In an interview with NBC Sports’ John Wood, Rickie revealed he plans to purposely miss the 15th green short if/when the USGA puts the pin up front to make it about a 73-metre shot.
For a big game hunter, Brooks Koepka’s first taste of major championship golf was a catastrophe. It was 2012, and Koepka had qualified, via a sudden-death playoff, for the US Open at Olympic Club in San Francisco. With a tidy, bogey-free one-under score on his first nine that Thursday, Koepka, a 22-year-old amateur, was leading Read more…
Last week’s surprising announcement that the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund plan to partner has swallowed the game whole, and that includes this week’s U.S. 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.
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).
Star Aussie amateur and Stanford University player Karl Vilips has bolstered the Australian contingent at next week’s US Open after making it through gruelling 36-hole final qualifying, earning his major championship debut.
“Swing your swing.” It’s a phrase you hear in golf a lot, although, probably in part to make bad golfers feel less bad about their bad swings. It’s also apparently a motto by which Brett Silvernail lives his life.
The US Open tees off in less than two weeks. Here are 13 potential Cinderella stories to watch for from Final Qualifying, which will be held across America on Monday (Tuesday AEST).
Two major champions highlighted a field of US Open hopefuls Monday in Dallas with one advancing via a 36-hole qualifier and the other falling just short.