Rough

June 18th, 2025

Nelly Korda has ‘rough’ start to KPMG Women’s PGA week, suffers neck spasms after hitting shot from thick stuff at PGA Frisco

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June 13th, 2025

US Open 2025: Shane Lowry tosses microphone in anger, is not having fun at Oakmont

Much like his European Ryder Cup brethren Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, Shane Lowry has never been one to hide his frustrations on the golf course.

June 11th, 2025

The 18-hole hazard: The US Open rough makes Oakmont both impossible and simple

If Oakmont Country Club represents one of the most difficult tests in professional golf, in at least one sense it will be starkly simple: a shot from the fairway means a player can think about how he wants to play the shot to the green, whereas a ball in the rough will suggest he shouldn’t even bother.

May 8th, 2025

No graduated rough and nasty ditches will make Oakmont even more brutal for upcoming US Open

Rough topped off at five inches. Green speeds of 15 on the Stimpmeter. A renovated golf course with at least one new hole location on each green. Nothing to see here. Just the setup basics for next month’s US Open at Oakmont Country Club.

May 7th, 2025

This way-too-early look at the 2025 US Open rough isn’t for the faint of heart

The 2025 US Open is over a month away. In fact, we still have another major to get through before we can really start looking ahead to Oakmont. Judging by the looks of things, however, it’s going to be a bloodbath.

February 12th, 2025

The Torrey Pines rough looks utterly sinister ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational

March 10th, 2024

Wyndham Clark’s rough situation had Golf Twitter howling for a penalty

With a mere couple of taps of his club behind a ball in the rough, reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark caused a stir on the television broadcast of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and, of course, in many golf corners of social media.

September 26th, 2023

Your first look at the Ryder Cup rough is here and it’s not for the faint of heart

The jury is still out on how Marco Simone will play. Slowly but surely it’s secrets are being revealed, though, starting with arguably the most important of all: the rough.

June 13th, 2023

US Open 2023: The first look at the LACC rough is here and, yep, it’s gnarly

There’s rough off the tee. There’s rough around the greens. There’s rough coming out of your ears and eyes. Is it “Abandon Hope All Ye’ Who Enter Here” levels? Not quite, but it looks like a stern test and that is exactly the point.

June 11th, 2021

We have our first official ‘look how long the rough is’ video from Torrey Pines, courtesy of Xander Schauffele

Shoutout Xander Schauffele for giving us a look at the rough behind the 18th green at Torrey during his early prep

Collin Morikawa whiffs on chip out of thick Muirfield Village rough, reacts accordingly

US OPEN 2020: Winged Foot’s rough is so long Gary Woodland lost a ball trying to chip

US Open 2020: A return to Winged Foot means a return to this USGA favourite – gnarly rough

Three videos show how BRUTAL the US Open rough/greens will be

Leaderboard

TOUR Championship - 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Tommy Fleetwood	-18	F	4
T2	Patrick Cantlay	-15	F	4
T2	Russell Henley	-15	F	4
T4	Corey Conners	-14	F	4
T4	Scottie Scheffler	-14	F	4
T4	Cam Young	-14	F	4
T7	Keegan Bradley	-13	F	4
T7	Sam Burns	-13	F	4
T7	Justin Thomas	-13	F	4
T10	Chris Gotterup	-12	F	4
T10	Ben Griffin	-12	F	4
12	Viktor Hovland	-11	F	4
T13	Akshay Bhatia	-10	F	4
T13	Harris English	-10	F	4
T13	Brian Harman	-10	F	4
T13	Shane Lowry	-10	F	4
T17	Harry Hall	-9	F	4
T17	Robert MacIntyre	-9	F	4
T19	Collin Morikawa	-8	F	4
T19	Nick Taylor	-8	F	4
T21	Ludvig Åberg	-7	F	4
T21	Justin Rose	-7	F	4
T23	Rory McIlroy	-6	F	4
T23	Maverick McNealy	-6	F	4
T25	Andrew Novak	-4	F	4
T25	J.J. Spaun	-4	F	4
T27	Jacob Bridgeman	E	F	4
T27	Sungjae Im	E	F	4
29	Hideki Matsuyama	+3	F	4
30	Sepp Straka	+7	F	4