The Walker Cup, which showcases some of amateur golf’s best and brightest talents, will be held for the 50th time in September when breathtaking Cypress Point Club plays host. The biennial matches that pit the United States vs. Great Britain & Ireland have provided a stage for fans to see the next generation of stars Read more…
For all Tiger Woods’ success on the golf course—15 major championship victories, a record-tying 82 PGA Tour wins, more than $121 million in tour earnings and his place in the World Golf Hall of Fame—his career has also been defined by injuries. Name a part of his body and chances are he’s tweaked, strained, ruptured Read more…
Masters traditions are like flavors of ice cream: There are many to choose from and everybody has a personal favorite. Yet no matter your preference, they’re all pretty darn good. Among the traditions that resonate most with fans is the annual Champions Dinner, where past winners come together on Tuesday evening of tournament week for Read more…
Believe it or not, we’re just three months and change from the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, which means it’s just about time to start obsessing about every detail—who’s making it automatically, who’s getting a captain’s pick and, of course, which team will win on Long Island. Today, we’ve assembled two of our greatest Read more…
I’ve always thought walk-off home runs in baseball were one of the coolest things in sports. Bang, it’s gone. No more pitches, no more drama. It’s all over and you can relax and make your way around the bases. J.J. Spaun, an avid Dodgers fan, got a taste of that feeling on the 72nd hole Read more…
This is a milestone week for the PGA of America. For the first time, its Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco course in Texas, close to the PGA’s new headquarters, hosts a major championship, and that honor goes to the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. This is the last of the three women’s majors on American Read more…
There’s a mantra in certain golf architecture circles that par is just a number. In other words, a hole, and its difficulty or quality, is not defined by the par on the scorecard but rather the design, challenge and options a hole provides. The eighth hole at Oakmont has people divided. Playing up to 300 Read more…
Very few people will ever know what the true relationship was between Arnold Palmer and O.J. Simpson. As two sporting icons, were they friends, or merely fellow “actors” shooting very corny Hertz commercials together in the mid-1980s? What we do know is that their lives became unintentionally tangled in the most bizarre way on a Friday in June nearly 31 years ago.
Whenever the subject is the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont, I think of Arnold Palmer. By all rights, the mind should go to the winner, Jack Nicklaus. It was his first victory as a pro, and the first of his 18 major championships. He beat the best player in the world, soon usurping him on Read more…
When we think about great achievements in golf, we often think of players who have triumphed over adversity. Ben Hogan overcoming his car accident to win the three majors in 1953, Tiger Woods overcoming injuries, scandal and age to win the 2019 Masters and even Rory McIlroy finally overcoming the curse of the career Grand Read more…
Saturday, June 16, 1962 at Oakmont. The final rounds of one of the best majors ever played. Thirty-six holes, standard then for the U.S. Open. A newly minted, but still winless, professional named Jack Nicklaus walks the fairways as the only man standing in the way of western Pennsylvania’s native son, beloved Arnold Palmer. For Read more…
It was an afternoon that perfectly encapsulated his career—a man who had repeatedly courted self-inflicted chaos finally breaking through amid the swirling confusion around him. The very audacity that had so often proved his undoing, combined with talent that had promised something like this was possible, finally delivered Dustin Johnson the moment that seemed inevitable. Read more…
In all fairness to the USGA and R&A, a major revision to the Rules of Golf was already in the works when the U.S. Open came to Oakmont Country Club in 2016. Still, it’s somewhat amusing to think that a golf ball moving just a fraction of an inch on a breezy summer day was Read more…
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