LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Lucas Glover birdied the final two holes for a 7-under 63 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday in the ISCO Championship.
\nSteven Fisk, Stephan Jaeger and Troy Merritt joined Glover atop the leaderboard at Hurstbourne Country Club. Played opposite the Scottish Open, the event is sanctioned by the PGA Tour and the European tour.
\nGlover made an 11-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th, then hit a 163-yard shot to 3 feet on the par-4 18th to cap his afternoon round. He also opened with a 63 last week en route to a third-place finish in the John Deere Classic.
\n\u201cVery similar to last week, the first couple days, hit it nice, made some putts and no bogeys. Always a good way to start,\u201d the 46-year-old Glover said. \u201cFirst time here at this course. Absolutely love it. Wish we played more like it.\u201d
\nPontus Nyholm and Chan Kim were a stroke back.
\n\u201cIt was pretty easy this morning \u2014 no wind and pretty soft greens,\u201d Nyholm said. \u201cThe course is challenging in itself, but I felt like sort of the hardest part about this course is when it gets firm, just the angles get super important.\u201d
\nPatton Kizzire was at 65 with Adam Svensson, Jeffrey Kang, Jeong Weon Ko, Aaron Wise and Ben James.
\nMax Homa opened with a 67. He was second last week at the John Deere Classic. Jackson Koivun also was at 67 after missing the cut last week in his professional debut.
\nDefending champion William Mouw shot 68. NCAA champion Preston Stout also shot 68. The Oklahoma State senior tied for 15th in the John Deere.
\nThe winner will get into the PGA Championship but not the Masters next year.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-09T23:35:09+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-09T23:35:09+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LucasGloverDeere26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "15 hours", "excerpt": "LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Lucas Glover birdied the final two holes for a 7-under 63 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday in the ISCO Championship. Steven Fisk, Stephan Jaeger and Troy Merritt joined Glover ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/british-open-26-scheffler-gets-last-shot-at-a-major-in-2026-as-british-returns-to-royal-birkdale/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/british-open-26-scheffler-gets-last-shot-at-a-major-in-2026-as-british-returns-to-royal-birkdale/", "title": "BRITISH OPEN \u201926: Scheffler Gets Last Shot At A Major In 2026 As British Returns To Royal Birkdale", "content_html": "\n
The oldest championship in golf has become the last major on the calendar.
\nThe British Open\u00a0has 166 years of history behind it, so it doesn\u2019t need a catchy slogan \u2014 the PGA Championship was \u201cGlory’s Last Shot\u201d when it was last in the lineup \u2014 for Scottie Scheffler and everyone else to know it will be eight months before the next major.
\n\u201cWe look forward to them so much, we build our schedules and the year around them, and then they’re over like that,\u201d Justin Thomas said. \u201cIt sucks when they’re done.\u201d
\nAnd for the 153 players who have their last chance at winning a major this year? The pressure is not necessarily any greater, nor is there greater urgency to win one before the season is done.
\n\u201cBut every year you don’t is another year you haven’t,\u201d Thomas said.
\nThe 154th edition of The Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale on July 16-19 along the Lancashire Coast in northwest England, an area rich with links golf \u2014 three British Open venues are about 60 miles (96 kilometers) apart. The Royal & Ancient is expecting upward of 300,000 fans.
\nIt will be the last chance for\u00a0Scheffler to make it three years in a row winning a major. In the modern era of majors that dates to 1934, only seven other players have done that \u2014 Peter Thomson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka.
\nScheffler became the \u201cChampion of the Year\u201d at Royal Portrush last summer with another command performance on golf\u2019s biggest stage. He is not one to look back on all the trophies he has won in the last five years, but the 30-year-old Texan has caught himself glancing at all the names engraved into the base of that silver claret jug.
\n\u201cThe perfect size trophy \u2014 not too big, not too small and you get to drink out of it,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cIt will be very tough to hand it back on Tuesday, but I\u2019ll be fighting like heck to get it back on Sunday.\u201d
\nScheffler is the last of 10 names added to the base of golf’s oldest trophy since Rory McIlroy last took possession in 2014. McIlroy, the back-to-back Masters champion, is keen to get a seventh major and join Harry Vardon with the most majors by anyone from the Old World.
\nEnglish hopes lie with Tommy Fleetwood, who grew up a short walk from Birkdale, and Matt Fitzpatrick, whose three wins this year are more than Scheffler’s and McIlroy’s combined.
\nMcIlroy hasn’t seriously contended for the British Open since 2022 in St. Andrews. His lone appearance at Royal Birkdale was a tie for fourth in 2017, though he finished seven shots behind. But he loves the course and the challenge off the tee it presents, which typically is his strength.
\n\u201cThe one thing that I like about Birkdale is there\u2019s usually sets of bunkers on both sides of the fairway. So you\u2019re always having to challenge one set of bunkers to get to where you want your ball to finish,\u201d he said.
\nMcIlroy cited the 10th hole to illustrate. To play it safe and stay short of the bunkers doesn’t leave a good view of the green with a mid-iron. To challenge the bunker on the left, and stay short of the bunker on the right, allows for a good chance at birdie with a wedge in hand.
\n\u201cSo there\u2019s a lot of holes like that where … I know I\u2019m hitting a club that could get me into trouble,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cBut to be in the best possible position for my second shot, that\u2019s the shot that I need to play.”
\nThis is not exactly the same Royal Birkdale that last hosted the British Open in 2017 because of changes to some five holes. The most noticeable might be the par-4 fifth, shortened to 321 yards with more bunkers and the green shifted to the left to tempt players to drive the green.
\nThe most significant change is eliminating the par-3 14th hole where Jordan Spieth began his remarkable rally in 2017. Now the 14th is a par 5 that used to be No. 15, only it’s 60 yards longer (602 yards), has been shifted to the right and now has 12 bunkers.
\nThe 15th is a newly created hole that measures 241 yards. Adam Scott was asked to give a short assessment and replied, \u201ctoo long.\u201d McIlroy said he was \u201cundecided,\u201d which didn’t sound all that encouraging when he added, \u201cI think it’s going to be a big talking point during the week.\u201d
\nIt’s a beautiful links course set among dunes off the Irish Sea, one of only two on the British Open rotation where the ninth and 18th holes return to the clubhouse.
\nAnd it has a rich heritage despite not hosting the Open until 1954. Of the nine previous champions (Thomson won twice) all but one are in the World Golf Hall of Fame or certain to be there when eligible. Those nine champions have combined to win 37 majors.
\nLinks golf on any course can produce some quirky bounces, when seemingly good shots turn bad and sometimes \u2014 though not as often \u2014 the other way around.
\n\u201cYou can tell why golf was invented here,\u201d Scheffler said. “You can hit a lot of clubs from off the green. It\u2019s not the same club every time, and it gives you an option. You can get some funny bounces sometimes. But it\u2019s also a pure and raw way to play golf.
\n\u201cThe conditions change pretty quickly, and that could have an effect on tournament. But when you have similar conditions over four days, it\u2019s a pretty true test of golf.\u201d
\n\nHarris English was the runner-up to Scheffler last year at Royal Portrush. He was asked what trait an Open champion needs to conquer links golf. \u201cSuper gritty,\u201d he replied.
\n\u201cYou’ve got to deal with playing in any weather, any conditions. You get some crap lies and bad breaks. You’re going to have a lot of stuff go against you in links golf,\u201d English said. \u201cYou’ve got to figure it out. It’s pure golf.
\n\u201cYeah, there’s luck involved,\u201d he said. “But if you keep hitting good shots, luck will be in your favor.\u201d
\nAnd when it’s over, another name will be added to the base of the claret jug. And then golf’s best players will have to wait 263 days until the next major.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-09T23:21:26+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-09T23:21:26+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ScottieBritishWinningPress25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "15 hours", "excerpt": "The oldest championship in golf has become the last major on the calendar. The British Open\u00a0has 166 years of history behind it, so it doesn\u2019t need a catchy slogan \u2014 the PGA Championship was \u201cGlory’s Last ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/aki-iwai-leads-and-nelly-korda-struggles-in-first-round-at-evian-womens-major/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/aki-iwai-leads-and-nelly-korda-struggles-in-first-round-at-evian-womens-major/", "title": "Aki Iwai Leads And Nelly Korda Struggles In First Round At Evian Women\u2019s Major", "content_html": "\n
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) \u2014 Aki Iwai shot an 8-under 63 for a two-stroke lead on Thursday in the first round of the Evian Championship, the fourth women\u2019s golf major of the season, as\u00a0top-ranked Nelly Korda\u00a0struggled.
\nThe 24th-ranked Iwai had eight birdies and no dropped shots in the sun-splashed lakeside town that three weeks ago hosted the\u00a0G7 summit of world leaders.
\nJapan’s Iwai made birdies at three of the last four holes, including the par-5 18th, and led by two shots from Perrine Delacour, whose 6-under 65 included an eagle at the par-5 15th and a pair of bogeys toward the end of her round.
\nA group of five players with 5-under 66s included the winner of the\u00a0Women\u2019s PGA Championship two weeks ago, Haeran Ryu, and world No. 5 Charley Hull, who started the week as a guest in the Royal Box at\u00a0Wimbledon.
\nHull had two early bogeys before making the turn at level par, then came home in just 31 shots capped by an eagle at the par-5 18th. Also on 5 under were Mao Saigo, Maja Stark and Jin Hee Im.
\nIt was a tough day at Evian Resort Golf Club for Korda, who won the first two majors this season \u2014 the\u00a0Chevron Championship\u00a0and the\u00a0U.S. Women\u2019s Open.
\nKorda was 11 shots back with a 3-over 74, including a doubly bogey six at the first hole, which she played as her 10th.
\nCeline Boutier, the 2023 champion at Evian, had a bigger problem at No. 1. She started with a triple bogey 7 and later made back-to-back double bogey 6s on Nos. 10 and 11. Boutier birdied the 18th to card a 5-over 76.
\nThe Evian Championship has been the fifth women’s major since the 2013 edition and now has a $9.1 million prize money fund.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-09T19:22:13+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-09T19:22:13+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/AkiIwaiWomensPGA26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "19 hours", "excerpt": "EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) \u2014 Aki Iwai shot an 8-under 63 for a two-stroke lead on Thursday in the first round of the Evian Championship, the fourth women\u2019s golf major of the season, as\u00a0top-ranked Nelly Korda\u00a0struggled. The ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/mcilroy-and-cantlay-are-part-of-a-five-way-tie-for-the-lead-in-the-scottish-open/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/mcilroy-and-cantlay-are-part-of-a-five-way-tie-for-the-lead-in-the-scottish-open/", "title": "McIlroy And Cantlay Are Part Of A Five-Way Tie For The Lead In The Scottish Open", "content_html": "\n
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) \u2014 Rory McIlroy began getting into the mood for the final major of the year by taking advantage of the par 5s at The Renaissance Club for a 5-under 65, giving him a five-way share of the lead Thursday in the Genesis Scottish Open.
\nPatrick Cantlay made a little noise in an otherwise quiet year for the American with five birdies in 10 holes and then a collection of tough par saves at the end that felt just as valuable. He also was at 65, along with Tom Kim, Bernd Wiesberger and Rasmus Hojgaard.
\nHojgaard was the only player of the leading five to play in the afternoon, when the wind began to calm. He was at 6 under with four holes to play but found a bunker off the 16th, went into the rough and took double bogey.
\nScottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world searching for his first win since January, made three straight birdies around the turn and was slowed by a long three-putt bogey on the 11th, followed by a drive into a bunker that kept him from reaching the green at the par-5 12th. Scheffler failed to birdie any of the three par 5s in his round of 68.
\n\u201cWish I could have gotten a few more shots out of it,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cI like to keep a clean card, so two bogeys hurt. Maybe could have played the par 5s a little bit better. But overall, nothing crazy. Just a decent day.\u201d
\nMcIlroy felt about the same. He was tied for the 18-hole lead for the first time since the Masters, but this didn’t feel like anything special except for seizing on the easiest scoring chances.
\nMcIlroy holed an 18-foot eagle putt on the par-5 first hole \u2014 he started his round on No. 10 \u2014 to go along with a pair of birdies on the other two par 5s at The Renaissance Club. That made his round and his scorecard feel a little better.
\nHe has been away the last two weeks since a pedestrian performance in the U.S. Open, though the brand of golf doesn’t feel entirely different. Shinnecock Hills might be as close to links golf as any course in America. The Renaissance Club has the look of links, though it is not links turf.
\nThe real test is Royal Birkdale next week for the British Open.
\n\u201cI felt like I drove the ball particularly well, and I started to see that at Shinnecock, as well,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cA continuation of putting the ball in play, and then once I do that, I feel like I can attack courses and I can set up scoring opportunities. I did that today.\u201d
\nCantlay hasn’t won in nearly four years and slipped to No. 37 in the world after missing the cut in the U.S. Open, his lowest ranking in more than eight years. He’s had three top 10s and four other finishes in the top 20. It hasn’t been horrible, but he has lacked a spark and might have found one.
