Month: September 2020

Two days after the world’s most strenuous golf tournament wrapped up, a much lighter affair played out in the Missouri mountains. The Payne’s Valley Cup was the anti-U.S. Open in so many ways. Instead of a grind on a 99-year-old course, this was a stroll on a brand new one. On the week that was

2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as

If you keep up with trends in golf architecture, you know there’s been a huge movement toward cutting down trees on courses around the world. The thought process here is generally to open up vistas, increase optionality and help turf grow better. Gary Player isn’t having it. Not even close. Player stepped into the broadcast

8:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Georgia Hall won the Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory in the United States, beating Ashleigh Buhai with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Hall won after falling into a tie with a bogey on the par-4 18th in

Here are our favorite plays—from upside to value and safest—plus players likely to disappoint for your DFS lineups this week. High Upside: Sam Burns ($10,100 DraftKings | $11,600 FanDuel) The last time we saw Burns, he was fading on the weekend at the Safeway Open but still ended up in a tie for seventh. Add

The 2021 Solheim Cup at Ohio’s Inverness Club is a year away, but conversations about the teams have already begun. More specifically, conversations about how the teams will be built. Given the changes to and shortening of the LPGA Tour and LET schedules, respectively, due to the coronavirus, Team Europe announced on Monday that it

6:16 PM ET Associated Press Bryson DeChambeau has won the U.S. Open — the first major championship for golf’s long-hitting mad scientist. He is the third person in history to win an NCAA title, a U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open. The others: Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. DeChambeau was the only player under par

Coming into the 120th U.S. Open, it was questioned if Bryson DeChambeau’s bomb-and-gouge style of play could work at a U.S. Open venue where the fairways are narrower and the rough meatier than a typical tour event. His six-shot win at Winged Foot answered that question, but there is one other query we sought to

8:41 PM ET The U.S. Open did what it often does, bruising and battering the best golfers in the world, sometimes making them look silly, but also highlighting how good they really are when considering the immense obstacles in the path at America’s national championship. That might have been of little consolation to Matthew Wolff

After finishing up his Sunday at Winged Foot 12 shots behind DeChambeau in a tie for eighth, Rory McIlroy was asked what his reaction would be if he had been told ahead of the championship that the winner would hit just four of his last 21 fairways. The four-time major champion took the moment to

It’s safe to say that Bryson DeChambeau will most appreciate his U.S. Open victory through the prism of numbers. And there are plenty that should put a smile on the big man’s face. A final-round 67 at Winged Foot, the lowest shot by a winner of any of the U.S. Opens played on the West

8:19 PM ET MAMORONECK, N.Y. — As Bryson DeChambeau walked the final fairway at Winged Foot early Sunday evening, heading toward the iconic clubhouse that was about to be the backdrop for a photo opportunity with the U.S. Open trophy, there was quiet. It seemed fitting, really, because his performance, a four-day exhibition of strength

Much was made about the bomb-and-gouge fest that was the third round of the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, including right here on this site. The two leaders, Matthew Wolff and Bryson DeChambeau, combined to hit five of 28 fairways. Their combined score? Five under. So much for the theory that driving accuracy wins

12:50 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — If it wasn’t bad enough that Patrick Cantlay arrived at the 15th hole at Winged Foot standing at 11 over par in the U.S. Open, next-to-last among those who made the cut, what happened next was just plain mean. His second shot to the par 4 was just in

It was exactly 107 years ago today—Sept. 20, 1913. Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old amateur golfer and former caddie at Brookline Country Club in Massachusetts, shocked the sporting world with his playoff victory in the 19th U.S. Open—the first national championship Ouimet had played. Over the extra 18 holes on a Saturday, Ouimet whipped by five

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — This was not supposed to happen. Not at this course, not at this tournament. But it did, unambiguously, with no room for interpretation. Forget provocation, what Matthew Wolff and Bryson DeChambeau have done to Winged Foot is enough to ring sirens from Mamaroneck to Far Hills and within the soul of every

9:08 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Matthew Wolff would rather it not be this way. He’d prefer to walk to the first tee Sunday afternoon surrounded by thousands at Winged Foot, rows of fans following each move, the noise echoing for a rare birdie, the collective groan when a wayward tee shot finds the bottom