DeChambeau became the 23rd player to win multiple US Open titles, and he is the seventh player in the past 40 years to win America’s national championship twice within a five-year span.
PINEHURST, N.C. — Capturing low-amateur at both the Masters and the U.S. Open is the stuff of dreams, at least that’s what Neal Shipley thinks. “It’s been wild. It’s been something that maybe three, four years ago I didn’t think was possible, and to accomplish all this has been just phenomenal,” Shipley said in a Read more…
The Meijer LPGA Classic delivered big for it’s 10th anniversary. A year after Leona Maguire shot a final-round 64 to secure her second LPGA title, this year’s edition at Blythefield Country Club in Belmont, Mich., went into a sudden-death, three-way playoff between Lilia Vu, Grace Kim and fan favorite Lexi Thompson. All three made birdie Read more…
PINEHURST, N.C. — When Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay greeted each other with a quick fist bump and the very briefest of pleasantries on the first tee Sunday as they began their final rounds of the 2024 U.S. Open, I had the thought that they might not exchange another word until the very end of Read more…
Sunday’s front nine was much more of a struggle for Bryson DeChambeau following an electrifying Saturday 67 that saw him seize a three-shot lead. Heck, he had to change drivers before even teeing off. But he still managed to pull off an all-time par save—and unleash a furious celebration. Dechambeau looked absolutely dead in the Read more…
PINEHURST, N.C. — Rory McIlroy’s forever war can end on Sunday. The war of who he once was against the hope of what he could still be again. It’s not the first time he’s had the chance to do so, and it’s certainly not his best. That was at St. Andrews two summers ago. Got Read more…
If you could see Golf Digest’s main Slack channel at the moment, you’d understand why we were compellied to have this little debate. The crew usually isn’t this divided and the discourse this heated unless we’re talking white belts. The subject here is the examination presented this week for the 2024 U.S. Open on Pinehurst Read more…
PINEHURST, N.C. — Can anyone catch Bryson DeChambeau? That’s the question entering the final round of the 2024 U.S. Open, a surprising one given that on the back nine Saturday it seemed to be anybody’s ball game with a half dozen players within a shot of the lead. But as Ludvig Aberg, Tony Finau, Matthieu Read more…
PINEHURST, N.C. — He had done all the right things but the result was still wrong. It takes a lot for Scottie Scheffler to emote, but he had stayed stoic for too long, so when the putt that should have been good wasn’t Scheffler tossed his putter like a baton, too disgusted to attempt to Read more…