Only once the R&A decided to cancel the Open Championship, freeing up the September window for the USGA to hold the US Open, did it give Winged Foot a chance at remaining the host venue.
Lest you think this is a media-driven story or a narrative that will shadow the championship in perpetuity, know it’s one both sides – players and management – acknowledge.
It means fans will have the ability to see the Australian PGA Championship played twice in a calendar year, with the 2021 edition also to be staged later that year.
Whether or not you agree with the logic behind filling the 2020 US Open field, it has indisputably produced the most delightfully diverse field of any golf tournament this year.
In a rapidly changing world, golf’s resumption of play no longer feels new but routine – and this week’s US Open is the expected continuation of the success that came before it.
Last week, Dustin Johnson capped an incredible month and the 2019-2020 PGA Tour season by winning his first FedEx Cup. Overnight, he picked up more hardware.
ohn Daly revealed he has been diagnosed with bladder cancer on an upcoming episode of “PGA Tour Champions Learning Center,” according to the Golf Channel.
The heat is likely to dominate conversations at the ANA Inspiration, upstaging talk even of the COVID-19 pandemic that’s responsible for postponing this LPGA Major championship from its scheduled start in April to the first full week in September.