Haeran Ryu shot an historic 11-under-par 60 during the third round of the Amundi Evian Championship to claim the lowest single-round score in major championship history — men's or women's.

The performance at Evian Resort Golf Club in France pushed the South Korean golfer to 19-under 194 for the tournament, another Evian scoring record, and handed her a three-shot cushion heading into Sunday's final round.

Ryu opened the day trailing 36-hole leader Lottie Woad by three shots. She birdied two of her first five holes before holing out for eagle on the par-4 sixth. Two more birdies at seven and nine sent her to the turn in a six-under 29.

She kept the foot down on the back nine — birdies at 10, 14, 15 and 17 — until a 30-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th slid just past the edge. She tapped in for birdie instead, signing for nine birdies and an eagle on the day.

Had that putt dropped, Ryu would have carded a 59 and tied the all-time LPGA scoring record set by Annika Sorenstam at the 2001 Standard Register Ping.

Instead, she settled for the second-lowest round in tour history — and the lowest anyone has ever shot in a major.

Ryu's 60 broke the previous major championship record by a shot. That mark of 61 is held jointly by Hyo Joo Kim (2014), Jeongeun Lee6 and Leona Maguire (both 2021). Notably, all three of those rounds were also shot at Evian.

The men's majors mark is 62, shared by Branden Grace at the 2017 Open Championship, Xander Schauffele and Rickie Fowler at the 2023 U.S. Open, and Schauffele again alongside Shane Lowry at the 2024 PGA Championship.

Remarkably, Ryu Had No Idea What She Was Doing While She Was Doing It

She never checked her score all day. After the final putt, she was seen counting on her fingers with her caddie, Martin Bozek.

“I never know,” Ryu said in her post-round interview, per Golf.com. “I never know because, I didn’t know [it’s] par 71 [at Evian]. That’s why I just hit it — I didn’t know my score on the green today.

“But after the putt, I counted my score with my caddie, and, ‘Oh, my God, it’s 11-under par.’ It was so amazing. My caddie says, ‘Yep.’ Yeah, I’m so happy right now.”

Her caddie, Martin Bozek, was just as blindsided.

"We just kind of kept rolling out there, hole by hole," he said, per LPGA. "She actually got my attention on the 18th green after she putted out and held like fingers up. I had no idea what it meant, and then she's like, 11-under. I'm like, okay. That's when I found out."

Two majors ago, it was Nelly Korda who looked unstoppable after winning the Chevron Championship and the U.S. Women's Open. And now, it's Ryu, who's well positioned to win her back-to-back majors at Amundi Evian after winning the KPMG PGA Championship at Hazeltine.

"That is amazing, amazing dream, so I just want that one to come true," Ryu said of the possibility. "But we have one more day and Aki is pretty good player and everybody is so good player, so I just doing pretty well.”

Akie Iwai is trailing only three shots with a 15-under 197 total, entering the final round.

To secure the Evian title on Sunday, Ryu will need to protect her three‑shot cushion, avoid costly mistakes, and fend off challengers like Akie Iwai.

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Written by

Md Saife Fida

Edited by

Koushik Biswas