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Kenny Perry’s Shot of The U.S. Open

by Jeff Skinner

us open logo 14Kenny Perry is 53 years old and not supposed to be making any noise here at the U.S. Open. But he’s here because he won the 2013 Senior Open and showed us that he still has game, even when playing the flatbellies.

On 14 he hit a poor tee shot but made up for it with the shot of the tournament so far.

Here’s how he describes it, “I’m in a bunker, I hit a poor 5-wood off the tee and this came out perfect and it looked, I thought it was going to go over the green and then all of a sudden people started jumping up in the air and it had perfect speed on it. That’s the longest shot I’ve ever made ever in my life, period, from 220 out of a bunker with a hybrid.”

Perry, known as one of the kindest guys in golf thought this was the toughest major setup he has ever played. “I tell you what, it’s, it was a golf course of 18 of the toughest pins I’ve ever seen. It was probably the hardest setup I’ve ever experienced in a Major Championship. Meaning that you had to be spot on with your irons, there was no room for error, right, left, you had to basically kind of play short and up to everything. Every time I got a little aggressive it went a little long and went off the swale and I’m struggling to make par. I was 7-over after seven today and I hadn’t hit it that poorly. I missed a couple that looked okay and next thing I know I’m way off in a swale and I’m struggling to make a bogey. I made two doubles. But then I played, I made an eagle, I holed a long shot and made a couple birdies, so I made a respectable score.”

 

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