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Pettersen Ties Tour Record at Wyndham

Friday August 15, 2008
What is the lowest stroke total recorded over the opening two rounds of a PGA Tour tournament? It's 125, and on Friday at the Wyndham Championship, Carl Pettersen tied that record. Pettersen fired a 61 on Friday to follow up his opening 64, and has the lead at the midway point in the final "regular season" FedEx Cup Series tournament.

The other golfers to post 125 in the first two rounds of a PGA Tour event are:

  • Tiger Woods (64-61), 2000 WGC Championships-NEC Invitational
  • Mark Calcavecchia (65-60), 2001 Phoenix Open
  • Tom Lehman (63-62), 2001 Invensys Classic at Las Vegas
  • Corey Pavin (61-64), 2006 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee

Pettersen's 61 also set a new 18-hole tournament record in the Wyndham Championship, previously known as the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro and the Greater Greensboro Open. Davis Love III (1992), Mark O'Meara (1996), Jeff Maggert (1999) and Charles Warren (2005) shared the previous mark of 62.

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