Make that two 59s in the same number of days on PGA Tour Americas.
This time it led to the victory.
Brett White started the last round of Sunday of the commissionaries Ottawa Open Seven shots behind leader Philip Barbaardee Jr., who had celebrated 13-under 59 a day earlier in Eagle Creek Golf Club. Now it was White’s turn to break 60, and while Barbaardy in 70 ditch to bind 10th, White shifted up to 23, which earned him a place in a three-man play-off with Danny Fisher and Nathan Franks.
White had made 10 birdies on Sunday on his first 17 holes before he was a 63-foot Eagle Putt void for the third 59 in the history of PGA Tour Americas.
In Extras, the PAR-5 18th Hole twice Bird twice to seal his first career-America title and jump to the third in points.
White, 32, is eight years away from almost dying of viral encephalitis, which he contracted while he was a member of PGA Tour Latinoamerica. He spent three weeks in the hospital and had to learn basic tasks again, including talking and walking. His return to Golf came about a year after his hospitalization, and he won the 2019 Nevada Open and 2020 Michigan Open as part of his comeback. He received Korn Ferry Tour Q-School in 2021 to earn his KFT card before 2022, although he only started to lose two top 25s in 20.
“It has been a wild ride,” White told Golf Canal in 2021. “During a long journey you sometimes go back and you go, wow, I have to be grateful for where I am. I don’t think I stopped.”
The top 10 players at the end of the PGA Tour Americas season receive KFT cards.
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