The US has not won a Ryder Cup on European soil since 1993, and Johnson himself has never been to Italy, but already there was a sense that he embraced the challenge of undoing 30 years of history.
The cumulative points leader from the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour season will earn an invite to the USGA’s flagship event, beginning at the 2023 US Open at Los Angeles Country Club.
Much like the pandemic around it, this month’s concurrent Australian PGA and WPGA Championships come with a guarantee of unprecedented drama – and not a moment too soon.
The USGA has recently made The Country Club’s routing for the 2022 US Open public, and the layout will debut a combination and sequencing of holes never used before.
The Americans embarrassed the Europeans and took great joy in doing so. There is so, so much to discuss, so here are 18 parting thoughts from Whistling Straits.
Shots have been fired. Daggers have been thrown. Words have been exchanged. The Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka saga, prior to Ryder Cup week, had reached a point where we all had to ask ourselves a simple question – was it ever going to end?