News

6:16 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — What was supposed to be a typical U.S. Open produced a most unconventional champion. Bryson DeChambeau was not the least bit concerned by the narrow fairways or the ankle-deep rough that shape Winged Foot into historically the toughest of all U.S. Opens. With his extra 40 pounds

For both the champion and those who were chasing him, there are always swings of the club in the final round of a major that shape the outcome. A look at those shots from the 120th U.S. Open at Winged Foot, where Bryson DeChambeau shot three-under-par 67 to finish with a six-under total and beat

7:39 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Matthew Wolff is playing his first U.S. Open and carving his own path. That starts with shots he gouges out of the rough. It ends with him making six birdies, the last one a towering 7-iron from the first cut of rough that landed over the steep

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Ernie Els, you have company. Els, you may remember, infamously six-putted the first hole at Augusta National during the 2016 Masters. Els took so many strokes that the telecast originally had him down for the wrong number. Luckily for Danny Lee, the cameras didn’t seem to be rolling when he reached the

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — This was not supposed to happen. Not at this course, not at this tournament. But it did, unambiguously, with no room for interpretation. Forget provocation, what Matthew Wolff and Bryson DeChambeau have done to Winged Foot is enough to ring sirens from Mamaroneck to Far Hills and within the soul of every

9:29 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Mel Reid shot a 7-under 65 on her 33rd birthday to take a two-stroke lead on Saturday over defending champion Hannah Green into the final round of the Cambia Portland Classic. Reid closed her bogey-free afternoon round with a birdie on the par-4 18th at Columbia Edgewater.

It’s been a tale of two rounds at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. On Thursday, twenty-one players broke par, including Justin Thomas, who cruised to a five-under 65. Your grandfather’s U.S. Open, this was not.  But on Friday, the iconic A.W. Tillinghast-designed course fought back, as did mother nature. Just three players—Bryson DeChambeau,

7:56 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Tiger Woods won’t be around for the weekend at the U.S. Open for just the fourth time in his career thanks to a 7-over 77 in the second round at Winged Foot. It’s not hard to figure out why he’s leaving early. “On this golf course it’s imperative that

Cool-and-breezy air. Fast-and-firm greens. Tall-and-thick grass. Can you see where this U.S. Open is headed? If Friday’s second round was any indication of how Winged Foot Golf Club’s West Course might play over the weekend, when the field’s scoring average increased by 2.62 strokes over Round 1, then the weekend might be carnage—and not just

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — That ridge. That damned, beautiful ridge. It guards the front of Winged Foot’s 18th green like a troll with a toothache. It wrecks rounds. Just ask Tiger Woods. On Thursday, playing his last hole of the day, Woods’ second shot came up just short of it. He flubbed it, then made double.

11:06 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Hannah Green had to wait an extra day to open her title defense in the Cambria Portland Classic. Once she got going, about the only thing that slowed her was a 1 1/2-hour lightning delay and fading light. Green shot a 6-under 66 on Friday at Columbia

In the late 1990s, shortly after Winged Foot Golf Club hosted the 1997 PGA Championship, Paul Callahan learned of a home for sale in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. It was a charming peach-colored house in a lovely neighborhood, with good schools for when he and his Kathy began a family. But as a Winged Foot member

11:04 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Spectators will attend a European Tour event for the first time since the resumption of golf after the coronavirus outbreak when the Scottish Open is staged at The Renaissance Club next month. A total of 650 spectators each day on Saturday and Sunday will be allowed

After 14 years, the U.S. Open is finally back at Winged Foot. Surprisingly to some on Thursday, the vaunted major venue played a little easier than ever—with Justin Thomas shsooting an opening-round 65 to grab the lead and shoot the lowest round in a U.S. Open ever at Winged Foot. Thomas—playing alongside Tiger Woods and

The way Bob Nielsen sees it, he’s had his 15 minutes of fame in life several times over. As an executive at Estee Lauder, he launched the campaigns of marquee brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Clinique and Aramis. Now 90, he thought his time in the spotlight was over. Never did he dream that he’d see

