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Former champion Rory McIlroy has found himself in what can only be described as a dream , all-European three-ball for the opening two rounds of the 126th US Open at Shinnecock Hills. McIlroy has been grouped alongside double European Ryder Cup teammates in Tommy Fleetwood and Ludvig Åberg. McIlroy has been given an early-late draw over the first two days as he chases a second major victory of the season, two months on from becomg a back-to-back winner of The Masters and 15 years on from his breakthrough ...

It is a custom a most every golf tournament that the defending champion is oblighed to return the winner’s trophy. We witnessed that as JJ Spaun returned the gleaming US Open trophy to officials of the USGA ahead of his defence this week’s in the 126th hosting of the 2026 US Open at Shinnecock Hills. It was a warm moment captured on video to end Spaun’s reign as the US Open championship, a victory the American captured by two shots at Oakmont. However what added to Spaun’s, ...

This is the 126th U.S. Open Championship and the 21st U.S. Open contested in New York. The Empire State has hosted 76 USGA championships overall. THREE CENTURIES OF EXCELLENCE  Shinnecock Hills is the only course to have hosted the U.S. Open in three different centuries. The 2026 U.S. Open marks 130 years since Shinnecock first hosted the championship in1896, when James Foulis defeated Horace Rawlins by three strokes, 152-155. Other memorable U.S. Open moments at Shinnecock Hills:   WHAT ...

This week marks four years since Matt Fitzpatrick brilliantly captured the 2022 US Open with his one-shot victory at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts – the same venue where he won the U.S. Amateur in 2013. Fitzpatrick’s effort saw him join golfing great Jack Nicklaus as the second male golfer to win a U.S Open and a U.S. Amateur title at the same venue. Since then the Englishman has contested 15 major championships with a best finish of T4th in last year’s Open Championship. However ...

Eight years after a near fatal car crash Bud Cauley is headed to this week’s US Open along with next month’s Open Championship as well as a maiden Masters showing next April after capturing a maiden PGA Tour title at his 239th appearance. Cauley took the lead with a birdie chip on the par-4 12th and won the RBC Canadian Open in rain and wind Sunday for his first PGA TOUR title, eight years after his career nearly ended in a car accident at the Memorial Tournament. The 36-year-old ...

An injury cloud hangs over former double US Open champion Brooks Koepka who cited a hand injury for his shock withdrawal early ahead of the final round of the RBC Canadian Open. Koepka struggled on ‘moving day’ of the premier Canadian event posting a two-over par 72 but then ahead of day four, the American officially withdrew from the tournament. The five-time major champion admitted that he was struggling with the grip of his club ahead of the fourth round in Canada. DOUBLE @usopengolf ...

Bubba Watson has been denied ending a long eight-year winless drought after Hong Kong’s Taichi Kho birdied the last hole to secure victory in the Asian Tour’s International Series Morocco. The two players were tied at 18-under playing the last and with the 25-year-old Kho holing out for a birdie ‘4’ in a round of a five-under 68. Watson, whose last win was at the 2018 PGA Tour’s Travellers Championship, somewhat struggled with a closing round of a three-under 70 on the ...