72-Hole Scoring Record (Total Score) in U.S. Senior Open

What are the lowest, 72-hole stroke totals in U.S. Senior Open history? Only a handful of golfers have yet finished this senior major in fewer than 270 strokes.

The current record is a total of 261, which was the winning score made by Steve Stricker in 2019. Stricker carded four rounds under 70, opening with a 62 (which tied the U.S. Senior Open 18-hole scoring record). He won by six strokes.

The U.S. Senior Open is run by the United States Golf Association and was first played in 1980. It is one of the five major championships of men's 50-and-over professional golf.

The List: Lowest Total Score, U.S. Senior Open

• 261 — Steve Stricker (62-64-66-69), The Warren Golf Club at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2019
• 264 — Kenny Perry (65-64-67-68), Salem Country Club, Peabody, Massachusetts, 2017
• 266 — *Kirk Triplett (62-67-66-71), Salem Country Club, Peabody, Massachusetts, 2017
• 267 — Hale Irwin (66-71-65-65), Saucon Valley Country Club (Old Course), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2000
• 267 — Kenny Perry (67-73-64-63), Omaha (Nebraska) Country Club, 2013
• 267 — *Jerry Kelly (64-64-70-69), The Warren Golf Club at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2019
• 267 — *David Toms (62-67-70-68), The Warren Golf Club at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 2019
• 267 — Richard Bland (68-64-69-66), Newport (R.I.) Country Club, 2024
• 267 — *Hiroyuki Fujita (63-66-67-71), Newport (R.I.) Country Club, 2024
• 268 — Fred Funk (68-67-68-65), Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana, 2009
• 269 — Olin Browne (64-69-65-71), Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio, 2011
• 269 — Padraig Harrington (67-67-68-67), The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2025
  (*did not win)

These are all the sub-270 scores in U.S. Senior Open history so far. Note that none of them happened prior to the year 2000, meaning from 1980 through 1999 nobody broke 270 in this tournament. Hale Irwin, in the 2000 tournament, was the first to go below 270.

This is how the U.S. Senior Open 72-hole scoring record evolved, listing each golfer who lowered the record:

285 — Roberto De Vicenzo (74-73-68-70), 1980
282 — Miller Barber (72-74-71-65), 1982
279 — Dale Douglass (66-72-68-73), 1986
270 — Gary Player (69-68-67-66), 1987
267 — Hale Irwin (66-71-65-65), 2000
267 — Kenny Perry (67-73-64-63), 2013
264 — Kenny Perry (65-64-67-68), 2017
261 — Steve Stricker (62-64-66-69), 2019

See U.S. Senior Open Scoring Records for the golfers who played the tournament in the most strokes under par.

Sources:
United States Golf Association. U.S. Senior Open Records, Lowest Score 72 Holes and Evolution of U.S. Senior Open Scoring Records, https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/media/online-media-center/usga-records/u-s--senior-open-records.html.