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You put most pro golfers on a 6500 yard course, be it a mini tour player, Web.com player, or PGA Tour player, nearly every one would break 60. I don't mean to knock the guy or his round, it's a great score and I sure would love to shoot it, but talk to me when he shoots that in a tournament on a course 500 yards longer.

Was that course in Northern CA? Ooops....Never mind. : )

Mini-Tour, mini-score.

That is a great score from any length!!! If I am not mistaken though, it can not be counted as a record because it is less than 6500 yds.

http://golf.about.com/od/faqs/..
You are right. Page above says Guiness instituted a 6500-yard rule for records. I searched USGA site for records, but found no info there. It appears 56 is not all that noteworthy. From the same page above:
"It's amazing to say, but 56s and especially 57s are reported too often these days to keep up to date with them."


But for what it's worth, here's a photo of the 56 scorecard. And the yardage was actually 6540, not 6450 as I wrote (Golf Channel story appears to have inverted two digits).
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/..

Short tracks up there

COMPLETELY FALSE.

PGA TOUR setups and their big 7300 yard proclamations are bs. First of all, that is the maxiumum length if they put the markers as far back as they can on every hole. They never do. in fact, they routinely move markers up when the condition change (hole starts playing into the wind when it was playing down wind)

Second, the fairways on pga tour events stimp out faster than the greens most of play on. I haven't been to all that many tour events but I've been to enough to know that Bubba Watsons' 330 yard drives aren't all that impressive, they only carried 280 or 290. HE does get props for hitting the fwy and taking advantage of that extra rollout.

Third, have you seen the greens the pros play on? yes they are fast so that adds difficulty, but they are used to faster greens, the differentiatior is how smooth they are. The muni greens many of us play on are brutal to try to hole even a 3 footer. on perfectly smooth greens a 6 footer becomes a gimme instead of a 2 footer.

Finally, I played a 6500 yard par 72 course last week. it had several "short" par 4's betwen 375 and 415 yards however all of them played substantially uphill and into the prevailing wind. the 375 yard hole became a 415 yard hole and the 415 yard holes became 450+ yard holes.

shooting under par is something very few of us will ever do. shooting sub 60 is ridiculous.