There hasn’t been a repeat winner in the US Open in nearly 30 years, since Curtis Strange in 1989, but it sure looked like the same guy won the championship for a second year in a row.
Jason Dufner showed more about his game Sunday in winning the Memorial Tournament than he had in any of his previous victories, including his US PGA Championship triumph four years ago.
Breathing is important. Who knew? That handy revelation recently struck Jason Dufner, who has suddenly found a little air under his feet as he enjoys a solid stretch of golf, one void only of a victory.
Golf’s “Golden Child” is at it again. Thanks to a slam-dunk birdie at the par-3 12th hole to begin his day and five birdies in his last eight holes at the end, Jordan Spieth began the 42nd Memorial Tournament with a six-under-par 66.
Winless for more than a year, since the Players in 2016, Day enters this week’s Memorial Tournament coming off a playoff loss to Billy Horschel at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
Like many of his fellow professionals and others in the world of golf, Bubba Watson saw the mug shot, the one of a dishevelled and droop-eyed Tiger Woods that was taken after he was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Monday in Florida, and winced.
A routine four-footer did it, the kind of putt Charlie Wi had sized up thousands of times and regularly converted without much fuss in his 20-plus years in professional golf. But he missed it this time, and as the ball broke away from the hole, something broke inside him.
Australian Golf Digest
