Kenny Perry played in 30 major championships in his tenure on the PGA Tour. He had top-10 finishes in all four majors in his career. His best finishes were a runner-up in the 1996 PGA Championship and a very disappointing second-place finish in the 2009 Masters, when he made bogeys at the last two holes to lose the event.
Perry seems very comfortable on the Champions Tour. He won his first ever major championship two weeks ago at the Constellation Senior Players Championship. The win at the U.S. Senior Open gives him his second consecutive major title and his first USGA championship.
He still has the length to play with the young guys on the PGA Tour and can bomb it past the old guys on the senior circuit. When his iron play is on target, as it was at the Omaha Country Club last week, no one on the Champions Tour can compete with him.
By the way after his win at the Senior Players at the end of June, he played in the Greenbrier Classic last week and managed a three-under par T-41 playing against the young guys.
He now has two wins, two runners-up and a third place finish in 2013 on the Champions Tour. He has made all 11 cuts on that tour this year and has seven top-10 finishes. He also has a commanding lead in the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
Fred Funk finished solo second at eight-under par. Rocco Mediate missed a short tap-in putt at the last, finished at seven-under par and tied with Corey Pavin for third place.
Michael Allen, who shot 67-63 over the first two rounds and had a five-shot lead, shot 72-72 on the weekend and finished in the fifth spot.
1995 PGA Championship winner, Steve Elkington posted a 65 on Sunday to finish at four-under par and in a tie with 1988 PGA Championship winner, Jeff Sluman and Lu Chien-Soon, from Taiwan, for sixth.
Kirk Triplett, Duffy Waldorf, Tom Lehman, Bart Bryant and Chris Williams all finished at two-under par and shared ninth place.
The rolling fairways and undulating greens of Omaha Country Club proved to be an excellent venue for the U.S. Senior Open. I am sure we will see more of that course for USGA events in the future.