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The last time Rory McIlroy saw Brooks Koepka, McIlroy was making his way towards the front gates of last month’s PGA Championship host venue as the American was heading to the scorer’s hut as the new champion. McIlroy, like the true champion he is, stopped to warmly embrace Koepka, congratulating him on capturing a third Rodman Wanamaker trophy, and his fifth major. Koepka’s triumph in upstate New York was an historic first for LIV Golf while McIlroy’s share of seventh was an 18th top-10 ...

123rd U.S. Open Championship – Notebook  June 15-18, The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club (North Course)   WHO’S HERE: Among the 156 golfers in the 2023 U.S. Open Championship, there are: U.S. Open champions (10): Bryson DeChambeau (2020), Matt Fitzpatrick (2022), Dustin Johnson (2016), Martin Kaymer (2014), Brooks Koepka (2017, ‘18), Rory McIlroy (2011), Jon Rahm (2021), Justin Rose (2013), Jordan Spieth (2015) and Gary Woodland (2019) U.S. Open runners-up (10): Jason ...

Top Irish amateur Matthew McClean has been handed a super opening round draw for this week’s U.S. Open in Los Angeles. Belfast-born McClean will make his second straight major championship appearance playing alongside fellow Irishman Seamus Power and top Kiwi golfer, Ryan Fox. The group will be out Thursday at 4.24pm (Irish time) in the eighth group of the morning, and two groups behind the heavyweight trio of World No. 1 and reigning Masters champ Jon Rahm, plus 2022 Masters winning hero Scottie ...

It was one of the more bizarre sights ever witnessed at the close of a golf tournament, and when champagne spraying Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin was crash tackled by a over zealous security guard while helping celebrate the win by new RBC Canadian Open champ, Nick Taylor. Hadwin, winner of the 2017 Valsapar Championship and who finished T11th on Sunday, was among a handful of Canadian golfers, including 2024 Presidents Cup captain, Mike Weir along with Corey Conners and Roger Sloan who had showered ...

It’s taken all of 109 years and four extra holes for a Canadian-born golfer to capture the 2023 RBC Canadian Open in bizarre scenes on the victory green in Toronto. Nick Talyor brought his beloved Canada to a standstill birdieing the closing two holes in a round of 66 to finish at 17-under-par and then defeated England’s Tommy Fleetwood in a play-off, and during steady drizzling rain, with a stunning 72-foot eagle ‘3’ bomb at the fourth extra hole after Fleetwood, and looking ...

Richie Ramsay will next tee-up the other side of 40 years of age following a strong finish in the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed in Stockholm. Ramsay, who turns 40 on Thursday, collected his second top-10 in his past three events, posting a closing 71 for a share of fifth place at 14-under-par on the host Ullna course to the north of the Swedish capital. The Scot’s season-best finish comes after Ramsay finished seventh last month in Belgium. England’s Dale Whitnell celebrated a maiden DP World ...

There was a time, and up until he sold the property in 2016, that Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner owned the expansive mansion complex beside the 13th tee on the North Course of the L.A. Country Club and host venue for this week’s 103rd US Open. Hefner purchased the famed Playboy Mansion in 1971 for $US 10m, and reportedly sold it for $US 110m. He passed away a year after the sale in 2017, aged 91. The ‘LACC’, as it is commonly referred, is laid out slap bang in the middle ...