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Associated Press
20 hours ago
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- Associated Press
US Open '25: Hogan and Woods and other key anniversaries in the U.S. Open this year
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — A look at some of the anniversaries this year at the U.S. Open: 100 years ago (1925) Site: Worcester Country Club Winner: Willie MacFarlane Runner-up: Bobby Jones Score: 74-67-72-78-291 Margin: Playoff (MacFarlane 147, Jones 148) Winner's share: $500 Noteworthy: Jones felt his club moved the ball in the rough on the 11th hole of the first round. Officials were unable to confirm this and left it to Jones to make a ruling. He called a one-shot penalty on himself. Praised for his sportsman ship, Jones famously replied, 'You might as well praise me for not robbing a bank.' AP story: Willie MacFarlane, 'finest of men and a great golfer,' in the words of America's greatest amateur, little Bobby Jones of Atlanta, tonight is the open champion of the United States, a victory by a single stroke today ending the greatest tournament in history. The final score was 72 to 73 at the end of the second 18 holes of a playoff to decide the deadlocked tourney. Jones' opinion of the victory is of weight, for he was was -- national amateur and former open champion -- who fell before the other's prowess in a history-making playoff. Only after a throng of several thousand had boiled in the terrific heat through 36 holes did the end come, and then it was at the final green. 75 years ago (1950) Site: Merion Golf Club Winner: Ben Hogan Runner-up: Lloyd Mangum and George Fazio Score: 72-69-72-74-287 Margin: Playoff (Hogan 69, Mangrum 73, Fazio 75) Winner's share: $4,000 Noteworthy: Hogan hit 1-iron to the 18th in the final round, leading to one of golf's most iconic photos. When he played the 18th during the third round earlier that morning, he hit 6-iron to the green. It was an example of how much fatigue he had from his battered legs. AP story: Ben Hogan's legs held out today like stanchions of steel, and the game little man from Texas smashed Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio with strokes to spare in their 18-hole playoff for the National Open Golf Championship. In winning his second Open title within three years, Hogan climaxed gloriously the most remarkable comeback in the history of sports. This time a year ago, it was doubted that he ever would play golf again after barely escaping with his life from a head-on motor car collision near Van Horn, Texas. 50 years ago (1975) Site: Medinah Country Club Winner: Lou Graham Runner-up: John Mahaffey Score: 74-72-68-73-287 Margin: Playoff (Graham 71, Mahaffey 73) Winner's share: $40,000 Noteworthy: One year after Tom Watson had the 54-hole lead and shot 79, he had a 36-hole lead and shot 76-77. Watson won the first of his eight majors a month later at Carnoustie. AP story: Lou Graham, a 12-year-old tour veteran, wore down ambitious John Mahaffey and ended a career of golfing obscurity with a two-stroke victory Monday in the 18-hole payoff for the U.S. Open crown. 'It's the dream of a lifetime,' the 37-year-old Graham said in his soft, Tennessee drawl. He won it with a 71, even par on the 7,032 yards of gently rolling, heavily wooded countryside that makes up the Medinah Country Club course The bitterly disappointed Mahaffey, now a runner-up seven times since his lone tour title, didn't make a birdie in the hot and humid playoff and had a score of 73. 25 years ago (2000) Site: Pebble Beach Golf Links Winner: Tiger Woods Runners-up: Ernie Els, Miguel Angel Jimenez Score: 65-69-71-67-272 Margin: 15 shots Winner's share: $800,000 Noteworthy: Jack Nicklaus played in his final U.S. Open. In each of the four majors he played for the last time, Woods was the winner. AP story: Standing on the 18th fairway, Tiger Woods turned his back on Pebble Beach and looked out over Carmel Bay in the final moments of the most monumental U.S. Open victory ever. He was all alone, playing for himself — and for history. No one was close to catching him. No one is close in the game. 'We've been talking about him for two years. I guess we'll be talking about him for the next 20. When he's on, we don't have much of a chance,' Ernie Els said. While the rest of the field was playing for second, Woods took aim at the record books. When the final putt fell, Woods owned his third major championship, along with the kind of records no one imagined possible. 20 years ago (2005) Site: Pinehurst No. 2 Winner: Michael Campbell Runner-up: Tiger Woods Score: 71-69-71-69-280 Margin: 2 shots Winner's share: $1,170,000 Noteworthy: Retief Goosen and Jason Gore played in the final group and combined to take 165 strokes. Goosen shot 81, Gore shot 84. AP story: Michael Campbell answered every challenge Tiger Woods threw his way Sunday until a U.S. Open full of surprises got the biggest one of all. Woods blinked first. Ten years after being touted as a rising star, Campbell finally delivered a major championship no one expected with clutch par saves and a 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole that proved to be the knockout punch. The only drama at the end was whether Campbell would beat Pinehurst No. 2. He missed a 3-foot par putt on the final hole for a 1-under 69 to finish the tournament at even par. It was good enough for a two-shot victory over Woods, who charged along the back nine until missing an 8-foot par putt on the 