After taking the lead role in Gilmore 2, John Daly may want to consider working full-time after setting an unnecessary single-hole record for PGA Tour at Sanford International.
In what looked like a scorecard mistake, the two-time major champions scored more than 19 strokes on the par 5, including seven. Make it the highest single hole score in PGA Tour history.
He finished his first 18 rounds on 88, and it’s no surprise that the bottom of the rankings is Tom Lehman’s 77th game at the Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Fall. If he is allowed to ignore the 12th hole, he will hit an impressive 69.
Daly’s original score was shown at 17, and he handed over his scorecard and officially recorded 188 times.
The 1995 Open Championship has recorded two of the seven highest scores on a hole in PGA Tour history. At the 1998 Arnold Palmer Invitational, he played 18 on the par 6 at Bay Hill, and he pulled out of the 2011 Australian Open after pouring six goals into the water on the 11th.
Angel Cabrera led Sanford International after the first round and Daly led 24 strokes to the Under-64.
Daly’s record 19 stroke 12th hole
Shot 1 – from T-shirt box
Shooting 2 – Mainly rough
3-3 free throws
decline
Shot 4 – From the main rough
Shoot 5 – Shoot 5 fine
decline
Shooting 6 – Mainly rough
Shoot 7 – Shoot 7 fine
decline
Shot 8 – Mainly rough
Shooting 9 – Shooting 9 free throws
decline
Shooting 10 – Mainly rough
11 shot – 11 shot free throw
decline
Shooting 12 – Mainly rough
13 shot – 13 shot
decline
Shot 14 – Mainly rough
15 shots – 15 shots fine
decline
16 shots – Mainly rough
Shot 17 – from the main rough
Shooting 18 – Rough from the middle
Shooting 19 – From Green, in the Hole
John Daly 69 pic.twitter.com/IRB9SVHQ2P
– Jeff Eisenband (@jeffeisenband) September 12, 2025
