SOUTHPORT, England – Branden Grace has recorded the first 62 in a men’s major championship, torching a defenseless Royal Birkdale on Saturday afternoon at The Open.
Previously, 29 players had shot 63 in a major championship (31 rounds), but no one had gone any lower in a men’s major.
Grace shot 8 under on the par-70 links and didn’t make a bogey. He put himself in position for the record with a two-putt birdie from 35 feet on the par-5 17th.
The previous low round at Birkdale was 63, shot by Jodie Mudd in the final round of the 1991 Open.