18-Hole Scoring Record at the PGA Championship
Schauffele's 9-under par score in the first round of the 2024 PGA Championship, played on the par-71 Valhalla Golf Club, was the first 62 in tournament history. Schauffele's round started from the No. 10 tee, so he played the course's back nine first, then finished on the front nine. He had five birdies in his first nine holes (Nos. 11, 13, 15, 16 and 18) for a 31. Then he closed with another 31 with birdies on Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 8.
At the time, Schauffele already shared the U.S. Open's 18-hole scoring record with a 62. That makes him the first golfer with multiple 62s in majors, and the first golfer to score 62 in two different majors.
It took only two rounds for someone to tie Shauffele, however. In the third round of the 2024 PGA Championship, Shane Lowry became the second golfer with a 62 in this major. Lowry carded a 29 on the front nine of Valhalla, and a 33 on the back nine. Lowry had a putt on the last green of the round for a 61, but just missed.
The List: Lowest Rounds in the PGA Championship
- 62 — Xander Schauffele (31-31), first round, 2024 (9-under)
- 62 — Shane Lowry (29-33), third round, 2024 (9-under)
- 63 — Bruce Crampton (31-32), second round, 1975 (7-under)
- 63 — Raymond Floyd (33-30), first round, 1982 (7-under)
- 63 — Gary Player (30-33), second round, 1984 (9-under)
- 63 — Vijay Singh (32-31), second round, 1993 (8-under)
- 63 — Michael Bradley (30-33), first round, 1995 (8-under)
- 63 — Brad Faxon (28-35), final round, 1995 (8-under)
- 63 — Jose Maria Olazabal (32-31), third round, 2000 (9-under)
- 63 — Mark O’Meara (32-31), second round, 2001 (7-under)
- 63 — Thomas Bjorn (32-31), third round, 2005 (7-under)
- 63 — Tiger Woods (32-31), second round, 2007 (7-under)
- 63 — Steve Stricker (33-30), first round, 2011 (7-under)
- 63 — Jason Dufner (31-32), second round, 2013 (7-under)
- 63 — Hiroshi Iwata (34-29), second round, 2015 (9-under)
- 63 — Robert Streb (30-33), second round, 2016 (9-under)
- 63 — Brooks Koepka (31-32), second round, 2018 (9-under)
- 63 — Charl Schwartzel (32-31), second round, 2018 (7-under)
- 63 — Brooks Koepka (31-32), first round, 2019 (7-under)
That's a lot of 63s. But just as only one golfer so far has scored 62 in this major, so has only one golfer so far recorded more than one 63 in the PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka, who had 63s in both his 2018 and 2019 victories. The only 63 so far that happened in the final round was Brad Faxon's in 1995.
Most of the 63s above were carded on golf courses that were par-70 or par-71. But several were recorded on par-72 courses, and those rounds share the tournament record for most strokes under par for 18 holes: Gary Player in 1984, Jose Maria Olazabal in 2000, Hiroshi Iwata in 2015, Robert Streb in 2016, plus Koepka in 2018. Schauffele matched that record at 9-under with his 62 in 2024.
The earliest 63, as shown above, was Bruce Crampton's in the 1975 PGA Championship. Whose record did Crampton break? There had been multiple rounds of 64 in tournament history by 1975. But the first 64 ever in the tournament was scored by Bobby Nichols in the first round of the 1964 PGA Championship.
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