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The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2019 U.S. Open Championship, Thursday (June 13) and Friday (June 14), at 7,075-yard, par-71 Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. The U.S. Open is a 72-hole, stroke-play competition. A field of 156 players will play 18 holes of stroke play on June 13 and 14, after which the field will be reduced to the low 60 scores and ties. Those players making the cut will play 18 holes on June 15 and 16. If there is ...

The trio of Shane Lowry, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy impressed to be a collective 14-under par on the opening day of the RBC Canadian Open in Hamilton, Ontario. Lowry produced his lowest opening PGA Tour score of the season grabbing seven birdies in a six-under par 64 on the Hamilton Golf & Country Club course. It left Lowry trailing just a shot adrift of American Keegan Bradley who grabbed five birdies in succession mid-round to lead the Euro 6.7m event. Lowry’s effort was a shot fewer ...

The USGA has announced the opening two day groups for next week’s US Open at Pebble Beach. Past winners Tiger Woods and his management stablemate Justin Rose will join three-time major winner Jordan Spieth. Masters champion Woods, a 15-time major winner chasing the all-time record of 18 major wins by Jack Nicklaus, will start with Spieth and Rose at 2.09pm local time on Thursday and 8.24am on Friday off the 10th tee. Two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka of the United States, coming off ...

Multiple Open winner Gary Player and former European No. 1 Lee Westwood is the latest star to visit Royal Portrush ahead of next month’s much-anticipated Open Championship. Westwood arrived on Tuesday morning as the guest of the R & A to host a corporate outing for HSBC on the stunning 148th Open Championship venue. Westwood has the honour of having played in every Open Championship since making his debut since 1995 at St Andrews – that makes a total of 24 Open’s. He had ...

Graeme McDowell tees-up in this week’s RBC Canadian Open and the first of four events where he has the chance to qualify for next month’s Open Championship. McDowell joins fellow Irish Rory McIlroy, Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry and Seamus Power in the event being played in Hamilton, Ontario. McDowell is an RBC ambassador but the event takes on more stature given its move from the week following The Open to now the week prior the U.S. Open. It’s also for this reason McIlroy is contesting ...

Padraig Harrington will take the unusual step of teeing-up in Canada later today (Monday) in his quest to qualify for next week’s U.S. Open in California. Harrington, 47 will be among those competing over 36-holes on two courses at the Rattlesnake Point Golf Club in Milton, Canada and looking to qualify for the year’s third Major commencing on June 13th at the famed Pebble Beach course. Joining Harrington in Milton will be his 2016 Olympic Games team-mate in Seamus Power to be among just 37 ...

Russell Knox made the most of his late call-up into ‘Jack’s event’ in posting a four-under par 68 on the opening day of the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio. The lone Scot in the Jack Nicklaus-hosted tournament raced to four-under par through seven holes and then bravely fought back from a horror 11thhole double-bogey and head to lunch sharing fifth place in the £stg 7.2m event. American Ryan Moore, 36 signed for a 65 to grab the early lead as the five-time Tour winner looks to end a near three-year ...