\nHe went to a slightly heavier putter to account for the slower greens this week and next, and it paid off in birdies and pars. Most impressive was his finish. He found a pot bunker off the tee on the par-5 seventh and could only get that back to the fairway, leaving him 261 yards for his third shot. He wound up getting up-and-down and saving par with a 13-foot putt.
\nHe saved par with a 5-foot putt on the eighth and then got up-and-down from just inside 100 feet off the ninth green to keep a clean card.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve been putting in some hard work with my team, and have got some important golf the rest of the year,\u201d Cantlay said.
\nThe Scottish Open is co-sanctioned by the European tour and PGA Tour, the ideal place to be for those wanting to get acclimated for the British Open, whether it’s the seaside air, the time zone or a slightly slower set of greens.
\nIt’s also a last chance for the likes of Michael Thorbjornsen, among those at 67. The leading three players not already eligible get a\u00a0spot at Royal Birkdale. Thorbjornsen is fourth alternate.
\n\nBrooks Koepka, who appears to be past that mysterious nerve issue in his left hand that caused him to pull out of the Canadian Open when he was off to a good start, felt that putting is all that has slowed him this year. That much was evident when he missed four putts from 7 feet or under, one of them from 20 inches. He also rolled in three birdie putts from outside 20 feet and was among seven players at 66.
\nNearly half of the 156-man field broke par.
\n\u201cIt could have been a very, very good round. But then again, I\u2019m happy with the way I battled back,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cThat was solid. So hopefully take that into tomorrow.\u201d
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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) \u2014 The American Junior Golf Association lists Chris Gotterup as an alumnus. He can remember only one tournament in Texas he played, and it’s one Gotterup would rather forget.
\n\u201cI shot a million,\u201d Gotterup said Tuesday. \u201cI was like, my dad just wasted a bunch of money on this. I played horrible and didn’t enjoy it.\u201d
\nHe can’t even recall the name of the tournament or the course, much less his actual score, and he could only guess where he placed.
\n\u201cJust look up T-94,\u201d he said with a laugh.
\nIt was a trip that made Gotterup realize there was no need to stray too far from his home in New Jersey given the quality of the golf courses in the Garden State and the competition across the New York metropolitan area. That’s one reason he wound up at Rutgers for three years before closing out his college career at Oklahoma.
\nIt all seems like a lifetime ago, and so do the last 12 months.
\nGotterup showed up at the Scottish Open last year at No. 158 in the world. His only PGA Tour title was in 2024 at the\u00a0Myrtle Beach Classic\u00a0against a weak field because it was held opposite one of the $20 million signature events.
\nHe now has as many PGA Tour wins \u2014 four \u2014 as Scottie Scheffler in the last year.
\nGotterup took on Rory McIlroy and a Scottish crowd at The Renaissance Club to win the Scottish Open\u00a0last year. In his three victories this year, he closed with a 64 in the Sony Open, a 64 in the WM Phoenix Open and a 62 when he rallied from five back to\u00a0win the John Deere Classic.
\nThat makes Gotterup the only player in at least 50 years to have three wins in a season by posting 64 or lower in the final round.
\nAnd he is No. 7 in the world, firmly planted among the elite young Americans in golf. Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa are the only other players under 30 who are among the top 10 in the world.
\nWhat happened?
\n\u201cI feel like everyone\u2019s asked what have I done differently, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve done much differently. If I knew, I would have done it a lot longer ago,\u201d Gotterup said. \u201cI felt like I kept my head down and kept working hard on things with the help of my coaches and family and girlfriend. We try to keep things simple and it\u2019s worked out. Hopefully, keep improving, too.\u201d
\nThis rise wasn’t too much out of left field.
\nSticking close to home \u2014 Gotterup was the Met Amateur champion in 2019 \u2014 didn’t bring him a lot of national attention or offers from some of the established golf programs. Gotterup wound up at Rutgers for three years and felt he improved.
\nBut then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, he had surgery on his hand and Big 10 golf became an uncertainty. Gotterup felt it was time for a change.
\n\u201cI was very comfortable at Rutgers, which was a good thing,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom New Jersey … I played there for 20-something years. I needed to be challenged a little bit. I just needed to change my whole scenery and make life a little harder.\u201d
\nAnd then he made it look easy. The idea was to see how his game measured against a broader range of talent. Gotterup had such a blockbuster senior year with the Sooners that he swept all the top awards \u2014 the Ben Hogan, Haskins and Jack Nicklaus as the top college player in the country.
\nSo he didn’t exactly show up out of nowhere when he won at Myrtle Beach in 2024, though it took until the Scottish Open last year that he really began to pique interest.
\nTwo of his victories in the last 12 months were wind-blown coastal venues \u2014 the Firth of Forth in Scotland, the\u00a0Pacific Ocean a few miles southwest of Waikiki in Honolulu. He\u00a0won in desert terrain of the TPC Scottsdale\u00a0and a rain-soaked, tree-lined course at the TPC Deere Run.
\nThat was part of his reasoning in leaving New Jersey for Oklahoma.
\n\u201cWe traveled all over the country,\u201d he said. \u201cI needed to be able to play on Bermuda grass. I needed to play in the wind and play against different teams and just see where I stack up.\u201d
\nGotterup returns with a high world ranking and higher expectations against one of the strongest fields of the year that features Scottie Scheffler and McIlroy, along with the likes of Jon Rahm (LIV Golf) and Patrick Reed (European tour) in a\u00a0tournament seen as a dress rehearsal for the British Open.
\n\nGotterup’s win at The Renaissance Club got him into his first British Open \u2014 and only his\u00a0fourth major championship\u00a0\u2014 and he fought to the end to finish third at Royal Portrush.
\nWhere he has been \u2014 and how he got there \u2014 is not nearly as intriguing now as where he goes. Gotterup, with a physique reminiscent of Angels outfielder Mike Trout, already has proven that he has a game that travels.
\n\u201cI know what I\u2019m capable of and these last couple months, years have been rewarding,\u201d he said. \u201cBut also, once you kind of get a taste of it, I think you want more and more.\u201d
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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) \u2014 The final minutes of the\u00a0John Deere Classic\u00a0brought yet another reminder how every shot matters, and how it can affect more than one player.
\nBen Kohles was tied for the lead with Chris Gotterup when he hit 8-iron into the water on the 18th hole. His penalty drop, and then a free drop from a sprinkler head, gave him a 45-foot par putt from the fringe to force a playoff.
\nHe missed wide right and it rolled out 2 feet, 8 inches away. The short bogey putt turned into a stunning miss, and Kohles took double bogey.
\nInstead of a two-way tie for second with Max Homa, he fell into a three-way tie for third.
\nIt was costly for Kohles. Not only was it a difference of $318,200 in earnings, it cost him 100 FedEx Cup points. Make the putt and Kohles would be at No. 83. The miss moved him to No. 100.
\nBut it did wonders for Homa.
\nThe runner-up finish allowed him to move from No. 112 to No. 73 in the world ranking. Had Kohles made that short putt, Homa in a two-way tie for second would have moved to No. 84 in the world.
\nThe British Open used this week’s ranking to fill the field. Homa was notified Monday morning that he had a spot for Royal Birkdale next week. Had Kohles made the putt, Homa would have been the fifth alternate and unlikely to get in.
\nAldrich Potgieter will be competing at Royal Birkdale next week. He’s just not sure if he’s in the\u00a0field for the British Open\u00a0yet.
\nThe R&A has filled the field by taking 15 players from the most recent Official World Golf Ranking and notified those players on Monday. That makes Potgieter at No. 77 the first alternate.
\nHe has two ways to get in. The leading three players from the\u00a0Scottish Open\u00a0not already eligible will earn tee times at Royal Birkdale. Then, there is a \u201cLast Chance Qualifier\u201d Monday at Birkdale.
\nThe 12-man field will include the top two reserves \u2014 Potgieter and Matti Schmid. If they did not play, they would have lost their alternate status. If they don’t win the qualifier, they remain the top two alternates.
\nEven if Potgieter doesn’t get it done at the Scottish Open or the Last Chance Qualifier, there’s still a chance. Sam Burns is home because his wife is due to give birth to their second child. Burns has yet to withdraw from the Open, and there’s a chance he could still play.
\nBeing first alternate comes with the possibility of a really long day, which Sam Stevens knows all too well. He was first alternate a year ago and didn’t get in. The first tee time typically is 6:35 a.m., and the last group goes off at 4:16 p.m. That’s nearly 10 hours of waiting, and a long flight home.
\nPatrick Reed faces a big stretch of golf the next two weeks at the Scottish Open and the British Open as he tries to become the second American to win the Race to Dubai on the European tour.
\nReed, who\u00a0left LIV Golf before its season started\u00a0this year, had a three-week stretch in the Middle East when he won twice and lost in a playoff. By being devoted to a full European tour schedule, he still has a lead in the Race to Dubai over Masters champion Rory McIlroy.
\nThe tour takes a three-week break after the British Open, and it won’t be long before Reed would be eligible to play PGA Tour events again \u2014 his one-year ban from LIV Golf ends in September.
\nBut he indicated he would be more interested in European tour events in the fall, such as the BMW PGA Championship, French Open and Dunhill Links, then some of the PGA Tour’s fall events. At stake is the Race to Dubai and his loyalty since becoming a lifetime honorary member.
\n\u201cI don’t want to turn my back on it now,\u201d Reed said.
\nHe is virtually a lock to get one of the 10 PGA Tour cards based on the Race to Dubai standings. Reed said the only upside to a PGA Tour fall event would be a two-year exemption if he were to win.
\nThe last two weeks have brought European victories for the Chacarra family.
\nEugenio Chacarra, the No. 2 amateur in the world when he left Oklahoma State for LIV Golf, won the Italian Open for his second straight European tour victory as he tries to lock up a PGA Tour card through the Race to Dubai.
\nOne week later, Carolina Chacarra won her first professional title since graduating from Wake Forest. She closed with a 68 for a three-shot victory in the Hulencourt Women\u2019s Open on the Ladies European Tour.
\nThe victory gave Chacarra, also a rookie on the LPGA Tour, a spot in the Women’s Scottish Open and the Women’s British Open. That two-week swing follows next week’s British Open, where big brother earned a spot from his Italian Open victory.
\n“It\u2019s been a great few weeks,\u201d Carolina Chacarra said. \u201cLife is treating us amazing. My brother is my inspiration and to see him win gave me lots of momentum to keep going and try to win myself. I\u2019m very happy. I\u2019m super excited for the next month. It definitely changes my calendar, but it\u2019s always great to play a major. I\u2019m very excited and can\u2019t wait to be there.\u201d
\nMax Homa and Sam Bairstow are the only players at the ISCO Championship in Kentucky who are in the British Open next week in England. Bairstow made it through a 36-hole qualifier and then played the BMW International Open in Germany last week. One reason for Bairstow to fly back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean? He is No. 119 in the Race to Dubai on the European tour, which co-sanctions the PGA Tour event in Kentucky. … Yana Wilson has withdrawn from the Evian Championship this week because of what Golfweek reported to be an illness. The 19-year-old LPGA rookie won the team event this year in Michigan. … The First Tee is starting a chapter in Scotland for the first time. The First Tee is collaborating with the Stephen Gallacher Foundation on a new facility being located at The Renaissance Club, site of the Scottish Open. … Nine players have turned down playing in the Scottish Open, which offers three spots in the British Open, to play the ISCO Championship in Kentucky. That includes William Mouw, who won the Kentucky event last year.
\n\nChris Gotterup has won all three of his PGA Tour titles this year with a final round of 64 or lower. He shot 62 in the John Deere Classic and 64 in the WM Phoenix Open and the Sony Open.
\n\u201cWe choose to do this. If you want to do it at the highest level, you choose to have failure, heartbreak, and on the other side you get so much more reward from the good, and that risk is worth it to me.\u201d \u2014 Jordan Spieth.
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\nThis version corrects where Gotterup shot 62 (at the John Deere Classic) and 64 (at the WM Phoenix Open and the Sony Open).
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-07T21:37:13+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-07T21:37:13+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MaxHomaDeere26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "3 days", "excerpt": "NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) \u2014 The final minutes of the\u00a0John Deere Classic\u00a0brought yet another reminder how every shot matters, and how it can affect more than one player. Ben Kohles was tied for the lead with ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chris-gotterup-wins-john-deere-classic-with-a-62-and-late-help-from-ben-kohles/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/chris-gotterup-wins-john-deere-classic-with-a-62-and-late-help-from-ben-kohles/", "title": "Chris Gotterup Wins John Deere Classic With A 62 And Late Help From Ben Kohles", "content_html": "\n
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) \u2014 Chris Gotterup made up a five-shot deficit Sunday by closing with a 9-under 62 to win the John Deere Classic for his fourth PGA Tour title in the last 12 months.
