World golf record set
NZPA Lagos Peter Tupling, a 30-year-old Briton without a tournament victory in 12 years, has | set a world low-scoring record for 72 holes in winning the $90,000 Nigerian Open golf championship. Tujling reduced the par-71 Ikoyi Club to a pitch-and-putt course as rounds of 63, 66, 62 and 64 gave him a 29-under-par total of 255, two strokes inside Ike Souchak’s former record low aggregate achieved in the 1955.
Texas Open at San Antonio. “I had no idea I was bt for a w T orld record,” sail Tupling. “My chipping and putting to scramble pars in the mid-round was the key.” The defending champion, Bill Longmuir, of Britain, finished second, six strokes back. Many players had scores in the low 60s over the four rounds because the sand am oil-soaked putting surface, known as browns, are muc’ truer than normal greens.
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