A recently completed trial using distance measuring devices and an ongoing study implementing a revised pace of play policy constitute the basis for an optimistic outlook that pace of play on the PGA Tour should improve in the 2026 season.
AKRON, Ohio – Miguel Angel Jimenez avenged one of the most disappointing finishes of his career on Sunday by capping a late rally with a sudden-death victory over Steven Alker in the $3.5 million Kaulig Companies Championship. Jimenez, the cigar-chomping Spaniard, birdied the final two holes at Firestone Country Club’s rugged South Course to force Read more…
Rory McIlroy reiterated today after an encouraging closing 67 at Oakmont Country Club that his mental head space still isn’t quite right. But he knows just where that might finally change, and it isn’t likely to be at this week’s Travelers Championship.
OAKMONT, Pa. — There always seems to be enough rattling around in the brain of Viktor Hovland that it’s not far-fetched to wonder how he does what he does as well as he does it. What Hovland does well is play golf, and he appears more capable than many of his peers to play better Read more…
Seldom is a player who joined the LIV Golf League so unequivocally positive about making the leap into the golf unknown, joining an upstart tour that offered unprecedented riches and unanticipated question marks. But while Leishman has missed major-championship golf, he otherwise has no regrets or recriminations since he went to the land of shotgun starts and team standings.
OAKMONT, Pa. — News that the first prize for the U.S. Open winner is $4.3 million certainly had Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller sit up and take notice. But it did not seem to make them envious. In fact, they seemed to take a certain delight in the amount of prize money available in professional Read more…
Something is eating Rory McIlroy. How does a guy go from the pinnacle of professional fulfilment to the petulant, club-throwing, tee marker-smashing anger ball that’s been stomping around Oakmont Country Club the last two days? CLICK HERE FOR OUR FULL US OPEN COVERAGE McIlroy, who won the Masters two months ago and completed the career Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Sam Burns played one of the finest rounds of golf in a U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in the early stages of Friday’s second round. Depending on the how things unfold, Burns’ five-under 65 might end up being, statistically speaking, not just the best at Oakmont—yes, even better than the mythic Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Jordan Spieth will take three more rounds just like the even-par 70 he posted Thursday in the opening round of the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. OK, well, maybe not just like it. One the best putters of his era, Spieth found himself playing the what-if game familiar to countless golfers Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Struggles with the putter, including a three-putt to begin the championship, and a few too many trips to the rough that was too penal, “even for a guy like me,” resulted in a rocky three-over 73 Thursday for defending champion Bryson DeChambeau in the first round of the U.S. Open. The two-time Read more…
After finishing a nine-hole practice round Wednesday with a few lob shots from the gnarly rough to the back-right corner of the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club, Adam Scott shook hands with a few volunteers and then signed autographs.
OAKMONT, Pa. — Squaring off against a quartet of PGA Tour players in a playoff in a U.S. Open final qualifier in Columbus, Ohio, June 2, Chase Johnson understood the challenge confronting him. “I definitely was the underdog in the playoff, but I didn’t feel it like that way at all,” said Johnson, a former Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Does size matter? We can make the argument that it does at this week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. We’re talking about physical size, men of height, who can exert enormous torque, or of big bones, solidly built and with sinewy strength. Athletic specimens with sturdy God-given frames and talent to Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Of all the inspired golf rounds Justin Thomas has played in his professional career, one of his greatest, in his estimation, came in the second round of the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. He shot 69. That’s not a typo. That’s a six and a nine. Thomas is the author Read more…
Six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa carried his own bag for 38 holes Monday in a US Open final qualifier and then opted to not disclose the reason why he did it. He did drop a clue or two, however. RELATED: US Open 2025: March Leishman into Oakmont as Final qualifying results, scoring comes in Read more…
Two-time major champion, Australia’s David Graham, has been selected by the Memorial Tournament Captains Club as 2026 honouree at Jack Nicklaus’ signature event at Muirfield Village Golf Club, tournament officials announced Sunday (Monday AEST).
DUBLIN, Ohio — A showdown between two men who have combined to win three of the last four individual titles on the PGA Tour looms for the final round of the Memorial Tournament. If Sunday unfolds with half the entertainment value of Saturday’s third round, it should be quite a show. Then again, it probably Read more…
DUBLIN, Ohio — Justin Thomas is a little bit tired of being, well … someone other than Justin Thomas. A one-under 71 Saturday in breezy conditions at Muirfield Village Golf Club wasn’t going to be the low score of the third round in the Memorial Tournament, but it was something to build on after he Read more…
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