CROMWELL, Conn. Sam Mills Womens Jersey . -- Jim Furyk has a place in PGA Tour history all to himself with a new magic number in golf.Three years after Furyk became the sixth player on tour with a 59, he took it even lower Sunday in the Travelers Championship with a 12-under 58.The 46-year-old American bounced in an eagle from 135 yards on his third hole, ran off seven straight birdies around the turn and picked up his final birdie on the 16th hole with a putt from just inside 24 feet. He rolled in a short par putt on the final hole at TPC River Highlands, thrust his arms in the air and waved his cap to salute thousands of fans who had rushed to the amphitheater around the 18th green to catch a stunning slice of history.Theres a lot of rounds by a lot of great players ahead of me that have never reached 58, so to hold that record alone right now, on the PGA Tour at least ... is phenomenal, Furyk said. To have a little, small place in history is something you dream of.And it could have been even lower.Furyk reached 11 under on the par-70 course with his seventh straight birdie at No. 12. He missed a 12-foot birdie attempt on the 14th hole, and after nearly driving the par-4 15th, his 8-foot birdie putt lipped out.It might be one of the best rounds hardly anyone saw.Furyk, who started the final round 16 shots out of the lead, had less than a dozen fans watching when he teed off at 8:41 a.m. He finished his round before Golf Channel coverage began.The news traveled far.Amazing, eh? Justin Rose said from the practice range at the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro. Amazing that he did it without birdieing the 13th (par 5) and 15th. Pretty cool.It might not have happened if Furyk had not gone this road before. He shot a 59 at Conway Farms in the second round of the 2013 BMW Championship with a bogey on his card.I guess had I never shot 59 before, I probably would have been thinking 59, the barrier, he said. But the fact that I did it three years ago, you know, in the back of my mind Ive got 11-under through 12; Ive got six holes to play. If I play them under par, Im going to break another barrier.Ryo Ishikawa shot a 58 in The Crowns on the Japan Golf Tour in 2010. Shigeki Maruyama shot a 58 in U.S. Open sectional qualifying in 2000. And just last week, Stephan Jaeger posted a 58 on the Web.com Tour in the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae.Furyk is the only player with sub-60 rounds twice. And both times, he had to settle for history, not a trophy. He was third at the 2013 BMW Championship and finished in a tie for fifth place Sunday, three shots behind champion Russell Knox.I dominated him, I guarantee he very quickly would change places with me, Knox joked after shooting a final round 68.The most pressure Furyk felt Sunday was after his final birdie. He still had two par 4s to navigate.He acknowledged guiding the ball with his drive on 17, where he had hit the water earlier in the week. His approach was 40 feet beyond the flag, but he two-putted for par by making a 4-footer.His drive on 18 hit the right side of the fairway and his approach left him 29 feet to the right and below the hole. He says the attempt for birdie felt good, but it slid by on the right about 2 feet past the hole. Thats when Furyk knew he had the record.Its nice when the second ones are mindless, he said.Furyk was the most recent PGA Tour player with a 59 at Conway Farms.The others were Al Geiberger at the 1977 Memphis Classic; Chip Beck at the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational; David Duval at the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic; Paul Goydos at the 2010 John Deere Classic and Stuart Appleby at the 2010 Greenbrier Classic.Furyk, whose best finish at the Travelers was fourth place in 2000, finished at 11-under 269. He said he spent a lot of Saturday night talking to his father and sending him video of his swing, because he had been playing so poorly. He decided he might have been swing too hard after playing the PGA Championship last week at Baltusrol, a course that measured 7, 428 yards for a par 70.He made an adjustment. It worked.Now he not only has a 59 on his resume, he has a 58.No one else can say theyve done that out here on the PGA Tour, he said. Its really special.---AP Sports Writer Jim Litke contributed to this report. Thomas Davis Womens Jersey . However, he did make them miss him a little less. Cundiff, who had the unenviable job of replacing Dawson last season, agreed Thursday to a one-year, $1. Carolina Panthers Hoodie . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. http://www.footballpanthersstore.us/Black-Friday-Kawann-Short-Jersey/ . -- Matt Ryan needed one of the best games of his career to lead the Falcons and their depleted offence out of their three-game losing streak last week. At the world championships in Glasgow, Scotland, in October, U.S. national champion Simone Biles took an uncharacteristic step on her vault landing. She had a major wobble during her beam routine. She landed out of bounds on floor.It was neither her cleanest performance nor her most dominant, yet she won by 1.083 points over her teammate, defending Olympic all-around champ Gabby Douglas. It was Biles third consecutive world title and her biggest margin of victory. In the past decade, an American gymnast has held the world all-around title seven times.To say the U.S. is dominating womens gymnastics is like saying Serena Williams is having a respectable career. In the two decades since the Magnificent Seven became the first U.S. team to win an Olympic team gold in 1996, the American womens team has finished in the top three at every Olympics -- and the 2004, 2008 and 2012 individual all-around gold medalists were Americans. In Rio, the American women will compete routines and vaults so weighted in difficulty that it is plausible for them to have multiple falls and still secure a dominant team victory.As we prepare to watch the five-woman U.S. team compete in Rio, we take a look at four of the reasons for the dramatic shift in gymnastics dominance and ask if the rest of the world will ever catch up.1. The breakup of the Soviet UnionMost gymnastics experts point to one world event as being the most influential in reshaping the landscape of the sport: the dissolution of the Soviet Union, once home to the most dominant gymnastics program in the world. From 1952 to 1992, the Soviet Union won every Olympic team gold except one, when the Soviets boycotted the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. (In 1992, 12 of the 