German tour pro shoots 58!!

So there you are, standing over a 15 foot putt knowing that a decent lag will guarantee you a place in golfing folklore. You will have shot a  59. Your legs feel like they don't belong to your body and your hands are trembling. This is the moment. The moment. Anyone could two-putt from here. Anyone. 

You look at the hole for the 12th time and check the line over again. It's downhill, it might only be 10 feet... Don't do anything stupid. Just putt a decent stroke on the ball. Don't take leave of your senses and take out your three wood and smash it into next year. That would be mental. Amazing, true... and would probably be the most watched thing ever in the history of ever but seriously, don't do that...

Before you've had chance to step away from the ball for a fifth time to re-assess the line, the ball is somehow on its way, rolling down the hill in the general direction of the hole. You've putted it and you didn't even realise. You must be in some golf blackout – maybe it's the zone you were always searching for but you never imagined it would end up with you making involuntary muscle spasms which propel your golf ball.

You scream inside your head and think for a mili-second to intercept the ball and start again and hope no one is watching. But everyone is watching, and anyway, the ball just dropped into the hole. You've shot a 58. Only the third in the history of the PGA, Web.com or Champions tours. You're a history maker. Don't tell anyone you blacked out. It was all deliberate, you were always going to shoot a 58 someday and today was the day. Play it cool. 

"Even the bad shots today I got a good bounce," said Stephan Jaeger, after his epic round. "I would keep ending up with 15 feet and making it. It was just a blackout round, it really was."

D'oh, you blew it. 'Blackout', why I oughta. Anyway sit back and enjoy a truly incredible round of golf right here.

No one had achieved the magic number had on the PGA Tour, Champions or Web.com Tour. Until Jaeger did it on Thursday in the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae in Heyward, California. Stephan made 12 birdies and six pars on a par-70 course en route to his record-setting score. Only Jason Bohn (Mackenzie Tour) and Ryo Ishikawa (Japan Tour) had shot 58 previously.

"I'm really happy with the way I played, especially on the back nine,"  Jaeger told the Web.com Tour with not a hint of irony. "You don't know when those days are going to come, and they come unexpectedly. Days like this are very, very, very rare."

"Everything went well, I was driving the ball well. I was making everything. I got the good breaks. Even the bad shots you'd get a good bounce and have 15 feet and make that. It was just a blackout round, it really was. Those don't happen too often."

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