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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Yes, it was in the first round of a non-major PGA Tour event that very few people\u2014except for Adam Rapoport and me\u2014probably care about, but holy shite! Paul Goydos, the 46-year-old vet who's impossible to dislike, fired a 12-under 59 yesterday\u2014only the fourth golfer ever to break 60 in a PGA Tour event. (Random fact: he's long been one of the very, very few non-mega-Republicans in pro golf.) After the jump, seven quick questions for Goydos:\n\nGQ: How'd you celebrate?\n\n Goydos: Well, I tried to do the exact same thing I did the last two nights. But really, the last seven hours have basically been talking to the media.\n\nWere people trying to drag you to a bar?\n\n There were a couple guys\u2014Scott McCarron and Jay Williamson are good friends\u2014and they wanted to know if I wanted to go out to dinner. And I told them that they're insane if they think I'm going to do anything differently. I think they were hoping that some of my karma would rub off on them. But instead I went and grabbed something from Bad Boys Pizza.\n\nWhat was your lowest non-tournament round before yesterday?\n\n A 60 at Dove Canyon in California. And with that one I actually parred the last four holes. The 59 was an all-time low.\n\nWhen did you know it was a possibility?\n\n I tell ya, I parred 15, and I had three holes left\u201416 and 17 were attackable and birdies could be made, and on 18 the pin was probably in the easiest location we're going to see all week on that hole. So on 16 I said: this is rare, these opportunities don't come around very often, if ever. Don't worry about jins and thinking about it\u2014let's just go out and do it. On 18 was probably the most nervous I've been over a putt ever, 'cause my victory putts have all been tap-ins. Making it was muscle memory.\n\nYou've long been known as one of the only liberals on the PGA Tour. Have things changed politically out there at all?\n\n No, not really. I wouldn't call myself a liberal, either, I'd call myself a cynic, but I just have... I think I'm more middle-of-the-road than the average...\n\nIt's all context and relativity.\n\n Yeah, exactly. But no, that's not really a big deal, you just stick with the people that you like. I know plenty of the young guys, but that's not really the direction our conversations go. I just think generally young people are more liberal than older people, it's just a function of life. The radicals were always at Berkeley or Stanford, they're not at the AARP meeting.\n\nYou also have a reputation of being one of the most humble\u2014and self-depricating\u2014players on Tour. Is it even possible to say anything bad about yesterday's round?\n\n No, unfortunately I've been trying, but it was just... every possible good thing that could happen, happened."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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