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Football. Baseball. The R&A. Riviera Country Club. Torrey Pines. The PNC Challenge. The Jack Nicklaus Medal. The Olympics. COVID-19. You have to cast a wide net over this potpourri of subject matter to fully relay the story of how the television rights to the U.S. Open changed hands from FOX Sports to NBC in a

7:11 AM ET Dustin Johnson is the hottest player in the world. He’s already picked up the U.S. Open trophy once. Sure, he’s the favorite this week at Winged Foot, but there are plenty of other strong choices to claim the year’s second major title. Our experts landed on a wide variety of options. Here’s

MAMARONECK, N.Y. —They were a despondent bunch, the Winged Foot range staff. There was work to do and dwindling time to do it, a smoky haze sweeping in from fires out West dimming the New York skies earlier than its 7 p.m. sunset foretold. The practice area had been empty for 20 minutes save for

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The sixth at Winged Foot is the prototypical risk-reward hole. At 321 yards, it is by far the shortest par 4 on the West course. It also has the narrowest fairway, a little more than 20 yards wide, with a bunker down the left. The hole has changed quite a bit from

Sep 13, 2020 The situation is being relived again, with all the gory details. The wayward drive at the 72nd hole. The unwise decision to go for the green. The poor approach that couldn’t even help salvage a bogey. One of Phil Mickelson‘s toughest defeats has even more meaning all these years later as the

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to make international travel a challenge. So much so, that the LPGA Tour announced it was canceling the remaining events on its Asian swing originally scheduled for this fall. Originally, there were four tournaments slated to be as part of the swing, with two of those events having already been canceled.

7:25 PM ET Dustin Johnson, on the heels of his first FedEx Cup victory last week, was named the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year on Monday. Johnson was voted the recipient of the tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award, while Scottie Scheffler received the Arnold Palmer Award as the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year. The

Two weeks ago, Dustin Johnson capped an incredible month and the 2019-20 PGA Tour season by winning his first FedEx Cup. On Monday, he picked up more hardware. Johnson was named the PGA Tour’s player of the year for the second time in his career, beating out Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Webb Simpson and Justin

On Monday a man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a scheme involving badges for the Masters Tournament. Stephen Freeman, 42, appeared last year in front of U.S. District Court to admit to a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. From 2013 to 2017, the Freeman

7:15 AM ET KENNETH FERRIE WAS already cooked when he stood near Phil Mickelson on the 72nd tee of the United States Open. The Englishman could have slipped under the ropes inside Winged Foot, the Yankee Stadium of golf, and joined the thousands of New Yorkers cheering for their left-hander to close it out. Ferrie,

It was one of the most brutal finishes to a U.S. Open. In 2006 at Winged Foot, Phil Mickelson needed a par on 18 to win. You probably remember the rest. Mickelson sends his drive into the trees, his second shot doesn’t get him out of trouble, he makes double, and Geoff Ogilvy leaves New

8:00 PM ET Scottie Scheffler withdrew from the U.S. Open on Sunday because he had a positive COVID-19 test. Scheffler becomes the first player on the PGA Tour to test positive after six consecutive weeks of no positive cases. The United States Golf Association said Scheffler was asymptomatic and is at home in Dallas. South

This day, this win, like his last one more than 11 years ago, didn’t belong solely and totally to Stewart Cink. This win, Sunday at the Safeway Open, at age 47, he still had to share. And he didn’t mind one bit. But then, he didn’t mind sharing the spotlight more than a decade ago

For Tiger Woods, U.S. Open week has begun. Woods arrived at Winged Foot Golf Club on Sunday afternoon for some light practice and a nine-hole round, playing the back nine a full four days before he’ll tee it up in the year’s second major. Wearing shorts, Woods returned to the iconic Mamaroneck, N.Y., layout to

2:18 PM ET Associated Press South African George Coetzee shot a 5-under 66 to win the Portugal Masters by two strokes on Sunday. Coetzee finished at 16 under par after birdies on two of the last three holes to seal the victory over Englishman Laurie Canter, who also shot a 66. Tommy Fleetwood (64) ended

