There are 18 holes left at Royal Portrush and half a dozen players who have a realistic chance, yet on Sunday at the 2025 Open Championship only two will truly matter, as Rory McIlroy attempts to chase down Scottie Scheffler to become Champion Golfer of the Year.
Marc Leishman clawed his way up the leaderboard and has targeted a return to the Open Championship as his final-round goal with world No.1 Scottie Scheffler on a seemingly inevitable march towards victory at Royal Portrush.
If you played enough golf like Rory McIlroy, you’d think you’ve seen everything that can happen on a golf course. If you’ve watched as much golf as his fans have through the years, you’d think the same. Wrong.
After a flying start to his third round, the wheels came flying off on the eighth hole where Rose’s tee shot found a particularly nasty patch of rough. Iron in hand, Rose swiped at his ball, which exploded off his clubface at a near 90-degree angle, flying into the gallery at head height. Watch it and wince.
While the Pro V1x remains the ball of choice this week, DeChambeau revealed in his post-round press conference at Portrush that he’s working behind the scenes on something revolutionary that could be ready in the not-too-distant future.
With two rounds to play, anything can still happen. Yet with the dominant way Scheffler is performing in almost every aspect of the game, he looks like the man to beat this weekend.
Cameras had a close-up view of Lowry’s ball in the rough as he took a practice swing at the 12th hole, and the ball visibly moved after his iron passed through the nearby grass.
With consecutive top-10 finishes among strong fields in his past two starts, Fitzpatrick, 30, is threatening to return to major-championship form. Which is exactly what he’s thinking about.
Elvis Smylie says he was frustrated to have been struck down with an illness on the eve of the Open Championship but fought to at least have a hope of making the 36-hole cut at Royal Portrush.
After a 4am alarm for his early tee time, Marc Leishman wrestled with the beastly Royal Portrush course to climb back up the Open Championship leaderboard and into contention on day two in Northern Ireland.
The Thai golfer, who is an ordained monk, was presumably able to live in the present better than most in the field at Royal Portrush on a tough day of rain and wind.
You’ll have to forgive Marc Leishman, who has played in just one major championship since the end of 2022. During that three-year span, he clearly forgot that they can be absolute slogs when it comes to pace of play.
If you told golf fans five years ago that Phil Mickelson would still be contending at an Open Championship at 55, some would have believed it. Fewer would have thought he’d ever be asked about a YouTube golfer during his post-round presser. But that’s exactly what happened on Thursday when Mickelson gathered with reporters at Read more…
Adam Scott was relieved to get in the clubhouse only five shots off the pace after a bogey at the last ended a solid back-nine charge during round one at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
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