\nGotterup avoided a playoff when Ben Kohles, trying to win for the first time in his 120th start, hit his approach to the 18th left and into the water and wound up with a double bogey.
\nGotterup next week defends his title in the Scottish Open, where he began his remarkable run to reach the top 10 in the world. He held off Rory McIlroy a year ago in Scotland, and then won the Sony Open and the Phoenix Open this year.
\nThis might have been as enjoyable as the others. His brother, Patrick, caddied for him at the TPC Deere Run and Gotterup was in tears on the practice range when he became the winner.
\nGotterup received a sponsor exemption to the John Deere Classic in 2022, after he finished his college career at Oklahoma. He remained loyal to the tournament, even playing despite having a title to defend across the Atlantic and the British Open the following week.
\n\u201cI really like this tournament. They’ve been super nice to me,\u201d Gotterup said. \u201cTo have Patrick out here with me … it’s just so awesome.\u201d
\nHe finished at 20-under 264 and moved to No. 7 in the world.
\nIt was a devastating finish for Kohles (68), who two years ago made bogey on the final hole of the Byron Nelson and lost in a playoff.
\nHe birdied the 16th to join Gotterup at 20-under par and missed a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th. Kohles belted his drive on the 18th down the middle, but he got over the shot quickly and tugged it left, bounding off the hill into the water.
\nHe was able to take a penalty drop by the green, then caught a big break when his stance was on a sprinkler head, allowing him to drop on the fringe and use putter. But the par putt to force extra holes was wide right the entire way, settling just inside 3 feet away.
\nHe missed that to go from a two-tie for second with Max Homa into a three-way tie was a difference of $316,800.
\nKohles said he was between 8-iron and 9-iron on the shot from the 18th fairway.
\n\u201cThought if I hit a full 8, it could have a chance of going over,\u201d Kohles said. \u201cSo I was just trying to hit kind of a three-quarter punch shot. Yeah, just tugged it a little, and obviously ended up in the water. Tough way to finish, especially how I played all day.\u201d
\nHoma ran off four straight birdies on the back nine and closed with a 64 to finish alone in second, which moved him to No. 49 in the FedEx Cup, a huge step for a former Ryder Cup player who missed the postseason a year ago and had fallen out of the top 100 in the world.
\nIt was his highest PGA Tour finish in more than three years.
\nLucas Glover and Lee Hodges, who shared the 54-hole lead, started strong but each had to settle for a 69 to tie for third.
\nGotterup made up ground quickly with four birdies in five holes at the start, the only par coming when he failed to convert an up-and-down from just off the green at the par-5 second.
\n\nHis final birdie was a 15-footer on the 17th that sent him to the practice range to wait to see if it would hold up. The victory was his third of the year, the most individual titles of any player. Matt Fitzpatrick has three wins, including the team event in New Orleans.
\nZach Johnson, the 50-year-old former champion who skipped the U.S. Senior Open this week to play in what he considers a hometown event, shot 68 to tie for ninth.
\nBlades Brown, the 19-year-old who turned pro while still in high school, closed with a 68 and tied for 12th as he tries to work his way toward a PGA Tour card. Another shot back was NCAA champion Preston Stout, who shot 69 and tied for 15th.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Padraig Harrington\u2019s first two U.S. Senior Open titles weren\u2019t decided until the final hole.
\nHis record-tying third had no drama by the time he reached the back nine on Sunday.
\nHarrington became the fourth golfer to defend his U.S. Senior Open title, shooting a final-round 66 to win by four shots at Scioto Country Club.
\nThe 54-year-old Irishman also joined Miller Barber as the only three-time winners in the tournament\u2019s 46-year history.
\n\u201cI like creating records, and to be part of that is a big deal. It just shows how hard it is,\u201d Harrington said after capturing his fourth senior major. \u201cI\u2019m seeing guys coming along, and I\u2019m kind of realizing there is only a window to win these tournaments. They have told me and other players that it\u2019s kind of up to about 56-57, then it starts going downhill quickly.
\n\u201cBut I was thinking and feeling that way, that you only have a set period to get your major wins on the Senior Tour because not that you\u2019re getting older but new guys are coming in.\u201d
\nHarrington also joins Barber (1985), Gary Player (1988), and Allen Doyle (2006) as the only golfers to win the U.S. Senior Open back-to-back.
\nHarrington \u2014 who finished at 12-under 268 \u2014 birdied the first two holes and had four birdies with only one bogey. Third-round leader Stewart Cink was runner-up for the second straight year. Cink bogeyed two of the first three holes and struggled with accuracy most of the day, shooting 71 and finishing at 8-under 272.
\n\u201cIt feels great, but there wasn\u2019t the drama we normally provide down the stretch,\u201d said Harrington, who won by one shot in 2022 and \u201925. \u201cI knew I had a nice lead, which let me play to the middle of the greens and hit the shots. I hit some big shots coming home to take all the stress out of it.\u201d
\nIt is Harrington\u2019s 12th career PGA Tour Champions victory and his first since last July\u2019s Senior British Open.
\nGeorge McNeill \u2014 the other player in the Harrington-Cink grouping \u2014 shot a 71 and finished with a 6-under 274. Ian Poulter (67) was fourth at 5-under 275 while Retief Goosen (67), Jamie Donaldson (68) and Paul Stankowski (69) were at 4-under 276.
\nCink hit only 2 of 7 fairways on the front nine, ending his chances of becoming the first player to win the first three senior majors in a year.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s always fun going down the stretch with a lot on the line. Today, I played poorly enough that there was no championship on the line, but I was still battling hard for second,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I had a day like that where start to finish it felt difficult, but today it did, and my scorecard tells the story.”
\nCink had a one-shot lead after 54 holes, but Harrington took the lead with a five-shot swing on the first three holes. It was the second straight round to start early to beat the weather.
\nHarrington made a 15-foot putt on the par-4 first to tie Cink. He then took a two-shot lead when his second shot on the No. 2 par-4 landed within 3 feet of the cup for an easy birdie while Cink bogeyed.
\nCink got within two with a birdie on the par-4 seventh after Harrington bogeyed the No. 6 par-5.
\n\nThe momentum shifted back to Harrington on the par-4 eighth. Cink chose driver off the tee, but it landed hot on the left side of the fairway, took a couple of hard bounces, and rolled into the creek on the right-hand side of the fairway.
\nCink ended up with a bogey while Harrington sank a 30-foot birdie putt to double his advantage.
\n\u201cThat one was definitely kind of a crusher there. I finally straightened the tee ball out after I hadn\u2019t hit very many good tee balls, and boom, I hit a great one, and it cost me a penalty shot. And then Padraig makes the putt,\u201d Cink said. \u201cWe are so in the present that we don\u2019t always feel those momentum shifts, but looking back, I\u2019m sure it probably did.\u201d
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-05T22:52:02+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-06T17:48:48+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/PadraigHarringtonUSSemiorOpen26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "5 days", "excerpt": "COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Padraig Harrington\u2019s first two U.S. Senior Open titles weren\u2019t decided until the final hole. His record-tying third had no drama by the time he reached the back nine on Sunday. Harrington became ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/south-africas-michael-hollick-eagles-final-hole-to-claim-his-first-european-tour-victory/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/south-africas-michael-hollick-eagles-final-hole-to-claim-his-first-european-tour-victory/", "title": "South Africa\u2019s Michael Hollick Eagles Final Hole To Claim His First European Tour Victory", "content_html": "\n
MUNICH (AP) \u2014 South African Michael Hollick eagled the final hole to defeat countryman Hennie Du Plessis and win the BMW International Open for his first European tour victory on Sunday.
\nThe 39-year-old Hollick also birdied the 17th hole for a final-round 5-under 67, ending at 18 under for the tournament.
\n\u201cI didn’t really know what the scores were,\u201d Hollick said. \u201cI hit two perfect five irons on 17th and 18th, so couldn’t have asked for much more, really.\u201d
\nHollick had bogeyed the 16th and Du Plessis was two shots clear at the top coming into the 17th, but a bogey-par finish kept him at 17 under for the tournament.
\nHollick, in his rookie season in the DP World Tour, said that four years ago he had \u201cput the clubs in the cabinet\u201d and started coaching for a while.
\n\u201cIt’s amazing, honestly, just given myself and my family such a good opportunity,\u201d Hollick said.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-07-05T17:42:29+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-06T17:49:12+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MichaelHollickMunich26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "5 days", "excerpt": "MUNICH (AP) \u2014 South African Michael Hollick eagled the final hole to defeat countryman Hennie Du Plessis and win the BMW International Open for his first European tour victory on Sunday. The 39-year-old Hollick also birdied ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/spieth-returns-to-john-deere-with-an-eye-on-royal-birkdale-practice-and-fedex-cup-standings/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/spieth-returns-to-john-deere-with-an-eye-on-royal-birkdale-practice-and-fedex-cup-standings/", "title": "Spieth Returns To John Deere With An Eye On Royal Birkdale Practice And FedEx Cup Standings", "content_html": "\n
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Spieth altered his schedule with one eye toward his return to Royal Birkdale and another on his standing in the FedEx Cup.
\nFor only the second time in the 11 years since he last won the John Deere Classic, Spieth is returning to the Deere and will skip the Scottish Open the following week.
\n\u201cI wanted to add an event,” Spieth said Sunday after the Travelers Championship. \u201cI thought unless I went to Birkdale before the Scottish, I’m not going to get in until Sunday night. The majors this year, I’ve liked the ones I’ve been to early and played prior to the week, just because the practice rounds are brutal. So the plan was to do that early.\u201d
\nInstead of the Scottish Open \u2014 he has missed the cut his past two times \u2014 he plans to arrive at Royal Birkdale on the weekend. The Lancashire links where he delivered a dynamic finish to win in 2017 is slightly different. The fifth hole has been reshaped. Plus, the par-5 15th is now the 14th hole, and a new par-3 15th hole follows.
\nBut there’s more, of course.
\n\u201cI’m around 50th in the FedEx Cup, and that’s a big deal,\u201d Spieth said. \u201cNow I\u2019ll do the Deere, potentially Minnesota (the week after the British Open) and potentially Greensboro (the final regular-season event).
\nHe tied for 66th in the 72-man field at the Travelers, one week after he tied for 56th in the U.S. Open. That dropped him out of the top 50 to No. 52. And it’s a big deal. The top 50 are in all the signature events for 2027, and last year Spieth finished 54th.
\nHarris English is looking forward to the British Open as much as any tournament all year. He first played links golf when he was part of the U.S. Walker Cup team at Royal Aberdeen. He was runner-up by four shots a year ago to Scottie Scheffler at Royal Portrush.
\nHis caddie, Eric Larson, is still hopeful to join him.
\nLarson was denied entry last year\u00a0when UK government officials did not approve his Electronic Travel Authority visa, a regulation that applies to Americans. Grounds for refusal include serving 12 months or more in prison for a criminal offense.
\nLarson some 30 years ago pleaded guilty to sending cocaine to friends in the Midwest and spent 10 years and three months in prison. He was released from a halfway house in June 2006 and resumed caddying on the PGA Tour. He has worked three Ryder Cups for different players.
\nAsked his status Sunday at the Travelers Championship, Larson said, \u201cNot sure yet \u2014 TBD.\u201d But he remained hopeful.
\n\u201cIt’s a good application. I added some more letters of support and countered their reasons to denying me last year,\u201d Larson said. \u201cI don’t know why they haven’t answered yet. I had it expedited. They said it was under review.\u201d
\nScottie Scheffler was five shots behind and in the final group with Wyndham Clark going into the final round of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. At stake was the career Grand Slam.
\nNelly Korda was four shots behind in a tie for sixth going into the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship as she tried to win the third leg of the calendar Grand Slam, something only Inbee Park had done in on the modern LPGA.
\nTheir outlook was different.
\nFrom Scheffler on Saturday afternoon going into the final round: “I think it\u2019s appropriate to understand what\u2019s at stake. I\u2019ve worked really hard for a long time to have a chance to win golf tournaments and to win major championships. Yeah, I think understanding the moment and giving it your best shot is all part of the process.\u201d
\nFrom Korda on Sunday after she tied for eighth: \u201cYou guys made that such a big thing. I didn\u2019t think about that, no. I was just kind of disappointed in the way that I played this week, not that I came up short really. I was just thinking about the way that I played, not like the realistic big picture that everyone is talking about.\u201d
\nScottie Scheffler needed to birdie one of the last two holes at The Travelers Championship to shoot 59. His last chance was a 25-foot birdie on the final hole that narrowly missed.
\nGolf now heads into July without anyone on any recognized tour around the world having posted golf’s magic number or better. That only stands out considering someone has shot 59 or better every year since 2012.
\nThere have been 30 sub-60 rounds in the past five years alone. It’s a product of the standard rising, as in any sport, and more opportunities in more tours around the world.
