BMW Championship: Course records were made to be broken

The BMW Championship wrapped up yesterday, and one thing can be said for certain. Course records are made to be broken.

If you thought we were going to see guys struggling to shoot more than a couple of shots under par this past week at the BMW Championship, you would have been sorely mistaken.

There were only two golfers this week, Nate Lashley and Harold Varner III, that shot over par for the week.

Heading into Medinah and the BMW Championship, the course record was 65. Oh boy, did that not last long.

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During Thursday’s opening round, Justin Thomas and Jason Kokrak both tied the course record. There were even a handful of other golfers right behind them at -6.

Then the record started getting assaulted. A 65 at Medinah would be a thing of the past by the time all was said and done.

Joaquin Niemann would shoot 65 on Friday, making that three people so far that had tied the old course record. That’s right. I said old course record. Hideki Matsuyama went out Friday and fired off a bogey-free 63. That would be enough to vault him to the top of the leaderboard. For the time being, at least.

If you tuned in Saturday, you were treated to an all-time great round. Justin Thomas started hot, and he never cooled off. How hot did he start?

Birdie-birdie-birdie-birdie-birdie.

That’s how hot it was. He decided to give the course a break with a bogey on 6, which he would get right back with a birdie at 8. He would finish up by shooting 30 on the back nine, with two birdies and two eagles. All of this added up to an incredible new course record of 61.

Wyndham Clark and Gary Woodland tried to keep up with him but were unable to. On any other day, they would have put their mark on the course with their exceptional play, but Justin Thomas stole the show Saturday. Clark would shoot 65, and Woodland would shoot 64, missing out on 63 by failing to convert his 10-foot birdie putt.

Patrick Cantlay would join the formerly exclusive 65 club on Sunday, although it was enough to get him into a second-place overall finish. Hideki Matsuyama decided 63 was so nice that he wanted to do it again, which jumped him to a third-place finish.

No one was able to catch Justin Thomas though, as his 61 was just too much for anyone else to overcome.

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If you are anywhere near Medinah this week, stop on by. The course could use some kind words and some gentle thoughts. We all know the course needs it after the PGA was done tearing it up this week.

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