16th hole, then three-putting from 25 feet on the par-3 17th, the same hole that doomed his chances at Pinehurst six years ago. 10 years ago (2015) Site: Chambers Bay Golf Club Winner: Jordan Spieth Runners-up: Dustin Johnson, Louis Oosthuizen Score: 68-67-71-69-275 Margin: 1 shot Winner's share: $1,800,000 Noteworthy: This was the first U.S. Open televised by Fox Sports in a 12-year deal. It gave up the rights after five years. AP story: Jordan Spieth is halfway home to the Grand Slam, a prize only three of the biggest names in modern golf have ever chased. And he still can't believe how he got there. Spieth won the U.S. Open in a heart-stopper Sunday with a turn of events even more wild than the terrain at Chambers Bay. He thought he had it won with a 25-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole. He threw away a three-shot lead one hole later. He made birdie on the final hole. And then he thought it was over as Dustin Johnson settled in over a 12-foot eagle putt for the victory. Three putts later, Spieth was the U.S. Open champion. Spieth joined Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in getting the first two legs of the modern slam that Palmer created on his way to St. Andrews in 1960. That's the next stop for the 21-year-old Texan whose two major championships could not be any more different. A wire-to-wire runaway at Augusta National. A nail-biter on the edge of Puget Sound. And another major heartache for Johnson. 5 years ago (2020) Site: Winged Foot Golf Club Winner: Bryson DeChambeau Runner-up: Matthew Wolff Score: 69-68-70-67-274 Margin: 6 shots Winner's share: $2,250,000 Noteworthy: It was the first U.S. Open in September since 1913. AP story: Call him a mad scientist in a tam o'shanter cap. Call him a game-changer in golf. Any description of Bryson DeChambeau now starts with U.S. Open champion. In a breathtaking performance Sunday at Winged Foot, on a course so demanding no one else broke par, DeChambeau blasted away with his driver and had short irons from the ankle-deep rough on his way to a 3-under 67. When his 7-foot par putt fell on the 18th, DeChambeau thrust those two powerful arms into the air. This was validation that his idea to add 40 pounds of mass, to produce an incredible amount of speed and power, would lead to moments like this. Two shots behind Matthew Wolff going into the final round, he passed him in five holes, pulled away to start the back nine and wound up winning by six shots. Wolff, trying to become the first player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to win the U.S. Open in his debut, closed with a 75. ___ AP golf:
Associated Press
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
PGA champ Scottie Scheffler makes big move in 3rd round at Colonial before three late bogeys
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler knew he had to make a bunch of birdies in the third round at Colonial for any chance to win in his third consecutive start. The world's No. 1 player did just that, but also had three bogeys on the back nine. Coming off his third major victory at the PGA Championship a week ago, but starting the weekend 10 strokes off the lead at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Scheffler shot a 6-under 64 Saturday with eight birdies an an eagle at Hogan's Alley. That got him to 7 under after being only one stroke better than the cut line. 'You are always going to hope to go play a perfect round. It basically never happens,' Scheffler said. 'I mean, three bogeys definitely hurts, especially when you are trying to chase, but overall I did some good things.' Scheffler will need another spectacular round Sunday to become the first player since Dustin Johnson in 2017 to win in three starts in a row, and the only player other than Ben Hogan in 1946 to win the Byron Nelson and Colonial in the same season. Scheffler won his beloved hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson earlier this month when matching the PGA Tour's 72-hole scoring record at 31-under 253 for an eight-stroke win. 'I would say mentally I definitely am a bit tired. I'm definitely taking a lighter schedule this week than I normally would at a tournament, but overall my game, it feels like it's in a good spot. I felt like I was able to get some good rest to start this week,' he said. 'I'm just out here battling. I had a good day today. The first two days definitely could have been a bit better, but we'll see how things shake out ... and see what I can do tomorrow.' Scheffler got to 8 under for the week with an eagle at the 637-yard 11th hole, where he got on the green in two shots and made the 15-foot putt. That followed consecutive birdies as Nos. 9 and 10, and starting the back nine with an approach to 2 1/2 feet. His most impressive shot of the day came after his 347-yard drive at No. 7 into a native area of grass well left and at least 20 feet below the fairway. His ball was about 140 yards from the hole in an area where he said 'the grass was more airy than it was thick.' With a gap through the trees to the green, he hit it to 15 feet of the pin and then just missed making a spectacular birdie. 'It was kind of an interesting one because the lie at first looked bad, and the more we got in there and looked at it, the kind of more options that came about,' Scheffler said. But Scheffler didn't avoid bogeys after tee shots into bunkers at Nos. 12 and 13. He eventually two-putted from 40 feet at the 453-yard 12th hole, then his tee shot at the par-3 13th went into the sand fronting the green on the edge of a pond. He hit that within 5 feet, but missed the par save and after tapping in the bogey batted the ball out of the air and off the green with his putter. He had consecutive birdies at Nos. 16 and 17 before missing the fairway at No. 18 to finish with another bogey. 'I think maybe you have to do a little bit more to amp yourself up when you are sitting 10 shots back versus when you are already near the lead,' he said. 'Today I had to go out there and make a bunch of birdies, which I was able to do early in the round. I struggled a touch on the back nine, but overall I put up a decent score.' ___ AP golf:
