Last season, one of the shots of the year belonged to Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 9-iron out of a fairway bunker on the 72nd hole at The Country Club sealed an epic US Open win. This season, another Fitzpatrick may have already locked up shot of the year in July – Matt’s brother Alex.
Turns out Tiger will play the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. Not the injured Tiger Woods, but a German teen amateur who plays college golf at Arizona State. Christensen – as well as Royal Liverpool member and DP World Tour pro Matthew Jordan, and Matt Fitzpatrick’s younger brother, Alex – were the standout stories among 19 golfers who secured spots in the Open via 36-hole Final Qualifying from four sits on Tuesday.
He was 16th in the US standings coming into the week and moved into the top 12 with this win, but he’s still far from securing one of the six ironclad automatic qualification spots.
The PGA Tour will host a new event in Utah beginning in 2024. In an announcement overnight, the tour said it is ending a six-decade hiatus from America’s Beehive State, as the Black Desert Championship is scheduled to launch in the northern autumn of next year.
Seeking to play in his 25th consecutive Open Championship, Sergio Garcia will lead a group of LIV golfers including Marc Leishman who hope to secure last-minute entry into the field at Royal Liverpool via 36-hole qualifying next week.
a little more than a week after he finished one shot short of Wyndham Clark at Los Angeles Country Club, a USGA executive acknowledged that a free drop Rory McIlroy received during a critical moment of the final round was incorrectly administered.
In the video, originally posted by Beerholegolf on Tik Tok, you’ll hear the 2020 US Open winner ask someone in the crowd “you’re still timing? Because they just walked off the green buddy.”
The new US Open champion dedicated his win to his late mother, Lise, who died in 2013 at age 54 due to cancer. She had taught him the mantra of “play big”, which Clark had held close to his heart.
Michael Block, professional golf’s feel-good story of the year, could be headed Down Under later in 2023 to tee up in the Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane.