Kenny Perry takes home the US Senior Open Championship title – Golf news
Kenny Perry fired a seven-under par 63 in the final round of the US Senior Open Championship to record a comfortable five-stroke victory over Fred Funk, on Sunday, July 14, 2013.
The tournament was being staged at the Omaha Country Club, featuring some of the best players from the European Senior Tour and the Champions Tour.
It was Perry’s second senior major title victory in a row, having already won the Constellation Senior Players Championship fortnight ago.
Perry won 14 times on the PGA Tour before joining the 50-and-over tour, and was best known for his collapses at the 2009 Masters and 1996 PGA Championship.
Those memories also haunted him at the Senior PGA Championship earlier this year, when he threw away a three-shot lead over the last six holes of the tournament.
A couple of weeks ago, he finally managed to add a major title to his resume and who knew he will be adding another this week in style.
Talking to the reporters after winning the tournament, he expressed his pleasure in finally getting into the major championship’s winning circle, despite the fact that it was seniors’ major.
“This is by far the biggest tournament I ever won,” Perry said. “I lost the playoff at the Master's and the PGA playoff. I didn't get the job done. Now to have a USGA title, it's an Open, it's our Open, it's what the players play for. To finally get it,
even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honour.”
Funk, in the meantime, also praised the way Perry played on the weekend and said that the American ruined everyone else’s chances of finishing on the top by showing his class on the field.
“He put it to us,” Funk said. “Six under yesterday, seven today, back-to-back. It's kind of what he did two weeks ago at Fox Chapel. He just smoked the field on the weekend. He just lapped us.”
With this win, Perry became the ninth player in the history of the game to record straight two victories in senior major golf championships.
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