{"id":183263,"date":"2025-06-14T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183263\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:09:14","slug":"pga-star-creates-us-open-history-with-42-year-first-at-dreaded-oakmont-country-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183263\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA star creates US Open history with 42-year first at dreaded Oakmont Country Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frenchman Victor Perez has delivered a beauty… at the beast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perez hit a stunning hole-in-one during his second round at the US Open<\/a> on Friday – the first at Oakmont, nicknamed \u2018The Beast\u2019<\/a>, since 1983.<\/p>\n

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He made a hole-in-one at the 192-yard, par-three sixth<\/p>\n

The brutal 7,342-yard Par 70 course has already lived up to its name by wreaking havoc with some of golf’s top players.<\/p>\n

World No.1 Scottie Scheffler<\/a>\u00a0smashed his driver on the tee box<\/a> after allowing his frustrations to boil over ahead of the cut.<\/p>\n

However, Perez found himself at the complete opposite end of the mood scale after acing the 192-yard par-three sixth hole.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old expertly removed Oakmont’s unforgiving rough and punishing greens from<\/a> the equation with his highlight swing.<\/p>\n

Perez rifled his seven-iron tee shot towards the flag and watched as it bounced three times on the green before rolling into the hole.<\/p>\n

If his shot was a thing of beauty, Oakmont fittingly experienced the ‘belly of the beast’ during the wild celebrations that followed.<\/p>\n

Perez chest-bumped his caddie James Erkenbeck before taking plaudits from playing partners Jacob Bridgeman and Adam Schenk.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor-league chest bump,\u201d exclaimed Mike Tirico on Peacock.<\/p>\n

Perez has now joined an exclusive club after delivering just the second hole-in-one in a US Open at Oakmont in its tenth edition.<\/p>\n

It is the first since Scott Simpson on the par-three 16th hole during the first round in 1983, and makes Perez the first European to do so.<\/p>\n

Overall, it is the 49th hole-in-one that has been sunk during the 125 years of the US Open. <\/p>\n

The most recent came last year when Sepp Straka aced the 194-yard ninth hole at Pinehurst No.2 – also in Friday’s second round.<\/p>\n

Crucially, Perez’s effort went some way towards repairing some of the damage done by a triple-bogey eight on the par-five 12th.<\/p>\n

His hole-in-one also moved him from three over par to one over and into the top 15 on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

The three-time DP World Tour winner is playing in his sixth US Open, having failed to make the cut in his first five appearances.<\/p>\n

Perez remains in the hunt to secure his career-best finish at a major, which was 12th in the 2023 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frenchman Victor Perez has delivered a beauty… at the beast. Perez hit a stunning hole-in-one during his second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,4366,65914,75237,10524,4298,79,16,15,5067,75238,75235,75236],"class_list":{"0":"post-183263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-golf-news","10":"tag-oakmont","11":"tag-oakmont-hole-in-one","12":"tag-pga","13":"tag-pga-tour","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-us-open","18":"tag-us-open-hole-in-one","19":"tag-victor-perez","20":"tag-victor-perez-hole-in-one"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114680703728353932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}