Steve Wheatcroft: ‘It’s DAMN Nice To Know There’s Still A 62 On The PGA Tour’ (For Him)

Steve Wheatcroft is one of many Tour pros precariously living on the Tour card bubble. He has one top-50 finish this year and zero career PGA Tour wins (but two Web.com victories). Yet, he’s also refreshingly self-deprecating.

Birdies on the final six holes will do that for his career low on Tour.

GolfWorld’s Christopher Powers highlights Wheatcroft’s round and where he is mentally after struggling most of the year.

“I know if you look at my scores and my record for the year you wouldn’t have believed it, but I’ve been playing some good golf the last month,” said Wheatcroft. “I had a couple terrible Sundays to fall way back.”

One of the Sundays he’s referring to came this past week at The Greenbrier, where Wheatcroft entered the final round at seven-under par, which put him well back of the leaders, but still provided him an opportunity to post a number and register one of his best finishes all year. Instead, he stumbled to a six-over 76, falling into a tie for 65th.

“It’s been a brutal year, to be honest with you,” he said. “It’s probably the worst year I’ve had so far, but I don’t feel like I’m playing the worst golf of my career. I actually feel like I am playing good golf. I’m just not getting the results.

 

“It’s a weird thing to say until you go through it Wheatcroft admitted. It’s kind of hard to explain to people, but I feel like it’s close. Sixty-two didn’t surprise me today.”

 

He may say he’s not surprised, but after making six straight birdies to close out his career-low round on tour, he had to have been a little shocked.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever done that to finish a round,” he said. “It was great.”

Unfortunately for Wheatcroft, TPC Deere Run was gettable for everyone on Thursday, and his 62 is only good enough for a one-shot lead over Michael Kim, who made just one bogey on his second-to-last hole. Johnson Wagner, Andres Romero, Nick Taylor and Joel Dahmen are just two back after carding seven-under 64s.