https://pinhighpress.com/tags/major-championships/ Recent content in Major Championships on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/sam-burns-62-65-and-nothing-to-show-for-it/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/sam-burns-62-65-and-nothing-to-show-for-it/ <p>Sam Burns opened his week at Royal Birkdale with a one-over 73, the kind of round that gets a player talked about as a missed-cut candidate rather than a contender. Then he shot 62 on Friday, tying the lowest round in men&rsquo;s major championship history, and followed it with a 65 on Saturday. Sixty-two and sixty-five in the same major, back to back, is not a stretch anyone had produced before at this level. It built him a two-shot lead heading into Sunday. He finished the tournament third, two shots behind Ryan Fox, having given most of that lead back with a two-over final round while the eventual champion played the closing holes better than anyone else in the field. It is worth sitting with what that means, because it is not really a story about Sam Burns losing. It is a story about how little margin there actually is at the top of this sport.</p> https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-praise-of-the-major-winner-who-made-you-wait/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/in-praise-of-the-major-winner-who-made-you-wait/ <p>There is a particular kind of golf story that gets less attention than it deserves, and Ryan Fox supplied a fresh copy of it on Sunday. Not the prodigy who wins young and spends the next decade being measured against his own beginning, but the player who does the rounds for the better part of two decades, collects a handful of tour titles and a stack of near misses, and then, in his 94th major start at the age of 39, wins the oldest championship in the sport. It is not the story golf markets hardest. It might be the one it tells best.</p>