Wayzata's Herron shoots 61 at PGA tournament after horrid 1st round

The Wayzata pro and 1999 Bay Hill champ tied the course record with Friday's second-round score at the Wyndham Championship.

August 17, 2012 at 5:18PM
Tim Herron
Tim Herron (Getty/afp - Getty Images/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If you would have read all the way to the bottom of the standings after the first round of the PGA Wyndham Championship on Friday morning, you would have found Wayzata native Tim (Lumpy) Herron second from the bottom.

After Friday's second round, however, you'll hear about how he tied the course record at the Sedgefield County Club in North Carolina with a 61.

His round included 10 birdies, including five in a row from holes 13 through 17, and one bogey.

It's a lot different than Thursday's mess of a round.

Here's a look at the scorecard, which looks like something that Upload once shot at the old LilliPutt course on the corner of Hwys. 7 and 101 in Minnetonka.

And here's a look at the Shot Tracker feature on the PGA Tour web site, where you can see a reconstruction of Herron's 61.

Too bad about that 76 on Thursday, which meant that Herron was still nine shots from the lead as of noon Friday.

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Howard Sinker

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Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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