Young’s tee shot flew 50 metres offline, through some trees, into the gallery and somehow, defying both odds and physics, plopped in the last place you would ever expect.
Fowler has posted 12 top-10s in his majors career, the most recent at the 2021 PGA Championship, but how close was he to actually winning any of them, and how did they slip away?
US Opens are supposed to be about pars, or at least they were for most of the 75 years since Los Angeles last hosted the event. And the press conferences competitors hold during the championship are meant to contain answers about keeping it in the fairway, taking medicine when drives find the rough, and leaving Read more…
For the second time in a week, Adam Hadwin is going viral on Golf Twitter. Just five days after being tackled by a security guard while trying to celebrate Nick Taylor’s win at the Canadian Open, the PGA Tour pro had another embarrassing moment. At least this one didn’t look as painful. During the second Read more…
It was an ending not even Hollywood saw coming. Rory McIlroy was on track to add to what was already a blockbuster opening round filled with scoring records for the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club. Hours after Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele shot the first two 62s in US Open history to lead Read more…
Fowler and Schauffele struck record-breaking blows in round one. But the US Open’s record speaks for itself. Whatever ease can be found is usually fleeting.
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 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).
That’s a nice, quick job by the USGA. Although we’re pretty sure Hadwin won’t wear the construction vest and hard hat – in part because someone at LACC would probably have him removed from the grounds.
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.
Australian Golf Digest
