Wind

July 16th, 2025

There’s a right and wrong way to try to hit the ball low. Scottie Scheffler’s coach explains

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July 16th, 2025

Open Championship 2025: The one problem Bryson DeChambeau couldn’t solve – until now

Speaking to the press overnight (Australian time) at Royal Portrush, DeChambeau acknowledged he’s altering his approach to battling wind this week, benching brute force for precision and patience.

July 11th, 2025

Open Championship 2025: Everything you need to know about putting in windy conditions

The adjustments players have to make on the greens are more subtle than on the fairway, but look closely and you’ll see them. You may even learn more about putting.

August 27th, 2024

This small detail can decide if you make or miss putts – a top teacher shows why

Unless it’s noticeably strong, the direction the wind is blowing is more of an afterthought on the green for most golfers. Though maybe it shouldn’t be.

British Open 2024: The wind kicked everyone’s ass, and it was a delight

July 20th, 2024

Open Championship 2024: The wind kicked everyone’s ass, and it was a delight

To a man, no one directed blame at the R&A. The only blame could be to nature and no one wants to be the old man yelling at the sky.

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February 1st, 2024

Watch Tony Finau hit driver(!) to Pebble Beach’s short par-3 seventh in gale-force wind

October 29th, 2021

Matt Fitzpatrick says it’s so windy in Bermuda he was ‘scared to death’ of an 18-inch putt

These conditions came after the cancellation of the pro-am due to “dangerous wind gusts”.

February 21st, 2021

HUGE BLOW: Here’s why they needed to stop play at Genesis Invitational

It was the first such stoppage on the PGA Tour since the 2015 Open Championship at St Andrews and first in the US for the tour since the third round of the 2014 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

January 7th, 2021

It’s not raining in Hawaii, so what is Bryson DeChambeau doing with an umbrella while putting?

Bryson DeChambeau has not struck a competitive shot yet in 2021. And yet, he still managed to trigger Golf Twitter on Wednesday.

December 10th, 2020

Carnage as 60kph gusts lead to crazy high scores, 24 WDs and a 12-putt (!!) in amateur event

There’s “carnage” and then there’s “we should probably cancel this thing due to the hurricane-like winds which has made the course unplayable.”

How strong is the wind at Royal Troon? Nelly Korda said it was hard to walk, let alone play golf

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VIDEO: Billy Horschel tries everything to hit a par 3 in blustering conditions

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