U.S. Senior Open 1 40th U.S. Senior Open Championship Record Book Warren Course at Notre Dame Notre Dame, Ind. 2 U.S. Senior Open David Toms Wins the 2018 Championship After making a birdie on No. 16 to take a one-stroke lead, David those putts. He makes birdie on 16. And let me tell you, that par Toms channeled some positive thoughts from his previous major putt on 17 – I had a front-row seat. That was just a pure putt and championship victory, the 2001 PGA Championship, to make a that’s why he’s a major champion.” critical up-and-down par on the 71st hole and capture the 39th U.S. Senior Open Championship at The Broadmoor. Jimenez and Petrovic both made birdie on No. 18, with Jimenez’s 11-footer capping an up-and-down round that included five Toms was paired with third-round leader Jerry Kelly and held birdies and a damaging double bogey-bogey combination on the solo lead by one stroke early on the incoming nine. But he the par-3 eighth and par-5 ninth. It was the Spaniard’s second bogeyed the par-4 13th hole from a bunker to fall into a five-way runner-up finish in this championship in four starts. tie at 2 under par with Kelly, Paul Goydos, Brandt Jobe and Tim Petrovic. Petrovic, Kelly’s college teammate at the University of Hartford, knocked his approach to 2½ feet on No. 18 to give himself a Goydos, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour Champions, second straight runner-up finish in a senior major, after losing knocked in a 31-foot birdie putt on the par-4 15th hole to briefly by one stroke to Broadhurst in the Senior PGA Championship in break the logjam and take the solo lead at 3 under. But he late May. missed the 17th and 18th greens and failed to get up and down each time to slip to 1 under par, into a tie for fifth place with Jimenez and Broadhurst, who both finished with 1-under 69s, Jobe and Paul Broadhurst, who closed with a 1-under 69. were two of only three players to break par on Sunday, joining Duffy Waldorf, who shot 68. It was the fewest under-par rounds Then it was Toms’ turn to break the deadlock for good. He and in the fourth round of a U.S. Senior Open since 1991 at Oakland Kelly both hit the green on the 162-yard, par-3 16th, and after Hills Country Club, when two under-par rounds were recorded. Kelly missed his 21-foot birdie bid, Toms lined up his 16-footer. NOTABLE “I knew there were a bunch of guys at 2 under,” said Toms. “I had a straight uphill putt, a good look at it. I got it going on line Statistical Wrapup: Toms led the way with the fewest putts and it went straight in the middle. I think speed is very impor- over the weekend: 27 in Round 3 when he tied for the day’s tant when you’re putting on these greens, and my speed got low round with a 66, and 26 on Sunday. Broadhurst, Goydos better and better as the week went on.” and Jobe were among a large group of players who were tied for sixth among the 60 players who made the cut with When he knocked his drive on the difficult par-4 17th into a fair- 28 putts in the final round. Toms was tied for fourth in putts way bunker, leaving himself no chance to reach the green in two for the week with 117. Philip Golding, who finished in a tie for because the ball sat near the bunker’s face, he recalled the up- 28th, led the way in putts with 112. and-down par he made on the 72nd hole to edge Phil Mickelson by one stroke at Atlanta Athletic Club in 2001. Kelly led the way in fairways hit for the week with 48, 10 more than Toms, who was T21 in that category. Kevin Sutherland “That was the first thing that popped into my mind after I had led in the greens in regulation for the week with 61 of 72, with to hit the shot out of the bunker,” said Toms, who laid up his Jimenez and Gene Sauers a distant second with 54 apiece. second shot to 93 yards from the hole. “I was in the middle of Toms was tied for 21st with 48. the fairway, I’m still in good shape. It’s normally a par 5, just like No. 18 at the Athletic Club was. I just said I need to go make