Korn Ferry Tour pro having an unreal week, makes hole-in-one and backs it up with a 59

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Where do we start? It’s a legitimate question considering how much there is to unpack about Myles Creighton’s 11-under-par 59 on Saturday in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Wichita Open.

Is it most notable that it was the second 59 of the week at Crestview Country Club, a wholly gettable, par-70 track of only 6,910 yards?

Or that the 29-year-old Creighton is the first Canadian to break 60 on the KFT?

Or that he achieved his 59 with a chip-in for birdie on the final hole?

Or that Creighton served up an appetizer for his remarkable round by making his first competitive ace ever on Friday?

Stir all of that together and we’ve got maybe the most eventful 59 of all-time.

Unlike de Chassart, who was only three under par through six holes in the first round, Creighton got off to a scorching start and was five under through seven holes, making four straight birdies at the second through fifth before suffering his only bogey at 8. Back-to-back birdies followed at 9 and 10, and then Creighton went on another four-birdie run from 13-16.

He needed one more birdie to get to 59, but after parring the par-3 17th, it didn’t look like it would happen when Creighton missed the green with his approach at the par-4 18th.

Creighton, ranked 442nd in the world and without a top-10 finish in 13 KFT starts this season, made his hole-in-one on the par-3 12th hole on Friday to shoot a second straight 68. That put him seven shots behind leader Adrien Dumont de Chassart, who made 12 birdies and a bogey on Thursday to shoot 59.

But the guy was basically unconscious, so, of course, Creighton chipped in from about 25 feet. He pumped his fist, nearly took his caddie’s hand of with an aggressive slap, and as Creighton left the green, he looked straight into the camera and said, “That is insane.”

Creighton said that when he looked at his lie in the rough at the 18th green, he knew there would be no spon his ball and that he could basiclaly roll it nicely to the hole.

“I’m in a position on Saturday where it’s, like, I’m giving this a chance to go in. You’d never get these chances to shoot 59. And the hole looked big. I made a joke with my caddy … ‘should I just putt it because I feel like I was making every putt.

“I’d have been an annoying guy to play with today,” he added with a smile.

Creighton chuckled about how much he had to rally on Friday just to make the cut. He was three over for the round and one over for the tournament through 10, and bounced back with a 30 on the back nine that included an ace and an eagle that he holed out from the fairway.

“So it’s trying to get to three under to make the cut, and all of a sudden I look at the board and I’m five under,” Creighton said. “I didn’t feel like it was real. So, yeah, tried to just carry that over to today and play it kind of the same way. Just try to have fun and hit shots and make the shot fit your eye.”

Creighton’s effort was the 15th sub-60 scored in KFT history, and it was the second time there were two sub-60s in the same KFT event. Cristobal Del Solar shot 57 and Aldrich Pottgeiter 59 in the 2024 Astara Golf Championship in Colombia. There have been 14 sub-60 rounds on the PGA Tour, led by the lone 58 notched by Jiim Furyk.

With an ace and 59, is Creighton going to win in Wichita? That’s going to be a battle. He stood in the lead at 15 under, but there were still plenty of players within striking distance who were still on the front nine Saturday, and it was likely the Canadian was going to be a chaser come Sunday.

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com