Emiliano Grillo looked like he was playing a different golf course at times on Saturday. Afterward he didn’t want to talk about that course the last time he visited. RELATED: And the sauciest shot of the week goes to . . . Grillo shot 67 in the third round of the U.S. Open to make Read more…
James Nicholas was enjoying a better-than-average week in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. The 29-year-old New York native and Korn Ferry Tour winner shot 71-72 to make the weekend. In doing so, Nicholas got a decent amount of TV time, with NBC anchor Mike Tirico lauding his widely accomplished athletic background that included his Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — One is barely old enough to drive a car. The other is just old enough to drink alcohol. Neither were born when Retief Goosen won here in 2004. But on Saturday at the 2026 U.S. Open, amateurs Miles Russell and Jackson Koivun shared a tee time during the third round at Shinnecock Read more…
So far this week, Shinnecock has yet to bare its teeth. Concerns about windy conditions on Thursday prompted the USGA to de-tune the greens, and the field responded to the receptive conditions. As of Saturday morning, Wyndham Clark sat atop the leaderboard at seven-under, a whopping eight strokes below the winning number at Shinnecock in Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — On Friday afternoon, it appeared very likely that someone would narrow the four-shot lead Wyndham Clark (seven under) held over Xander Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick (three under), all of whom finished in the morning wave. Sam Stevens, Sam Burns, Rory McIlroy, and even Tom Kim hovered at or near three under for Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Harry Higgs was not supposed to be there. Nobody is supposed to be behind the 11th green at Shinnecock Hills. Those who end up there are simply trying to make one of those scrappy bogeys this championship occasionally hands out. Instead, from 30 yards out, Higgs reached for a putter, sent his Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — At the end of play on Friday at the 2026 U.S. Open, there were 21 players at even par or better, led by Wyndham Clark at seven under. None of them are currently playing for LIV Golf. That’s notable—and maybe just a little disastrous—at a crucial time for a league in flux. Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — I stood aghast when I saw what was happening. Wyndham Clark, the 36-hole leader of the 2026 U.S. Open, dropped his ball onto the ground on the tee box on the first hole, then hit his shot—without teeing up his ball. Clark did it again on the 10th and 15th holes; both Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The first piece of content with any real traction from the 2026 U.S. Open was posted by the championship’s X account at 6:56 a.m., and concerned an approach Harry Higgs attempted on Shinnecock Hills’ 10th hole—his first of the day: What looked in the air like a prelude to a reasonable birdie Read more…
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — It’s nicknamed “The Trade Parade.” Each morning around sunrise along Route 27, just after the divided highway turns into country road, a stream of commercial trucks and vans roll down this lone east-west motorway leading in and out of the eastern end of Long Island. At some point, the number of vehicles Read more…
It wouldn’t be a major without some sartorial controversy. Golf’s apparel outfitters save their best and brightest looks for the year’s biggest tournaments, and there’s always handful that miss the mark in humorous ways. On Thursday at Shinnecock, that ignominious honor went to Brooks Koepka, whose Nike shirt tickled golf fans pink throughout the opening Read more…
18-year-old Mason Howell looks his age … but appearances can be deceiving. The 2025 U.S. Amateur winner golfer is a stick in both build and skill and proved it during his first-ever U.S. Open round on Thursday. Paired with World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Howell—11 years Scheffler’s junior—unleashed a monster drive on the par-4 third Read more…
You cannot win the U.S. Open at Shinnecock on the first hole on Thursday, but you can absolutely lose it. Just ask Tiger Woods. Let’s take you back to 2018, when, believe it or not, the Tiger optimism was at an all-time high. After missing the entire 2016-’17 season due to another back surgery, Woods Read more…
My dad always said, “The Rules of Golf are the rules of life.” He learned this early. As a self-described “ornery kid” growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in small-town Iowa, Bob Longman was athletic, even if he was “kind of a little guy.” He quickly learned that golf was a sport he could Read more…
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