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.
OAKMONT, Pa. — “Have you seen those things? They’re huge!” said one caddie to another. There are a few different storylines fluttering through Oakmont ahead of the U.S. Open, and one of them is the size of Michael La Sasso’s quads. La Sasso is the newly-crowned NCAA Division I individual champion and rising senior at Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — Scottie Scheffler’s practice routine is an exercise in discipline. He goes through the same checklist every time, with the same set of drills. And while some—or most—golfers would get bored doing that, Scheffler maintains focus. Throughout it all, his longtime coach Randy Smith monitors the World No. 1 from every angle, sniffing Read more…
OAKMONT, Pa. — If you’re a golfer who has landed on this article because you want to find out the 2025 U.S Open first and second round tee times, then you’re in luck! We are delivering you the information you so desperately need, in two forms. For a full list of 2025 U.S. Open tee Read more…
One year ago, Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner did something at Pinehurst that even U.S. Champion Bryson DeChambeau couldn’t. In the darkness after play had finished, Wagner dropped his ball a foot from the same spot in the bunker DeChambeau had effectively secured his second major from just a few hours earlier. DeChambeau was left Read more…
What’s a normal number of things to be thinking over the ball? It’s a good question. You’re standing over the ball, and your head is full of stuff. Where you want to hit the ball. Where you don’t want to hit your ball. The various swing feels you’re working with. Whether you’re sure you’ve got Read more…
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