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Featuring male players aged 50 or over, the Senior Open presented by Rolex is one of the most sought after titles in the senior game.

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STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Generally speaking, there isn’t a “homefield advantage” in golf tournaments. Galleries root for popular players and good shots, and there usually isn’t someone playing spoiler.

The 2023 U.S. Senior Open at SentryWorld was anything but the usual in that regard. Madison’s Steve Stricker came as the hottest and best player on the PGA Tour Champions. Fellow Madison resident Jerry Kelly was in good form.

If ever there was a homefield advantage in the sport, they had it this week.

And Bernhard Langer was the perfect foil.

Opening the day with a two-shot lead, the 65-year-old steadily won his record 46th PGA Tour Champions title at with a 7-under 277 for the tournament, capped by a solid 1-under 70 final round.

“It feels awesome,” he said. “It’s been a long time coming, but very, very happy. Never thought it would happen at a U.S. Senior Open, but I’m very thrilled that the record of 46 wins happened this week.

“It’s certainly one of the greatest tournaments we ever compete in, and to beat this field, where everybody was here, especially Stricker and Kelly on their home grounds, is a very special feeling. Very grateful.”

Knowing he had to overcome the rooting interests of nearly everyone on the grounds, he muffled the galleries with consecutive birdies to start his round and quickly push his lead to four shots over Kelly and five over Stricker.

Langer effectively turned the lights out on the party before it could really get started.

“I knew it was going to be a tough day just because Steve Stricker has been in top form,” Langer acknowledged. “He’s winning basically every time he tees up or thereabouts. I knew he would want to have his streak going of three majors in a row, and I knew he was going to give it his all.

“The same with Jerry Kelly. He’s one of the best ball strikers, very underrated golfer. I knew he would do well because he is one of the straightest hitters. The key this week, I think, was hitting the fairways. If you could keep it out of the cabbage, you had a chance.”

And if he wasn’t already considered the greatest player over the age of 50, Langer put that debate to bed in breaking Hale Irwin’s longstanding record for most wins on the PGA Tour Champions.

“I’m proud of the way I battled again, but having a front row seat to 45 and 46 as a really good friend of Bernhard’s, that was special,” Kelly said. “He can retire now.

“But that was very special. I’m happy to be a part of it. He deserves it. It was incredible watching him pick apart the golf course methodically and making birdies.”

Langer already had the record for most senior majors won, and this was his 12th overall and second U.S. Senior Open title. It marks his 11th straight season with multiple wins on the PGA Tour Champions, tying Irwin’s mark.

The 13 years between U.S. Open titles for Langer is also a record for multiple-time winners of the event. Kenny Perry waited four years between championships.

“Having won more majors on this Tour than anybody, even Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Gary Player, you name them all, that’s incredible,” Langer said. “Now to add one more at age – I’m almost 66. My caddie just told me the average age of the U.S. Senior Open winner is 52, and here I am at 66. So the odds were definitely stacked against me, but I don’t always go by odds and what’s written on paper.

“The golf ball doesn’t know how old we are, and we do the best we can.”

Langer is now 9-for-16 in closing out senior majors when he entered the final round with a lead or co-lead. He was clinical through 15 holes on Sunday where his steady play forced Stricker, playing a group ahead, and Kelly to make birdies.

And while the course did yield some scoring on Sunday – Steven Alker went 6 under (best score of the week) and Brett Quigley went 5 under – the hometown duo could not put together a rally.

Stricker tried, though.

From the fairway of the par-5 fifth hole he tried to reach the green in two. But his approach found the water fronting the hole. Instead of an eagle putt to put pressure on Langer, Stricker made bogey to fall six shots back and out of the mix. He was 2 over on the front.

“I just didn’t get off to the start I needed to get off to today,” Stricker said. “I was really excited to get out there and play. I was feeling good. I just didn’t hit very many quality shots to start with. Drove it well at the 1st hole and hit kind of a mediocre 7-iron. My tempo seemed a little off. I was a little quick just because I guess I was so excited, I felt like I had a good round in me. Just didn’t hit some good shots.

