COLUMBUS, Ohio – Georgia Southern men's golf alum Gene Sauers has made the absolute most of his second chances.
Sauers holed a four-foot, par-saving putt on hole 18 to fend off Miguel Angel Jimenez and win the U.S. Senior Open Championship by a stroke Monday at Scioto Country Club.
The pair was tied at 3-under-par heading to the 18th hole. Jimenez ran his shot from the greenside bunker 10 feet by the hole and missed the putt coming back to leave the door open for Sauers, whose pretty chip from the front of the green set him up for the win.