PGA Tour player sets 36-hole course record just months after nearly losing his TOUR card

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It can be stressful business being a PGA Tour player and with only the top 125 players keeping their TOUR cards in 2024, the last few events of the season were very tense.

There are various avenues for PGA Tour players to keep their cards. One is maintaining that top 125 status – soon to change to 100 – while the other way is to win a PGA Tour event and secure an exemption into events for a number of years.

In 2024, a number of well known names were painfully close to losing their cards after slipping down the pecking order.

One of those was popular American star, Joel Dahmen.

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Dahmen finished down in 124th to cling onto his card in 2024 but playing this weekend at the Corales Puntacana Championship, Dahmen has nabbed himself a course record to put himself in prime position to seal his immediate future on TOUR.

Joel Dahmen sets PGA Tour record at the Corales Puntacana Championship

In a quite brilliant two rounds of golf, Joel Dahmen has come out firing and going into the weekend in the Dominican Republic, he’s set a new 36-hole course record.

Dahmen shot a magnificent 10 under par opening round before going round in six under in round two to put himself at 16-under par going into the weekend.

Indeed, Dahmen admitted it was a touch strange to find himself in such a position

“Exactly. Yeah, it’s just fun, I’ve never been in this position before. Maybe back in my amateur days or something like that. But I feel like I did a good job of not protecting. I didn’t see a scoreboard honestly until 18 green. I knew Charley’s making kind of a charge and I figured he was kind of around, but yeah, two great days and need two more of ’em,” Dahmen admitted afterwards.

Dahmen holds a four shot lead over Garrick Higgo ahead of round three.

The lowest 36 hole score in PGA Tour history

Joel Dahmen’s total of just 128 over two rounds is very very impressive but it’s not enough to put himself into the top spot.

That belongs to a certain Justin Thomas, who shot a two round total of 123 back at the Sony Open back in 2017.

Thomas now has 14 rounds of 62 or less in his career and he’s certainly made a habit of going low.

In terms of the lowest cut mark, that was set in 2020 at The Shriners, as a stunning score of seven under was required to make the weekend.