a Kirk Triplett made 16 birdies, one more than Tom Pernice Jr. birdie.” Toms made 12 for the week, tying him for eighth-most. Davis Love III, who tied for 10th place, led in driving distance for Toms admitted that he “didn’t hit a very good third shot at all,” the week with a 321.1-yard average. Toms was 21st with a leaving himself 19 feet above the hole. But once again, he rolled 296.5-yard average. it into the heart of the hole. Wilson Earns Low-Amateur Honors: Jeff Wilson shot a final- “That was just an unbelievable putt I made for par,” said Toms, round 73 to capture low-amateur honors and join Vinny Giles 51, who missed the cut in his previous U.S. Senior Open start last III as the only golfers to be low amateur in both the U.S. Open year. “Certainly that was the key to victory.” and the U.S. Senior Open. Wilson, of Fairfield, Calif., led Mike Finster, of St. Petersburg, Fla., by one stroke entering the Kelly, who held the solo lead the first three days and was seek- final round and defeated him by three. ing to become just the second wire-to-wire winner in champi- onship history, made the turn in even-par 36 to retain his one- Attendance Highest Since 2013 at Omaha: The attendance for stroke advantage. But he stumbled with back-to-back bogeys on the week totaled 134,500, including 28,700 fans on Saturday holes 11 and 12 as Toms took the lead for the first time. and 31,000 on Sunday. The weekend totals and the weekly numbers were the highest since the 2013 championship at “It was a great championship,” said Kelly who closed with a Omaha (Neb.) Country Club. That championship posted 2-over 72 to tie for second with Jimenez and Petrovic, one stroke more than 157,000 in total attendance with nearly 33,000 on behind Toms’ 3-under total of 277. “It always comes down to Saturday and 34,354 on Sunday. U.S. Senior Open 3 39th U.S. Senior Open Championship Results June 28-July 1, 2018 The Broadmoor (East Course) Colorado Springs, Colo. Par: 36-34—70, Yardage: 7,264 • Entries: 2,738, Purse: $4 million Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Final Pos. Pos. Pos. Pos. Player, Hometown Scores Money T9 T10 2 1 David Toms, Shreveport, La. 70-71-66-70-277 $720,000 T2 2 T5 T2 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 68-68-73-69-278 $297,439 T26 3 T3 T2 Tim Petrovic, Austin, Texas 72-65-71-70-278 $297,439 1 1 1 T2 Jerry Kelly, Madison, Wis. 66-69-71-72-278 $297,439 T15 T10 T8 T5 Paul Broadhurst, England 71-70-69-69-279 $141,467 T26 T4 T5 T5 Paul Goydos, Long Beach, Calif. 72-67-70-70-279 $141,467 T9 T17 T5 T5 Brandt Jobe, Argyle, Texas 70-73-66-70-279 $141,467 T2 T17 T8 T8 Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento, Calif. 68-75-67-72-282 $107,748 T58 9 T3 T8 Kirk Triplett, Paradise Valley, Ariz. 74-66-68-74-282 $107,748 T6 T20 T15 T10 Lee Janzen, Orlando, Fla. 69-75-69-70-283 $89,926 T15 T4 T8 T10 Davis Love III, Sea Island, Ga. 71-68-71-73-283 $89,926 T41 T20 T17 T12 Tom Pernice, Jr., Murrieta, Calif. 73-71-70-70-284 $76,640 T15 T32 T17 T12 Marco Dawson, Merritt Island, Fla. 71-74-69-70-284 $76,640 T2 T12 T17 T14 Rocco Mediate, Greensburg, Pa. 68-74-72-71-285 $65,797 T9 T4 T11 T14 Jay Haas, Greenville, S.C. 70-69-72-74-285 $65,797 T6 T12 T29 T16 Scott Parel, Augusta, Ga. 69-73-74-70-286 $52,775 T58 T20 T26 T16 Scott Verplank, Edmond, Okla. 74-70-71-71-286 $52,775 T26 T43 T26 T16 Vijay Singh, Fiji 72-74-69-71-286 $52,775 T26 T55 T17 T16 Bernhard Langer, Germany 72-76-66-72-286 $52,775 T15 T12 T11 T16 Billy Andrade, Bristol, R.I. 71-71-69-75-286 $52,775 T41 T20 T17 T21 Gene Sauers, Savannah, Ga. 73-71-70-73-287 $40,676 T58 T32 T17 T21 Doug Garwood, Stevenson Ranch, Calif. 74-71-69-73-287 $40,676 T2 T4 T15 T21 Deane Pappas, South Africa 68-71-74-74-287 $40,676 T15 T50 T39 T24 David Frost, South Africa 71-76-71-70-288 $32,460 T58 T20 T26 T24 Wes Short Jr., Austin, Texas 74-70-71-73-288 $32,460 T81 T12 T17 T24 Todd Bailey, Daphne, Ala. 76-66-72-74-288 $32,460 T6 T17 T17 T24 Billy Mayfair, Scottsdale, Ariz.