🧈 Smooth as Butter: Jake Knapp

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What to know: If you’ve never seen Jake Knapp hit a golf ball, you’re absolutely missing out. This guy has maybe the smoothest swing in the game of golf, and when he has it going, it’s a pretty sight. If you managed to watch any of his performance at the Cognizant Classic yesterday, you witnessed golf history with a side quest to Tempo Town.

Knapp came out firing with five-straight birdies, but then came back down to earth (kinda) with three-straight pars. He must’ve sipped some birdie juice on his way to the ninth tee-box, though, as he got hot again. He birdied 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15.

Somewhere along that birdie train the crowd and twitter sphere started to whisper the term “history”. Going into the 16th hole, Knapp needed to shoot just one-under to break 60, or two-under to join Jim Furyk as the only people to shoot 58 on the PGA Tour.

Take a deep breath, Jim, because Knapp ONLY shot a 59. Becoming the 15th player in PGA Tour history to do so. Knapp two-putted on 18 for a closing birdie to secure the sub-60 score.

When I heard that Knapp finished with a 12-under, I was certain he would have a MONSTER lead. Wrong. Knapp holds a 4-stroke lead over Daniel Berger, Russel Henley, and Sami Valimaki. Behind them sits a BIG TIME group of golfers that includes some of the following: Sam Ryder, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth, Brian Harman, and Cashmere Keith Mitchell.

So if Knapp wants to win this tournament, he’s gonna have to put together some really good rounds for the rest of the weekend.

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