\nThere were eight sub-60s rounds last year, nine of them in 2024 and six in 2023. Scheffler was close to joining Jim Furyk as the only player with two rounds in the 50s.
\nNow it’s on to the John Deere Classic, which has produced two 59s in tournament history \u2014 Paul Goydos in 2010 and Hayden Springer in 2024.
\nXander Schauffele might be able to relate to Bobby Jones in one aspect.
\nJones famously tore up his scorecard at St. Andrews in his British Open debut in 1921, withdrawing from the championship in the third round. Schauffele made his debut at Royal Birkdale in 2017. It apparently did not start well.
\nSchauffele and his caddie, Austin Kaiser, recall having a 1-iron in the bag.
\n\u201cI shanked it twice,\u201d Schauffele said. \u201cAnd then I shanked it again on the next hole. I said (to Kaiser), \u2018I\u2019ve never broke a club.\u2019 Kaiser grabs it and breaks it over his knee and says, \u2018We\u2019re not using this anymore.\u2019\u201d
\nSchauffele finished the story and Kaiser shrugged and said, \u201cWe had to keep the streak going.\u201d
\nThe Travelers Championship was the second time this year Scottie Scheffler shot 259 over 72 holes and failed to win. The other was The CJ Cup Byron Nelson. … Corey Conners registered his first top 10 of the year when he tied for seventh in the Travelers Championship. … Marco Penge is playing the BMW International Open in Germany, his first tournament since the PGA Championship when he said he was stepping away to get fully healthy. … The world ranking after this week is the one used for a reserve list at the British Open. Sam Stevens at No. 46 and Nico Echavarria at No. 52 are the highest-ranked players not already in the field for Royal Birkdale.
\n\nCollin Morikawa, who turned pro in 2019, crossed the $50 million mark in career PGA Tour earnings with this third-place finish in the Travelers Championship.
\n\u201cWhether I win or lose or whatever, I just want to play good golf and have fun out here again.\u201d \u2014 Viktor Hovland after winning the Travelers Championship.
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\nThis version corrects in the \u2018Divots\u2019 section than Sam Stevens is the highest-ranked player not yet in the British Open
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Sergio Garcia will miss the British Open for the third time in four years after the Master champion failed to get among the 20 spots on four courses during 36-hole qualifying Tuesday. For Matthew Baldwin, it’s a major championship on his home course at Royal Birkdale.
\nBaldwin was among five qualifiers at Dundonald Links in the west of Scotland, joining medalist Jake McDonald, amateurs David Howard and Nevill Ruiter, and West Point graduate Marcus Plunkett, who served five years in the Army.
\n\u201cI get emotional just thinking about it. It will be incredible,\u201d Baldwin said. “Fortunately I have done it a couple of times before in the northwest at Hoylake and at Lytham so it will be a dream come true to do it in front of my family. It will be amazing.\u201d
\nThe British Open is July 16-19 at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England.
\nA trio of Americans \u2014 Peter Uihlein, Caleb Surratt and James Nicholas \u2014 qualified for both of golf’s oldest championships. They also made it through 36-hole qualifiers for the U.S. Open.
\nUihlein, the 2010 U.S. Amateur champion, was among five qualifiers at Royal Cinque Ports along with medalist Baard Bjoernevik Skogen, M.J. Daffue, Matthew Southgate and Antoine Rozner. Nicholas and Surratt qualified at Burnham & Berrow with Tom Sloman, Austen Truslow and amateur Alejandro de Castro Piera.
\nSam Bairstow led the five qualifiers at West Lancashire, joined by Kazuma Kobori, Josele Ballester, Tiger Christensen and Matthew Jordan, who got the final spot in a playoff.
\nAmong those who failed to make it through were LIV Golf players Thomas Detry and Anirban Lahiri, and Thriston Lawrence of South Africa, who finished fourth in the 2024 British Open at Royal Troon. Also missing out were 2016 Masters champion Danny Willet and Florida junior Luke Poulter, the son of Ryder Cup stalwart Ian Poulter.
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CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 The year is at the halfway point. The PGA Tour season is not.
\nTwo months, and only one major, are all that remain for the PGA Tour in 2026 to find some definition. There have been good tournaments, great finishes, redemptions and breakthroughs, and Scottie Scheffler as steady as he has always been.
\nIt’s just that no one has stood out this year.
\nRory McIlroy became only the fourth back-to-back Masters champion, and the first since Tiger Woods in 2002. It was an example of how much freedom he felt from finally having the green jacket and the career Grand Slam. But that’s his only win this year, and except for a late rally at Riviera, he really hasn’t come close.
\nThe eight signature events were won by eight players, no different from last year when seven players won the seven $20 million tournaments. But a year ago, all seven winners were among the top 25 in the world when they won. This year that applied to only three winners \u2014 Collin Morikawa (19) at Pebble Beach, Matt Fitzpatrick (7) at Hilton Head and\u00a0Cameron Young (4) at Doral.
\nIt also is not unusual to start a season with three different major champions \u2014 that’s been the case each of the past 11 years. But it’s the first time since 2010 that two of the three major champions were not among the top 30 when they won.
\nAaron Rai was at No. 44 when he captured his first major at the PGA Championship, and Wyndham Clark was at No. 34 when he won at Shinnecock Hills for his second U.S. Open title.
\n(This requires an asterisk because Brooks Koepka was No. 44 when he won the 2023 PGA Championship. He was No. 19 when he left for LIV, and his two wins came with no ranking points).
\nThere were two multiple winners of individual tournaments last year at this point \u2014 Scheffler and McIlroy. There are four this year with Clark, Young, Fitzpatrick and Chris Gotterup.
\nThe last two months, highlighted by the final major at the British Open and three FedEx Cup playoff events, should go a long way toward shaping the season. Scheffler and Xander Schauffele won the British Open each of the past two years, and it was their second major of the season.
\nEven in a game that moves slowly, outlooks can change quickly.
\nScheffler began his year with a four-shot victory in The American Express. Thirteen tournaments later, he still only has one victory.
\nHe still leads the PGA Tour in overall strokes gained and tee-to-green, though his numbers are down from a year ago. Scheffler has nine finishes in the top 5 in his 14 starts. His playoff loss to Viktor Hovland at The Travelers Championship was his fourth runner-up of the year.
\nTake only the money from those four runner-up finishes \u2014 $8.9 million \u2014 and that would rank him at No. 4 on the PGA Tour money list. He hasn’t been as sharp at times. He had a bad habit of giving the field too much of a head start. But he doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.
\nFitzpatrick leads the PGA Tour in victories this season with three because one of them was Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he teamed with younger brother Alex to win. That gave Alex Fitzpatrick a two-year exemption, seen at the time as one of the great gifts ever from big brother.
\nInstead of flying to Turkey for the next European tour event, Alex Fitzpatrick headed to Doral for a signature event. And he got in the next one, and the one after that. He went from that supposed \u201cgift card\u201d to registering four top 10s in the signature events against the strongest fields.
\nHis world ranking has gone from No. 140 to No. 62. More importantly, he is at No. 17 in the FedEx Cup and a lock for all the big stuff next year \u2014 and all the majors if he reaches the Tour Championship.
\nClark is dangerous when he gets on a heater, and he’s on a heater.
\nHe won his first U.S. Open in 2023 a little over a month after dusting the field at Quail Hollow. He shot 60 to win at Pebble Beach in 2024, then was runner-up two straight weeks to Scheffler at Bay Hill and The Players Championship the following month.
\n\nClark had another closing 60 to win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, followed that with contending late Sunday afternoon in the Memorial and early Sunday afternoon in the Canadian Open, and then he stood down a hostile gallery at Shinnecock to win the U.S. Open. And then running on fumes, he got within two shots of the lead late Sunday at the Travelers and tied for fifth.
\nHow long will it last? Two more months and it might be enough to end Scheffler’s four-year run as PGA Tour player of the year.
\nBut that depends on Scheffler.
\nHe is the defending champion at the British Open, and a victory by him or a half-dozen others could be what it takes to bring some clarity to the season.
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CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Viktor Hovland got all the validation he needed Monday that his game was on track again, and a whole lot more.
\nHe beat Scottie Scheffler in a playoff at the Travelers Championship, had both parents from Norway watch him win for the first time and even did the \u201crow\u201d with the Norwegian soccer fans who cheered him all the way to the surprising end.
\nHovland capped off a gritty rally when\u00a0he made a 7-foot birdie putt\u00a0on the first playoff hole and won the Travelers when Scheffler missed a 4-foot birdie putt.
\n\u201cWinning in the playoff against Scottie \u2014 best player in the world \u2014 that was pretty satisfying,\u201d said Hovland, who won for the first time since the\u00a0Valspar Championship in March 2025.
\nThe surprise was Scheffler going from a big advantage \u2014 an 8-iron to 4 feet on the 18th on the first playoff hole \u2014 to missing a hard-sliding putt on the high side that made Hovland a winner.
\n\u201cMaybe I hit it a little firmer than I intended to,\u201d said Scheffler, whose putt caught the left edge and rolled out some 7 feet by the hole. \u201cIt looked like it got pretty far by the hole and I was playing it outside the hole, so I hit it down my line, just maybe the speed was a touch off.\u201d
\nIt was a big disappointment for Scheffler, who made Monday possible by\u00a0making an 8-foot par putt on the 72nd hole in near darkness to force the playoff.
\nHe was first to hit from the 18th fairway and some 3,000 fans on the hillside around the green erupted in cheers. Hovland responded, just like the 28-year-old Norwegian had done on the back nine Sunday when he rallied from a two-shot deficit.
\nHovland’s birdie putt was snapping off to the right when it curled in the right side and he let out a big fist pump.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of those putts that if I make mine, his gets significantly tougher, and if I miss, he probably will make his,\u201d Hovland said. \u201cYeah, it was definitely no gimmies there, so to put the pressure on him was awesome.\u201d
\nIt was the first Monday finish on the PGA Tour since The Players Championship in 2025, which involved a three-hole aggregate playoff won by Rory McIlroy. This turned out to be one hole and 15 minutes, but it did not lack for drama, or atmosphere.
\nThere was lively banter for the playoff. A group of Norwegian fans, who had been in Boston for the World Cup, wore their soccer jerseys and chanted, \u201cHov-land!\u201d as he approached his golf ball in the fairway. The Americans began the \u201cScot-tie Scheff-ler!\u201d chants to drown them out.
\nThe Norwegians also brought\u00a0the \u201crow,\u201d which has gone viral in the stadium\u00a0and subway stations and wherever they go. They sit shoulder to shoulder, arms out and then forcefully pull them in. Hovland had never seen it in person until Saturday.
\nWhen it was over, he sat with his people and they showed him how it’s done.
\n\u201cYou definitely get adrenaline from it,\u201d he said.
\nHovland had plenty of that Sunday afternoon when he returned from a 90-minute rain delay and made three straight birdies to catch up to Scheffler and eventually get into the playoff. He closed with a 69, while Scheffler had a 68. They finished at 21-under 259.
\nHovland is rarely satisfied with a swing that has given him a reputation for making solid contact. He felt it gaining momentum with a third-place finish in Canada, and even in the U.S. Open despite missing the cut. There was always one bad swing that allowed doubts to creep in.
\nThose were gone at the TPC River Highlands, particularly at the end. He was first to hit in the playoff and drilled it down the middle, just as he had done all week.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve been playing golf with Viktor for a long time. We\u2019ve had some good battles in college and out here as a pro,” Scheffler said. \u201cHe\u2019s a guy that has a lot of talent and works really hard. So those are the types of guys you like to see have success.\u201d
\nFor Scheffler, it was his fourth runner-up finish this year after opening his season with a\u00a0victory at The American Express\u00a0in the California desert. But he felt a little momentum, even in a playoff loss, as he gets ready a three-week stretch that includes the British Open, the final major of the year.
\n\n\u201cBall striking is definitely in a good spot. That was some of the best I hit it all season,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cObviously I think just a little disappointed with the results of today. But, yeah, I did a good job of keeping myself in the tournament last night, made the nice putt to close out last night, and so trying to remember that one.\u201d
\nHovland headed home for Norway with his parents. As for his throng of flag-waving, rowing supporters?\u00a0Norway plays Ivory Coast\u00a0on Tuesday in Dallas, the hometown of Scheffler.
\n\u201cThat was probably more coincidental,\u201d Hovland said with a laugh. \u201cThat should be a good game.\u201d
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CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Scottie Scheffler made an 8-foot par putt on the 18th hole Sunday and\u00a0pumped his fist with more emotion than he showed all day, just for the right to return Monday at the rain-delayed Travelers Championship to face a sudden-death playoff against Viktor Hovland.
\nThe final round was stopped for 90 minutes as storms moved over the TPC River Highlands, and officials deemed there was not enough daylight for them to start the playoff.
