Courses
Royal Birkdale: The Fairest Examination in Links Golf
In five weeks the Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale, and the certainty worth holding onto amid all the build-up is this: whoever lifts the Claret Jug …
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PGA Tour
Shinnecock Looms, and Scheffler Has a Date With History
One week from today, the 126th US Open begins at Shinnecock Hills, and the championship arrives carrying a storyline so neat that a screenwriter would have been …
PGA Tour
The Canadian Open Lands the Field It Has Always Deserved
The Canadian Open has spent much of its long life as the championship that deserved better. It is the third-oldest national open in golf, behind only the Open …
Equipment
The Case for Buying Used Golf Clubs
Walk into a pro shop this season and the price tags will do the talking. A new driver from any of the major manufacturers now sits comfortably north of what a …
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 …
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 …