Williamsport graduate Jordan Eck has been golfing for quite awhile. He got started when he was a kid before playing in high school and ended up golfing for California (Pa.)’s golf team in college before then having a pro turn in Florida. So it’s safe to say Eck’s quite a talented golfer.

If any doubt was there, Eck erased it recently.

Eck’s brother got him into a league at White Deer this past year and while playing along his brother and dad, Eck started the front nine better than any golfer would have hoped.

Nine holes, eight under par and sitting with a 28 on the scorecard entering the back 9. That’s when Eck’s brother and dad joked that he had to keep it going on the final nine holes.

“Went to play the back nine, shot 32 and had a 60 and ended up breaking the course record by two strokes,” Eck said. “It was a fun day of golf.”

That it was.

Eck played outstanding to break the White Deer golf course record thanks to sinking ten birdies and an eagle to secure the 60. It’s his second course record in the area he owns as he also has the Williamsport Country Club record with a 61.

“It was pretty cool,” Eck said of shooting a 60. “I broke the course record at Williamsport Country Club years ago and I’ve had a couple chances to do it again and just doing it somewhere else was kind of cool. It’s not somewhere I play every day. It’s one I grew up with and am familiar with, but doing it somewhere else besides Williamsport was pretty cool.”

Eck has numerous accolades to his name in the golf world. In addition to those two course records in the area, he won the York Open tournament twice and placed as a runner-up another two times.

“It’s just a fun little tournament I get to play in every year. I only got to play full time for 10 years probably, so I get to pick and choose some tournaments here and there that fit with my schedule and work,” Eck said. “I always seem to do well in that event. It’s just nice to get out and I’m a competition junkie, so any time — no matter if it’s golf or basketball or whatever — I just love competing.”

Eck noted that he started playing golf around the age of 8 years old and then took more of a liking to it once he got into high school.

“I kind of became obsessed with it you could say. Just kind of through high school I played a ton,” Eck said.

Once he got to California (Pa.) to play with the Vulcans, he walked on and won a try out to get onto the team.

“I kind of worked my way into the starting lineup at the end of my first semester and kind of never left,” Eck said. “I became a team captain for two years there.”

When Eck’s senior year rolled around, his coach at California (Pa.) mentioned to him about going pro, noting how talented of a golfer he was. That’s around the time it sunk in for Eck just how good he was at golf, a sport which very few ever truly master.

“Even though I played collegiately, I thought I was good, but I never really thought of it as like a career after school. My college coach who had played professionally himself kind of came to me my senior year and was like ‘hey, if you’re not thinking about it now, I think you really should try to think about it and kind of give it a run,'” Eck remembered.

The 2011 Williamsport graduate then move to Florida, turned pro, got lessons from coaches and was on his way to golfing well throughout numerous tournaments, invitationals and opens.

While the full-time pro schedule days are over — Eck works for his dad Barry’s construction company these days and has kids — he still loves playing the game of golf.

“Now I kind of just pick and choose,” Eck said.

“I’m 32 now, I feel like the last two years I’ve played some of the best golf of my life which doesn’t make sense because I have kids and I work full time,” Eck said with a laugh. “Only if I played this good when I was 22, but life’s taken over. But I still get out a bunch.”