re: What's your best score in a stipulated round?

I shot 68 at the Junior Falls City Amateur qualifying when I was 16. I was -4 the next day in the first round of the match play in the Championship flight when I beat my opponent 7&6. Also shot a 70 that summer at a course outside Lexington, KY at a state-level junior tour event (double bogeyed both the first and last holes) and another 70 at a club championship at a course in Louisville. I shot a lot of 71's and 72's at tournaments back in those days, but cracking the 70 nut took me longer than it should have.

The best I have ever played period was the next year when the varsity squad at my high school got taken to Valhalla for an intra-squad qualifier (basically, to determine who would be 1 through 12 in the first part of the season). I shot 76 from the tips and have never hit the ball better than that day and probably never will.