“Then really the shot at the par-5 No. 5 kind of; that was a killer really. We got the wind wrong, and then I over-hooked it. Hindsight, I should have just been aiming way to the right and chip it across the green.”

He didn’t make his first birdie until the 11th hole, which started a strong closing kick that included four birdies on the back nine. Stricker ended the day with a 2-under 69 and finished 5 under for the championship, alone in second place.

“I knew he wasn’t going to back off today, and that’s why I thought I needed to shoot a 5-under round, get it to 8 or 7 or something like that,” Stricker said of Langer. “And he didn’t. He came out strong and made some birdies and got it to 10 really quick.”

Langer also found the hazard on his approach to the fifth, but his ball was sitting up on a mud bank. So, he shed his socks and shoes, rolled his pants up and hit it out to a few feet. He then made birdie.

The highlight up-and-down effectively ended the tournament as it gave Langer a five-shot margin over Kelly with 13 holes to play. So even though Langer bogeyed his final three holes, the championship as never really in doubt as he missed just two fairways four greens.

For the week, Langer was No. 1 in driving accuracy in hitting 48 of 55 fairways (87.3 percent), No. 1 in greens in regulation in hitting 52 of 71 (73.2 percent) and No. 1 in scrambling (73.7 percent).

Playing alongside Langer on Sunday, Kelly never got it going with three birdies against three bogeys for an even-par round of 71. He finished the championship in third place at 4 under.

“I know I was way too amped up,” Kelly admitted. “I was trying to be settled and calm, but I was talking more than I have all week. I was moving a little bit faster than I have all week. Just wasn’t – I could tell it wasn’t, OK, I’m really tired. I’m just going to pass out. I was up a little bit last night too. I didn’t have the strength as much today to stave off that.

“We want to be in those situations. We want to push our mind and our bodies into those uncomfortable spots and see how we do in them. I did well without my best stuff today. There have been times, there’s going to be times when I have it on that Sunday, and I didn’t today.”

Rob Labritz and Quigley finished tied for fourth at 2 under. Alker’s strong round put him at 1 under for the tournament and tied with Dicky Pride and Retief Goosen for sixth place.

Y.E. Yang and Alex Cejka finished at even par for the tournament to round out the top 10.

Langer’s victory also ended Stricker’s own bid for history, as he was looking to become the first player to win the first three Champions majors in a year (Jack Nicklaus won the Tradition, Senior PGA Championship and U.S. Senior Open in 1991, but they were ordered differently).

Though Stricker or Kelly did not win the tournament, it was a memorable week for the duo. Both had their families in attendance, and their Saturday pairing featured excellent shots and long birdie putts that got the thousands in the galleries in an uproar.

“I just think the receptions that I’ve got, the support that I’ve got and received from this week, it blows me away really,” Stricker said. “We played a long time, Jerry and I, through our career. To see the support that we get here is really something special.

“We came up a little bit short, but all in all, we had a ball yesterday, the two of us yesterday had a great time. Just another feather in Wisconsin’s cap really, to have a major championship here. We’ve had other major championships here on the regular Tour, but Wisconsin shows up.

“It’s cool to see. I’m lacking a word, but it’s just neat to see the support they give, not only Jerry and I but the whole field, and is how they show up and support. They’ve done it from day one here in our state. It’s cool to see.”

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Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2023 U.S. Senior Open

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Just when you thought Bernhard Langer was done surprising people with what he could do on the golf course comes his performance at the 43rd U.S. Senior Open. The 65-year-old German, on the precipice of becoming the all-time winningest golfer in PGA Tour Champions history, cruised to a two-shot victory over Steve Stricker Sunday at SentryWorld in Wisconsin, a margin that is deceiving when he was up by seven strokes at one point early in the back nine.

