Mike Whan knows as much as you do about the PGA Tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Which is to say, not much at all.
In an interview with NBC Sports’ John Wood, Rickie revealed he plans to purposely miss the 15th green short if/when the USGA puts the pin up front to make it about a 73-metre shot.
Seven Australians will tee up at the 2023 US Open as Los Angeles Country Club pulls back the curtain on one of America’s most exclusive and lavish golf clubs.
For a big game hunter, Brooks Koepka’s first taste of major championship golf was a catastrophe. It was 2012, and Koepka had qualified, via a sudden-death playoff, for the US Open at Olympic Club in San Francisco. With a tidy, bogey-free one-under score on his first nine that Thursday, Koepka, a 22-year-old amateur, was leading Read more…
Usually we don’t love clowning on a reporter’s question, for myriad reasons. For starters, that could be one of us asking a question at some point, and we wouldn’t want to be clowned on either. Second, things can get taken out of context, particularly in a transcript. And finally, there is no such thing as a stupid question, and even stupid questions can yield great answers.
It’s hard to answer what you do not know, and if the past week in golf has told us anything, it’s that so few people have any idea of what’s going in in the professional game.
The PGA Tour winner, Full Swing legend and one of the funnier guys in golf received a taste of his own medicine upon entering Los Angeles Country Club this week. There’s nothing more cherished than the Player Valet Parking, but it looks like Dahmen—who has been struggling lately, missing the cut at four of his last six events— may have to take a shuttle to get to the first tee.
Among the 22,000 spectators anticipated for Thursday’s first round at the U.S. Open, however, will be two teenagers from Australia you’ve never heard of: promising amateur golfers Joseph Buttress and Jeffrey Guan.
So what’s in store for this year at LACC? Tee-times have just been announced, with players competing in threesomes off the first and 10th tees during the first and second rounds this Thursday and Friday.
Matt Fitzpatrick has an on-course demeanor seemingly made for the big games. Whether he’s calm because he’s filled with confidence or he’s confident because he’s so calm, the young man has proven he can deliver in the clutch.
Star Aussie amateur and Stanford University player Karl Vilips has bolstered the Australian contingent at next week’s US Open after making it through gruelling 36-hole final qualifying, earning his major championship debut.
“Swing your swing.” It’s a phrase you hear in golf a lot, although, probably in part to make bad golfers feel less bad about their bad swings. It’s also apparently a motto by which Brett Silvernail lives his life.
Viktor Hovland, fresh off of capturing the Memorial on Sunday afternoon, was still in the Columbus area Monday morning, and for good reason: He was serving as caddie to friend and former Oklahoma State teammates Zach Bauchou as Bauchou attempts to make it through final US Open qualifying.
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