\nThe playoff was to start at 9 a.m. Monday, the first time a PGA Tour went an extra day since The Players Championship last year.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s more fun when you\u2019re making the ones to win,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cBut to keep yourself in it is also nice. Like I said, I live another day until tomorrow, and will be coming out in the morning and see what I can do.\u201d
\nScheffler and Hovland each had birdie chances at the end. Scheffler rammed his 30-foot putt 8 feet by the hole. Hovland’s 25-foot attempt missed by inches and he tapped in for a 69. Scheffler made his third big par putt for a 68 to match Hovland at 21-under 259.
\nThat was one shot ahead of Collin Morikawa, who closed with a 61 and was briefly tied for the lead, though it never looked as though it would be enough.
\nHovland, who went into the final round with a one-shot lead over Scheffler, found himself two back when play was halted by a pounding rain and lightning in the area, both of them in the fairway on the 14th hole.
\nHovland poured in a 15-foot birdie putt from just off the green, to get within one shot and Scheffler had to make a 6-foot par putt to stay in the lead.
\nOn the reachable par-4 15th, Scheffler’s pitch from the collar of rough \u2014 wet grass might have saved his tee shot from going in the water \u2014 raced toward the pin on the top shelf and kept right on going, over the back and down a slope. He chipped that just onto the green and made another big par putt with Hovland in tight for a third straight birdie.
\nThat left them tied. Scheffler missed a big opportunity on a 10-foot birdie chance on the 17th that spun off of the left edge of the cup, and the world’s No. 1 player did well to hammer a shot from the wet rough right of the 18th fairway to just inside 30 feet.
\nPGA Tour official decided before they finished the 18th there would not be enough light to play even one extra hole.
\nThey arrived at the playoff in different manners \u2014 Scheffler with three birdies against one bogey, Hovland going through a 10-hole stretch in the middle of his round with just two pars.
\nHovland fell behind by two early, only for a two-shot swing on No. 7. There was a two-shot swing in Scheffler’s favorite to start the back nine, and then Hovland made up ground with three straight birdies, the final two after rain changed the condition of the course.
\nThe break was good for Hovland just to settle him down.
\n\n\u201cI hit some good shots and then some bad shots and I just couldn\u2019t quite get a flow in,\u201d Hovland said. \u201cSo it was nice to just get completely off the golf course and reset and I felt a lot better coming back. So sometimes that\u2019s all you need.\u201d
\nMorikawa finished in style, a shot out of the wet sand in the bunker on the 18th to just inside 10 feet for ninth birdie of the round to post at 20-under 260. Morikawa, who started the day nine shots out of the lead, had to wait some three hours \u2014 including the delay \u2014 before leaving.
\n\u201cThe thought of actually having a chance, waiting it out, didn\u2019t really cross my mind,\u201d Morikawa said. \u201cBut I told my wife earlier this morning, \u2018Let\u2019s shoot 61 and end the three-week stretch on a good note.\u2019 And sometimes the way you manifest things works out.\u201d
\nMatt Fitzpatrick shot 64 to finish alone in fourth followed by U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, who played remarkably well after such a draining week at Shinnecock Hills. He was in it until a shot into the water for bogey on the 17th. Clark had a 65 and was three shots back.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-29T01:30:50+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-29T01:30:50+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ScottieTravelersR426.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Scottie Scheffler made an 8-foot par putt on the 18th hole Sunday and\u00a0pumped his fist with more emotion than he showed all day, just for the right to return Monday at the ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/trump-says-his-renovation-plans-for-a-golf-course-will-have-washington-hosting-a-major-tournament/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/trump-says-his-renovation-plans-for-a-golf-course-will-have-washington-hosting-a-major-tournament/", "title": "Trump Says His Renovation Plans For A Golf Course Will Have Washington Hosting A \u2018Major\u2019 Tournament", "content_html": "\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation’s capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament.
\n\u201cWhen completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events,\u201d Trump posted on social media.
\nTrump toured the course with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, various aides and the golf course architect Tom Fazio and his son, Gavin Fazio. The president’s redevelopment of the course is subject to a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
\nIt’s unclear when the course could host any major tournaments, as locations are chosen several years ahead of the events. Locations for the U.S. Open are scheduled through 2051, though there are available spots in 2043, 2046 and 2048. The PGA Championship is set through 2035.
\nTrump complained in his post about the condition of the grass and the sprinkler system for the public golf course, but debris from\u00a0the demolition of the White House East Wing\u00a0has also been dumped on the grounds. The\u00a0National Park Service\u00a0said last month that the debris tested positive for lead, chromium and other toxic metals.
\nTrump said in his post that work on the golf course would begin on Sept. 1. The president also toured updates to Lafayette Park on the north side of the White House and had his motorcade drive around where he plans to build a\u00a0triumphal arch.
\nThe president also said in a separate post that he would meet with Janeese Lewis George, who won the\u00a0Democratic primary for Washington’s mayor. Trump in his post called Lewis George a \u201cCommunist.”
\nAt a news conference Thursday, Lewis George said that as the next likely mayor that she would \u201cwork with anyone including the president for the best interest of D.C. residents\u201d but stressed that she would not comply \u201cin advance\u201d to requests from the administration that could compromise the locally elected government.
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CHASKA, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Haeran Ryu recovered from a rough start to secure her first career major title, winning the Women’s PGA Championship by two strokes over Ina Yoon on a windy Sunday at Hazeltine National Golf Club.
\nRyu shot a 2-under 70 to finish at 13-under 275 and become the sixth South Korean to win the event over the last 12 editions, flashing a big smile after sinking her last putt as friends ran out to douse her in celebration.
\nThe 2023 LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year was also the first major champion in at least the last 60 years to rally from a 10-plus-shot deficit after the first round. Ryu opened Thursday with a 73 in a tie for 70th place, as Yoon shot a\u00a0tournament-record 63.
\nPlaying her first event in six weeks, Ryu shook off whatever rust she showed and heeded some keen advice from her coach about moving forward.
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have another problem so just trust your shot and trust your caddie and trust yourself on the golf course,\u201d Ryu said during the trophy ceremony on the 18th green.
\nBrooke Henderson and Dewi Weber tied for third at 10 under. Three Americans \u2014 Allisen Corpuz, Auston Kim and Alison Lee \u2014 tied for fifth place, six strokes behind Ryu.
\n\u201cHaeran played unbelievable today,\u201d Yoon said. \u201cBrooke, I like to play her, play with her all the time. She\u2019s such a nice girl. I learned a lot today, this week.\u201d
\nLPGA Tour leader\u00a0Nelly Korda\u00a0wrapped up a frustrating weekend on the greens with a 73 to finish in a four-way tie for eighth, failing to become the third player to win the first three majors of the season.
\nThe course was closed for most of the morning while a thunderstorm moved through the Twin Cities metro area, dropping more than an inch of rain and pushing all of the tee times back by 3 1/2 hours while players tried to stay focused and loose. That left the greens extra soft and the air especially gusty, making many of Hazeltine\u2019s notoriously long fairways even trickier.
\nRyu was five strokes behind Yoon in a four-way tie for second\u00a0after two rounds\u00a0and surged to the top on Saturday to take a\u00a0one-shot lead\u00a0over Henderson, the third time she\u2019s been ahead or tied for the lead entering the final round of a major.
\nThe 25-year-old Ryu bogeyed three of her first five holes before settling in and flexing her ball-striking muscle on a particularly tough afternoon for putting.
\nRanking in the top three on the tour in approach, tee to green, and greens in regulation, Ryu went 4 under over the final 12 holes to separate from the pack in a far more relaxing finish than she was on track for. Four different players held a solo lead over the front nine.
\nWeber became only the fourth women\u2019s player from the Netherlands to finish in the top 20 at a major tournament, with Anne van Dam the most recent at the 2024 British Women\u2019s Open. Only one player on the men\u2019s side has ever done so.
\nThe 23-year-old Yoon had her best finish on the LPGA Tour, deftly rebounding from a 75 on Saturday and a double bogey on the third hole on Sunday.
\n\u201cLittle disappointed yesterday and today, but I think I did pretty good job being under pressure and it\u2019s just part of golf,\u201d Yoon said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a really big lesson in the big picture.\u201d
\nKorda made the turn only three shots back and birdied the 10th hole, but her short game fell short down the stretch in similar fashion to the third round. She three-putted five different times at Hazeltine, after posting no more than three in any other tournament this year.
\n\nHazeltine’s signature lakeside hole dragged her down, too, with a double bogey in the first and fourth rounds on the 16th. Her second shot from the right edge of the fairway splashed in the water for a costly penalty stroke, and she two-putted the par-4 hole.
\nWith the Evian Championship and Women’s British Open next month, Korda can still add a grand slam to what has been a superb season despite some setbacks this week in Minnesota.
\n\u201cI was just thinking about the way that I played,” Korda said, “not like the realistic big picture that everyone is talking about.\u201d
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FIANO, Italy (AP) \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra captured a second straight title on the European tour by winning the Italian Open by five shots on Sunday.
\nThe 26-year-old Spaniard got an extra reward \u2014 a spot in the British Open taking place next month at Royal Birkdale. It will be his debut in golf’s oldest major.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very excited. I\u2019ve never played there,” Chacarra said. “I\u2019ve always dreamed of playing it and been watching on TV since I was little.
\n“Excited to be out there, now it\u2019s time to celebrate and then we can focus on that.\u201d
\nChacarra shot 7-under 64 and finished on 24-under par for the week. Matt Wallace (67) was alone in second place, a shot ahead of Joaqu\u00edn Niemann.
\n\u201cI\u2019m feeling great, winning\u2019s always fun but that\u2019s what we work for. I\u2019m very proud of myself,\u201d Chacarra said. \u201cIt was a good fight, two world-class players \u2014 probably two of the best players in the world.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve been dreaming of since I was little, to play against those kind of players down the stretch and I\u2019m very proud of how I played and how I managed myself today … I want to be one of the best players in professional golf so that\u2019s what we\u2019re working for.\u201d
\nChacarra won the KLM Open at the start of June.
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CHASKA, Minn. (AP) \u2014\u00a0Nelly Korda\u00a0traded high-fives with a gaggle of young girls as she walked to the first tee to begin the\u00a0Women’s PGA Championship.
\nKorda later realized the extent of her support when she spotted her name on the back of the customized USA soccer-style jerseys above her favorite number, 13.
\n\u201cIt was a cute surprise after a few holes when I noticed them,\u201d said Korda, who shot a 2-under 70 in the first round Thursday at Hazeltine National Golf Club. \u201cA lot of posters with, \u2018Go, Nelly, go.\u2019 They take so much time out of their day to do that, to come out and support us, and it was quite amazing. I\u2019ve never had that before at a tournament, and they were all so cute.\u201d
\nEven while carrying the pressure of her top world ranking and the quest of winning a third straight major tournament to start this season, Korda was more than willing to oblige autograph requests from her young fan club. That’s the reality of her status as the\u00a0face of women’s golf.
\n\u201cI had a smile on my face through the majority of the day when I saw them,\u201d Korda said.
\nThe 27-year-old Korda, the runaway LPGA Tour leader midway through this season, already has four wins and three second-place finishes in eight previous starts this year. Korda led the final 57 holes of the\u00a0Chevron Championship\u00a0in Houston in April, before winning her fourth career major at the U.S. Women’s Open.
\nInbee Park (2013) and Babe Zaharias (1950) are the only women who have won each of the first three majors in one calendar year. Winning the Women\u2019s PGA Championship this week would also give Korda enough points in the LPGA scoring system to qualify for the Hall of Fame.
\nIna Yoon surged ahead of the pack with a tournament record-tying 63 on Thursday, leaving Korda seven strokes back in a tie for 19th place.
\nShe double-bogeyed the signature 16th hole with \u201cone bad swing\u201d that landed in a narrow creek to the left for a first-shot penalty stroke on the par-4 fairway flanked by Hazeltine Lake to the right.
\n\u201cI just overturned it. By now you just feel it when it\u2019s bad. So the wind was off the right and I actually I think just made a too fast of a swing and I was kind of in between clubs,\u201d Korda said. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty intimidating tee shot, and I just didn\u2019t really like the way I hit it off the start.\u201d
\nShe found herself caught between a driver and 3-wood for her club selection.
\n\u201cYou can\u2019t lay it too far back because then you\u2019re blocked out by the trees and you have a long shot into a pretty difficult green that is pretty undulated, so got to risk it,\u201d she said.
\nThe mishit came right after a five-hole stretch over which Korda was a combined 3-under. A birdie putt lipped out at No. 14.
\n\nKorda\u2019s 19-foot putt on the 18th green stopped an inch from the hole before she tapped in for par. But there\u2019s more than enough time to work her way up the leaderboard.
