Richard Wallis has produced a once-in-a-lifetime round of golf that may have earned him a place in the Guinness World Records.

The 32-year-old Walmer & Kingsdown GC professional shot a potentially record-breaking 14-under-par 59 for a par-73 course at The Drift GC in Surrey last week.

It gave him victory at the PGA Southern Open Championship Pro-Am and he is now awaiting verification from Guinness that it is a new record.

Wallis, who lives in St Martin’s Road, Deal, said: “It was just an unbelievable round. I’ve shot low scores before but never in an official PGA event like this.

“Usually the game’s great but the putting’s not, or vice versa but everything really clicked. The course was in great nick and on the greens, you felt any putt could go in.”

Wallis won the event by six shots from Andy Raitt (St George’s Hill) and Nick Redfern (AIA Group) and won £625 to add to the £10,000 cheque he had picked up the previous week for winning the Kerry London Championship, his first PGA EuroPro Tour title, at Burhill GC.
He also collected £1,250 for finishing second in the PGA Southern Open proper at The Drift.