{"id":9258,"date":"2025-06-27T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/knapp-shoots-11-under-61-for-rocket-classic-18-hole-record\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:24:50","slug":"knapp-shoots-11-under-61-for-rocket-classic-18-hole-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/knapp-shoots-11-under-61-for-rocket-classic-18-hole-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Knapp shoots 11 under 61 for Rocket Classic 18 hole record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Detroit &#8211; Jake Knapp shot an 11-under 61, defeating Rocket Classic Records, which stood for less than a day, defeating the 60, becoming the first PGA Tour player to film under 61 in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Knapp started its second 130th with a 156 player field after opening at 72. He surged into competition on Friday with nine birdies and bogey free rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I probably only got upset all night, so I think I helped a little this morning,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 99th in the world, Knapp is the only player on the tour to film over 61 in two rounds this season.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 59 from a 59-score record of 58 set by Jim Furic in 2016 &#8211; at Cognizant Classic four months ago, he broke the tournament scoring record and cooled off to tie him down to sixth place.<\/p>\n<p>Knapp broke an 18-hole record at Detroit Golf Club, set Thursday in the first round when Aldrich Potgieter and Kevin Roy both shot 62.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I start making birdies, I want to make more,&#8221; Knap said. &#8220;When I locked myself in the third and final hall, I was thinking about 59 or so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit &#8211; Jake Knapp shot an 11-under 61, defeating Rocket Classic Records, which stood for less than a day, defeating the 60, becoming the first PGA Tour player to film under 61 in the same season. Knapp started its second 130th with a 156 player field after opening at 72. He surged into competition on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-9258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}