Ryo Hisatsune jokes sake bombs are responsible for pulling off this PGA Tour first

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There have been 62s shot before at Pebble Beach and plenty more recorded in PGA Tour history, but none have ever looked like the one Ryo Hisatsune fired on Thursday.

The 22-year-old Japanese star went super low to take the lead at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Day 1 despite not hitting his golf ball super well. In fact, Hisatsune hit the ball below the field average and wound up accomplishing a pretty crazy first in PGA Tour history.

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Thanks to stats guru Justin Ray for bringing this wild one to our attention. Hisatsune is the only player in more than 300,000 rounds measured by ShotLink since 2004 to lose strokes to the field in both off-the-tee and approach and yet still manage to shoot 62 or lower.

Remarkable. On the flip side, Hisatsune was money with the putter, gaining 5.132 strokes on the green. And he picked up nearly another two shots with his short game.

“I like these greens,” Hisatsune told reporters after. “I like a poa green like much easier. Feeling like more comfortable to playing these greens. Yeah, feeling like yeah, that’s why I can feeling more comfortable. Very lucky.”

Hisatsune made 160 feet worth of putts, but obviously, that’s more skill than luck. Or was it something else? The man who takes a sip from a water bottle before he putts joked at last year’s Valspar Championship that he’s got a bit of liquid courage in there.

So he’s a real character in addition to being one heckuva putter. In any event, Hisatsune’s round was a reminder that these guys are good—even when they’re not hitting it good.

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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com