Tour still a viable job opportunity for Compton after remarkable day

"I kept telling you guys that I knew I had a good score in me," Compton laughed. "I felt like I was hitting it pretty good. I just needed to straighten out that big hook."

Compton received his first transplant when he was 12, though he eventually developed into the top-rated junior player in America and a top player at University of Georgia. Compton, who has played on a variety of tours, including the Canadian and Nationwide, got married this year, and the couple is expecting their first child in four months.

If anybody thought Compton's battery might run down as the week wore on, they were happy to have been proved wrong. Compton bested his third-round score by nine strokes.

"What a round," Compton said. "What a round."

Nobody was arguing the point. He was one of three players to shoot a score in the 60s.

"He was sort of the story each day, all week long," Brendle said of the media attention, "but he wasn't really a story until today."