In each article, Dr. Cohn will chronicle the career low rounds of PGA TOUR or LPGA Tour pros and discuss the mindset that helps players shoot low rounds. On the PGA TOUR, BUY.COM TOUR and LPGA Tour, players are shooting low rounds more often. Players shoot 62s and 63s almost every week. They are setting course records, and tournament records are falling.
Lower scores are due in part to improvements in equipment, course conditions and physical training.
A factor that might not come to mind is the mental approach. Today's players have the mentality necessary for going low. Golfers seem to be fascinated by players who have shot 59. Al Geiberger was the first player to shoot 59 in a PGA TOUR event when he won the 1977 Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic. Chip Beck recorded the second 59 in the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational by making birdie on the last three holes.