PGA Tour: Alex Noren lights up course to fire sizzling 61 at Butterfield Bermuda Championship

The Swede showed off his wedge game to card a ten under 61 around a still Port Royal Golf Club, enough for two shot lead over Vince Whaley, Dylan Wu, Robert Garrigus and DJ Trahan. It was a scary day for the Bermuda course, as no less than 25 golfers went six under or better.

And it could have been better for Noren, who bogeyed the par four 5th to go along with his 11 birdies.

"It was quite easy conditions and there’s a lot of wedges out there," Noren told AP after his lowest-ever score on the tour.

"But I improved the wedges a lot coming from Japan, where I struggled with them. So I'm very, very happy. It was great to get a ten under. It was a long time ago I had a really low round."

Meanwhile, Garrigus is on the cusp of breaking his unenvious streak of 20 missed cuts which stretches all the way back to April 2022.

"My short game was perfect today, which I've been working on it a little bit, but I can't say I've been working really hard," said the American.

"I've only played a couple times in the past few weeks, maybe a month. I was just coming out to shake the rust off and have a good time today and I guess I did. It was a lot of fun."

Finally, Adam Long earned a unique bit of history on Thursday. The Louisiana native nailed the first 11 fairways at Port Royal, taking his incredible streak to 69 fairways in a row, eclipsing the PGA Tour record of 59.

"Had everyone not come up and said something to me the last 24 hours, I probably wouldn't think about it as much as I did," said Long, who opened with a 66.

"But it was in my mind, for sure, to start. Hit a hybrid on the first and then the second fairway is really hard to hit. Luckily it was kind of into the wind, so I hit a driver and hung in the fairway somehow and perfectly in the middle. So after that, I was just kind of coasting."

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