There are 84 players in the field at the Legacy Golf & Tennis Club, with five expected to advance. It’s Charlie Woods’ first time attempting US Open qualifying.
While holding its annual meeting, the USGA announced that the US Open and US Women’s Open will be held a week apart in 2036, and both will be contested at Shinnecock.
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.”
Securing Riviera gives the USGA 12 consecutive years of future US Open sites, and 16 of the next 19 are set through 2042. The only open dates now are 2036, 2038 and 2040. In all, 20 sites have been determined through 2051.
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.
Clark’s wedges are Titleist’s Vokey SM9 model with a 46-degree pitching wedge and 52 and 56-degree gap and sand wedges. His 60-degree lob wedge is a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks model with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts.
On Saturday evening in Los Angeles, Min Woo Lee’s phone pinged with a text from his friend and childhood idol, Adam Scott. It was an offer to ride on the former Masters champion’s private jet to Connecticut for next week’s Travelers Championship.
It wasn’t a lip-out, it was a literal bounce-out. Of the inexplicable variety. How, on earth, can this happen in a major championship? Sorcery is the only possible answer.