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…
I read the other day about fears of a high-rise in Manhattan that was on the verge of collapse because its upper floors were showing signs of sagging and that one of its primary beams was “compromised.” (Tell me about it. I pull a muscle stirring my oatmeal these days.) Seems developers were trying to Read more…
The passage of time for golfers often is marked by the return to venues where they made memories. For Justin Rose, Royal Birkdale is just that, as this is his fourth visit to compete in an Open Championship, the first coming 28 years ago as a teenage amateur whose 72nd hole chip-in to finish in Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England— Ludvig Aberg’s preparation for the Open got off to an inauspicious start. In a walk-and-talk with Open Championship media at Royal Birkdale Tuesday morning, Aberg relayed that he had some travel difficulties arriving to the United Kingdom earlier this month. For starters, his bag was lost for three days. Not necessarily an uncommon Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Newly-crowned PGA champion Aaron Rai is used to long journeys, having grown up in the West Midlands of England. From the middle of the country, he had to drive several hours to watch the Open Championship as a fan at venues along England’s and Scotland’s coastlines. But he had no qualms setting Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England — Joe Dean, an English golfer who grew up two hours from Royal Birkdale in Sheffield, hasn’t started writing his wedding speech despite the big day being next week. The 32-year-old will have a heck of a story to tell after a dramatic eagle helped him emerge as the winner among the 12 Read more…
How will you be remembered by your golf buddies when you die? It’s probably not a question you think about often, but, sadly, it’s an inevitable reality. And something that others will hear about as well if you’re a prominent figure—and one of those golf buddies happens to be the President of the United States. Read more…
The 154th Open Championship will be visiting Southport and Royal Birkdale for the 11th time in the past 72 years. Four men in the 156-man field have competed in the past three championships held on this heralded links (1998, 2008, 2017): Stewart Cink, David Duval, Padraig Harrington and Justin Rose. Some may have guessed Darren Read more…
My favorite Lee Trevino story, before I knew about the 1971 Open Championship, came from a Tony Jacklin quote about playing with him at the ’72 Open in Muirfield. Trevino was famous for his nonstop chatter, and Jacklin was sick of it, so when they were paired together on the weekend, he decided to nip Read more…
[Photo: Thibaut Durand] I was nursing a coffee, watching fellow scribes tee off at the Old Course, waiting behind the first tee for a St. Andrews local to arrive for an interview in the middle of a summer spent bouncing around the linksland. Because standing in front of the Old Course never gets old, or Read more…
Well, how can Haeran Ryu follow up her historic 11-under 60? That’s the drama set to unfold Sunday at the Amundi Evian Championship where the 25-year-old from South Korea is looking to win her second major championship in just three weeks after capturing the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship just two weeks ago at Hazeltine National Read more…
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