\nAfter the first round of the\u00a0U.S. Women’s Open\u00a0at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles this month, she was tied for 56th. She won it by one stroke after a nerve-wracking putt on the 18th hole caught the left edge and dropped in.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a confidence boost for sure, but every tournament is so different just based off how you\u2019re feeling, how you\u2019re hitting it, the course, if it suits your eye or not,\u201d Korda said. “So I put myself into a good position. I\u2019m really happy with the first day. You can\u2019t win it on the first day, but you can definitely lose it.\u201d
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CHASKA, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Ina Yoon matched the best score in the history of the\u00a0Women’s PGA Championship\u00a0with a 9-under 63 to take a two-stroke lead over Karis Davidson on Thursday in the third major of the season.
\nYoon, a 23-year-old South Korean seeking her first LPGA Tour victory, birdied five of her last six holes at Hazeltine National Golf Club with a putter that was consistently on point.
\nNelly Korda, who\u2019s aiming to become just the third woman to win the first three major tournaments on the schedule, had a 70.
\nDavidson, who finished more than four hours after Yoon, had eight birdies on the way to a career-best 65 on a calm and partly cloudy afternoon that yielded a bevy of low scores on the long course on the prairie southwest of Minneapolis that requires accuracy and muscle off the tee.
\nAlexa Pano and A Lim Kim were tied for third at 67. Aline Krauter, Hye-Jin Choi and Megan Kang followed at 68. Five Americans landed among the top eight scores, including ties.
\n\u201cJust trying to go out there and make solid swings,\u201d said Pano, who had an eagle and three birdies on the back nine. \u201cMy goal for this week was just to really focus on where my feet are and focus on the shot at hand.\u201d
\nKorda (second round in 2021) and Patty Sheehan (third round in 1984) also posted 9-under 63s at previous Women\u2019s PGA Championships.
\nYoon logged the fourth-best first-round score at any major since at least 1980, trailing Hyo Joo Kim at the Evian Championship in 2014 (10-under 61), Mirim Lee at the Women\u2019s British Open in 2016 (10-under 61), and Lorena Ochoa at the Kraft Nabisco Championship (10-under 62).
\nThe 39th-ranked player in the world, Yoon sounded like she surprised even herself with the stellar start.
\n\u201cI just hit the golf ball and it just dropped in the hole and it was really an awesome experience,\u201d Yoon said, later explaining her mental approach: \u201cJust try to think nothing. Focus on what I need to do. Focus on process. That part I think I did great today.\u201d
\nDavidson, who has made cuts in 15 straight tournaments for the third-longest active streak on tour behind Korda (31) and Celine Boutier (20), is also seeking her first career victory.
\n\u201cHit a lot of fairways. Hit a lot of greens. Putting was pretty on today. Really felt like I was going to hole everything,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cSo it was a pretty perfect round.\u201d
\nDavidson, a 27-year-old Australian, had her best finish earlier this year with a tie for fifth at the Aramco Championship in April. Fellow countrymate and close friend Hannah Green won the Women\u2019s PGA Championship\u00a0in 2019, the last time it was at Hazeltine.
\nJeeno Thitikul, the second-ranked player in the world who’s seeking her first career major, shot a 69. This is the fifth time she has finished the first round in the top 10 in a major, including the Women’s PGA Championship last year. The Thai star broke 70 in official regular stroke play last season 45 times, the second-highest total on tour.
\n\nThe runaway LPGA tour scoring leader at the midpoint of the season, Korda double-bogeyed the lakeside 16th hole with \u201cone bad swing\u201d that landed in a pond to the left for a first-shot penalty stroke.
\n\u201cI just overturned it. By now you just feel it when it\u2019s bad. So the wind was off the right and I actually I think just made a too fast of a swing and I was kind of in between clubs,\u201d Korda said. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty intimidating tee shot, and I just didn\u2019t really like the way I hit it off the start.\u201d
\nKorda’s 19-foot putt on the 18th green stopped an inch from the hole before she tapped in for par, finishing about the same time as Yoon, who wrapped up nearby on the ninth hole. Inbee Park (2013) and Babe Zaharias (1950) are the only women in golf history to win the first three majors in one calendar year.
\nAmanda Doherty had hole-in-one on the 17th in a 72.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-26T01:55:31+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-26T01:55:31+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/InaYoonWomensPGA26.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CHASKA, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Ina Yoon matched the best score in the history of the\u00a0Women’s PGA Championship\u00a0with a 9-under 63 to take a two-stroke lead over Karis Davidson on Thursday in the third major of the ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/eric-cole-opens-with-a-63-at-the-travelers-championship-to-lead-scheffler-and-others-by-1/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/eric-cole-opens-with-a-63-at-the-travelers-championship-to-lead-scheffler-and-others-by-1/", "title": "Eric Cole Opens With A 63 At The Travelers Championship To Lead Scheffler And Others By 1", "content_html": "\n
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Eric Cole returned to the TPC River Highlands in much better shape than he left last year, pitching in for eagle from 65 yards on the par-5 13th and posting a 7-under 63 to take a one-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler and five others Thursday in the Travelers Championship.
\nWyndham Clark found the gallery a lot kinder and the course a lot softer than when he won his second U.S. Open last week at Shinnecock Hills. His only battle was with the 12th hole when he put his tee shot out of play and made triple bogey in his round of 68.
\n\u201cThey were finally rooting for me instead of against me, so we like the Connecticut fans,\u201d Clark said.
\nScheffler, who hasn’t won since his first start of the year in January, at least got off to a good start. He played bogey-free in an efficient round of 64 that left him one shot behind along with Matt Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin, Nico Echavarria, Bud Cauley and Kristoffer Reitan.
\nCole had to withdraw from the final round a year ago \u2014 he was 10 shots behind, in the middle of the pack \u2014 with what he described as a nasty stomach bug. He has Addison’s Disease in which the body doesn’t produce enough hormones to handle stress and blood pressure. It was bad enough for him to spend a night in the hospital.
\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s redemption, but I\u2019m happy to be here and feeling good,\u201d Cole said.
\nHis only disappointment was missing an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole of a pleasant day that followed steady rain earlier in the week that softened the course.
\nThe TPC River Highlands is built for good scoring in any conditions, and it at times looked like target practice for so much of the day with greens holding shots. The greens became slightly firmer as the round went on.
\nCole seized on the opportunity, particularly on the 13th hole. His second shot was just right of the green, and he pitched it on the right line with perfect speed to hole it for eagle.
\n\u201cFrom 13 in is really where you can kind of score,\u201d he said.
\nScheffler, who won the Travelers two years ago, also played bogey-free and was poised to at least catch Cole on the closing stretch. After a tee shot just short of the green set up birdie on the reachable par-4 15th, he had medium-length birdie chances on the three closing holes and narrowly missed them for his 64.
\nEven so, it was his lowest opening round since a 63 at The American Express, which he went on to win in the California desert in January.
\n\u201cWhen the scoring is lower it can be harder and harder to play catch up,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cSometimes here you get so far behind you can only shoot so low on some of these golf courses, so it\u2019s important to keep pace.\u201d
\nClark said he was surprised by his energy level considering the drain of a U.S. Open and becoming the first wire-to-wire U.S. Open champion in 12 years. The only issue was an allergic reaction that caused his left eye to get puffy and caused some blurriness.
\nAnd the only real issue with his game was the tee shot on the 12th hole.
\n\u201cI had one bad swing, made a triple,\u201d Clark said. \u201cOther than that we would be at 5 under and in a great spot. So, yeah, I feel really pleased with my round and I felt awesome over everything. Just one bad swing.\u201d
\n\nPatrick Cantlay, who has yet to contend this year and missed the cut in the U.S. Open, opened with a 65. It was his lowest start to a tournament since the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February.
\n\u201cI feel like it\u2019s moving in the right direction,\u201d Cantlay said. \u201cGolf\u2019s a funny game. A couple weeks can make the whole season. So just grinding and working on all the things that have historically paid off and we\u2019re coming into a big stretch of golf, so it\u2019s a good time to start playing well.\u201d
\nOnly 11 players in the 72-man field failed to break par in the final signature event of the regular season on the PGA Tour.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-25T22:45:36+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-25T22:45:36+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/EricColeTravlersR126.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Eric Cole returned to the TPC River Highlands in much better shape than he left last year, pitching in for eagle from 65 yards on the par-5 13th and posting a 7-under ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/molinari-brothers-reunited-in-europes-backroom-team-for-ryder-cup-defense/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/molinari-brothers-reunited-in-europes-backroom-team-for-ryder-cup-defense/", "title": "Molinari Brothers Reunited In Europe\u2019s Backroom Team For Ryder Cup Defense", "content_html": "\n
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) \u2014 The Molinari brothers are back in tandem for Europe’s defense of the Ryder Cup.
\nFrancesco Molinari was named Wednesday as an assistant to European captain\u00a0Luke Donald\u00a0for next year’s matches at Adare Manor in Ireland, joining older brother\u00a0Edoardo\u00a0in the backroom team.
\nThe Italian siblings have been Donald’s assistants for Team Europe’s wins outside Rome in 2023 and at\u00a0Bethpage Black in 2025, with Edoardo having a key role in providing important statistical analysis. They also played together for the win in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor.
\nFrancesco said it was an \u201ceasy, straightforward decision\u201d to accept Donald’s request.
\n\u201cI was very pleased when Luke asked me,” he said. \u201cI\u2019ve had two great experiences in Rome and New York, two very different ones, but both of them memorable, and some of the best weeks of my life.\u201d
\nIn 2018, Francesco became the first European player to win all five of his matches in a Ryder Cup during the team’s victory at Le Golf National outside Paris. He won the British Open that year, too.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-25T20:14:09+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-25T20:14:09+00:00", "author": { "name": "Associated Press" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FrancescoMolinariMexico25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) \u2014 The Molinari brothers are back in tandem for Europe’s defense of the Ryder Cup. Francesco Molinari was named Wednesday as an assistant to European captain\u00a0Luke Donald\u00a0for next year’s matches at Adare ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/brian-rolapp-the-ceo-to-add-title-of-pga-tour-commissioner-next-year/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/brian-rolapp-the-ceo-to-add-title-of-pga-tour-commissioner-next-year/", "title": "Brian Rolapp, The CEO, To Add Title Of PGA Tour Commissioner Next Year", "content_html": "\n
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Jay Monahan’s plan was to leave as PGA Tour commissioner at the end of the year, and now it’s official. Along with approving a\u00a0new competition model that starts in 2028, the PGA Tour boards elected CEO Brian Rolapp as the next commissioner.
\nRolapp was the first CEO in PGA Tour history when he was hired a year ago, and next year he will be the first to hold both titles.
\nMonahan’s future was always murky after he lost the trust of players for the surprise deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf in June 2023. An agreement for the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to become a minority investor never happen, though the agreement ended all anti-trust litigation.
\nHe was on the search committee that hired Rolapp as CEO, and Monahan has been somewhat of a golf whisperer to bring Rolapp, a longtime NFL executive, up to speed.
\n\u201cThis transition from Jay to Brian has been a textbook transition,\u201d said Joe Gorder, the former Valero executive who is chairman of the PGA Tour boards. “Jay has done an incredible job supporting Brian, providing his wisdom and counsel to Brian, and being there every step of the way.
\n\u201cThe fact that these two have worked so well and collaborated so well really gives the board total confidence in this decision that we\u2019ve made for Brian to take the role as commissioner, also.\u201d
\nMonahan has not said what he plans to do when he steps down at the end of the year. He expressed confidence in the direction the PGA Tour is going.
\n\u201cOver the past year, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work very closely with Brian,\u201d Monahan said. “What has impressed me most is not only his strategic vision … but also the way he listens, the way he builds trust, and the way he brings people together.
\n\u201cHe also has a remarkable ability to balance innovation with respect for our traditions in this game, while keeping our players, fans and partners at the center of every decision.\u201d
\nThe adage that every shot matters in golf takes on a special meaning for Joaquin Niemann after what happened to him at the U.S. Open.
\nThe USGA chose not to issue a conduct warning and straight to a two-shot penalty for Niemann heaving a sand wedge after having put two tee shots out-of-bounds. His 9 on the hole turned into an 11, and his 76 for the opening round turned into a 78.
\nIt’s not as simple as taking two shots off his final score because there’s no telling how he would have reacted had Niemann started closer to the lead, or what kind of weather he faced given the difference in his tee time.
\nHe shot 65 in the second round to make the cut. He closed with a 66 to tie for seventh \u2014 missing by one shot being among the top four who get invitations to the Masters next year.
\nNiemann will be in the British Open as the leading available player in LIV Golf points. But LIV has a limited schedule the rest of the way, and the 27-year-old from Chile will not have access to top world ranking points the rest of the year.
\nHe was ready to move on when he left Shinnecock Hills. He said he was not proud of his behavior, though he did feel as though the USGA made an example of him. A conduct policy always was going to have a level of subjectivity.
\nStill, it was peculiar to slap a two-shot penalty on a player for throwing the club \u2014 even if it did go close to 80 yards \u2014 on a hole with no spectators around late Thursday.
\nDustin Johnson’s 10-year exemption to the U.S. Open from winning in 2016 at Oakmont ran out this year. His five-year exemption to the British Open from his 2020 Masters victory ran out this year.
