Ryan Fox stood over an eleven-foot putt on the 72nd hole at Royal Birkdale knowing that making it won the Open Championship outright and missing it left the …
For sixty-eight years, Royal Portrush was the Open Championship venue that existed mostly in the imagination of people who had read about it. It hosted the …
Royal Birkdale has spent three days quietly rewriting how firm and fast a links course can play in a heatwave. On Friday, Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns both shot …
Royal Birkdale has form for this sort of thing. Nine years after Branden Grace shot the first sub-63 round in major championship history on this same Southport …
Most club golfers have a routine for a flat lie that works reasonably well, built up over years of range balls sat on perfectly level mats. Put the same player …
Nobody built a storyline around Jackson Suber this week, and that was rather the point. A 26-year-old Korn Ferry Tour graduate with three top tens on the PGA …
Pull out a 7-iron from a set built in 2004 and one built this year, and you are not holding the same club twice with a different paint job. You are holding two …
The PGA Tour has decided, again, to try to fix slow play with punishment. Starting on the Korn Ferry Tour, pace-of-play data is being made public for the first …
Nine years ago Royal Birkdale played soft enough that Jordan Spieth could throw darts at flags from the rough and watch them stop, the kind of Open that let a …
The 154th Open begins on Thursday at Royal Birkdale, and for most of the 156 players in the field that means a flight, a hotel, and a week of trying to feel at …