With a one-under 70 on Sunday after bogeys on the final three holes, Langer posted a seven-under 277 total that gave him his 46th senior title, passing Hale Irwin, who he had shared the mark with since February. In the process, Langer won a senior major for the 12th time, and became the oldest winner of the U.S. Senior Open by eight years, passing Allen Doyle’s previous mark of being just shy of his 58th birthday when he won in 2006 at NCR Country Club.

With the win, Langer also claimed the first-place prize money payout of $720,000 from an overall purse awarded by the USGA of $4 million. Here’s the prize money payouts for each golfer how made the cut in Wisconsin.

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Win: Bernhard Langer, 277/-7, $720,000

2: Steve Stricker, 279/-5, $432,000

3: Jerry Kelly, 280/-4, $267,672

T-4: Rob Labritz, 282/-2, $171,954

T-4: Brett Quigley, 282/-2, $171,954

T-6: Steven Alker, 283/-1, $125,127

T-6: Retief Goosen, 283/-1, $125,127

T-6: Dicky Pride, 283/-1, $125,127

T-9: Alex Cejka, 284/E, $97,136

T-9: Y.E. Yang, 284/E, $97,136

11: K.J. Choi, 285/+1, $84,880

T-12: Joe Durant, 287/+3, $75,805

T-12: Ernie Els, 287/+3, $75,805

T-14: Craig Barlow, 288/+4, $62,932

T-14: Miguel Angel Jiménez, 288/+4, $62,932

T-14: Justin Leonard, 288/+4, $62,932

17: Tom Gillis, 289/+5, $55,419

T-18: Bob Estes, 290/+6, $46,026

T-18: Padraig Harrington, 290/+6, $46,026

T-18: Vijay Singh, 290/+6, $46,026

T-18: Paul Stankowski, 290/+6, $46,026

T-18: David Toms, 290/+6, $46,026

T-23: Paul Broadhurst, 291/+7, $34,089

T-23: Tim Herron, 291/+7, $34,089

T-23: Lee Janzen, 291/+7, $34,089

T-23: Colin Montgomerie, 291/+7, $34,089

T-27: Billy Andrade, 292/+8, $27,134

T-27: Dave Cunningham, 292/+8, $27,134

T-27: Paul Goydos, 292/+8, $27,134

T-27: Richard Green, 292/+8, $27,134

T-27: Rod Pampling, 292/+8, $27,134

T-32: Darren Clarke, 293/+9, $22,337

T-32: Harrison Frazar, 293/+9, $22,337

T-32: Jeff Maggert, 293/+9, $22,337

T-35: David Branshaw, 294/+10, $19,452

T-35: James Kingston, 294/+10, $19,452

T-35: Mike Weir, 294/+10, $19,452

T-38: Phillip Archer, 295/+11, $16,582

T-38: Clark Dennis, 295/+11, $16,582

T-38: Jeff Gove, 295/+11, $16,582

T-38: Bob Sowards, 295/+11, $16,582

T-42: Alan McLean, 296/+12, $13,362

T-42: Michael Muehr, 296/+12, $13,362

T-42: Phillip Price, 296/+12, $13,362

T-42: Ken Tanigawa, 296/+12, $13,362

T-42: Mark Strickland, 296/+12, Amateur

T-47: Hiroyuki Fujita, 297/+13, $10,719

T-47: Mark Hensby, 297/+13, $10,719

T-47: Mike Small, 297/+13, $10,719

50: Joakim Haeggman, 298/+14, $9,618

T-51: Stephen Ames, 300/+16, $8,822

T-51: Adilson da Silva, 300/+16, $8,822

T-51: John Huston, 300/+16, $8,822

T-51: Mark O'Meara, 300/+16, $8,822

T-51: Tom Pernice Jr., 300/+16, $8,822

56: Brad Adamonis, 301/+17, $8,451

T-57: Woody Austin, 302/+18, $8,290

T-57: Marco Dawson, 302/+18, $8,290

T-57: Keiichiro Fukabori, 302/+18, $8,290

T-60: Jesús Amaya, 304/+20, $8,009

T-60: Tom Lehman, 304/+20, $8,009

T-60: Kenny Perry, 304/+20, $8,009

T-60: Kirk Triplett, 304/+20, $8,009

T-60: Christian Raynor, 304/+20, Amateur

65: Takashi Kanemoto, 305/+21, $7,807

66: Harry Rudolph, 308/+24, $7,714

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2024 US Senior Open final results: Prize money payout, PGA Tour Champions leaderboard, how much each golfer won

The 2024 US Senior Open final leaderboard is headed by winner Richard Bland, who topped the PGA Tour Champions leaderboard this week with a win on the 2024 PGA Tour Champions schedule at Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

