Kurt Kitayama logged himself a record round on Sunday.
Now, he has to play the waiting game at the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa.
Kitayama shot a 7-under 63, which is tied for the lowest score in the final round of a major in history.
That took the 33-year-old into the clubhouse at 3-under for the tournament, three shots back of leader Alex Smalley.
Kitayama, who started the day outside the top 60 and teed off six hours before Smalley, logged seven birdies, including one on the 18th hole, and had a bogey-free day.
However, with more than 20 players within four shots of the lead, Kitayama’s chances seem slim.
The impressive Sunday performance saw Kitayama jump 57 spots on the leaderboard into a tie for seventh at the time he finished.
“I felt like the first three days I was playing in such windy conditions, and it was so tough to get anything close. And today it was nice, wind was down,” Kitayama said. “Just felt so much easier when the wind was down. And made it a little easier to score, because the first two days it was so windy, and where the pins were you had to play wind on your putts, and that makes it so difficult to play.
“Today you could just kind of read it out they were and didn’t have to worry about any wind affecting it.”