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2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the last decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as

I played with him at Colonial the first week back out, but I sort of said, ‘OK, wait until he gets to a proper golf course, he’ll have to rein it back in.’ This is as proper as they come, and look what’s happened.”—Rory McIlroy, on Bryson DeChambeau “So many times I relied on science,

8:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Georgia Hall won the Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory in the United States, beating Ashleigh Buhai with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Hall won after falling into a tie with a bogey on the par-4 18th in

Coming into the 120th U.S. Open, it was questioned if Bryson DeChambeau’s bomb-and-gouge style of play could work at a U.S. Open venue where the fairways are narrower and the rough meatier than a typical tour event. His six-shot win at Winged Foot answered that question, but there is one other query we sought to

The 2021 Solheim Cup at Ohio’s Inverness Club is a year away, but conversations about the teams have already begun. More specifically, conversations about how the teams will be built. Given the changes to and shortening of the LPGA Tour and LET schedules, respectively, due to the coronavirus, Team Europe announced on Monday that it

8:41 PM ET The U.S. Open did what it often does, bruising and battering the best golfers in the world, sometimes making them look silly, but also highlighting how good they really are when considering the immense obstacles in the path at America’s national championship. That might have been of little consolation to Matthew Wolff

The PGA Tour’s swing season includes the Corales Puntacana Resort Championship for the third straight year, and though this week isn’t a major and doesn’t include the game’s elite players, there’s intrigue at this fall season event. Someone other than Bryson DeChambeau who made a name for himself at Winged Foot is Korn Ferry star

8:19 PM ET MAMORONECK, N.Y. — As Bryson DeChambeau walked the final fairway at Winged Foot early Sunday evening, heading toward the iconic clubhouse that was about to be the backdrop for a photo opportunity with the U.S. Open trophy, there was quiet. It seemed fitting, really, because his performance, a four-day exhibition of strength

It’s safe to say that Bryson DeChambeau will most appreciate his U.S. Open victory through the prism of numbers. And there are plenty that should put a smile on the big man’s face. A final-round 67 at Winged Foot, the lowest shot by a winner of any of the U.S. Opens played on the West

Whatever ones lingered about whether Bryson DeChambeau’s plan to bulk up and hit the ball as far as possible would hold up in the cauldron and nuance of major championship golf have been answered. This week at Winged Foot, he killed nuance. A month after a tie for fourth in the PGA Championship—a career-best finish

6:16 PM ET Associated Press Bryson DeChambeau has won the U.S. Open — the first major championship for golf’s long-hitting mad scientist. He is the third person in history to win an NCAA title, a U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open. The others: Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. DeChambeau was the only player under par

Sunday at the U.S. Open—it’s one of the best days of the year for golf fans. This year is no different, even though it’s very different. This 120th U.S. Open is being held in September; there are no fans; and despite narrow fairways and thick rough, two of the longest hitters in golf, Matthew Wolff

9:08 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Matthew Wolff would rather it not be this way. He’d prefer to walk to the first tee Sunday afternoon surrounded by thousands at Winged Foot, rows of fans following each move, the noise echoing for a rare birdie, the collective groan when a wayward tee shot finds the bottom

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — This was not supposed to happen. Not at this course, not at this tournament. But it did, unambiguously, with no room for interpretation. Forget provocation, what Matthew Wolff and Bryson DeChambeau have done to Winged Foot is enough to ring sirens from Mamaroneck to Far Hills and within the soul of every

Just by taking the 54-hole lead on Sunday at Winged Foot with a third-round 65, Matthew Wolff made a little bit of U.S. Open history. He’s the youngest leader after three rounds since the 1971 U.S. Open at Merion, where Jim Simons, who had turned 21 a month earlier, led Jack Nicklaus by two strokes

12:50 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — If it wasn’t bad enough that Patrick Cantlay arrived at the 15th hole at Winged Foot standing at 11 over par in the U.S. Open, next-to-last among those who made the cut, what happened next was just plain mean. His second shot to the par 4 was just in

It’s been a tale of two rounds at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. On Thursday, twenty-one players broke par, including Justin Thomas, who cruised to a five-under 65. Your grandfather’s U.S. Open, this was not.  But on Friday, the iconic A.W. Tillinghast-designed course fought back, as did mother nature. Just three players—Bryson DeChambeau,

9:29 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The first day of the U.S. Open was a gift, a small box waiting at reception to thank you for coming. That was what the USGA and Winged Foot handed the players. It’s been a long, tough year for everyone and they just wanted to be nice. Well, that’s

Now, just imagine what it was like for bettors.  It’s only going to get harder, for both the players and those of us scouring the odds boards. On Friday night, we recorded a special edition of the “Be Right” podcast, recapping all the action from the first two rounds and offering up some analysis for

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — That ridge. That damned, beautiful ridge. It guards the front of Winged Foot’s 18th green like a troll with a toothache. It wrecks rounds. Just ask Tiger Woods. On Thursday, playing his last hole of the day, Woods’ second shot came up just short of it. He flubbed it, then made double.

8:24 PM ET A recurring theme Tiger Woods on a Friday: struggling to stay relevant in the tournament. He will need a good day during the second round at Winged Foot, not only to get back into contention, but perhaps to even make the 36-hole cut, which would be for the top 60 players and

After 14 years, the U.S. Open is finally back at Winged Foot. Surprisingly to some on Thursday, the vaunted major venue played a little easier than ever—with Justin Thomas shsooting an opening-round 65 to grab the lead and shoot the lowest round in a U.S. Open ever at Winged Foot. Thomas—playing alongside Tiger Woods and

7:04 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The question has to be asked, especially after watching all these guys walk off Winged Foot following the first round of the U.S. Open with smiles on their faces. What is going on here? The leaderboard, after one day, is loaded with players under par. That’s not how this

“I was sitting there thinking, watching him play those two holes, I wasn’t thinking, ‘Maybe I got something here,’ I was just imagining what it must mean to him playing at Winged Foot and pulling it off toward the end of his career,” Adducci said on Thursday night when contacted by Golf Digest. “I just

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Carnage, they said. If you paid attention to the pre-tournament hype for this U.S. Open, you were probably expecting another “Massacre at Winged Foot.” We saw video after video of balls being dropped into ankle rough and disappearing, of putts rolling up to the back of the green and then tumbling, and

1:22 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Tiger Woods‘ first round at the U.S. Open was a microcosm of the state of his golf game since he returned after the three-month shutdown because of the coronavirus — he had some rough moments, a few good moments and plenty of moments of inconsistency. There were stretches of

So you’re checking in on the leader board in the first round of the U.S. Open and Davis Thompson is at the top. You see the little “a” next to his name, designating him an amateur, and you say to yourself, “OK, let’s wait 15 minutes and see if he’s still there.” An hour later,

2:52 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The USGA knows the reputation it is combating and admitted that this week for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot it might find some spots here and there to give the players a break. “We kept looking at ways [to] make the golf course a little bit easier because

So you’re excited to watch Tiger Woods play his first round at the U.S. Open? Join the crowd. But to do it, we’re going to warn you: It’s best to make sure you’ve got the coffee-maker programmed in advance. Woods tees off early on Thursday at Winged Foot, playing with Justin Thomas and Collin Morikawa

Earlier this week, my colleague Joel Beall summed up very well the minor miracle that is having the U.S. Open this week at Winged Foot Golf Club. In and around Westchester County was where the COVID-19 pandemic first flared up in the United States. And when the USGA decided it needed to postpone its signature