Kenny Perry pulled himself up by the bootstraps and found his game this week in Connecticut at the Travelers Championship.  He flirted with 59 in the first round and never let his foot off of the accelerator.  Perry picked up his 14th career PGA Tour win - his eleventh after the age of 40 - by finishing at -22.  That mark broke the tournament record by a shot and the record at TPC River Highlands by two shots.  TPC River Highlands is a par 70 course, so that means the Kentuckian got around the course four times in 258 shots. 

Only four players have ever accomplished the feat on the PGA Tour in fewer shots.  Mark Calcavecchia did it in 256 shots at the 2001 FBR Open and Tommy Armour III did in 254 at the 2003 Valero Texas Open at La Cantera.  Mike Souchak did it 257 shots at the Texas Open in '55 and Tiger Woods dominated a wounded East Lake in 2007 to win the Tour Championship (and FedEx Cup) in the same total as Souchak.

Other than that, Kenny Perry is the best.  Most four man scramble teams that couldn't shoot 258 for four rounds.  Hell, the team could be expanded to eight players and they might not be able to do better than what Perry did by himself.

That made me think of a challenge that I'd like to lay out for you to try.  Go to the course that you play the most.  (Perry had played in Hartford for over two decades.  He knows the place.)  Play 258 shots there and see how many holes you can complete before you reach Kenny Perry's 72 hole tally.  How far do you think you would get? 

The average golf score from the National Golf Foundation is 106.  Let's say that averages out to about 5.9 shots per hole.  Carry that average out over play and the average golfer would finish almost 44 holes of golf.  Only another 28 holes to play before they could wrap up the tournament.

I was thinking about how I might do.  Given how often I play, I'm about a 13 handicap.  That's 83 for 18 holes on a par 70.  That's 4.6 shots per hole.  I would only get 56 holes into a tournament.  In other words, I'd have to walk off of the third tee in the fourth round.  What a waste of a green fee.