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Kenny Perry took home his 4th senior major championship on Sunday at the U.S. Senior Open at Salem Country Club with a 2-under 68 in the final round. Perry finished at 16 under for the week, beat Kirk Triplett by two and set the scoring record for this tournament with a 264 total over four days.

Perry actually bested his own previous scoring record from 2013 when he tied Hale Irwin at 267 in a 5-stroke win over Fred Funk. This year's rout wasn't as emphatic because Triplett was fabulous throughout, but the outcome tilted towards Perry early on Sunday, and he never relinquished it.

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Perry is no stranger to winning senior major championships. He had three of them (including a U.S. Senior Open) coming into Sunday's showdown. Perry and Triplett were five clear of the rest of the field, and they both knew a hot start would be paramount. Perry birdied the first and sixth as Triplett made four bogeys in first nine holes. And that was pretty much it.

"I felt ready to go today," Perry said about his early birdies. "I felt good. I had a good warm-up session."

Oh, it got mildly intriguing late as Triplett made three birdies on the back to get within two, but Perry parred him home and netted the first bogey-free winning round at this event since 2010.

Perry more or less ended the fight on the 15th hole. After a pulled tee shot on the par 3, he fist-pumped a 30-foot par save. He knew then that it was all over but the engraving of the trophy.

"It was huge," Perry said of the save. "I putted that putt in the practice round. I hit a good putt, and it went right in the middle."

Perry made just five bogeys over the 72-hole event. I don't care where you're hosting a U.S. Open or how easy it is, that's preposterous. And on a week where nobody else got to double digits besides the top two, Perry nearly doubled up third-place finisher Brandt Jobe who settled at 9 under.

"Unreal to tell you the truth," Perry told Fox about how it feels to win his second U.S. Senior Open. "It's our goal to win our championship and I never could get it done on the regular tour. To be a two-time champion now ... I've never had such a mental challenge, all week. It fell my way this week."

Despite his PGA Tour Champions success, Perry has not played well for a few years. He hasn't finished in the top 10 at a major since the beginning of 2015 and hasn't won since August 2015. 

But Perry was tremendous in Massachusetts this week in his country's championship, and now he moves into a tie for 8th all time in senior majors. He's linked with Lee Trevino and Raymond Floyd and one behind Arnold Palmer. Bernhard Langer leads with nine.

And it's Langer who Perry halted this week. The German had taken the first two major championships of the season on the PGA Tour Champions before Perry stepped in to stop him. He die so emphatically and put the exclamation mark of a tournament record score on Sunday's victory.

"I've been kind of lost for two years," Perry told Fox. "Been really struggling out here. It all came together this week. Why it did, I don't know. But I'm very thankful."