OAKMONT, Pa. — Corey Conners has withdrawn from the U.S. Open prior to Sunday’s final round at Oakmont. Conners, 33, was supposed to go off at 10:20 a.m. on Sunday with Ryan Fox. However, right before his tee time, the USGA announced he had pulled out of the event with an arm injury. Conners was Read more…
While only half a dozen players remain in realistic contention for America’s national championship, one has captured the crowd’s imagination above all others: Adam Scott, chasing his first US Open victory in his 24th try.
OAKMONT, Pa. — Robby Oakes could tell something had shifted in his protégé. The kid had attacked his first several months at Oakes’ mortgage firm with intensity and proved himself a wizard with spreadsheets. But after returning from a recent trip, Griffin seemed detached. While such restlessness wasn’t unusual for a 20-something finding his footing, Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — To all U.S. Open sadists, rejoice: We’re at the halfway mark, and only three players are under par. And possibly only two, as there are reports Sam Burns may be disqualified amid rumors he was playing a different course. It hasn’t been a bloodbath through two days at Oakmont, more of a Read more…
The US Open is as much a mental test as it is physical. Still, the rules violation Shane Lowry found himself in Friday afternoon at Oakmont was so absurd that he and Rory McIlroy could only laugh at it.
OAKMONT, Pa. — The stoic façade finally cracked, surrendering a wry smile as George Duangmanee watched his ball disappear for the final time. On this sleepy afternoon—a day when the course revealed exactly why it carries such a fearsome reputation—group after group had staggered off their final greens wearing expressions of pure hurt mixed with Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Every man has his breaking point, and Scottie Scheffler reached his at the 14th hole. It was shaping up to be one of those days where every putt lips out and every approach shot finds the worst possible lie, where the scorecard becomes a monument to golf’s cruel randomness. However, in spite Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Those watching from home sensed a disconnect between what they wanted and what they were seeing. They flooded social with anger and indignation, for they had come for carnage and chaos. Instead, they witnessed J.J. Spaun firing the lowest opening nine in the tournament’s 125-year history, Si Woo Kim prancing around like Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — There have been calls for more transparency testing from the USGA in wake of Rory McIlroy’s driver failing a compliance test at the PGA Championship and McIlroy’s subsequent annoyance with how the news was leaked. However, don’t expect any changes on the public announcement front anytime soon. In an interview with Golf Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — It wasn’t long ago that Bryson DeChambeau was coming off a summer from hell, his feud with Brooks Koepka gone wrong that made him the target of jeers and ridicule. Coupled with injuries and poor play, DeChambeau was something of a distressed asset when he defected to the LIV Golf League in Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — This is the platonic ideal of the U.S. Open. Biblical in its Old Testament fury, where hope is offered as sacrifice and hubris meets its inevitable humbling. Where the rough is rough, where the greens turn to toast and roll faster than gym floors, slick enough that even gravity seems to accelerate. Read more…
Tears streamed down Matt Vogt’s face, his voice fracturing despite every effort to hold it steady. Can’t blame the guy. How do you measure the moment when an invisible finish line—one you’ve always believed in, always known existed—finally materializes before you? How do you quantify the countless hours at the range, chasing daylight until darkness Read more…
It was an inauspicious start to Friday’s round for Matthieu Pavon. Pavon jumped on the radar of tour fans last year when the Frenchman captured the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open and finished third at Pebble Beach the following week. This season has not been as prosperous for he 32-year-old; though he’s made the cut in Read more…
It was an afternoon that perfectly encapsulated his career—a man who had repeatedly courted self-inflicted chaos finally breaking through amid the swirling confusion around him. The very audacity that had so often proved his undoing, combined with talent that had promised something like this was possible, finally delivered Dustin Johnson the moment that seemed inevitable. Read more…
Rory McIlroy entered the PGA Championship as the king of the sport, fresh off his Masters conquest that conferred the career Grand Slam and answered all the questions that have followed him for the past decade. But what should have been a victory lap at Quail Hollow turned into an odd week with a disappointing Read more…
The LPGA has appointed Craig Kessler, former Chief Operating Officer of the PGA of America, as its new commissioner, concluding a comprehensive search process that began after Mollie Marcoux Samaan’s resignation announcement in late 2024. Kessler brings extensive leadership experience across golf and retail sectors to the role. At the PGA of America, he oversaw Read more…
When the pressure crystallised by Sunday afternoon at the PGA Championship, only Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau remained—all former major winners, all luminaries of the sport.
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