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The 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 saw Bryson DeChambeau’s triumph, paralleling the genius of course designer Donald Ross. With perfect weather and a captivating final round, DeChambeau embraced a newfound affection from fans. His victory secured his place among golf’s elite, winning his second major and $4.3 million over Rory McIlroy.
Gary Woodland won the 101st U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2019. The author, reflecting on the tournament, shares a personal struggle with chronic pain, reminisces about an active youth, and discusses seeking relief through CBD products, culminating in a peaceful moment at a Monterey Bay hotel.
The United States Open Golf Championship returned to Southern California and the Los Angeles Country Club after a seventy-five-year hiatus to robust criticism from players and fans alike. Small galleries, lack of grandstands, forced carries, blind tee shots, and severely sloped fairways that ran off into gnarly fescue-protected island greens and rough marred the USGA’s…
Undoubtedly, the game and sport of Golf is an import from the British Islands. Conceived, developed, and propagated on the wind-swept Linksland of the Scottish coast, it slowly migrated to the eastern seaboard of the American mainland, where it indifferently spread amongst the blossoming and burgeoning middle class created by the industrial revolution of the…
A volatile and hyper-competitive Spaniard in the mode of Seve Ballesteros, Jose Marie Olazabal, and Sergio Garcia, coming off a heartbreaking forced withdrawal because of COVID-19 Symptoms, after leading by six shots in the Memorial Tournament, Jon Rahm, embracing newfound humility, perseverance, patience, and a new son, wins the 121st United States Open Championship in…
In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…