NBC Sports
21-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
PGA TOUR CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE, SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, AND LPGA TOUR MEXICO RIVIERA MAYA OPEN AT MAYAKOBA HEADLINE LIVE GOLF ACROSS NBC, GOLF CHANNEL, AND PEACOCK
PGA TOUR Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas – Thursday-Friday at 4 p.m. ET, Saturday-Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel Senior PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. – Thursday-Friday at 1 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel, Saturday-Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock LPGA Tour MEXICO Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba – Thursday-Friday at 11 a.m. ET, Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel Stanford Faces Northwestern in NCAA D-I Women's Golf Championship Tonight at 6 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel STAMFORD, Conn. – May 21, 2025 – NBC Sports presents more than 60 hours of live golf coverage this week across NBC, GOLF Channel, and Peacock, including the PGA TOUR's Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, the PGA of America's Senior PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., and the LPGA Tour's MEXICO Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba. PGA TOUR: CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE Scottie Scheffler headlines the field at this week's Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, fresh off his win at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow last week. This marks the 78th playing of the event at Colonial Country Club – dating back to 1946 – and every edition has been played at Colonial. Ben Hogan is a five-time winner, the most in the event's history. Coverage airs on GOLF Channel on Thursday-Friday at 4 p.m. ET, with Saturday-Sunday lead-in coverage on GOLF Channel at 1 p.m. ET. GOLF Channel Broadcast Team Play by Play: Justin Kutcher Analyst: Curt Byrum Holes: Arron Oberholser On-Course: Billy Ray Brown / Colt Knost Notable Players This Week Scottie Scheffler Jordan Spieth Rickie Fowler Hideki Matsuyama Akshay Bhatia Tommy Fleetwood Blades Brown Neal Shipley PGA OF AMERICA: SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP The PGA of America's Senior PGA Championship is the oldest major championship on PGA TOUR Champions, dating back to 1937 when Jock Hutchison won the inaugural event at Augusta National. Richard Bland won this event last year by three shots over Richard Green at Harbor Shores. He will look to defend his title at Congressional Country Club against a stout field which includes Padraig Harrington, Steven Alker, Stewart Cink, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Steve Stricker, and Miguel Angel Jimenez. Thursday-Friday coverage on GOLF Channel airs at 1 p.m. ET, with Saturday-Sunday coverage from Congressional will air at 3 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. NBC/GOLF Channel/Peacock Broadcast Team Play by Play: Steve Sands Analyst: Peter Jacobsen Holes: Jimmy Roberts On-Course: Roger Maltbie / Mark Rolfing LPGA TOUR: MEXICO RIVIERA MAYA OPEN AT MAYAKOBA This is the inaugural playing of the MEXICO Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba and the first LPGA Tour event in the country since the 2017 Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico City. Mexico has hosted a number of LPGA Tour events, dating back to 1974 when Jane Blalock won the Bing Crosby International Classic in San Isidro. Thursday-Friday coverage begins at 11 a.m. ET on GOLF Channel and shifts to the NBC Sports app and at 1 p.m. ET. Saturday's coverage on GOLF Channel airs 3-6 p.m. ET, and Sunday will have lead-in coverage at 12 p.m. ET on the NBC Sports app. Play by Play: Grant Boone Analyst: Mel Reid Holes: Tom Abbott On-Course: Kay Cockerill Charley Hull Anna Nordqvist InGee Chun Linn Grant Gaby Lopez Albane Valenzuela COLLEGE GOLF: NCAA D-I WOMEN'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP The defending champion Stanford Cardinal will take on the Northwestern Huskies at the NCAA D-I Women's Golf Championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., in primetime on GOLF Channel at 6 p.m. ET. Stanford advanced to the final following Megha Ganne's win over the world No. 1 amateur, Florida State's Lottie Woad, to give Stanford a 3.5-1.5 win. Northwestern will look to dethrone the defending champs following a 3-2 win over Oregon. Play by Play: Steve Burkowski Analyst: Karen Stupples Holes: Jim Gallagher Jr. On-Course: Emilia Doran / Julia Johnson DP WORLD TOUR: SOUDAL OPEN The Soudal Open takes the tournament history of the Belgian Open, which has been played intermittently since 1910. The event will be held at Rinkven International Golf Club in Antwerp, Belgium. Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET on GOLF Channel on Thursday-Friday, and Sunday, with a start time of 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday. Notable Players This Week Thomas Pieters Francesco Molinari Marco Penge Eugenio Chacarra Laurie Canter BROADCAST NOTES Golf Central will provide pre- and post-tournament coverage on GOLF Channel Wednesday-Sunday. Golf Central and Golf Today coverage is anchored by Damon Hack, Matt Adams, Amanda Blumenherst, Brendon de Jonge, Paige Mackenzie, and Rex Hoggard. Note: all times ET, post-round coverage begins following conclusion of play All GOLF Channel coverage also streams on and the NBC Sports app via authentication, giving consumers additional value to their subscription service, and making high-quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. --NBC SPORTS--
Irish Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
It looks like love for Bryson DeChambeau at the US PGA
Maybe its real: the love. Maybe the low-fives, the fist bumps, the hollering, all of it, represents a change of heart. Maybe we didn't know him before. Maybe he changed. Maybe it's an act. Because Bryson DeChambeau wasn't always loved. He was brilliant and brash and cocky and hard to embrace. He was polarising. Different. He thought he had the game worked out. Him? Why him? It was kooky stuff, too, designed by science. DeChambeau was golf's Elon Musk . Thinking outside the box? He refused to recognise the box. No box. He came out on tour wearing a flat cap as a homage to Ben Hogan, one of the greatest players of all time, and Payne Stewart, one of the most beloved American players of the last 50 years. So, what was he saying about himself with the flat cap? Modesty didn't forbid him. READ MORE DeChambeau turned up at the Masters in 2020 and said the par at Augusta for him was 67. 'That's not me being big-headed,' he said. The denial was hopeless. In his next 13 rounds at the tournament, he only hit that number once. But that's what he was like. At Augusta, all the other players whisper and genuflect, like they're in church. DeChambeau was incapable of lowering his voice. Defecting to LIV Golf in the middle of 2022 felt like the final breakdown in whatever relationship existed between him and the masses who followed the PGA Tour. Condemnation rained down on his head. He was vilified for his ego and his greed. It was easy to beat down on DeChambeau. Everybody had years of practice. But everything is different now. As the US Open last year, he reached out to the galleries in a way that he had never done before. He signed autographs and stood for selfies and gave his time, generously. After every good shot he looked up and acknowledged the cheers. He smiled. Bryson DeChambeau was at no risk of being confused with BA Baracus at Quail Hollow on Friday. Photograph: Kevin) The flat cap is long gone and the BA Baracus muscles that he had cultivated during the pandemic have been planed back too. The know-it-all shtick has been toned down. Relatable is a buzzword, but that's what he has become. [ The 80s: when men were men and TV shows were once a week Opens in new window ] He started doing videos on YouTube that seemed to strike a chord with people who wanted to watch golf and have a giggle. Some of it is preposterous and much of it is overblown and cartoonish, but he has an audience of 1.8 million on that platform now. Many PGA Tour events on free-to-air TV channels fall well short of those numbers. Not for the first time in his career, DeChambeau was a phenomenon. In the morning wave at the US PGA Championship on Friday he dragged the biggest galleries around the course. In his three-ball were Gary Woodland, a US Open winner, and Viktor Hovland, one of the most exciting players in the game. The fans, though, only had eyes for Bryson. Can we call him Bryson? On the roped passageway between each green and the next tee box there is ample room to walk down the middle and look straight ahead, but DeChambeau deliberately walks by the rope and makes contact with every outstretched hand. Most of them are filming the interaction on their phones and shouting encouragement. 'Go Bryson.' Simple. Warm. Loud. Repeated on a loop. Gary Woodland (left) and Bryson DeChambeau using rangefinders at the 17th tee during Friday's action at the US PGA. Photograph: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images None of the other players are prepared to engage in that way during a round. Not on every hole. If it's an act, DeChambeau has perfected it. At the Majors he has become a player again. In his last eight appearances, he has recorded four top-five finishes, including a victory at the US Open last year and a runner-up finish in the US PGA, when he shot a staggering bogey-free 64 on the last day. This week he was one of the favourites because, as he said, Quail Hollow is a 'bomber's paradise' and he hits the ball miles. On the 11th hole on Friday his caddie advised him to hit his drive over the right corner of the bunker, just on the dog-leg. For safety. Bryson agreed and then thrashed it over the first bunker and the second bunker, obliterating the dog-leg and splitting the fairway. On that hole his drive went 327 yards; on the previous hole it went 351; on the next, 347. At the 16th on Thursday, he hit it 362 yards. His good shots are spectacular; his bad shots are spectacular. By the end of round two he was in the hunt. The tournament needed him. Do we love him? We love the act. That's enough.
