Alejandro del Rey shoots 58 at the Swiss Challenge to record lowest golf round EVER on European Tour
ALEJANDRO DEL REY fired a record-smashing 58 at the Swiss Challenge for the lowest ever score in a major European golf tour event.
Eight birdies and three eagles helped Spain’s world No392 become Alej-end with golf’s first 14-under par round.
Four other players have carded 58 at a major competition globally – but all were ‘only’ 12 under par.
The European Tour hailed 23-year-old Del Rey’s second-round achievement as “utterly incredible” in an event that was switched to France this year for the first time.
American Jim Furyk famously shot 58 five years ago on the PGA tour.
Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa (2010) and South Korean Kim Seong-hyeon (May this year) have matched that feat on the Japan Golf Tour.
Del Rey’s heroics on the par-72 Golf Saint Apollinaire course began with an instant birdie before eagles on the par-four 1th and par-five 12th.
He then turned on 29, thanks to birdies on the 14th and 15th.
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The Arizona State product launched his front nine holes with a hat-trick of gains, plus more birdies on the fifth and sixth.
Pars on the seventh and eighth appeared to severely dent his hopes of shattering records.
But Del Rey finished with an eagle on the par-five ninth to catapult him into golfing folklore.
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