, the Rocket Mortgage Classic, likely would have gone past that score, if it wasn’t for a cold front Saturday night that made Detriot Golf Club play more than two-and-a-half strokes harder on Sunday than Saturday.

Over the last five tournaments on Tour including the first two rounds of this week’s events, just three rounds saw the field average over 70 among the 16 rounds and all three came at the Rocket Mortgage where the winning score ended up being 18 under.

As for the players on the other end of the leaderboard at the ISCO Championship, the lead through two rounds was already at 16 under after Pierceson Coody opened with a 61 and backed it up with a 67 at the par-72 Keene Trace Golf Club Champions Course.

Coody won’t even when he begins his round Saturday afternoon after Sam Baristow shot a third-round 10-under 62 to get to 18 under with Coody still hours from teeing off.

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