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Shinnecock Hills, NY …. Rory McIlroy’s got the remedy for avoiding any Shinnecock Hills traffic snarls and also any possibility of missing his tee time. McIlroy said the answer to such concers is:  “It is just three minutes door-to-door where we are staying so no problems.” MORE TO FOLLOW

Shinnecock Hills, NY … A key to U.S. Open glory this week is as simple as putting one foot in front of the other. To achieve greatness and not only this week at Shinnecock Hills you need to be self-disciplined or put more simply you do need to channel being selfish into achieving greatness. Former PGA Championship winner Jason Day was asked the importance of self-discipline ahead of this week’s 2018 U.S. Open and his answer was very enlightening. “I was talking about this the other ...

Shinnecock Hills, NY … The comment from most of his contemporaries is that Tiger Woods ‘moves the needle’. It’s a comment that has been heard ever since Woods returned to the PGA Tour earlier this year at Torrey Pines. And fellow Masters, Open and U.S. Open champion Jordan Spieth is no different ahead of this week’s U.S. Open with the Texan saying he and each of Woods’ competitors owe the 14-time Major winner so much. Spieth, who captured the 2015 U.S. Open and ...

Shinnecock Hills, NY …. Tiger Woods is avoiding any Long Island traffic snarls this week by jokingly referring to his home this week, and his £15m, 155-foot luxury yacht ‘Privacy’, as a dingy. Woods is not for a first time using his 15-cabin ocean-going vessel and manned by a crew of nine as his floating residence for this week’s U.S. Open. The boat is moored in nearby Sag Harbor and only a short distance from the host course at Shinnecock Hills on New York’s Long Island. “Sag Harbor ...

Shinnecock Hills, NY … Tiger Woods tees-up in a U.S. Open for a first time since 2015 admitting he’s missed playing in America’s national championship. Woods is a three-former U.S. Open winner having won the event in 2000, 2002 and 2008 while USGA organised events have been kind to Woods as far back as 1991 when he won the first of three US Junior Amateur titles. And in 1994 Woods then went onto the brilliant capture the first of three U.S Amateur titles. Woods this week is also ...

This week marks the 12th anniversary of Graeme McDowell’s resounding Father’s Day U.S. Open triumph at Pebble Beach. Since then McDowell has contesed every U.S. Opene including teeing-up at Congressional (2011), Olympic (2012) and where he was tied second, Merion (2013), Pinehurst (2014), Chambers Bay (2015), Oakmont (2017) and then a year ago at Erin Hills in rural Wisconsin. Suffice to say two of the past three U.S. Open courses, and without singling out the venues, have hardly been ...

If there is a U.S. Open venue Rory McIlroy loves more than Congressional it’s Shinnecock Hills. McIlroy has spent this past week playing a number of golfing gems in the Hampton’s region of Long Island in readiness for next Thursday’s start to the year’s second Major. Pick of the Hamptons courses is Shinnecock Hills but either side of this year’s U.S. Open venue is Sebonack and Southhampton Golf Club’s where McIlroy has been spotted. In fact, McIlroy first played Shinnecock Hills four ...