OAKMONT, Pa. — France’s Victor Perez carded solely the second recorded ace in a U.S. Open at Oakmont Nation Membership on the par-3 sixth gap in Friday’s second spherical.
From 192 yards, Perez hit a 7-iron from the tee. His ball bounced thrice earlier than monitoring about 3 ft into the cup. He raised his arms, then chest-bumped his caddie, James Erkenbeck, earlier than high-fiving his taking part in companions, Jacob Bridgeman and Adam Schenk.
Scott Simpson made an ace on the sixteenth gap within the first spherical of the U.S. Open at Oakmont in 1983.
Perez, who performed faculty golf at New Mexico, wanted the ace to get again to 1 over. He began the day with that rating however made a triple bogey on the par-5 twelfth, his third gap of the day. He hit his drive right into a fairway bunker, wanted 4 photographs to get to the inexperienced and three-putted for an 8.
Perez rebounded with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 16 and 17, earlier than making a bogey on No. 18 to make the flip at 2-over 37. After carding one other bogey on the par-4 third, he sank a 5-footer for birdie on the fifth.
Perez, ranked 99th on this planet, has by no means made the lower in a U.S. Open. He missed the weekend in 5 consecutive begins within the main coming into this week.
