What makes a great round historic?

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The guys over at Golf Digest dug into some advanced metrics and found that in the lead up to the Players Championship one unsung player is often overlooked - Ken Duke. Probably not a guy you've heard of, but the podcast was an interesting listen and very neat to see the tour players apply some of the same tech we see in other sports (namely motorsports come to my mind) finding their way into "stodgy," "old guard" golf and how it can shape their approach to a course and tournament.

 

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/greatest-round-players-championship-history-strokes-gained-ken-duke

 

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The most important part of the article:

Duke had beat the field average by an implausible 10 shots. His strokes gained/total for the round was 10.592, the best for any round since the stat was first tracked in 2004 for a score that was higher than 63.