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 — So much for needing experience to have success in the Open Championship. The first-round leader at Royal Birkdale is Jackson Suber, a second-year PGA Tour pro who played his first round of links golf on … Monday upon arriving in England. “I’ve never been to Europe,” he said after shooting a five-under 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…
Mateo Pulcini’s closing birdie on Thursday likely won’t play an important role in this week’s Open Championship, but it will be remembered by those in attendance at Royal Birkdale. And not too fondly. Pulcini rolled in a 40-footer for birdie to finish a tough opening 75, but his celebration is what caught people’s attention more. 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…
SOUTHPORT, England — There’s a funny contrast between the image of Scottie Scheffler—an image that is largely true, I think—of an athlete uniquely focused on the present, totally undistracted by the baubles of fame, and obsessively competitive in a way that seems to be motivated by the joys of competition rather than its rewards, and Read more…
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