ryu having a laugh?

I notice that I'm a bit behind on keeping track of major golf tournament scoring records, so let's tidy that up. I was prompted to check back on previous blog entries by the recent Evian Championship, this being the newest of the women's majors, having had major status since 2013. It turns out the round that I had listed as the single lowest in history - Hyo-Joo Kim's 61 - occurred at the second Evian Championship to be classed as a major, in 2014. What I had failed to keep track of was that there had been two further rounds of 61, both at the same major, oddly also the Evian Championship, in 2021. These should have prompted a revision to the table as below:

Player	Tournament	Year	Round	Result	Winner
Hyo-Joo Kim	Evian Championship	2014	first	WON	Hyo-Joo Kim
Jeongeun Lee	Evian Championship	2021	second	2nd	Minjee Lee
Leona Maguire	Evian Championship	2021	final	tied 6th	Minjee Lee

However, somewhat ironically, the thing that brought all of that to my attention at the 2026 Evian Championship was a thing that rendered all of it completely irrelevant - Haeran Ryu's round of 60, the lowest ever shot in a major by a human of either sex.

Player	Tournament	Year	Round	Result	Winner
Haeran Ryu	Evian Championship	2026	third	WON	Haeran Ryu

So the major scoring records for the five women's majors look a bit lopsided, with all the super-low scoring being done at the Evian; that's now three shots ahead of the LPGA and Women's US Open whose records still stand at 63, and two ahead of the Women's British Open and the Chevron Championship which stand at 62. If there's ever been a three-shot difference between low scores in different men's majors it must have been a very long time ago; the best I can do within what you might hand-wavingly call living memory is the two-shot difference between Johnny Miller's 63 at the 1973 US Open (and Bruce Crampton's 63 at the 1975 PGA Championship) and Henry Cotton's 65 at the 1934 Open Championship which stood as the record for that tournament until Mark Hayes lowered it to 63 in 1977.