Mardy Fish is the current King of Celebrity Golf, but but Michael Jordan remains the GOAT when it comes to celebrity golf gambling tales. So when Fish had a chance to play with his Airness a few years ago, he made sure he came prepared with some cash. Check that, a LOT of cash. RELATED: Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — The weather’s hot and the rounds are slow at the 2026 Open Championship. Mental and physical endurance are at a premium if you want to score well at Royal Birkdale. Fans at home often gloss over how intensely players, and their teams, think about those two intangible qualities. But at the elite Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Eugenio Chacarra came in hot to his debut Open Championship. Three DP World Tour wins in the past 12 months—the Indian, Dutch and Italian national opens—have catapulted the Spaniard to third on the tour’s Race to Dubai Rankings. The only two people he’s behind: Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy. And so far Read more…
Lucas Herbert’s Friday front nine at Royal Birkdale was one for the record books. The 30-year-old Aussie shot a six-under-par 28 to take the lead at the 2026 Open Championship. RELATED: The latest updates from the British Open at Royal Birkdale Herbert matched a tournament record set by Denis Durnian, also on Royal Birkdale’s par-34 Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Players prepare their whole lives—and then most of the hours in the days before the tournament—preparing to play well in the Open Championship. And then, of course, something happens they’ve never seen before. For Tyrrell Hatton, that happened on the 13th hole on Thursday. Royal Birkdale’s 13th tee shot presented one of Read more…
Each and every major, American golf fans voice their complaints about TV coverage loud and clear. Missed shots, commercials, Playing Through, Kevin Kisner. You name it. But if we Yanks think we have it bad, it pales in comparison to what Canadian golf fans had to endure (again) during the first round of the Open Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Bryson DeChambeau took a step to breaking his major slump with a 67 on Thursday at Royal Birkdale, a bogey on the last hole dropping him out of a tie for first place. But after the round, the talk around DeChambeau was that DeChambeau wasn’t talking. Despite being in contention, DeChambeau told Read more…
One of the nice things about the first couple days of a major championship is discovering stuff about lesser-known contenders. It’s a content world, so when someone new pops up on the leaderboard, there’s a race to learn things about them. That’s certainly the case at this week’s Open Championship, where even guys who are Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — A deal to take the Open Championship to Ireland for the first time could be struck this later this year after R&A CEO Mark Darbon provided the most positive update yet on Dublin’s Portmarnock Golf Club potentially hosting the links major. Darbon went a step further in saying that although the process Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Mark Darbon, R&A CEO, says he’ll be rooting for England’s football team Wednesday night as the country takes on Argentina in the World Cup semifinals. Should it win and make it to the finals for the first time since 1966, however, it will create what Darbon describes as a “great problem to Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Every major championship is an examination. Course set-ups are designed to ask difficult questions and demand precise answers. Royal Birkdale is no different. “When you give professional golfers options and you can create a little bit of doubt in their minds in terms of should I play this shot or that shot, Read more…
As if I, Christopher Powers, the man writing this, the guy who can’t hit an outright to save his life, wasn’t enough of a kiss of death, it seems that the entire betting community is on Matt Fitzpatrick to win the Open Championship this week. What could go wrong? Well, Scottie Scheffler or Rory McIlroy Read more…
Royal Birkdale is a massive property that went through extensive changes to further cement its positioning as one of the flagship Open Championship venues. The holes weave effortlessly through the dunes, creating an amphitheatre that is beautifully intimidating. This golf course is going to repeatedly ask players to make difficult, and sometimes uncomfortable decisions. RELATED: British Open Read more…
Royal Birkdale returns to the spotlight as host of the 154th Open Championship, welcoming golf’s oldest major back to England’s celebrated Golf Coast for an 11th time. Situated among the towering dunes of Southport on England’s northwest coast, Birkdale has become one of the R&A’s most trusted championship venues, hosting more Open Championships than any Read more…
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