15 former Soviet republics competed as the Unified Team and won gold.)As athletes departed for their respective republics in the early 90s, the powerhouse Soviet team was diluted, and eventually the programs of once dominant eastern European teams faced the same hardship. Coaches from Russia, Romania and Ukraine left for the U.S. and western European countries such as France and Italy in search of more opportunities and better-paying jobs. The most significant line in that story came when Bela and Martha Karolyi defected to the United States from Romania in 1981.2. The semi-centralized national team training programI dont know if there has been a system that was as well thought out, NBC analyst Tim Daggett said of the U.S. national program, which has been run by the Karolyis since 1999. In the past, the dominant teams were those with centralized programs, and everyone thought that was best.The problem with centralized programs, Dagget said, is motivation. It is difficult to keep athletes motivated inside a bubble, when they train in the same place with the same coaches beside the same gymnasts day in and day out for years.With the U.S. womens teams semi-centralized program, they get together on a regular basis, but there is always a freshness to it, he said. Its motivating to the athletes and their coaches, and when they go back to their home gyms, the amount of knowledge that transfers from gymnast to gymnast and coach to coach is amazing.That spread of information and training techniques means Olympic-caliber gymnasts no longer have to leave their homes and families to train with Olympic-caliber coaches. Aimee Boorman, who was recently named head coach of the U.S. Olympic team, is bringing her first elite gymnast in Biles, and Maggie Haney will do the same with 16-year-old Laurie Hernandez, the first elite gymnast to train at her gym.This is what we want, to educate, said national team coordinator Martha Karolyi, who is retiring after Rio. To pick up young kids and expose them to the expectations for world-class gymnasts. Laurie [Hernandez] doesnt feel so intimidated because she was part of the training camps and her coach comes to the program. Now she has international experience that is good for her coaching and her gym. We also coach the coaches.3. The massive number of gymnastics clubs in the U.S.After the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, little girls across the U.S. wanted to be Marry Lou Retton, the first American gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Greg Olsen Panthers Jersey. To accommodate that interest, gymnastics centers began cropping up across the country.When I started gymnastics, there was no gym in my area, said Kathy Johnson Clarke, a former Olympian and commentator for the SEC Network. I had to move away from home to train.Today, there are more than 175 gymnastics clubs in Florida, where Clarke grew up.There are more quality gyms that can develop an athlete now, Clarke said. We have that system in place, and its taken our sport to a whole new level.In other words, while coaching and training techniques improved, the talent pool deepened. Today, there are more than 2,000 gymnastics clubs around the country training upwards of five million kids. The chance, then, of a future Simone Biles or Gabby Douglas walking into a gym is much larger than in countries with inadequate grassroots programs.Just at our gym in Norman, Oklahoma, we have 1,500 kids and 35 coaches, and if we never put a kid on a national team, it is still a good business, and parents feel their kids got a quality experience, said Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner, who, along with his wife, Nadia Comaneci, runs the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy. European coaches come here, and they look around the gym for the best one or two athletes. In the U.S., we work with everyone. There arent grassroots programs left in those former powerhouse countries. There is no feeder system, and now were seeing the results of that. We could have predicted this shift 30 years ago.4. The open-ended scoring systemIn 2006, the 10-point judging system was dropped in favor of the current Code of Points, which was created in response to several judging controversies at the Athens Olympics and intended to make judging less subjective.In the new open-ended scoring, each element is assigned a point value and connections between skills increase that value, which places a premium on power and difficulty.When they went to the open-ended scoring system, the genie came out of the bottle, and good luck putting it back in, Johnson Clarke said. You would be crazy to not jam-pack your routine with as much difficulty as possible to elevate that area of the scoring.That is exactly what the U.S. women have often done.In Simones third tumbling pass, she does what many men do in their opening pass, Johnson Clarke said. She is an extraordinary physical talent, and then you add using the Code of Points to her benefit, and shes made herself untouchable. She can make mistakes and still be points ahead. Thats unfortunate. I dont think they had that in mind when they changed the Code of Points. Im sure other countries are trying to find and develop that type of athletic component in their gymnastics. We are just so way ahead.The Code rewards power skills, which the U.S. has been known for since the days of Retton. That also opens the sport to more body types and more mature gymnasts. Just look at this years squad: They are muscular and powerful, and the average age on the U.S. team is 19.2. Three-time defending world champion Simone Biles is 19. Aly Raisman, who returns for her second straight Olympics, is 22. Douglas, the reigning Olympic all-around champion, is 20. For comparison, the average age of the 1996 Magnificent Seven squad was 17.7.But Daggett insists that while the Code favors the type of athlete the U.S. currently boasts, if the Code changed tomorrow, those same gymnasts would still rule the podium: They could completely rewrite the rules, and if the same effort and work ethic and dedication continued, this group of girls would be just as dominant.However, he cautions, nothing lasts forever.Dynasties always fall, he said. I dont know how it can happen when I look at the U.S. relative to everyone else, but Im not foolish enough to not recognize that whoever is on top doesnt always stay on top.For now, the U.S. program is so strong that its gymnasts will likely remain on top, even if they fall in competition. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '