Written by Camilla Tait on Wednesday 21 June 2017
The European Tour resumes this week with the BMW International Open, as Henrik Stenson returns to the site of his 2016 victory in Munich. Joining Stenson, Sergio Garcia returns to play on European soil for the first time his major victory at the Masters, while Kaymer and last week’s runner up Tommy Fleetwood also head to Golf Club Gut Lärchenhof fresh from...
Written by Camilla Tait on Wednesday 21 June 2017
The PGA Tour heads to the Travelers Championship this week as Russell Knox defends against a World Class field. It’s hard to believe it was only a year ago that Jim Furyk carded a miraculous 58 and Russell Knox holed a 12-foot putt and simultaneously tossed his cap in celebration to win his second career victory by a single-shot over hometown...
Written by Camilla Tait on Tuesday 20 June 2017
Phil Mickelson and longtime caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay have announced that they will part ways after 25 years together. Both Mickelson and Bones released statements on Tuesday, announcing that the decision to end their player-caddie relationship was a mutual one. Mickelson, who has won a staggering 41 PGA Tour titles with Bones on his bag, will now have his brother Tim on...
Written by Camilla Tait on Monday 19 June 2017
The 117th US Open at Erin Hills played host to an enthralling back-nine from Brooks Koepka that saw him win his first major victory by four shots. Koepka tamed the longest US Open and major championship course in history on his way to equalling the lowest ever tournament score of 16-under-par, set by Rory McIlroy during his victory in 2011. His four-stroke...
Written by Camilla Tait on Monday 19 June 2017
Tommy Fleetwood led the British and Irish scoring at Erin Hills on Sunday, finishing in fourth place at 11-under-par – five shots behind US Open champion Brooks Koepka A total number of 22 GB&I players teed up in Wisconsin last Thursday for the second major of the year, including three previous US Open Champions Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell. The...
Written by Camilla Tait on Monday 19 June 2017
Brooks Koepka claimed a four-shot victory during the final round of the US Open, winning his first major title and equalling Rory McIlroy’s scoring record of 16-under-par. Walking up the 18th fairway with a three-shot lead, Brooks Koepka took off his cap and tipped it towards the crowds knowing that he was just about to become the 2017 US Open champion...
Written by Kevin Brown on Sunday 18 June 2017
D-Day hour is fast approaching for England’s Tommy Fleetwood. The Southport-based star is one rock solid round away from claiming his first major – the US Open – at Erin Hills tonight. Fleetwood heads into the final round on -11 just one shot off leader Brian Harman but will quietly be fancying his chances of emulating Justin Rose’s success in the same...
Written by Camilla Tait on Sunday 18 June 2017
Brian Harman holds a one-shot lead heading in to the final round of the US Open while England’s Tommy Fleetwood is one of three players that sits just a single shot back. When you think of the US Open, it’s hard not to have imagined that the first left-handed golfer to win the tournament would have been Phil Mickelson. After all,...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 17 June 2017
Justin Thomas made history during the third round of the US Open, setting the all-time lowest scoring record to par with a nine-under 63. In arguably one of the most entertaining rounds of golf witnessed at a major tournament, Thomas tamed the longest course in US Open history to overtake Johnny Miller’s eight-under record – which he had held since 1973. His...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 17 June 2017
The 117th US Open at Erin Hills has already proved to be a multiple record-breaking venue thanks to being a course that has rewarded some players with low scores and others with their worst ever appearances. Scoring records In round one, the tone seemed to be set. A record number of 44 players finished under par for the first time in the...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 17 June 2017
At the second major of the year, it was hard not to imagine the World’s best would be contending for the title on Sunday – but Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason won’t even be there for the weekend. For the first time since the OWGR was introduced in 1986, all three of the World’s top players have missed the cut at...
Written by Camilla Tait on Saturday 17 June 2017
With four players tied at the top for the first time in 43 years, the US Open is wide open. Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood, Brian Harman and Brooks Koepka sit on seven-under-par as the scoring assault on Erin Hills continued in the same vein as day one. And Casey did it even with a triple-bogey 8 on the par 5 14th (his...
Written by Kevin Brown on Friday 16 June 2017
Could it be 77th time lucky for Lee Westwood? The Englishman has won everything in the game, including being part of a magnificent record seven Ryder Cup team victories. But frustratingly he’s managed to cross the ultimate line as an individual player. He’s gone so close on so many occasions but for one reason or another he’s come up short each and...
Written by Camilla Tait on Friday 16 June 2017
From Rickie’s history making 65 to the World’s best struggling, we recap an eventful first day at Erin Hills. While it may have made USGA members uncomfortable watching scoring records broken and Rickie Fowler notch up seven birdies, there’s no doubt that the new US Open venue also showed signs of its teeth. Rory McIlroy’s stats show that he spent more time...
Written by Camilla Tait on Thursday 15 June 2017
Rickie Fowler opened with a seven-under-par 65 to equal the best opening-round to par at the US Open since Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf in 1980. Fowler is up there on the list of best players never to have won a major, and he was tipped as a big favourite this week thanks to a string of good results leading in...
Wednesday 14 June 2017
The main event hasn’t even started and we’ve already discovered one of the major talking points of the 2017 US Open – the long fescue grass. Dividing players opinion, the issue came to light when Kevin Na took to instagram to slander the unplayable conditions of the fescue when he arrived at Erin Hills. From that point on, players like Lee Westwood,...
Tuesday 13 June 2017
“The main goal for me is to get myself in the hunt in the Majors” – Justin Thomas Justin Thomas was born to play golf. His grandfather Paul slugged it out with Nicklaus and Palmer, while dad Mike has just completed his 25th year as head pro at Harmony Landing Country Club just outside Louisville, from where the golf- obsessed family...
Monday 12 June 2017
So who’s the new BPNTHWAM? Ten PGA Tour and 13 European Tour wins ranked Sergio Garcia as the most successful golfer still active on the professional circuit to have never won a Major. But after 18 years of waiting, two runner-up nishes and 73 attempts, El Nino finally broke his Major duck at Augusta in April. In doing so, the Spaniard has...
Written by Camilla Tait on Monday 12 June 2017
The US Open is notoriously tough, and it’s no secret that the USGA likes to see players challenged during the second major of the year. Welcome in Erin Hills. It’s a brand new course as the US Open heads to Wisconsin for the first time – and with a combination of lengthy holes and wrist-breaking fescue, being off-line certainly isn’t for...