Bob Gaona hits out of a bunker during the final round of the chapter championship of the Southwest section PGS, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006 in Oro Valley, Ariz. Photo by Chris Coduto / Arizona Daily Star

The 1959 Tucson High state champion shot 29-33 but it wasn’t a by-the-book round. He birdied No. 7 after hitting a tree and bouncing on the green; he birdied No. 8 by sinking a long blast from a front bunker, and he birdied No. 18 after hitting the trees off the tee and playing an adjacent fairway on his second shot. β€œI had a lot of 63s and 64s, but the 62 was my lowest ever,” he said.Β 


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