U.S. Senior Open Championship

The Broadmoor East Course | Colorado Springs, Colorado | June 28-July 1, 2018

Final-Round Notes

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Course Setup: Par 70 / 7,265 yards (R4 Scoring average: 73.37, Cumulative: 74.69)

Weather: High of 79 with 5-15 mph winds out of the SE.

Note: The weekly attendance totaled 134,500, the highest total at the U.S. Senior Open since 2013 at Omaha (Neb.) Country Club.

Summary: David Toms made a 15-foot birdie putt to take the lead at No. 16, then a long par putt at No. 17 on his way to a one-shot victory Sunday at the U.S. Senior Open. Toms’ two-putt par on No. 18 closed out his final round of even-par 70. His 3-under-par 277 finish claimed his first victory on PGA TOUR Champions over Miguel Angel Jimenez (69), Tim Petrovic (70) and Jerry Kelly (72), who led after each of the first three rounds.

David Toms, 70-71-66-70—277 (-3)

• In his 35th start on PGA TOUR Champions and second U.S. Senior Open start, David Toms became the 39th U.S. Senior Open champion. When Jerry Kelly bogeyed No. 11, Toms worked a par to tie for the lead at 3-under-par. Toms made a 15-foot putt on No. 16 to take the solo lead. Come No. 17, Toms hit his drive into the bunker, but with the help of a 17-foot putt managed to save par to hold the lead. He two-putted on No. 18 to finish with a par and capture his first Champions Tour win.
• The last player whose first win was a major was Gene Sauers when he won the 2016 U.S. Senior Open.
• Toms owns 13 wins on the PGA TOUR, with his latest coming in 2011 at the 2011 Fort Worth Invitational at the Colonial Country Club. His only major win was the 2001 PGA Championship where he found a 10-foot putt on No. 18 to prevail over Phil Mickelson. Toms competed in 19 U.S. Opens, finishing in the top-five three times (T4 2012, T5 2003 & 2007).
• In the last 10 years, Tom becomes the seventh player to come from behind to claim the title, including defending champion, Kenny Perry (one back), Allen Doyle (five strokes), Gene Sauers (one back), Colin Montgomerie (four back/playoff), Kenny Perry (two back), Roger Chapman (four back), and Brad Bryant (five back).
• Toms failed to make the cut in his 2017 U.S. Senior Open debut, this year he becomes the first player since Jeff Maggert (2015) to win in his second start.
• At 51 years, 5 months and 27 days, Toms is just under the average age of winners (52) at the U.S. Senior Open. Five players on PGA TOUR Champions 51 years old or younger have won this year.
• His paycheck of $720,000 is the largest of his professional career since 2011 (THE PLAYERS Championship, Crowne Plaza).
• Toms will have an exemption into the 2019 U.S. Open Championship at Pebble Beach.
• With the win, Toms has eight top-10s and moved to No. 1 in the Charles Schwab Cup for the second time this season.

Miguel Angel Jimenez, 68-68-73-69—278 (-2)

• Miguel Angel Jimenez made a 20-foot putt for birdie on the final hole to enter a four-way tie for the lead. It was the only time he had led/co-lead throughout the championship. Winner David Toms, two groups behind Jimenez, birdied No. 16, to push Jimenez down the leaderboard for T2.
• This is Jimenez’s eighth runner-up finish on PGA TOUR Champions. The Spaniard owns five victories, with one major victory coming this year at the Regions Tradition.
• With the finish, Jimenez moves up three places in the Charles Schwab Cup into the top-three.

Jerry Kelly, 66-69-71-72—278 (-2)

• Jerry Kelly entered the final round of his second U.S. Senior Open in the lead by one stroke over David Toms. With back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12, Kelly finished Sunday with a 2-over-par 72 for a 2-under-par 278 total finish.
• His runner-up finish is his best in a major on Champions Tour. He now owns back-to-back runner-up finishes in the last two weeks, and four this season.
• Kelly led the championship in driving accuracy hitting 48/56 fairways.
• He has three titles on PGA TOUR Champions, including this year’s Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

Tim Petrovic, 72-65-71-70—278 (-2)

• Making his U.S. Senior Open debut, Tim Petrovic worked a birdie on the final hole to card a final-round even-par 70 for a 2-under-278. Petrovic finished runner-up for the third time this season on PGA TOUR Champions.
• His highest major championship finish came this season at the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship where he finished runner-up to Paul Broadhurst.
• Petrovic qualified with a 67 at Briarwood Golf Club in Ankeny, Iowa, to earn one of three spots into the 2018 U.S. Senior Open.

Other Notes

• Paul Goydos led/co-led during the final round on two different occasions, but with back-to-back bogeys on the final two holes, finished at 1-under-par for T5. This is Goydos’ third top-five finish this season on PGA TOUR Champions.
• The 2016 U.S. Senior Open champion, Paul Broadhurst carded a pair of 69s over the weekend to finish at 1-under-par 279 for T5. This is the 10thtime he has finished in the top-10 on PGA TOUR Champions.
• Brandt Jobe opened the final round with a birdie but finished at even-par 70 for a 1-under-par total (T5). In his last three appearances at the U.S. Senior Open, Jobe has finished in the top-five each time.
• The low amateur in the field was Jeff Wilson. He carded a final round 3-over-par 73 for a 10-over-par total finish (T31).
• Two-time Champions Tour winner, Duffy Waldorf had the lowest round of the final round with a 2-under-par 68. He finished T31.
• Five past U.S. Senior Open champions were in the field over the weekend:
  • Bernhard Langer (2010): 72-76-66-72—286 (+6), T16
  • Gene Sauers (2016): 73-71-70-73—287 (+7), T21
  • Colin Montgomerie (2014): 71-73-67-80—291 (+11), T38
  • Kenny Perry (2013, 2017): 71-74-71-71—292 (+12), T40
  • Jeff Maggert (2015): 74-71-72-77—294 (+14), T49
• The top-15 earned a spot in next year’s U.S. Senior Open at the university of Notre Dame, in Norte Dame, Ind., played on campus at the Warren Golf Course.
• After the week off, the next two tournaments on PGA TOUR Champions will finish out the major stretch with the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, where Scott McCarron is the defending champion, and the Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex, where Bernhard Langer is the defending champion.