Whatever fortune or frustration befalls Corey Pereira in his US Open debut, whatever quality of play he can muster despite just 54 holes of competitive golf this year, his week will end with the sobering reality that living his dream was merely a respite from an ongoing nightmare.
After a week of crazy (potential) merger news, Golf Twitter is back to focusing on actual golf this week. And its eye is squarely on Los Angeles. It just wandered, momentarily, to a different LA course on Wednesday.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has received an “incredible outpouring” of support from well-wishers since he revealed that he will be stepping aside to recuperate from a medical situation.
Mike Whan knows as much as you do about the PGA Tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Which is to say, not much at all.
On Wednesday at the US Open, Johnny Miller was back behind the microphone. Four years after calling an end to his revered television commentary career with NBC, the California native held a press conference at Los Angeles Country Club ahead of the 123rd US Open.
It’s hard to answer what you do not know, and if the past week in golf has told us anything, it’s that so few people have any idea of what’s going in in the professional game.
The PGA Tour winner, Full Swing legend and one of the funnier guys in golf received a taste of his own medicine upon entering Los Angeles Country Club this week. There’s nothing more cherished than the Player Valet Parking, but it looks like Dahmen—who has been struggling lately, missing the cut at four of his last six events— may have to take a shuttle to get to the first tee.
Among the 22,000 spectators anticipated for Thursday’s first round at the U.S. Open, however, will be two teenagers from Australia you’ve never heard of: promising amateur golfers Joseph Buttress and Jeffrey Guan.
They look like men and play like junior tour professionals. Four Stanford players—Michael Thorbjornsen, Karl Vilips, Alex Yang and Barlcay Brown—stunned the golf world last week by earning spots in the U.S. Open field via 36-hole qualifying.
They are journeymen, and you will hear about their journeys this week because they qualify as feel-good stories. But they’re also something more, because in a past week and year when everything in the game of golf has seemingly had a dollar sign attached, they are stories that are priceless.
This marks the sixth time since 1999 the championship has been played on a course that’s never previously hosted a US Open, joining Pinehurst No.2 (1999), Bethpage’s Black Course (2002), Torrey Pines’ South Course (2008), Chambers Bay (2015) and Erin Hills (2017).
Australian Golf Digest
