subject: Fred Funk Wins Senior Open [print this page] Fred Funk won the US Senior Open last week with a fantastic final round of 65. The tournament was held at Crooked Stick and had huge names playing the in senior tournament.
Funk, 53, had a difficult round the week before as he had a play off at The Senior Open Championship sponsored by MasterCard. However this was his tournament as he finished 20 under par and was six shots clear of Joey Sindelar.
Funk started the tournament one stroke ahead of world great Greg Norman and Sindelar. The winner showed that he was on top of his game as he hit 15 greens in regulations and a fantastic seven birdies at Carmel.
Funk said: "I didn't really dream of being able to come these last finishing holes with a nice little walk but I just kept playing with caution, make a couple of pars and keep my round going and I just kept making birdies. "When I got in trouble I got out of trouble and it turned out to be a great day for me."
"I wanted to keep the pedal down. If I ended up winning, or if I ended up losing, by giving it a good shot, then that's fine.
"There were a couple of opportunities last week that I know I let go and it hurt. Because you can always look back. I didn't want to look back this week and say 'woulda, coulda, shoulda'."
Norman's one over 73 saw him finish fourth, alongside last week's winner at Sunningdale, Loren Roberts. Norman, playing with Funk, never got his final round going, a double bogey at the par-three sixth and bogey at the par-four seventh putting paid to his prospects early, followed by four birdies and another bogey.
"Freddy played great today, and I played poor," Norman said. "He really deserved to win. He really played well.
"I don't really want to review my round, no. Just wasn't good. The middle patch wasn't good. "Nothing was going my way. I was out of energy and the momentum - not physically out of energy, but the momentum wasn't on my side and things weren't happening for me.
"No matter what I did, always seemed like it was the wrong thing instead of the right thing, and I just couldn't turn the corner on it, you know, that was it.
"Freddy kept making birdies and that was the end of that."
Forgan Sponsored Ian Woosnam shared 22nd place with a respectable two under par.
