ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paul Simson won the USGA Senior Amateur Championship on Thursday, beating stroke-play medalist Pat Tallent 2 and 1 to become the first player to win the event and the British Seniors Open Amateur Championship and Canadian Men’s Senior in the same year.
The 59-year-old Simson, from Raleigh, N.C., was 4-up after nine holes at Lake Nona and ended the match with a halve for par on the par-3 17th.
The 57-year-old Tallent, from Vienna, Va., was attempting to become the first medalist to win the title since John Richardson in 1987. Only seven medalists have won the event for players 55 and older.
