I was watching a video the other day about Paul Skenes and his more intense, two-hour warmup routine. He started doing it in college, said it was the best he ever felt on the mound afterwards, and before every throwing session ever since. “Eight months out of the year, I do the same thing. Every Read more…
Matt Fitzpatrick’s golf swing felt lost. “The Players this year, it was really bad…I couldn’t find the face with the ball. It was just not good,” Fitzpatrick said. “That’s the lowest I’ve been, I felt, in my career. Statistically it could be the worst run that I’ve played as well. Yeah, I just didn’t feel Read more…
One of the fascinating wrinkles of Open Championship week is the greens. Portrush’s greens on Friday were rolling the fastest they had all week—11 on the stimp meter, before the rain rolled through and slowed them down about a foot more, according to commentator Kevin Kisner. That’s notably slower than an average PGA Tour event. Read more…
Low stingers are perhaps the nastiest shot in golf. A shot so cool that people gave it its own name, and even that nickname was awesome. The stinger; it’s a shot that pros usually use off the tee that rips through the air very low and usually pretty straight. There are three things that golfers Read more…
Avoiding blow-up holes isn’t glamorous, but it’s how you win. Whatever your trophy is, this is how you chase it – by turning big numbers into manageable ones.
You wouldn’t have necessarily picked Northern Ireland as the lab to create one of the greatest drivers of the golf ball of all time. But in retrospect it makes sense. Rory McIlroy’s game doesn’t resemble the stereotypical wind-formed, UK-style game that we’ve rightly or wrongly come to assume from these players. He doesn’t hit low, Read more…
The adjustments players have to make on the greens are more subtle than on the fairway, but look closely and you’ll see them. You may even learn more about putting.
It’s safe to say Scottie Scheffler wants to win the year’s final men’s major, the British Open, next week at Royal Portrush. To do so, of course, requires something a little different than what’s needed at the Masters, PGA Championship or U.S. Open. To hold the claret jug means solving the riddle of links golf. Read more…
Every new piece of technology reveals something new and interesting about the golf swing. When it comes to grip pressure—meaning, how hard you should squeeze the grip while you swing—we started with word of mouth. Sam Snead’s famous ‘hold the club like a baby bird’ quote, and Tiger Woods talking about the time he used Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Viktor Hovland followed a long, grueling U.S. Open round on one of the world’s most difficult golf courses with a high-intensity range session. While most of his peers were at home on the sofa, Hovland was slamming drives into the darkening sky. Hovland’s game over the past year or so has been Read more…
It just showed a clever bit of awareness and foresight. In the heat of the pressure and the pouring rain, Burns stopped himself from making a potentially very costly error.
OAKMONT, Pa. — If you’ve watched any of the U.S. Open so far, you’ve seen the contender Sam Burns. And if you’ve seen the contender Sam Burns, you’ve seen him do his pre-swing rehearsal move. It’s pretty simple: Seconds before he hits his shot, Burns simply lifts the club into his takeaway position, looks at Read more…
OAKMONT, Penn. — Greatness recognizes greatness, and on Saturday ahead of the third round at the 2025 U.S. Open, we got a masterclass from two legendary Oakmont champions: Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller. After sharing some advice to the field about what it will take to win at Oakmont—”patience,” Nicklaus said—they shifted their attention to Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Oakmont is difficult enough without luck working against you, but the only way to avoid bad luck at a U.S. Open is to not hit anything resembling a below-average shot. Hovland got the bad side of that draw—but there’s a lot the rest of us can learn from how he responded. Here’s Read more…
OAKMONT, Penn. — Brooks Koepka is a better golfer than most of us can ever dream of being. Yet golf, at some fundamental level, poses the same problems to every golfer. One of those is matching what you feel in your golf swing with what is actually happening. At the 2025 U.S. Open, Brooks Koepka Read more…
There are a lot of spots at Oakmont where you don’t want to hit your golf ball. But there’s one spot at Oakmont where you really don’t want to hit your golf ball because for most of the first round, it was an automatic bogey.
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