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…
Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we have reached the stage of the World Cup where we’re just watching to see how it ends. Kinda like the latest Harlan Coben series on Netflix. No offense to the sport and the event, because I’ve watched more than ever this year and it’s been fun, 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 — 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…
The super-game-improvement is the purest expression of what the game-improvement category was built to be. Oversized heads, generous soles, deep low centers of gravity and faces engineered to keep the ball on target. This recipe is for golfers who are learning the game and/or need help achieving playable impact. To be clear, the 2026 super-game-improvement Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England— Matt Fitzpatrick joined the growing chorus of players concerned about the impact gambling is having on crowd behavior. Wyndham Clark’s treatment on Sunday at Shinnecock, where the eventual U.S. Open champion faced repeated issues of jeers and heckling, has been the latest flashback regarding the deterioration of fan etiquette. There were a number Read more…
SOUTHPORT, England—After reports indicated that he would miss the Open Championship due to his wife’s pregnancy, Sam Burns was on site Monday at Royal Birkdale and is expected to compete at the Open Championship. Burns is coming off a heartbreaking performance at the U.S. Open, where he made a Sunday charge at Shinnecock to challenge 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…
The assorted tales of bad bounces in golf could double as campfire ghost stories. There’s Joe Daley at Q School in 2000, whose bogey putt dropped into the dead center of the 17th hole, but then improbably ricocheted off the bottom of the cup and popped out. Daley ended up missing his PGA Tour card Read more…
This might be one of the stranger superstitions to uphold if William Mouw buys into what happened to his putting in the second round of the ISCO Championship on Friday. Mouw, the tournament’s defending champion, only made 50 feet of putts in Thursday’s opening round and ranked 116th in the field in strokes gained on Read more…
Well, we’re somehow already at the final men’s major of the calendar year. And so far, we’ve seen Rory McIlroy, Aaron Rai and Wyndham Clark win at Augusta, Aronimink and Shinnecock Hills, respectively. This is one more chance for Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm and the best golfers in the world to add to their already Read more…
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