This year, the Open returns to Shinnecock Hills, a course many consider among the best in the United States. For the USGA, it also marks the beginning of a run of timeless venues hosting its biggest championship.
A herniated disc, fractured rib, back soreness, partially torn tendon, partially torn meniscus, tendinitis, hernia, foot injury, stress fracture, torn labrum. No, it’s not an NRL injury report. It’s the list of some of the injuries players in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking have suffered in the past few years.
DeChambeau said this week at the Memorial Tournament was the best he had putted since his US Amateur victory in 2015. So it was fitting that when he needed to hole a 10-footer for birdie to earn his second career US PGA Tour title in a playoff, he poured it in, defeating South Korea’s Byeong Hun An on the second extra hole.
The US PGA Tour has announced an agreement with lesser-known developer HB Studios to produce the tour’s licensed video game, which will be called “The Golf Club 2019”.