My love affair with Winged Foot began in 1974 when my dad, the late Jim Nantz Jr., surprised me early Father’s Day morning with news we were leaving immediately from our New Jersey home to attend the final round of the U.S. Open. Within two hours, my heroes—Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and Weiskopf—were in front of

6:54 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Brooke Henderson tied a Mission Hills record with a 30 on the front nine and did just enough the rest of the round Saturday for a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with Nelly Korda in the ANA Inspiration. Henderson started the weekend six

The conclusion of the first tournament of the 2020-‘21 PGA Tour season—what, you thought there was an offseason?—won’t lack for drama. Not with three players (James Hahn, Cameron Percy and Brian Stuard) tied atop the leader board and another 14 lurking within three strokes with one round to go at the Safeway Open in Napa,

Kevin Kisner apologized on Saturday afternoon for an insensitive tweet he’d posted earlier in the day in response to former NBA player Rex Chapman. Chapman tweeted that a friend’s parents died as a result of COVID-19 and related issues, that his own parents had been in and out of the hospital and that one of

4:30 PM ET Associated Press VILAMOURA, Portugal — South African golfer George Coetzee will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Portugal Masters after shooting 5-under 66 in the third round on Saturday. Coetzee entered the weekend eight shots behind Julien Guerrier. But the overnight leader bogeyed four holes on the day,

Have you ever hit a golf ball from your knees? Hit it backwards? Teed off with a putter or, more likely, simply thrown your club an impressive distance in anger? If so, you have unwittingly paid homage to the man who now holds the Guinness world record in all four, umm, disciplines. That man is

5:38 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — The numbers suggested a stress-free time in the desert for Nelly Korda, who had five birdies and a clean card for a 5-under 67 to build an early two-shot lead Friday in the ANA Inspiration. All she could think about were two pars. The only fairway

Not surprisingly, it’s been a quiet few days at the Safeway Open. Not because the golf hasn’t been good, though. It’s just that, well, it’s the Safeway Open, a week before the U.S. Open, on the same week as the LPGA’s ANA Inspiration and NFL’s opening weekend. Add in the fact Jordan Spieth hasn’t magically

On Friday at the 2020 Safeway Open, Higgs punctuated an already-good round with one of the best possible highlights a tour player can imagine. We can count on one hand how many rounds we can remember ending with a walk-off albatross, and that’s exactly what the 28-year-old did at Silverado North’s 18th hole to finish

10:45 PM ET Two-time major champion John Daly revealed during a Golf Channel instructional show that he has bladder cancer. Daly said he underwent a procedure to have the cancer removed but was told there is a good chance of recurrence. “[My urologist] said there’s an 85% chance it comes back,” said Daly, 54, in

Hitting fairways and greens is always a blueprint for success at a U.S. Open, and precision driving in particular will be more critical this year than at recent venues like Erin Hills, Chambers Bay and Pinehurst No. 2. But simply playing defense in the era of power golf, even at Winged Foot, will not be

Sep 5, 2020 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, as master sommelier Randall Bertao scanned the list of 79 students who were set to spend the next two days taking the Court of Master Sommeliers introductory exam, one name jumped off the page. He wasn’t expecting to see Cristie Kerr, seeking

The last time Phil Mickelson played a competitive round at Winged Foot Golf Club, he stumbled away, dazed and disconsolate, having blown his lead on the 72nd hole in the 2006 U.S. Open. It is the only major championship he has never won. He has finished second a record six times. And he hasn’t placed

Danny Noonan will get to caddie in the U.S. Open after all—sort of. Michael O’Keefe, the actor who played the down-on-his-luck young looper in the cult classic “Caddyshack,” will be on the bag next week at Winged Foot. Only instead of carrying the clubs Judge Smails or Ty Webb, he’ll be doing so for Danny

8:11 AM ET Tim Herron turned 50 in February, his new lease on golf life set to commence. The PGA Tour Champions beckoned, and he was slowly getting acclimated to senior golf and its 54-hole events and golf carts when it all came crashing to a halt. Like the rest of the sports world, golf