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Why was Bryson DeChambeau given a two-shot penalty?
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (906+ words) In the Rules of Golf, Rule 8.1 states that a player is prohibited from improving the “conditions affecting the stroke.” That includes the player’s lie, the area of his intended stance, the area of the player’s intended swing and the player’s…...
Jon Rahm receives 'serious misconduct' warning for tomahawking golf club
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (434+ words) Jon Rahm made a move up the leaderboard on Friday at the Open Championship, but it was a particularly violent move that caught everyone’s attention. Playing the par-3 15th during the second round at Royal Birkdale, Rahm tomahawked an iron off…...
Jordan Spieth is still waiting for the version of him everyone remembers
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (313+ words) “Should be a really good opportunity this week,” Spieth said on Monday. “Yeah, I feel like I have a lot of great golf in front of me. I feel like I’m way more optimistic than I’ve been at a lot…...
He was going to skip Birkdale. Now he's contending after a shocking 62
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (602+ words) It took nine years for someone to shoot the second 62 in Open Championship history … and about 15 minutes for someone to shoot the third. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, because the story of what Sam Burns did at Royal…...
Lucas Herbert was 5 feet from major golf immortality at Birkdale
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (624+ words) The first 62 in Open Championship history was a seminal moment in golf, but the author of the second 62 walked off the 18th green “absolutely disappointed, but proud.” Lucas Herbert came within a burned edge of shooting the first 61 in any major…...
Henrik Stenson says ‘ankle bracelet’ coming off, playing PGA Tour Champions
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (484+ words) Sarcasm has always been a second language for Henrik Stenson, who wielded it quite a bit after posting a tidy two-under 68 in the opening round of the Open Championship. Asked if it felt like 10 years since his Open victory at…...
Scottie Scheffler's title defense has him right where he needs to be
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (385+ words) For the first few hours Thursday morning, it looked like the engraver could begin chiselling Scheffler’s name on the claret jug again. Any worries of a hangover from his first missed cut since 2022 at last week’s U.S. Open were…...
Bryson DeChambeau isn't talking to the media, again
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (246+ words) Bryson DeChambeau took a step toward breaking his major slump with a 67 on Thursday at Royal Birkdale, a bogey on the last hole dropping him out of a tie for first place. But after the round, the talk around DeChambeau…...
Meet Jackson Suber, the (unlikely) leader after Day 1 at Royal Birkdale
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (496+ words) So much for needing experience to have success in the Open Championship. The first-round leader at Royal Birkdale is Jackson Suber, a second-year PGA Tour pro who played his first round of links golf on … Monday upon arriving in England....
“We’re all going to die” is the swing thought you didn’t know you needed
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (362+ words) Other than lightning strikes and screaming line drives from the other fairway, a golf course is generally meant to be a refuge from thoughts of our own mortality. Would you feel differently if you knew those thoughts helped you play…...