Bland and Hiroyuki Fujita finished regulation on Monday on 13-under 267, after Bland bogeyed the 72nd hole and Fujita narrowly missed a birdie putt to win the tournament.

In the playoff, the first two-hole, aggregate-score playoff in USGA history, both players made pars on the par-4 10th and par-4 18th. At that point, the playoff became a sudden-death affair played on the par-4 18th.

Bland missed the green right on the third playoff hole and was unable to get up-and-down for par. Fujita left himself a 17-footer for the winning par and could not make it.

On the fourth playoff hole, both players couldn't find the green. However, Fujita's 44-yard pitch came up well short of the hole, while Bland's bunker shot hit the stick and made for a tap-in, tournament-winning par.

Richard Green finished alone in third place on 10-under total, three shots out of the playoff and one shot ahead of fourth-place finisher Steve Stricker.

Bland won the $800,000 winner's share of the $4,000,000 purse.

US Senior Open recap notes

Bland wins the 14th PGA Tour Champions title of the year, getting into the winner's circle on the 50-plus tour in a major for the second time this season.

The money Bland (were he a PGA Tour Champions member) -- and every PGA Tour Champions player in the field -- earned is converted into Charles Schwab Cup points, with every dollar converted into two points during the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.

There is no cut on PGA Tour Champions-run events, including the major championships they run. However, the USGA runs this tournament and made a 36-hole cut to the top 60 players and ties. Every pro who finished the tournament was paid.

The 2024 PGA Tour Champions schedule continues in two weeks wih the Kaulig Companies Championship.

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Justin Leonard is in the hunt for his first PGA Tour Champions win.

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Over the course of Justin Leonard’s lengthy — and successful — PGA Tour career, the now 52-year-old collected 12 wins, including a major championship. But after joining the PGA Tour Champions full-time in 2023, Leonard has yet to post a victory in 38 events on the senior circuit.

He’s come close, with a runner-up finish at last September’s PURE Insurance Championship, but Leonard hasn’t really contended down the stretch since.

That is, until this week’s Ascension Charity Classic in St. Louis, Mo. Leonard fired an opening round of four-under 67 on Friday to get himself in the mix at the top of the leaderboard. It was his best round since June’s U.S. Senior Open, when Leonard posted scores of 67-72-67-73 to finish T22.

To what did Leonard attribute the sudden turnaround? Turns out, all he needed was a phone lesson with his swing coach that took place in his driveway.

After last week’s final-round 75 left Leonard T58 at the Ally Challenge in Michigan, Leonard got on the phone with his coach, Randy Smith .

“After the Sunday in Michigan I was like, golly, should be better than this,” Leonard said on Friday from St. Louis. “To Randy, I didn’t have any swings to send him. It was Monday afternoon, I was home and talking to him. He said, well, sounds like you’ve got your grip too much in the palm. I’m like, what? He said well, if you’re battling left and this and that, you know, didn’t quite have speed with my driver and those things, feel like you get it in the fingers.

