Courses
Royal Troon: A Gentle Out, a Brutal Home
Royal Troon sits on the Ayrshire coast looking out across the Firth of Clyde to the hump of Ailsa Craig, and on a still summer morning it can fool a visitor …
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PGA Tour
The Travelers Closes the Signature Season at River Highlands
There is something fitting about the Travelers landing the week after a US Open. Shinnecock spent four days asking players to grind out pars on greens that …
PGA Tour
Wyndham Clark Holds On at Shinnecock for a Second US Open
For about an hour on Sunday afternoon, the 2026 US Open looked as though it might turn into one of those final rounds people talk about for the wrong reasons. …
Equipment
Hybrid, Five-Wood or Driving Iron: Sorting Out the Top of Your Bag
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 …
PGA Tour
Wyndham Clark Turns Moving Day Into a Procession at Shinnecock
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 …
PGA Tour
Fog, Wind and a Familiar Name: McIlroy Steadies the Ship at Shinnecock
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 …
Opinion
In Defence of the Ugly Swing
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 …
Tips and Instruction
What Tour Players Do at Address That Amateurs Never Even Think About
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 …
Courses
Bethpage Black: The Public Course That Plays Like a Punishment
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 …
PGA Tour
The USGA Has Already Flinched at Shinnecock, and It Was Right To
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 …