\nHe is exempt to the Masters for life, but he’s not ready to entirely give up on the majors. Johnson has entered final regional qualifying for the British Open, and is scheduled to play next Tuesday at Dundonald Links in Scotland alongside Angel Hidalgo of Spain and Connor Graham, the Scot who went 2-1-1 in the Walker Cup last year.
\nJohnson said he still hadn’t made up his mind whether to go. He would have preferred a different course than Dundonald Links, and qualifying is two weeks before the British Open.
\nJohnson would be one of 11 players from LIV Golf in the four qualifiers, each offering five spots. That list includes Sergio Garcia, Peter Uihlein, Thomas Detry and Carlos Ortiz.
\nTom Kim was only trying to make a few putts coming down the stretch in the U.S. Open. A bogey on the par-3 17th ended his chances and he shot 70 to finish third. It was enough to secure a return to the Masters and the U.S. Open next year.
\nIt also was big for the rest of the year. Kim’s exemption on the PGA Tour from winning in Las Vegas in 2023 ends after this year. He was at No. 98 in the FedEx Cup going into the U.S. Open. His finish moved him up to No. 55, momentum toward the postseason and maybe getting in all the $20 million signature events next year.
\nKeith Mitchell had four straight rounds of even-par 70 and tied for fourth. That moved him from No. 66 to No. 45 in the FedEx Cup. He has not finished among the top 50 since the signature events became part of the schedule in 2024.
\nThe R&A is not keeping up with the times by keeping the criteria that offers a British Open exemption to the leading five players from among the top 20 in the FedEx Cup through the Travelers Championship.
\nEveryone from the top 29 going into the Travelers already is exempt \u2014 Bud Cauley at No. 30 would have the best chance to grab one spot, leaving four unused.
\nThis could be the third time in the last five years that category goes unused.
\nFirst came a chance in the Official World Golf Ranking formula that led to higher points for the PGA Tour. Plus, anyone winning a PGA Tour event to move high in the FedEx Cup is likely to have earned a spot already through being top 50 in the world.
\nWhen categories are unused, it typically leads to more spots available on the reserve list, which is based on the world ranking.
\n\nNelly Korda leads the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA by an average of 1.15 strokes over Hyo Joo Kim. … Xander Schauffele tied for 11th in the U.S. Open. He has never finished out of the top 15 in the U.S. Open dating to his debut in 2017. … This might require an asterisk because LIV Golf wasn’t getting world ranking points, but Wyndham Clark winning the U.S. Open at No. 34 in the world means the last four U.S. Open champions (Clark, J.J. Spaun, Bryson DeChambeau and Matt Fitzpatrick) all were outside the top 20 in the world ranking when they won.
\nSam Burns is the only player to finish among the top 10 in each of the last three U.S. Opens.
\n\u201cA little bit of carnage is necessary at a U.S. Open.\u201d \u2014 Xander Schauffele.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-23T21:55:33+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-23T21:55:33+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/BrianRolappTourChamp25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Jay Monahan’s plan was to leave as PGA Tour commissioner at the end of the year, and now it’s official. Along with approving a\u00a0new competition model that starts in 2028, the PGA ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/wyndham-clark-showed-his-toughness-as-the-us-open-champion-long-island-didnt-want/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/wyndham-clark-showed-his-toughness-as-the-us-open-champion-long-island-didnt-want/", "title": "Wyndham Clark Showed His Toughness As The US Open Champion Long Island Didn\u2019t Want", "content_html": "\n
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 For thousands in the gallery on the final day of the U.S. Open, he was a most unpopular champion.
\nOne media account noted that he \u201cdefeated par, pressure and a hostile gallery Sunday” and that he \u201cstalked poker-faced through the heat and caustic comments of the gallery.\u201d The local columnist wrote \u201cexcept for a few strays from his hometown,\u201d nobody rooted for him.
\nThat was Jack Nicklaus in 1962 at Oakmont.
\nNicklaus certainly can relate to the toughness\u00a0Wyndham Clark showed Sunday at Shinnecock Hills to become a U.S. Open champion for the second time. If hearing the crowd cheer his bad shots wasn’t enough of a challenge, Clark’s six-shot lead was nearly gone in five holes. But he showed his moxie by not letting Sam Burns or anyone else catch him.
\n\u201cHe had some stones down the stretch,\u201d said Scottie Scheffler, high praise from golf’s best player.
\nBut could Nicklaus relate to the \u201chostile gallery\u201d and \u201ccaustic comments\u201d Clark endured? Hostile and caustic had a different meaning in 1962.
\nSociety has changed mightily over the past 64 years, and it’s getting worse by the year. The Long Island fans \u2014 no one would refer to them as \u201cpatrons\u201d \u2014 had no filter and no restraint. But this isn’t a Long Island problem. It’s largely an American problem everywhere but Augusta National.
\nClark is not the first person to be a major champion hardly anyone wanted.
\nNicklaus was never going to be celebrated in 1962, not in an 18-hole playoff against Arnold Palmer in the King’s backyard at Oakmont, especially with Palmer having won the Masters that year.
\nIt felt as though all of New York was ready to crown Phil Mickelson at Shinnecock Hills in 2004 until he three-putted from 5 feet for double bogey on the 17th hole. The air came out of the place in a New York minute. Retief Goosen was appreciated \u2014 but not adored \u2014 as the U.S. Open champion.
\nThis was different. This was ugly. It was relentless.
\n\u201cHit it in the fescue!\u201d was nothing like Nicklaus ever heard. Nor did Oakmont in 1962 have a fan like the idiot who shouted, \u201cDon’t choke, Wyndham!\u201d when it was Clark’s turn to tee off on the fourth hole. The fan was quickly approached and evicted.
\nThe rousing and sudden cheer on the par-3 seventh sounded as though Clark had just hit it close. Instead, it was because his ball went into the bunker.
\nIt might have been different had Clark played in the final group with Tom Kim instead of Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world who had a chance to give fans something to remember forever by winning the U.S. Open on his 30th birthday to complete the career Grand Slam.
\nBut the crowd shifted quickly from being pro-Scottie to anti-Wyndham.
\nClark no doubt is difficult to embrace, particularly after his behavior last year when he flung a driver that made a marshal flinch at the PGA Championship, and a month later smashed a locker at Oakmont when he missed the cut at the U.S. Open.
\n\u201cNew York didn\u2019t really like me. I love you guys,\u201d Clark said during the trophy presentation. \u201cBut I get it. Some of it\u2019s self-deserved. I did some unfortunate things last year that I really regret, and I\u2019ve been sorry multiple times and I\u2019m still sorry. So hopefully, I can win you guys over eventually.”
\nHis signature moment came on the par-5 16th when he atoned for a bad tee shot into gnarly grass by making a 30-foot birdie putt. The applause was muted, and don’t get the idea it sounded that way because too many fans had phones in their hands. They didn’t like him.
\nClark played right through it, with some level of experience. He played with popular Rickie Fowler in the final round of his U.S. Open victory at Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, when he held off popular Rory McIlroy by one shot. But no one cheered against him that day.
\nThe Long Island gallery was at another level, and ultimately Clark took his place among other Shinnecock Hills champions notes for their toughness \u2014 Brooks Koepka, Goosen, Corey Pavin and Raymond Floyd.
\nScheffler has seen this act before. He played McIlroy in singles at Bethpage Black in the Ryder Cup last September,\u00a0when the taunts became personal and left a stain on the matches.
\nHe also got a relatively muted response in McIlroy’s home country when\u00a0Scheffler won the British Open at Royal Portrush last summer. There was no heckling, certainly not any bad behavior. But it was quiet for a world-class performance by the No. 1 player.
\n\n\u201cThe crowd was tough today. I mean, New Yorkers, they are tough people,\u201d Scheffler said Sunday. “You like seeing the fans cheer for you. I think sometimes it can get a little too much when balls are going off greens and you start hearing cheers. That felt a bit much to me.
\n\u201cBeing in the arena is not for everybody, and I think it shows a lot about Wyndham, how he handled not only this golf course but I think the crowd today as well and is a well-deserving champion.\u201d
\nClark took the high road in the closing ceremony, his news conference and other interviews in the hours after his victory. He posted\u00a0on social media\u00a0Monday night, “This game can be incredibly humbling. It doesn\u2019t owe you anything, and sometimes the only thing you can do is keep showing up and trust that the work will eventually pay off.\u201d
\nKeep showing up and maybe the fans might cheer for him.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-23T15:23:47+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-23T15:23:47+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WyndhamClarkUSOpenR426.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 For thousands in the gallery on the final day of the U.S. Open, he was a most unpopular champion. One media account noted that he \u201cdefeated par, pressure and a hostile gallery ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/a-tale-of-two-tours-pga-tour-approves-two-tiered-system-in-2028-with-expanded-fields/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/a-tale-of-two-tours-pga-tour-approves-two-tiered-system-in-2028-with-expanded-fields/", "title": "A Tale Of Two Tours: PGA Tour Approves Two-Tiered System In 2028 With Expanded Fields", "content_html": "\nCROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 The PGA Tour has approved a major shakeup to its model that effectively\u00a0creates two tours, expanding the field for the elite tier and cutting in half prize money for the secondary tier.
\nThe new model is to start in 2028 with several details still to be finalized, including which of the roughly 15 tournaments will be part of the \u201cChampionship Series\u201d and the 20 events that will want to be part of the lesser \u201cChallenger Series.\u201d
\nThe PGA Tour boards on Monday afternoon approved the recommendations from the Future Competition Committee, which has been\u00a0working on a new plan\u00a0since it was formed last August.
\nTiger Woods was appointed chairman of the committee. He was\u00a0arrested on a DUI charge\u00a0in Florida in late March \u2014 painkillers were found in his pocket but no alcohol in his system \u2014 and sought treatment outside the country. He returned in time for the board approval.
\nCEO Brian Rolapp was to discuss the changes Tuesday morning at the Travelers Championship.
\nRolapp preached \u201cscarcity, simplicity and parity\u201d when he took over last summer, and those pillars have become more clear. The season will be shorter \u2014 approximately February through August with some scheduled weeks off \u2014 without taking away playing opportunities.
\nThe $20 million signature events for 72 players now will be part of the Championship Series and expanded to 120 players on average. Players are not required to play them all and those tournaments will not have sponsor invitations or an alternate list. There will be a 36-hole cut.
\nThe Challenger Series will be a path for players to earn their way to the top level. Those fields will be about 144 players, and Rolapp said purses would be at least $4 million. This year, all but three regular non-signature events had prize funds of at least $9 million.
\nExcept for about seven times during the season, the Championship and Challenger Series tournaments will be held the same week. Rolapp said on the occasion of a week off for the elite circuit, the Challenger Series event would be elevated.
\nRory McIlroy last week referred to the secondary tier as a \u201cglorified Korn Ferry event,\u201d referring to the tour’s developmental circuit.
\n\u201cI just think there’s going to be certain events that might lose their status if a sponsor doesn’t pony up $30 million,\u201d McIlroy said.
\nEach tour will have a separate points standings and there is no plan for players to move up to the Championship Series during the season unless they were to win twice.
\nThe Championship Series eligibility would be determined by the top 90 players from the previous year, the top 20 players from the Challenger Series and other exemption categories for tournament winners, injuries or career milestones.
\n\nThe other big change is the \u201cintroduction of match play\u201d in the postseason and a Tour Championship that will move around to prestigious courses instead of returning to East Lake in Atlanta each year, as it has done since 2004. Those details are still being worked out.
\nAs for the fall, the PGA Tour is moving toward a separate series of four to six tournaments in which top performers can earn their way back to the Championship Series. The tour said it still has plans for the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Americas and the PGA Tour University ranking system that creates places for top college players.
\nFinishing in August would give the elite players time to consider playing overseas, such as premier European tour events or the Australian Open. The PGA Tour recently became partners with Golf Australia without co-sanctioning the century-old event.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-23T15:21:52+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-29T16:20:01+00:00", "author": { "name": "Doug Ferguson, AP" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/BrianRolappTourChamp25.jpg", "category": { "name": "Tour", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/tour" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 The PGA Tour has approved a major shakeup to its model that effectively\u00a0creates two tours, expanding the field for the elite tier and cutting in half prize money for the secondary tier. ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/kpmg-womens-pga-boosts-purse-to-13-million-the-largest-in-womens-golf/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/kpmg-womens-pga-boosts-purse-to-13-million-the-largest-in-womens-golf/", "title": "KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Boosts Purse To $13 Million, The Largest In Women\u2019s Golf", "content_html": "\n
The KPMG Women\u2019s PGA Championship returned to having the largest purse in the history of women\u2019s golf, announcing Monday an increase to $13 million along with adding artificial intelligence to elevate its analytics features.
\nThis is the ninth consecutive year the purse has increased, the largest coming in 2022 when the prize money doubled to $9 million.
