JJ Spaun, a 34-year-old American golfer who had never won major, created the feeling Sunday in Oakmont by winning the US Open after a day marked by dantesque conditions and a fabulous putt of almost twenty meters successful by the hero of the weekend. Victor Perez finished in the Top 20 (19th), while Matthieu Pavon had to settle for 64th place.
Glory day for JJ SPAUN. The 34-year-old American golfer, who had mainly been talked about before this weekend by winning during the Texas Open, in 2022-his only victory on the PGA circuit so far-created the feeling Sunday on the Green of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, by winning the US Open and at the same time his first majority of career. Spaun, who is ahead of two strokes at the finish the Ecossais Robert Macintyre, while the Norwegian Viktor Hovland, 3rd, finished three lengths from the winner, made a final card of 279 (66-72-69-72). With -1, he is also the only player to complete this third major of the season under s. And this while the one who had offered two beautiful second places this season at Cognizing Classic but especially during the Championship players, considered by many as the fifth major of the season without being one, however, had started this fourth and last round – with three Bogeys on the first three holes and even five on the first six – which was disputed in Dantesque conditions, to the point of obliging the organizers to interrupt the event for … 96 minutes.
Perez in the top 20
The weekend hero was able to tame them. Better still: the 25th in the world ranking before the start of the tournament illuminated this last day with an exceptional putt returned by almost 20 meters on the 18th for Birdie. “A dream stroke”, then savor the American, who also had a lot of trouble achieving the feat he had just accomplished after raising the trophy. A moment that he never thought he could live, to hear him. “It is an end of fairy tale, the story of the unexpected hero who returns from afar, who does not let go, never abandons. With this rain, this putt, we could not write a better story. »»
Author of a hole in a Friday, Victor Perez could not follow the pace of Spaun to the end. The Frenchman, embarrassed by the rain, nevertheless ends in the Top 20 (19th). Matthieu Pavon has not been so successful. The Bordeaux ends far (64th) of the best.
