GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) \u2014 Jerry Kelly rose to the challenge on the final hole to win the Senior British Open by two shots Sunday for his third senior major title.<\/p>\n
The 59-year-old American, who also won the Senior Players in 2020 and 2022, shot a 2-under 68 with four birdies and two bogeys on the Kings course at Gleneagles to finish at 10-under 270.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe senior Claret Jug is the trophy that I\u2019ve wanted as an over-50 golfer other than any other,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cTo do it in Scotland at the home of golf and to actually win and get into the home of golf at St Andrews, I mean, I\u2019m absolutely speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n
With his victory, Kelly earned a spot in St. Andrews next year for the 155th British Open.<\/p>\n
The Madison, Wisconsin, player has 14 PGA Tour Champions victories.<\/p>\n
With his ball in a greenside bunker at the par-5 18th, Kelly only needed two more shots for birdie and avoided any potential playoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned a lot about myself today, and I wish I would have learned it about 20, 30 years ago,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cYou\u2019re never too old to learn, and that\u2019s what really pulled me through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Cameron Percy (70), South Africa\u2019s Darren Fichardt (66) and American Matt Gogel (63) finished in a three-way tie for second.<\/p>\n
Gogel rose 12 places with his 7-under 63, bettered only by Scotland\u2019s Stephen Gallacher in fifth with an 8-under 62, which included nine birdies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you guys,\u201d Kelly called out to fans at the 18th while raising his putter and calling them \u201cfantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) \u2014 Jerry Kelly rose to the challenge on the final hole to win the Senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-829992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}