Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 17 June 2024
Addressing the media as the 124th US Open Champion, Bryson DeChambeau spoke of his desire for golf to reunite and his mission to grow the game. Here’s what he had to say. After an enthralling ding-dong battle with Rory McIlroy at Pinehurst No.2 on Sunday, Bryson DeChambeau emerged victorious to the delight of the home supporters, executing “the shot of his...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Sunday 16 June 2024
Bryson DeChambeau edges Rory McIlroy in Pinehurst thriller to secure a second US Open title. Two missed putts from inside five feet was the death of Rory McIlroy’s US Open campaign with Bryson DeChambeau making an epic up-and-down from the sand on 18 to win by one in a gripping to-and-fro battle. It was the most fitting end to an extraordinary...
Sunday 16 June 2024
I’ve watched every second of the 2024 US Open final round to highlight the key moments and the best reactions from social media. US OPEN BEST MOMENTS FROM: Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 There’s been plenty to enjoy about the 2024 US Open. A tough course setup has given the world’s best players a real test, we’ve seen as...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Sunday 16 June 2024
I sat on Pinehurst’s perilous 13th green on Saturday which derailed the ‘boring golf’ express of Tony Finau, Ludvig Aberg, and more. Here’s my view on what it will take to walk away as the US Open champion. I write this as the early Sunday groups head out to convince themselves for one last time that Pinehurst No.2 can be tamed...
Written by Rob Jerram on Saturday 15 June 2024
I’ve watched every second of the 2024 US Open coverage on moving day and scoured social media to bring you everything you missed from Saturday with a slightly different spin. TAKE ME TO: Day One | Day Two The third round at Pinehurst produced plenty of drama as the absence of Tiger meant we finally got to watch some other players and...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Saturday 15 June 2024
Since the inception of the US Open, golf’s second oldest Major tournament, there have been 53 holes-in-one. Let’s take a look at each of the aces. The US Open has been played 124 times between the inaugural tournament at Newport Golf Club in 1895, and the most recent championship at Pinehurst in 2024. You might think, ‘But there’s 129 years between...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 15 June 2024
Who is the US Open poster boy in the floppy hat and baggy pants plastered around Pinehurst who goes by the name… ‘Putter Boy’? He was there at the US Open in 1999, 2005, and 2014. Now a decade later in 2024, he returns once more as the star of the show at Pinehurst 2024. Let me introduce you to Putter Boy,...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 15 June 2024
My dehydrated ramblings on hole 11 at the US Open in the hope of seeing a vintage Tiger Woods. When Tiger Woods addressed the media on Tuesday he spoke of Pinehurst being a ‘war of attrition’ this week, referring to the patience and discipline required to stick to the plan, described by many of his colleagues as the ‘boring golf’ strategy. Little...
Written by Rob McGarr on Friday 14 June 2024
Did you miss some of the action from the second round of the US Open at Pinehurst? Fear not, here are the highlights. Day two of the US Open and we managed to get the second round of a major underway without any players being arrested ahead of their tee times. Success. The first round produced plenty of talking points, mostly...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 14 June 2024
24 years on from Tiger’s unprecedented 2000 season, I dive into the data to see how Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 run compares with the best golf has ever seen. It’s the nature of the beast, unfortunately. Rarely can we sit back and let success stories unfold organically without pitching them head-to-head against another great of the game. In many cases, it serves...
Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 14 June 2024
The first round of the 2024 US Open is in the books and there were loads of talking points from the opening day of the year’s third men’s Major. From haircuts to hellish putts, I take a sideways look at my 38 favorite Thursday moments from Pinehurst. Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy co-lead the tournament (blimey, I haven’t written their names...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 13 June 2024
The 124th US Open is over at Pinehurst No.2, but in case you missed any of the action, we’ve got the headline numbers from each day’s play. 156 players teed it up at the US Open in North Carolina, playing a minimum of 36 holes, each with their own unique professional and amateur journeys to this point. That’s a lot of...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 13 June 2024
Having spent a few days wandering through the pines and sandhills of Pinehurst No.2, I pause to reflect on the challenge facing players at the 124th US Open. Much of the US Open build-up had focused on the unique landscape of Pinehurst and how it posed a very different threat to a typical US Open setup, so naturally I was pretty...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 13 June 2024
I took a meander around Pinehurst’s 35,000 square foot merchandise tent to pick out my 10 favorite US Open keepsakes. I don’t do shopping. I’m the type of guy who finds a chair and starts moaning about how my feet ache after five minutes of entering a clothes shop with my wife. Not today though. I have a few exceptions, and golf...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 12 June 2024
A major-record purse of $21.5 million was announced by the USGA on Wednesday at the US Open in Pinehurst. United States Golf Association (USGA) CEO, Mike Whan announced on the eve of the 124th US Open, the 1000th USGA-run tournament, that the field in Pinehurst would be competing for its biggest purse yet. The record-breaking prize fund represents not only the biggest...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 12 June 2024
Divorce off. Rory McIlroy makes marriage U-turn ahead of the 124th US Open at Pinehurst. On the eve of the third major of the year Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll have resolved their differences and are looking forward to a new beginning. It was just days before the PGA Championship in Valhalla that news emerged Rory McIlroy had filed for divorce from...
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Jon Rahm has withdrawn from the US Open at Pinehurst with a foot injury. The Spaniard, who was forced out of LIV Houston with the injury – a cut to his left foot that had become infected – at the weekend, had hoped to recover in time for the year’s third men’s Major and had faced the media earlier on Tuesday...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Fresh from a fifth title this season at the Memorial, Scottie Scheffler brushes off the ‘target on his back’ tag and insists it’s a level playing field come Thursday. When the World No.1 tees off with Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy on Thursday for the 124th US Open, he will not be concerned with anyone placing any’ targets’ on his back. “When...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Entering his pre-tournament press conference with a flip-flop and toe-separator on his left foot, Jon Rahm described his foot injury as a ‘concern’ ahead of the US Open. Grimacing in pain at LIV Golf Houston last week before withdrawing, speculation started mounting as to whether Jon Rahm would make it to the year’s third Major championship at the US Open. And on...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
The Major drought is now a decade long, but Rory McIlroy believes he is closing in on that elusive fifth title and hunting down the European records of Seve and Faldo. Looking relaxed on the eve of the 124th US Open, Rory McIlroy spoke of the pride for his ‘body of work’ over the last 15 years, and despite a fifth...