Daily Mail
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
THE PREVIEW: Tangerines must get back in the swing of things against Hibs if they are to tee up a grand finale
Anyone who's spent the best part of their morning hacking their way through 18 holes on the golf course can attest to the fact that it's a game of contrasting emotions. No matter how many fairways have been hit, no matter how many putts have been sunk, a shank is never too far around the corner. Yes, all it takes is one bad shot to ruin a perfectly good day in the sunshine. But as nine-time major champion Ben Hogan famously pointed out, the next one is the most important. And those are words of wisdom that Dundee United's players and staff would do well to remember ahead of this afternoon's trip to Easter Road. Thankfully, last week's 5-0 skelping at the hands of Celtic already looked to be well and truly out of the system by the time they teed off at Fairmont St Andrews for the club's annual golf outing on Wednesday morning. Which is just as well, because they'll need to quickly get back into the swing of things against Hibernian if they want to keep their European ambitions alive. Finishing higher than 11th would have represented a positive outcome on their return to the Premiership, but it didn't take long to see this squad were destined for bigger things once the action got under way in August. Jim Goodwin's men have spent just one week out of the top six since then. What a job the Irishman has done. Indeed, he could perhaps feel a little aggrieved not to have been one of those in the running for Manager of the Year. It would be hard to argue he isn't deserving of a place. Working within a shoestring budget, he has built a side which has punched above its weight, and is now tantalisingly close to bringing European football back to Tannadice. A top-four finish would guarantee it. Fifth place would be enough to sneak in as well providing Celtic lift the Scottish Cup later this month. Aberdeen will have something to say about that, mind you. For now, United can only focus on themselves, and there's still plenty of work to be done on their part. Starting today. This one falls firmly into the must-not-lose category. Hibs' 17-match Premiership unbeaten run came to an end against the Dons last Saturday courtesy of a stunner from their former player, Kevin Nisbet. But they are still very much in the driving seat to end the year in third. And a win today would open up a six-point gap on their opponents with three to play. As impressive as they've been to date, surely that would be too big a gap for United to bridge. Before Christmas, few would have expected David Gray to still be in the dugout given how badly the campaign started. Hibs' decision to stick with their man has paid off in spades. Credit where it's due. Last week, the former club captain signed new three-year contract and then earned a spot on the shortlist for the aforementioned manager's gong. Just rewards for what has been a quite remarkable turnaround. More often than not, the various narratives featured in amongst the Premiership fixture card are lost on an Old Firm weekend. Not this time. Can Hearts handle the heat? Oh to be a fly on the wall at Hearts' annual awards ceremony on Sunday evening. Less than 24 hours after handing Neil Critchley his jotters following a demoralising, but entirely unsurprising, home loss to Dundee, the players turned up at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre suited, booted and with their respective tails between their legs. One Sky Sports correspondent had the unenviable task of getting some reaction as they made their way into the venue. A valiant effort, but quotes were not forthcoming. Lawrence Shankland was one of those clearly instructed by the club to keep schtum. Understandable, yes. But it certainly made for painful viewing, a fact the captain acknowledged later in the week as he turned his attention to today's huge clash at Ross County. Now is the time for the players do their talking on the pitch. Make no mistake, the threat a relegation is very real. Interim boss Liam Fox - taking charge against County for the second time this season - has already admitted as much. Perhaps he can get a tune out of this lot. Critchley wasn't without fault. His brand of football offered up to the Tynecastle punters was dire. But those who crossed the white line every week have to take the lion's share of the responsibility for the bulk of this season's failings. Few who have donned maroon will emerge from this disaster of a campaign with any credit in the bank. And it could be about to get much worse. Defeat in Dingwall this afternoon could see Hearts fall to within two points of the dreaded play-off spot. This squad have already demonstrated their inability to handle the pressure, with their record in so-called big games a major contributor to Critchley's downfall. This one might just be their most important yet.
