Perez sets speed record for final round

Pat Perez set a clubhouse target unlikely to be beaten at the PGA Championship Sunday morning - not for shots taken, but for time taken.

The 26-year-old from Arizona played his final round at Hazeltine National in an amazing 111 minutes.

Perez, playing alone at the head of the field after his third-round 85, was signing his scorecard for a 4-over 76 as Thomas Levet and Matt Gogel, who teed off 10 minutes behind him, were only on the 10th fairway.

Records for such things are not kept, but it was almost certainly the fastest 18 holes ever in a major championship - although Scotland's Brian Barnes remembers racing round the final round of a Open once.

Colin Montgomerie drew comments for the speed at which he played the last round of the British Open at Muirfield last month. But his two hours 46 minutes was positively tortoise-like compared to Perez.

For at least two hours, the 26-year-old from Phoenix could boast that he held the clubhouse lead on the final day of a major. But his 21-over-par 309 was not exactly challenging for the big prizes at the end of the day.

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