The best 50-and-over golfer in the world might be the Englishman who plays on LIV Golf.
The Englishman won the weather-delayed U.S. Senior Open on Monday at Newport Country Club, finishing off a final-round 66 in the morning and then defeating Hiroyuki Fujita on the second sudden-death playoff hole to claim the most prestigious 50-and-over title in golf.
“I’m just thrilled beyond words,” Bland said on the 18th green at Newport CC after outlasting Fujita. That meant sudden-death golf at the tough 466-yard par-4 18th for as long as necessary. The players tied with bogeys on the first go-round, then on the second trip through the 18th Bland nearly holed out from a greenside bunker, hitting the flagstick.Fujita failed to get up-and-down for par from short of the green, and Bland was a major champion for a second time.
Bland won for the first time on the DP World Tour at age 48—in his 478th start—and signed with LIV Golf for its inaugural 2022 season. In 2023 he registered to compete in the Senior British Open, for which he had an exemption as a former DP World Tour winner being 50 years old, but was denied the chance to compete due to outstanding fines relating to his departure for LIV.
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