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American JJ Spaun proudly took Route 66 to match the lowest score at a Oakmont US Open to be the clubhouse leader early on the opening day of the 2025 US Open in Pennsylvania. We recall Spaun as the American experiencing a gut-wrenching play-off loss  to Rory McIlroy earlier this year at the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. In contrast to last March, Spaun felt comfortable with the idea of contending and winning a big event. That he was good enough and deserving enough to ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy’s 2025 US Open round of an untide four-over 74 was at lease seven shots fewer than last week’s much-publicised practice round of 81 on the host Oakmont course. McIlroy kick-started his effort with back-to-back birdies at the 11th and 12th however it proved the highwater mark of his opening round as the World No. 2 came home in a golfing ambulance. Rors bogeyed his 10th, 13th, 15th and 16the holes but then doubled the par-3 eighth hole he was playing as ...

Shane Lowry should have fond memories of Oakmont and venue for today’s commencing 2025 US Open. Lowry finished joint runner-up to Dustin Johnson in the 2016 US Open at Oakmont however his return to the famed Pennsylvania course did’t go all that well. After a couple pars to start his day, the Irishman made a bogey on the par-5 12th—he teed off the 10th alongside Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose—and doubled the par-3 16th. Lowry’s tee shot down the short par-4 17th found the rough ...

After admitting he last week shot an 81 in a pre-US OPen practice round and World No. 2 Rory McIlroy says his swing and driver struggles over the past month have improved as he prepares to challenge intimidating Oakmont in this week’s 125th US Open. McIlroy won the Masters in April to complete a career Grand Slam, a trek the 36-year-old from Northern Ireland began with his first major triumph at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. The five-time major winner had his driver test non-conforming ...

  125th U.S. Open Championship – Notebook & Story Ideas  June 12-15, Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club mediacenter.usga.org | Virtual Media Hub | usopen.com | @usopengolf | #USOpen | USGA App HISTORY – This is the 125th U.S. Open Championship. The U.S. Open, which was first played in 1895, was not contested for two years (1917-18) during World War I and for four years (1942-45) during World War II. The youngest winner of the U.S. Open is 19-year-old John McDermott, ...

FULL LISTING OF SCOTTISH-BORN WINNERS (30 Individual) SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE DP WORLD TOUR & CURRENTLY BOASTING BETWEEN THEM A TOTAL OF 160 VICTORIES (1972 to 2025) 31 Colin Montgomerie 21 Sam Torrance 18 Sandy Lyle 10 Bernard Gallacher 9 Brian Barnes 8 Gordon Brand Jnr 8 Paul Lawrie 5 Stephen Gallacher 4 Ken Brown 4 Marc Warren 4 Richie Ramsay 3 Robert MacIntyre 3 Ewen Ferguson 2 Stephen McAllister 2 Andrew Oldcorn 2 Andrew Coltart 2 Gary Orr 2 Alastair Forsyth 2 Russell Knox 1 Norman ...

Kiwi Ryan Fox brought the New Zealand nation to a halt for a second time in a handful of weeks winning in a play-off for a second time in just events on the PGA Tour with his fourth extra play-off success over American Sam Burns. After each player pared the 18th hole for a third extra time, Fox  stepped-up to birdie the 18th to become the second New Zealander to win the coveted Canadian Open trophy. “To be honest, Sam and I had a bit of a pillow fight there for three holes”, said Fox ...