“So he tells me, I go out in the driveway while I’m on the phone with him with a club and tells me to swing it one-handed as hard as I could five or six times,” Leonard continued. “He said, don’t move anything. Where do you feel the club now? Yeah, it’s in my fingers. He said, is that where it’s felt? I was like, no. He said, okay, there you go.”

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The unconventional driveway lesson certainly had an impact, as Leonard posted four birdies and an eagle at Norwood Hills Country Club during Friday’s first round, and remains in contention after a second-round 70.

“That’s what I rolled into last week, was really trying to feel things in the fingers,” Leonard said. “Sure enough I’ve gotten a little more speed from it.”

A win on Sunday in St. Louis would not only be a first for Leonard on the PGA Tour Champions, it would also give him a meaningful boost in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, launching him from No. 64 to No. 31 as the regular season starts to wind down.

Still, regardless of what happens, like all golfers, Leonard is just happy to be striping it again.

“Look, we’re all nuts. We been doing this a long time and we’re trying to make a living off this game, so we’re all a little bit nutty. But it’s fun when you find a few things and then like you can have a round like today, which I haven’t played well seems like in a very long time,” he said. “Just as a bit of confirmation that what I’m doing is the right thing. I knew that going in, but it’s just nice to shoot a score and kind of justify it a little bit.”

If he can keep that positive momentum going for one more round, he could set himself up for a memorable Sunday indeed.

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PNG Senior Open cancelled

Tournament officials, the PGA of Australia and the Lae Golf Club Tournament Committee have made the decision to cancel the staging of the 2024 PNG Senior Open.

The 54-hole PGA Legends Tour event worth $80,000 was due to begin on Friday but Round 1 was cancelled after the course received 91mm of rain on the eve of the tournament.

The weather system intensified on Friday with a further 190mm of rain falling on the golf course between 6am and 5pm.

With further rain expected into Sunday, the decision was made at 4pm on Saturday afternoon to cancel the event completely.

“The current course condition and forecast weather system has cast a continued negative synopsis,” officials said in communication with players.

“This decision is based on the ability to conduct the event proper, including a composite course, and other alternatives.

“Consideration for player and course welfare was paramount in the decision-making process, whilst upholding the status and integrity of the event.”

“All feasible options to run the event were explored, factoring in all stakeholders, most notably, all professionals.”

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Rory McIlroy's finish to the 2024 PGA Tour season was an underwhelming one by his high standards, but the Northern Irishman is now enjoying some down time away from the course

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With his PGA Tour campaign now over, Rory McIlroy has turned his attention to the world of tennis after attending Saturday's men's US Open semi-final between Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.

Despite winning twice on American soil at the Zurich Classic and Wells Fargo Championship, McIlroy's PGA Tour campaign was a somewhat underwhelming one by his high standards, ending in a tie for ninth in the FedEx Cup standings - a race he has won more than anyone else in PGA Tour history.

With last week's Tour Championship bringing the curtain down on the 2024 season in the United States, the Northern Irishman has opted to remain Stateside before he heads back to Europe and onto the Middle East for the end of the DP World Tour campaign.

Taking a break from the action, the 35-year-old was spotted in the crowd watching the All-American semi-final, which saw Fritz overcome his fellow countryman 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Whilst McIlroy failed to make his mark at the season finale in East Lake, they were plenty of bright moments throughout the year.

Alongside his two victories, the Northern Irishman also came as close as he ever has to winning a fifth major title and a first since clinching the PGA Championship at Valhalla in 2014. His chance came at the US Open at Pinehurst No. 2, where he found himself two shots clear with just five holes left to play.

Things soon turned sour down the final straight for McIlroy, though, as he went on to make three bogeys in his final four holes to allow Bryson DeChambeau to swoop in and win by a single shot. The loss was a tough one to take for McIlroy, who missed two short putts on the way to surrendering his lead.

