The look on Tom Kite and David Duval’s faces when they found out that a college amateur had stolen the course record from one of the most acclaimed clubs in the world, Pebble Beach. The lucky man is a Texas Tech student named Hurly Long and he accomplished his feat this weekend during a competition, the Carmel Cup, while representing his college team.
The college junior achieved his exceptional record on Saturday when he shot 61 strokes in the second round of the tournament. His 11 under par included a 15-yard birdie on the par-3 17 and another birdie from four yards out on the par-5 18, a shot that put him one stroke ahead of the record previously held by Kite and Duval.
“It’s very surreal,” Long told PebbleBeach.com. “It’s taken me a while to come to grips with what I’ve done. Pebble Beach is a special place. I was talking about it with my teammates: where else in the world would you want to hold the course record? Maybe at Augusta National? It’s a huge, huge honor.”
Interestingly, this new course record coincided with a visit to Pebble Beach by the co-publisher of Andalucía Golf/España Golf and general manager of Holiday Golf, Stefan Tjellander.
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