Any weekend highlighted by a Tiger Woods victory has its storyline largely pre-written, but lost in the inevitable excitement of Woods’ triumph at the Memorial Tournament (his 67th career PGA Tour win) was a remarkable accomplishment which took place on the Sunshine Tour. Beginning Sunday’s final round some four shots off the pace (in a tie for 14th) at the Lombard Insurance Classic, 28-year-old Peter Karmis proceded to uncork a spectacular record-setting 59 to post a 198 aggregate and claim his second career victory by a comfortable four-stroke margin.

Karmis’s round started modestly, with birdies at the Royal Swazi Sun Country Club’s 1st and 4th holes (both sub-400-yard par 4s) before an eagle at the 536-yard 5th got the ball rolling, and one more birdie (at the short par-5 7th) saw him out in five-under-par 31. A birdie at the 437-yard 11th kept the momentum up before lightning struck with back-to-back eagles at the 12th (a 504-yard par 5) and the 389-yard 13th, where he holed out his approach. Now 10-under-par with five holes left to play, Karmis reeled off birdies at the 424-yard 15th, the 408-yard 16th, and finally at the 549-yard 17th, where his third shot (played from a greenside bunker) very nearly fell in the hole for a fourth eagle. A routine par at the 191-yard 18th (a hole he’d birdied during the first two rounds) closed out both Karmis’s second win and the Sunshine Tour’s first-ever sub-60 competitive round.

And what about the legitimacy of the venue?

The Royal Swazi Sun layout is modestly short (6,715 yards) but certainly of regulation size and challenge. It is, however,a track which Karmis finds quite appealing, for his only previous win came in this same event two years ago, when rounds of 64-72-64 gave him a 200 total and a one-shot victory.

He’s obviously hoping the event never moves.