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In the immediate aftermath the four-time major winner left the Pinehurst site in a hurry, before announcing a three-week break from competition in a statement the day after. Over two months on at the Tour Championship, McIlroy referenced back to his US Open heartbreak as one of the reasons behind his slow finish to the season.

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Why Florida State's Luke Clanton is motivated to win NCAA Men's Golf Championship

Being the top amateur golfer in the world is a big accomplishment for Florida State's Luke Clanton . And instead of elevating his potential pro career, he returned to Florida State with one goal in mind:

A national title.

"I've been wanting to win a national championship, and that's my number one goal with this team. I think all these guys are incredible," said Clanton, a junior from Hialeah. "I think we're kind of under looked a little bit sometimes, and I think this year is going to be amazing.”

Last season, Clanton and the FSU men's golf team went on its first historic national championship run. The fifth-seeded Seminoles fell to Auburn in the final match play, 3-2.

Clanton hopes to return to Carlsbad, California, after being just one point shy from winning the national title for the Seminoles. Every time he is on a golf course or a gym, that has been on his mind.

"It's one of those things where coming down the final match and losing is no joke," Clanton said.

"I think everyone saw the emotion we all had as a team there. And you know, when you train all year to get to that moment, you don't pull it off, it's hard. I'm not gonna lie and not be like, oh, that's great. It's brutal."

Despite being a runner-up, Clanton is proud of the season he had.

He ended the year as a first-team All-American honors, All-Southeast Region selection, All-ACC selection and was a finalist for both the Jack Nicklaus and Fred Haskins Award as the National Player of the Year.

In his career, Clanton averages 70.35, which is the second-lowest in FSU history, sitting behind John Pak's 69.87 (2019-21).

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This summer has done wonders for Clanton in his first experiences on the PGA Tour.

He has particpated in five PGA Tour events, including the US Open, the John Deere Classic and Wyndham Championship. Three of the five he finished in the top 10.

In the John Deere Classic, he finished second after placing 10th in the Rocket Mortage Classic. It made the junior the first amateur to finish in top 10 in back-to-back starts on the PGA Tour since Billy Joe Patton in 1957.

"Yeah, I was a little shocked, no doubt," Clanton said.

"I mean, when I finished second John Deere, I was, I was like, wow, that's pretty cool. That's a little different from normal and, you know, but again, I walked off 18 and I saw my mom and dad there. No matter what I do, no matter how I finish, they're always there for me."

Clanton felt right at home, and he believed that playing at PGA golf courses was no different from playing at Club Corp.

He also embraced the knowledge he soaked in being around other pro golfers he met, such as Scottie Scheffler, Gary Woodland and FSU alum Vincent Norrman.

"I was that little kid asking questions basically all the time," Clanton said.

"I think there's just so much knowledge out there that we don't really know as amateur golfers, and to kind of absorb that and then come to college and kind of have that as well with practice and how you kind of lead into tournaments, it is pretty incredible."

Clanton is not the only world's top amateur golfer.

Senior Lottie Woad also carries that title on the women's side. Clanton humbly praised Woad for her accomplishments and wouldn't dare to challenge her for the top spot as a Seminole.

"She was No. 1 before me, and she's incredible," Clanton said. "So, you know, I can't really talk too much. She's done amazing things this summer."

Clanton was honored when awarded the Mark H. McCormack Medal and named the top male golfer in the 2024 World Amateur Golf Ranking. It is an honor he wouldn't take for granted.

"Being No. 1 in the world is no joke, and I'm super blessed about it," Clanton said.

"But it wasn't as much fulfillment as I thought I was going to be. I think my fulfillment comes with the man above and realizing that, you know, he's given me these opportunities and the blessings that I have, and it's awesome."

Peter Holland Jr. covers Florida State athletics for Tallahassee Democrat. Contact him via email at [email protected] or on X @_Da_pistol.

U.S. Senior Open Championship

Saucon Valley CC

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania • USA

Jun 23 - 26, 2022