Ryan Fox, welcome to the 62 Club. The 39-year-old New Zealander added his name to a quickly growing historical list during Saturday’s third round at the British Open by shooting 62. Fox became just the eighth man to shoot that score in a major championship, but the third to do it this week at Royal Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Lost amid the drama of what happened with Bryson DeChambeau’s rules situation late Friday night at Royal Birkdale, was his second-round score, originally a four-under 66, then changed to a two-under 68 with the two-shot penalty. Regardless, an impressive round. Moreover, it continues a trend for DeChambeau that dates back to Friday Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — How do you begin to solve a problem? The answer is first you have to start somewhere. That is the unenviable situation that the governing bodies, particularly the R&A and USGA, find themselves in all too often. And ultimately, it was at the heart of the drama surrounding Bryson DeChambeau and the Read more…
The bone-dry Royal Birkdale links are presenting such a unique test this week in the Open Championship that players’ current form heading into the week seems to have mattered little. Just ask this year’s major winners. While Masters champion Rory McIlroy rallied on Friday with a three-under-par 67 to reach the weekend—though he still is Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — These are all the shots on Royal Birkdale’s reachable 321-yard par 4, 5th hole on Friday. If you look closely you can see two different strategies emerge. Your browser does not support the video tag. Option 1: Lay back The ones on the left are the players who laid up. These guys Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — No shot in golf is identical. Lies, distances, wind, angles, there’s lots of variables that may seem similar on paper but aren’t the same in reality.. Same goes for scores. In the case of men’s major championships, there have now been seven rounds of 62. But those too, are not created equal. Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Three swipes from three feet revealed the magic that hasn’t been there wasn’t coming back, not this week at least. There was hope it might resurface at Royal Birkdale since this is where it burned brightest, where Jordan Spieth scaled the dunes into the unknown to steal a claret jug that he Read more…
Had a few things—OK, a lot of things—gone differently, golf fans could be enjoying Tiger Woods playing in this week’s Open Championship. At a firm and fast Royal Birkdale layout reminiscent of the Hoylake two decades ago when he claimed the claret jug while hitting his driver just one time all week. But alas, Woods Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — The big yellow scoreboard was littered with small black letters of names that seemed not to belong there judging by the squints and pointed fingers from the fans camped out early in the 18th hole grandstands. The Open Championship caters to a golf-centric crowd, probably the most knowledgeable left in the game, Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — The contrast couldn’t have been larger on Friday at the Open Championship. Lucas Herbert walked off Royal Birkdale a touch disappointed with the 62 he had just posted in the second round after making bogey on the 18th hole at Royal Birkdale. Two groups later, Sam Burns was elated after holing a Read more…
At Royal Birkdale this week we are seeing a firm, fast and baked out Open Championship for the first time since Carnoustie in 2018. While the brown-tinged links of Europe dominate our World’s 100 Greatest list, many American golfers likely believe that green is healthy and brown is dead. RELATED: This common golf-cart mistake is a Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Some quick math says that in non-major play in 2025 and 2026, Sepp Straka, a two-time European Ryder Cup team member, has only missed three cuts in 31 tournaments. A handful of those didn’t have cuts, sure, but many did, and that’s obviously a very good made-cut percentage, and a big reason Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — When you Google the life expectancy of a person with cystic fibrosis, as David Howard did—and as anyone would do after they have been diagnosed—what you find is that you can die as soon as your mid-20s. That’s grim news to digest as a child and goes a long way to explaining Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — There’s something different about the Open Championship. Maybe it’s a cliché or the American in me that feels that way, but since I started coming to the event back in 2005, it’s been one of the tournaments I most look forward to covering because of just how unique the environment is. And Read more…
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