Matti Schmid's golf scorecard to start FedEx St. Jude Championship may have never been done before

Matti Schmid may have had the oddest start to a golf round ever on Thursday.

Playing at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind, Schmid was 3-over through six holes. That's not the weird part, though.

It's the sequence of scores that's wild.

Schmid went:

• 5
• 4
• 3
• 2
• 6
• 7

And in scores relative to par:

• Bogey
• Par
• Eagle
• Birdie
• Double bogey
• Triple bogey

Here it is visually:

Hitting the cycle in the first 6 holes is very impressive stuff pic.twitter.com/kjkETeRHx6

— Chad Eckert (@EdinaRealCHE) August 7, 2025

All that's missing is a double-eagle/albatross, or a hole-in-one. And hey, there's still time.

Schmid isn't necessarily familiar to a lot of golf fans stateside.

The 27-year old German won the European Amateur in both 2019 and 2020 and was the top amateur at the 2021 Open Championship.

He did play college golf at the University of Louisville.

His highest rank in the World Golf Rankings came in May of this year, when he checked in at No. 76.

It was a weird round all around for Schmid.

He had to play by himself as the first golfer of the day because Rory McIlroy was absent.

And then on the par-5 third, Schmid created some extra drama.

Here's how Golfweek described it:

"Schmid went for the green in two and hit his second shot 207 yards to within 5½ feet of the hole. He made the putt for eagle, but after he finished, the grounds crew had to come out and recut the hole. In the process, they moved the cup about one foot to the right to avoid the repaired area."

So every other golfer had a slightly different ending point on that hole than Schmid.

Talk about a busy day at the office.

Schmid finished at 1-over, only putting up 3s, 4s or 5s the rest of the day after his wacky start.

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