This is not a town that traffics in modesty. Everything is large and loud and runs on an undercurrent of swagger. So it’s fair to wonder why the same doesn’t apply to this US Open.
Los Angeles has always loved a redemption story. Only three months ago, Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for best actor in “The Whale,” in which he gained considerable weight to play an obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter. “The Whale” came decades after Fraser had last played a lead role in a Read more…
Cameron Smith admits chasing down the US Open leaders would require the “round of his life” after falling back on the leaderboard in round three at Los Angeles Country Club.
Standing on the 15th tee, you could throw a ball onto the putting surface, so we wondered why the field wouldn’t be tempted into trying to shoot straight at the flag.
Young’s tee shot flew 50 metres offline, through some trees, into the gallery and somehow, defying both odds and physics, plopped in the last place you would ever expect.
Fowler has posted 12 top-10s in his majors career, the most recent at the 2021 PGA Championship, but how close was he to actually winning any of them, and how did they slip away?
US Opens are supposed to be about pars, or at least they were for most of the 75 years since Los Angeles last hosted the event. And the press conferences competitors hold during the championship are meant to contain answers about keeping it in the fairway, taking medicine when drives find the rough, and leaving Read more…
A 400-yard drive was the highlight of a second round that Min Woo Lee used to blast his way into US Open contention alongside Cameron Smith at Los Angeles Country Club.
Whatever fortune or frustration befalls Corey Pereira in his US Open debut, whatever quality of play he can muster despite just 54 holes of competitive golf this year, his week will end with the sobering reality that living his dream was merely a respite from an ongoing nightmare.
After a week of crazy (potential) merger news, Golf Twitter is back to focusing on actual golf this week. And its eye is squarely on Los Angeles. It just wandered, momentarily, to a different LA course on Wednesday.
Since news broke last week of a framework deal between the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), professional golfers and officials have mostly emphasized they don’t know what the future holds. Bryson DeChambeau, though, was not shy in voicing what he thinks will happen, and what he wants to Read more…