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59 on golf's Champions Tour!

Endicott - Kevin Sutherland joined one of golf's most exclusive clubs on Saturday, firing a 59 in the second round of the Champions Tour tournament at En-Joie Golf Club.

Sutherland became the first to shoot golf's magic number on the tour for over-50s, with a 13-under par round that incuded 12 birdies, one eagle and one bogey.

The bogey came at the final hole of the par-72 layout - ending his bid for a 58.

That would have been a first in an event sanctioned by the US PGA Tour, which runs the Champions Tour.

Sutherland, whose only PGA Tour victory was at the 2002 World Golf Championships Match Play Championship, had seven birdies and an eagle in his first eight holes and admitted he was thinking 59 even before he reached the turn.

"When I was nine under after eight ... I started thinking 59," Sutherland told the Golf Channel. "Earlier than I should ... but it worked out all right."

Only six players have posted 59s on the US PGA Tour, the most recent Jim Furyk at the BMW Championship in Chicago last September.

In 2010, both Paul Goydos and Australian Stuart Appleby achieved the feat.

David Duval, Chip Beck and Al Geiberger have also done it.

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