Jake Knapp made PGA National Look like your average municipal course on Thursday.
The 30-year-old shot in the first round with 12 below, without any 59 Aware of the classic – formerly known as Honda Classic.
Knapp came out of the door of red, birding each of his first five holes; He became involved in two and on the fifth five, scored a T -shirt from 194 meters away to just three and a half meters.
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Jake Knapp waved to the audience after on Thursday, February 27, 2025, at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (Jeff Romance/USA Today Network via Imagings Images)
He temporarily returned to the ground, parking the next three, but then captured six of his next seven. Again, he scored a teenager in a four -meter shot at three ninth, and on the 15th, another couple 3, he drilled a bird with more than 31 meters.
Through 15 holes, Knapp was 11 under a couple, but he would mate his next two holes, it takes a ptice on a steam-five 18 to break 60.
That was not a problem. After a 335 -meter drive, he hit green with about 200 meters. He missed the eagle closely, which would only be the second 58 in the history of PGA Tour, but that is 15. 59 ever on tour.
Jake Knapp plays his shot from the ninth teenager during the first round The Cognizant Classic. (Reinhold Matay-Imagn Pictures)
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It is also the sixth time in PGA history that anyone in one round has gone 12-under-SCOTTIE Scheffler, Jim Furyk (twice), Paul Goydos and Hayden Springer.
It was 29 on the front and 30 on the back for Knapp.
Knapp reached each Par-5 in two shots, and hit almost 70 feet with valuable birds on a Par-3 and 4s. He then drilled all six of his passages between 6 and 12 feet on a day.
One would properly assume that Knapp is a leader at the club house at the moment, and three are closest to him at eight below.
Jake Knapp poses with his ladder and ball after firing in 59 during the first round of Cognizant Classic on February 27. 2025. (Mike Mulholland/Getty Images)
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Knapp has one PGA Tour win under the belt – Mexico Open 2024, a year and one day to its 59; Last year, he competed in his first three major, finishing the T55 on Masters and missing the cut at the PGA championship and the US Open.
But maybe this could be a confidence amplifier.
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