PGA Tour
Golf's Longest Day Settles the Last Seats for Shinnecock
There is no day quite like it in golf. Final qualifying for the US Open, the thing the game has long called Golf’s Longest Day, asks players to walk …
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Tips and Instruction
How to Actually Play in the Wind
Watch a US Open at a links-style course and you will see the best players in the world reduced, for a few hours at least, to something close to mortal. The …
LPGA
Korda's Last Putt Falls to Win the US Women's Open at Riviera
There are wins that arrive cleanly and wins that have to be wrestled to the ground, and Nelly Korda’s first US Women’s Open belonged firmly to the …
Opinion
The Case Against the Mulligan
Somewhere on the first tee this weekend, someone will hook one into the trees, sigh, and reach into their pocket for another ball without a word being said. The …
Courses
Carnoustie: The Course That Earns Its Nickname
There is a reason the players call it Carnasty, and it is not affection. Carnoustie sits on a flat, exposed strip of the Angus coast north of the Tay, and on …
PGA Tour
Poston Outlasts Gerard in a Memorial Playoff at Muirfield Village
For two days the Memorial looked like J.T. Poston’s to lose, and then for most of the weekend it looked like he might do exactly that. That he ended up …
PGA Tour
Poston Steals the Memorial as Scheffler's Three-Peat Stalls
Muirfield Village does not give much away, and that is rather the point of the place. Jack Nicklaus built it to test the things that decide tournaments rather …
Tips and Instruction
The Half-Wedge Distance That Quietly Wrecks Scorecards
Ask a club golfer which shot frightens them most and the honest ones will not say the long bunker shot or the downhill four-footer. They will say the little …
LPGA
Kupcho Opens With a 66 as Riviera Bares Its Teeth
The first major to be played at Riviera on the women’s side was always going to ask hard questions, and on Thursday it did exactly that. The course gave …
Opinion
The Tees You Should Actually Be Playing
There is a quiet decision made on the first tee of almost every amateur round, and it is usually the wrong one. A group arrives, looks at the markers, and walks …