What Is the Lowest 18-Hole Golf Score Ever Recorded?
What Is the Lowest 18-Hole Golf Score Ever Recorded?Identifying the lowest 18-hole score ever recorded in the game of golf is a difficult task because there is no official clearinghouse for such a record. The Guinness Book of World Records does recognize a “world record” in this category, and we’ll get to that mark down below; but the Guinness folks only recognize scores posted in competition and on a course that meets minimum-length requirements.Answer: What we can say with certainty is that no round of 54 has ever been recorded in golf … but that a round of 55 has been recorded. There are also scores of 56 and 57 in the books. So let’s list the lowest rounds for which there is documentary evidence: 55 There is one 55 known to have been posted, and it was posted by a golfer you might have heard of: Homero Blancas. Blancas played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, and later on the Champions Tour. In 1962, when he
