Here are the results of my searches for players who had the best round of the day by at least 5 strokes in an official PGA Tour event.
I have covered all Masters tournaments, all stroke-play PGA Championships, and went back to 1930 for both the US Open and British Open. For non-majors, I went back to 1958.
I am pretty confident that the rounds appearing in the table below are correct, but there may be others as well (though I tried to be comprehensive).
By the way, I would estimate that there are several hundred rounds in which a golfer bested everyone else in the field that day by at least 4 strokes.
Strokes | Score | Name | Tourney | Round | Finish | Miscellany |
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6 | 63 | Dave Marr | 1958 Texas Open | 1st | T3 (4 strokes behind) | |
6 | 59 | Al Geiberger | 1977 Danny Thomas Memphis Classic | 2nd | Won by 3 strokes | First sub-60 round on PGA Tour |
6 | 63 | Calvin Peete | 1983 Georgia-Pacific Atlanta Classic | 3rd | Won by 2 strokes | Final round of rain-shortened 54-hole tourney |
6 | 62 | Davis Love III | 1992 KMart Greater Greensboro Open | 4th | Won by 6 strokes | |
6 | 59 | Jim Furyk | 2013 BMW Championship | 2nd | 3rd (3 strokes behind) | Event limited to 70 players (Conway Farms, Illinois) |
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5 | 68 | Tommy Armour | 1933 US Open | 1st | T4 (5 strokes behind) | North Shore CC (Illinois) |
5 | 66 | Craig Wood | 1941 Masters | 1st | Won by 3 strokes | 50 players in field; Wood first wire-to-wire Masters winner |
5 | 62 | Doug Sanders | 1961 Phoenix Open | 4th | 2nd (lost in playoff) | |
5 | 62 | Phil Rodgers | 1962 Los Angeles Open | 4th | Won by 9 strokes | Jack Nicklaus's first pro tourney (finished 21 shots behind Rodgers) |
5 | 64 | Tommy Jacobs | 1964 US Open | 2nd | 2nd (4 strokes behind) | Congressional CC |
5 | 62 | Jack Nicklaus | 1973 Ohio Kings Island Open | 3rd | Won by 6 strokes | |
5 | 62 | Gibby Gilbert | 1973 World Open | 1st | T15 (13 strokes behind) | Two-week eight-round tourney at Pinehurst |
5 | 62 | Tom Watson | 1973 World Open | 5th | T4 (6 strokes behind) | Two-week eight-round tourney at Pinehurst |
5 | 61 | Johnny Miller | 1975 Dean Martin Tucson Open | 4th | Won by 9 strokes | Miller won Phoenix Open week before by 14 strokes |
5 | 62 | Hale Irwin | 1979 Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic | 2nd | 3rd (6 strokes behind) | |
5 | 62 | Andy Bean | 1983 Canadian Open | 4th | T4 (2 strokes behind) | |
5 | 63 | Gary Player | 1984 PGA | 2nd | T2 (4 strokes behind) | Shoal Creek (Alabama) |
5 | 62 | Denis Watson | 1984 NEC World Series of Golf | 2nd | Won by 2 strokes | Event limited to 42 players (Firestone) |
5 | 63 | Doug Tewell | 1986 Los Angeles Open | 4th | Won by 7 strokes | |
5 | 63 | Jim Gallagher | 1993 Tour Championship | 1st | Won by 1 stroke | Event limited to 30 players (Olympic Club) |
5 | 60 | Davis Love III | 1994 United Airlines Hawaiian Open | 2nd | 2nd (1 stroke behind) | |
5 | 61 | John Huston | 1996 Memorial | 2nd | 5th (5 strokes behind) | |
5 | 60 | Steve Lowery | 1997 Buick Challenge | 4th | T3 (5 strokes behind) | |
5 | 59 | David Duval | 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic | 5th | Won by 1 stroke | 5-round tourney |
5 | 61 | Fred Funk | 1999 BC Open | 2nd | 2nd (lost in playoff) | |
5 | 61 | Chad Campbell | 2003 Tour Championship | 3rd | Won by 3 strokes | Event limited to 31 players (Champions GC) |
5 | 60 | Phil Mickelson | 2005 FBR Open | 2nd | Won by 5 strokes | |
5 | 66 | Vijay Singh | 2006 Mercedes Championship | 4th | 2nd (lost in playoff) | Event limited to 28 players (Kapalua) |
5 | 61 | Vijay Singh | 2006 Deutsche Bank | 3rd | 2nd (2 strokes behind) | |
5 | 62 | Adam Scott | 2007 Memorial | 2nd | T5 (3 strokes behind) | |
5 | 63 | Geoff Ogilvy | 2009 Memorial | 3rd | T10 (8 strokes behind) | |
5 | 62 | Graham DeLaet | 2010 Reno-Tahoe Open | 3rd | T31 (9 strokes behind) | Event opposite British Open |
5 | 61 | Tiger Woods | 2013 WGC-Bridgestone | 2nd | Won by 7 strokes | Event limited to 73 players (Firestone) |
5 | 60 | Sung Kang | 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach | 2nd | T17 (9 strokes behind) | Event played over multiple courses (Kang at Monterey Peninsula CC) |
Last edited by whosnext; 08-12-2018 at 05:42 AM.