8:24 PM ET A recurring theme for Tiger Woods on a Friday: struggling to stay relevant in the tournament. He will need a good day during the second round at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York, not only to get back into contention, but perhaps to even make the 36-hole cut, which would be for

Golf purists. Architecture geeks. Lovers of shotmaking, imagination, creativity, etc. Come one, come all. But first, hide your kids and hide your wife, because what you are about to see is for mature audiences only.  On Thursday at the U.S. Open, Winged Foot’s first green, one of the most treacherous on the West Course, has

11:21 AM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Patrick Reed‘s start to the U.S. Open at Winged Foot was what you’d expect from a lot of the field — a bad hole here, a birdie there, a few pars. Then something big happened. Captain A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶. Captain Ace!@PReedGolf with the first hole-in-one in the 120th #USOpen. pic.twitter.com/gV5dJZ6OrF —

Ah, Thursday of a major. Endless possibility awaits. Before history’s made, we embark on an adventure. The rush and fervor of early, superb rounds. Lesser-known players will introduce themselves to us. Perhaps a hole-in-one or some unlikely highlight. It’s all possible in Round 1. We’re here to lead you through the biggest moments of Thursday

Earlier this week, my colleague Joel Beall summed up very well the minor miracle that is having the U.S. Open this week at Winged Foot Golf Club. In and around Westchester County was where the COVID-19 pandemic first flared up in the United States. And when the USGA decided it needed to postpone its signature

2:52 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — The USGA knows the reputation it is combating and admitted that this week for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot it might find some spots here and there to give the players a break. “We kept looking at ways [to] make the golf course a little bit easier because

Football. Baseball. The R&A. Riviera Country Club. Torrey Pines. The PNC Challenge. The Jack Nicklaus Medal. The Olympics. COVID-19. You have to cast a wide net over this potpourri of subject matter to fully relay the story of how the television rights to the U.S. Open changed hands from FOX Sports to NBC in a

Sep 15, 2020 Dustin Johnson is the hottest player in the world. He’s already picked up the U.S. Open trophy once. Sure, he’s the favorite this week at Winged Foot, but there are plenty of other strong choices to claim the year’s second major title. Our experts landed on a wide variety of options. Here’s

Despite my best intentions and real number crunching, I will select a name to win this week’s U.S. Open that on the surface offers the excitement of an actuary driving a minivan in a cul-de-sac, the intellectual gravitas of seersucker, the logical consistency of a cartoon coyote getting beaned by his own anvil. In other

MAMARONECK, N.Y. —They were a despondent bunch, the Winged Foot range staff. There was work to do and dwindling time to do it, a smoky haze sweeping in from fires out West dimming the New York skies earlier than its 7 p.m. sunset foretold. The practice area had been empty for 20 minutes save for

5:22 PM ET The postponed U.S. Open is just the second of three major championships to be played in 2020. It just doesn’t seem like one. At least not to Justin Thomas, who said having no fans on site this week at Winged Foot Golf Club — as well as last month at Harding Park

MAMARONECK, N.Y. —Professional golf has been without fans for 15 weeks. That runway hasn’t made the assimilation easier for Justin Thomas. Judging by his performance in the restart, the lack of galleries hasn’t been a source of vexation for Thomas. The 27-year-old won the WGC-St. Jude Invitational, finished runner-up at the Workday Open and in

10:41 AM ET Gary Woodland will begin defense of his U.S. Open title alongside Open champion Shane Lowry and U.S. Amateur winner Andy Ogletree on Thursday at 1:05 p.m. at Winged Foot Golf Club. The 2020 tournament was postponed from June until this week due to the coronavirus pandemic. Woodland won the U.S. Open in

Story and photographs by Alan P. Pittman Through the years we’ve written extensively about the healing power of golf, from the ash-covered firefighters of September 11 who found a sense of peace and community in the game to the transformative stories of our Golf Saved My Life series. In moments of personal crisis, golf and

So much of major championship golf is difficult for the average player to even grasp. Just reading the yardage of a pro scorecard places the game in a different realm. But one part we get. The ball is on the green here. The hole is over there. If great putting requires technical proficiency, it’s arguably