Did you catch yesterdays play???!!!!

If you did, you were witness to a historical day in the golf world. We had 2 happenings that were almost unreal.First we had Ryo Ishikawa do something that had never been done in a major competitive golf tournament. Ryo shot 58 en route to winning The Crowns in Japan. It was a round with no bogeys (of course) that included a missed 7 footer that might have put him in company with nobody else.

58 has been shot before, but never in this fashion. If you can remember, Shegheki Maryuma shot a 58 in qualifying for the US Open one year.

The difference is that this was shot on an actual major tour in an actual 4 day tournament. WOW!!!!!!

Throw in the fact that he is 18 years of age and………well, are there even any words for that???

I heard a great joke during the Quail Hollow tournament, while something else historic was happening, that made me laugh. As the commentators were talking about Ryo’s round, one of them said “We all have shot 58 before, it is just that it happened somewhere around the 14th hole.”

Put that into perspective for a moment……let it sink in the significance.

The second historical moment ended with a 6th consecutive 3 on the back 9 at Quail Hollow as 20 year old Rory McIlroy won his first tournament on US soil.

He shot 62, to set the course record, and blitzed the field in the end.

The history might be his age, it might be the course record, but I think it is something beyond that. I think it is something I maybe have never seen.

Rory muddled through the first two rounds to make the cut ON THE NUMBER. In fact, he was 2 off the cut with 3 to play on Friday. Let that sink in as well.

Rounds of 66 and 62 moved him from out of the weekend to next year’s defending champion.

Amazing. Simply amazing!

The youth movement might be in full swing, and, for at least one day, it was served!

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