While only half a dozen players remain in realistic contention for America’s national championship, one has captured the crowd’s imagination above all others: Adam Scott, chasing his first US Open victory in his 24th try.
Adam Scott can cement his legacy as an icon of Australian golf and take a place among the game’s greats after playing his way into the final group for championship Sunday at the US Open.
Seldom is a player who joined the LIV Golf League so unequivocally positive about making the leap into the golf unknown, joining an upstart tour that offered unprecedented riches and unanticipated question marks. But while Leishman has missed major-championship golf, he otherwise has no regrets or recriminations since he went to the land of shotgun starts and team standings.
McIlroy insisted he isn’t trying to send any sort of message, nor is he trying to dare the PGA Tour into requiring players to speak to the media after the rounds.
Adam Scott is hungry to right the wrongs from a missed cut at the 2007 US Open at Oakmont which he concedes was “the worst I’ve ever played in a major.”
Asked if pushback from within the sport could cause the USGA to reconsider its plan and make adjustments before 2028, CEO Mike Whan reiterated they were “full-speed ahead on what we’ve announced.”
Nick Flanagan is likely the only golfer to ever win a US Amateur and caddie in a US Open at the same course. His connection Oakmont CC is now a lifelong affair; he was given honorary membership after winning the 2003 US Amateur there and the 40-year-old even has an accommodation room named after him within the club’s on-site cabins.
Battle ready after street fighting his way through 38 holes of final qualifying, Marc Leishman hopes a combination of a special connection to Oakmont Country Club and a confident driver will help his quest to become the first Australian professional to win a tournament at the famed Pittsburgh course.
Over the past week, the Pittsburgh area has received upwards of 250 millimetres of rain, according to USGA officials – and even more in the proceeding weeks.
As he prepares to make his US Open debut at Oakmont Country Club, Griffin spoke about how he came to use (and the benefits of) a ball brand that hadn’t won the on the PGA Tour in two decades, why he feels the winning score at the US Open will be over par and the one mistake amateurs make with their golf-ball selection.
Very few people will ever know what the true relationship was between Arnold Palmer and O.J. Simpson. As two sporting icons, were they friends, or merely fellow “actors” shooting very corny Hertz commercials together in the mid-1980s? What we do know is that their lives became unintentionally tangled in the most bizarre way on a Friday in June nearly 31 years ago.
Australian Golf Digest
