CROMWELL, Conn. — Some days you hop out of bed ready to attack the day, some days you’d just as soon roll over and get a little more sleep.

For Cameron Young, a young father of three, more mornings may fall into the sluggish-start category, like Saturday.

“Woke up, would have preferred to go back to sleep,” Young said. “Did exactly what I do every day coming to the golf course, get a coffee, ate, saw the physio (therapist), and went out there, warmed up. Didn’t feel particularly awesome.”

Sometimes, once you get started, as Young did at 9:45 a.m., after the suspended second round at the Travelers Championship was completed, things start to fall into place. How about a 140-yard hole-out for an eagle on the third hole for an eye-opener?

“I chunked a few less on the range than I did (Friday),” he said. “Then, yeah, I came out and just was very comfortable and things just started coming down close to the hole.”

Young was certainly feeling awesome by noon, marching down the TPC River Highlands with Jim Furyk’s record in sight, something very few golfers ever see.

As he walked up the 18th fairway, Young could soak in the applause and the moment. “I got a few more cheers than normal because I’ve been hitting it kind of bad,” he said.

He ran into some tough luck with his lie and fell a little shy of Furyk’s 58 on this course in 2016, but Young sank a 9 foot, 7 inch put to save par and finish at 59, becoming the 13th in golf history to break 60, the first in four years.

“It’s certainly pretty cool,” Young said. “It’s fun to have your name on a list that short. But there’s some full tournaments that I probably would rank above it in terms of just overall achievement. I feel like one day doesn’t necessarily warrant a crowning achievement of a career or — it’s certainly my high of the month. But I’m sure I will pretty much try to forget by tomorrow and go through my routine and see what I can do tomorrow.”

Young, who has never won on The Tour, started the Travelers Championship with a 72, his 10th consecutive round over par, on Thursday, then broke through with a 66 on Friday. He got out of bed Saturday 11 strokes behind leader Tom Kim, but by the time he finished, before Kim teed off, they were tied.

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