There is a stretch in almost every bag, somewhere between the fairway wood and the seven-iron, where the average golfer makes a decision out of habit rather …
A US Open is meant to be a war of attrition, the sort of week where the leader spends Saturday afternoon watching his cushion shrink one painful bogey at a …
The 126th US Open could not even start on time, which felt about right for a week that has been billed as a reckoning. Heavy fog rolled in off the Atlantic and …
There is a particular kind of golfer who plays off eight, breaks 80 most weekends, and is quietly miserable about it. He is miserable because his swing does not …
What Tour Players Do at Address That Amateurs Never Even Think About Walk onto the range at any professional event and you’ll see the same thing in front …
Most of the great championship courses in the world are private, gated affairs where the closest an ordinary golfer gets is a television screen. Bethpage Black …
There is a version of the US Open that the USGA seems to have finally stopped chasing. For years the championship sold itself on the idea that the best players …
Stand on any par four on a Saturday morning and watch where club golfers aim their approach shots. Almost without exception, they aim at the flag. It does not …
There is a particular kind of press conference that happens on the Tuesday of a major, where the questions are meant to be about the golf course and the answers …
There is a particular sound that tells you a round has gone wrong, and it is not the splash of a ball finding water. It is the silence of a group standing on a …