\nThe\u00a0U.S. Women\u2019s Open\u00a0earlier this month at Riviera raised its purse to $12.5 million.
\nThe Women\u2019s PGA, which starts Thursday at Hazeltine National, is attracting more attention this year as\u00a0Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in women\u2019s golf, tries to become the first player since Inbee Park in 2013 \u2014 and only the second female in history \u2014 to win three straight majors to start the season.
\nThe field is the strongest for the women\u2019s majors, with all top 100 from the LPGA points list. NBC, Peacock and Golf Channel combine to provide 26 hours of television coverage, equal to the amount devoted to the Women\u2019s Open.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re proud to deliver the premier major on the LPGA Tour,\u201d said Tim Walsh, the U.S. chair and CEO for KPMG. \u201cWorking with the PGA of America and the LPGA Tour, we\u2019re combining a record purse with technology that gives players better, real-time insight into their performance, along with broader, more dynamic coverage for fans.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s all about continuing to build momentum for women\u2019s golf.\u201d
\nThe major dates to 1955. The PGA of America began jointly running it with the LPGA, with KPMG providing major corporate support and behind big upgrades in prize money and data enhancements to help players and the broadcast.
\nThe Women’s PGA has been going to some of the most established courses in history. Hazeltine has hosted the U.S. Open and PGA Championship, along with the Ryder Cup in 2016, with another Ryder Cup set for 2029. Next year it goes back to Congressional.
\nBeyond the boost in prize money, AI-enhanced features are being added to the \u201cKPMG Performance Insights,\u201d launched five years ago to give players access to detailed statistics and to provide an extra layer of storytelling on the broadcast.
\nThat includes reels available to each player that provide a breakdown of their rounds, and shot-level data for the media. There also is an AI-powered live outcome prediction engine. Also, several caddies will wear microphones to allow viewers to hear live interactions on course strategy.
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Being able to hit the ball high or low on command is the mark of a skilled iron player. Mike Malizia explains how ball position adjusts dynamic loft, how finish height dictates your trajectory, and how managing shaft lean gives you three distinct flights from the same swing \u2014 low for wind, high for soft landings.
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\n ", "date_published": "2026-06-23T15:02:26+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-06-23T15:02:26+00:00", "author": { "name": "Mike Malizia" }, "post_image": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Control-Your-Iron-Trajectory-on-Any-Shot.jpg", "category": { "name": "Instruction", "slug": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/category/instruction" }, "time_ago": "2 weeks", "excerpt": "Being able to hit the ball high or low on command is the mark of a skilled iron player. Mike Malizia explains how ball position adjusts dynamic loft, how finish height dictates your trajectory, and how ..." }, { "id": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/wyndham-clark-avoids-record-collapse-and-holds-on-to-win-the-us-open/", "url": "https://clubhouse.swingu.com/tour/wyndham-clark-avoids-record-collapse-and-holds-on-to-win-the-us-open/", "title": "Wyndham Clark Avoids Record Collapse And Holds On To Win The US Open", "content_html": "\n
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Wyndham Clark couldn’t remember being in a darker place. He was publicly reviled for a moment of petulance when\u00a0he smashed a locker at Oakmont\u00a0after missing the cut in the U.S. Open last year. His game, his reputation, he felt it all was slipping away.
\nSunday at Shinnecock Hills wasn’t much better. The New York crowd behind\u00a0Scottie Scheffler in his bid for a career Grand Slam\u00a0turned on Clark, cheering his misses and wishing for the worst.
\nThat’s what made this U.S. Open title so much sweeter.
\nOn the edge of the greatest collapse in U.S. Open history, Clark held his nerve against a charge by Sam Burns and a Shinnecock Hills crowd that never gave him much love until he showed his mettle with his second U.S. Open title in four years.
\n\u201cThe first one was kind of just the breakthrough of knowing I can do it,\u201d Clark said after a two-putt par from 50 feet for a 3-over 73 and a one-shot victory. \u201cAnd then this one was a lot of redemption. Last year was so tough, a terrible year. I left this place in shambles, and it\u2019s amazing what a year can do. I\u2019m leaving here this Sunday as a champion, and I\u2019m just so blessed.\u201d
\nClark, who won the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club, became the first wire-to-wire winner of the U.S. Open since Martin Kaymer at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2014.
\nThis sure didn’t feel like a stroll through the Hamptons.
\nHe had the largest 54-hole lead in the U.S. Open in 15 years. It was down to a single shot in just five holes, and stress followed him the rest of the way.
\nThe clincher for Clark was on the par-5 16th, where on Saturday he made the only eagle of the week. This time it was his worst drive, well left into the gnarly fescue. He gouged that out and narrowly cleared a bunker. His 8-iron barely stayed on the back of the green.\u00a0He rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt for a two-shot lead with holes to play.
\nIt was a signature moment with muted applause. The gallery rooted against him all day, putting all their support behind Scheffler, who made his own share of mistakes and never got closer than three shots of Clark all day.
\n\u201cWinning major championships is extremely difficult,\u201d Scheffler said after a 71 to tie for fourth. \u201cHe had some stones down the stretch. … Being in the arena is not for everybody, and I think it shows a lot about Wyndham, how he handled not only this golf course but I think the crowd today. And he is a well-deserving champion.\u201d
\nClark had the highest final round of a U.S. Open champion since Graeme McDowell closed with a 74 to win at Pebble Beach. No matter. The 32-year-old American has two U.S. Open titles, and two wins in the last month.
\nBurns closed with a 67, his second chance in as many years to win the U.S. Open. He bounced back from a three-putt bogey on the 15th with a an 18-foot birdie to stay within one shot. He made a weak pass at a 10-foot birdie putt to tie for the lead on the 17th. What haunts him is a 17-foot birdie chance on the 18th that grazed the right edge of the cup, causing him to drop to his knees.
\n\u201cI would say last year at Oakmont I felt more I lost the golf tournament. I certainly don\u2019t feel that way today,\u201d Burn said. \u201cI did everything I could to have a chance to win today.\u201d
\nClark finished at 4-under 276 and got a surprise at the end when his father, Randall, took an overnight flight from Denver to watch his son win for the first time.
\nEven the New York crowd had no choice but to salute him.
\n\u201cNew York didn’t really like me \u2014 I love you guys,\u201d Clark said at the closing ceremony, hoisting the silver trophy. \u201cBut I get it. Some of it\u2019s self-deserved. I did some unfortunate things last year that I really regret, and I\u2019ve been sorry multiple times and I\u2019m still sorry, so hopefully I can win you guys over eventually.”
\nClark noticed fans leaving early on Saturday and hoped for a big crowd and big energy for the final round. He got every bit of that, and it was uncomfortable at times. One was ejected when he shouted, \u201cDon’t choke, Wyndham.\u201d The grandstand behind the seventh green broke into cheers when his shot rolled off the green and into the bunker.
\n\u201cI get it \u2014 they were rooting for Scottie,\u201d Clark said. \u201cGrand Slams only happen a few times. He\u2019s going to get it. He\u2019s the best player in the world. But today it\u2019s my day.\u201d
\nIt almost wasn’t.
\nBut Burns never caught caught him. No one did.
\nTom Kim, who like Scheffler celebrated a birthday on Sunday, was on the fringes of seriously contending until he fell back with a bogey on the 17th and shot 70 to finish third.
\nClark’s hit a superb wedge that spun back to 4 feet for birdie on the 10th to restore the lead to two shots. But then he went long on the 13th with a pitching wedge and couldn’t save par. And then came his big moment on the 16th, and one last act of lagging a 50-foot putt to tap-in range.
\n\nThat’s how it was at Los Angeles in 2023, when he needed two putts from 60 feet and lagged it close. Clark simply is at his best against tough tests, and rough arenas. Three years ago, he denied Rory McIlroy. This time it was Scheffler.
\n\u201cThe first one was amazing, and this one seems even better,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI think especially after such a sour taste last year in this championship, to have some redemption and win this again is almost surreal.\u201d
\nA month ago, he was two years without a win and No. 75 in the world. Then he shot 60 in the final round to win The CJ Cup, contended the next two weeks and won his second major. It moves him to No. 8 in the world.
\nThe smile he wore holding that U.S. Open trophy would suggest he feels on top of the world.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Six-time major winner Rory McIlroy fared better than several other fellow past U.S. Open champions this week, with Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm and J.J. Spaun\u00a0all missing the cut.
\nBut\u00a0a rough weekend\u00a0kept McIlroy from ever challenging for the lead\u00a0at the tournament\u00a0he won 15 years ago. He shot 73 on Sunday after posting the same score in the third round Saturday to finish at 6 over, tied for 32nd place.
\nMcIlroy blamed his back nine Saturday after getting to 2 under and
\n\u201cThe wheels came off,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cI sort of shot myself out of the tournament then.\u201d
\nThe 37-year-old is skipping the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship next week outside Hartford, Connecticut, and has a different plan to prepare to play in the British Open in July.
\n\u201cI\u2019ll be playing some links golf this week probably coming up,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cIt\u2019s my favorite time of the year to go back home and play, play the Open, and I get to spend a bit of time back there.\u201d
\nMcIlroy, who is from Northern Ireland, won the British Open in 2014 and has been close to a second title there a few times since. The style of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club was some level of preparation for his next major.
\n\u201cThis was not too dissimilar to an Open Championship in terms of how the golf course started to play over the weekend,\u201d McIlroy said.
\nTom Kim shot 70 to get to 1 under and third place. That matches the best U.S. Open finish by a player from South Korea after Y.E. Yang tied for third in 2011 at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.
\n\u201cFor the first time, I was able to really taste a major championship right in front of my fingertips,\u201d said Kim, a qualifier who automatically wrapped up a spot at the event next year at Pebble Beach, as well as the Masters, because he was in the top four. \u201cI can go back this whole week and just see how close I actually am.\u201d
\nNext time\u00a0Jackson Koivun\u00a0tees it up in a PGA Tour event, he will be a professional. He had quite a finish to his amateur career at the U.S. Open.
\nKoivun birdied his final hole to finish at 2-under 68 on Sunday, becoming the first amateur to break 70 in the final round of a U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He finished at 5 over for the tournament, tying Oklahoma\u2019s Ryder Cowan for low amateur honors, the first time that was shared at the U.S. Open since 2018.
\n\u201cShinnecock was so much fun this weekend,\u201d Koivun said. \u201cJust happy to walk away with a birdie on the last hole, but the golf course is so good, so much fun. A lot of thinking to do, and can definitely mentally wear you down. But just happy to be able to say I went out there and tried my hardest.\u201d
\nKoivun, 21, led Auburn to two national championships in three seasons, becoming the first freshman since Justin Thomas in 2012 to win the Haskins Award, given to the nation\u2019s top collegiate golfer. He won the Southeastern Conference individual title all three years and has been the world\u2019s top-ranked amateur.
\nHe announced earlier this month he would skip his senior season, having long since earned enough points with his college career to qualify for membership through PGA Tour University Accelerated. He will make his pro debut at the John Deere Classic.
\n\nAfter playing with\u00a017-year-old Miles Russell\u00a0in his final amateur tournament, he was asked after signing his scorecard if that meant he was technically now a pro.
\n\u201cNot sure, but yeah, that\u2019s a good way to go out,\u201d Koivun said. \u201cWe\u2019re on to the next leagues now.\u201d
\nAlex Fitzpatrick teed off just after 1 p.m. Sunday, followed not long after by older brother Matt. They both shot 73, with Matt finishing 22nd at 4 over, while Alex was one of nine players tied for 23rd at 5 over.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Keith Mitchell’s\u00a0U.S. Open\u00a0started with a wild ride and ended with historic consistency.
\nAnd with a spot in next year’s Masters.
\nMitchell shot his fourth straight 70 on Sunday, becoming the first player in U.S. Open history to have four rounds of even par. He tied for fourth to secure an invitation to next year’s first major.
\nQuite a reward for a player who wasn’t sure he’d even see the weekend at this tournament\u00a0after a brutal beginning.
\nJust one round of even par to start things seemed impossible when Mitchell stumbled to a 6-over 41 in his opening nine holes. He then put up a 29 on his second, becoming the first player in a U.S. Open to post a score in the 40s on nine holes, and follow that with a score in the 20s on the next nine.
\n\u201cI might have not won, but I felt like I achieved a lot more than potentially I thought I was going to after about two hours into the round,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cYou can always look at winning a tournament, but I think I won the week after the start.\u201d
\nHe spent the entire final round at even \u2014 where else? \u2014 or 1 under. Mitchell made birdie at the par-5 fifth hole to get to red numbers, and stayed there until going long over the 10th green and failing to make a short putt to save par.
\nHe quickly recovered with a birdie at the par-3 11th, and stayed at 1 under until three-putting the 17th for bogey.
\nSome golfers would gladly sign up for a total of 280 if it was offered before a U.S. Open, especially at Shinnecock Hills, where only three players had finished under par in the four times it had hosted since 1986.
\nIt wasn’t good enough to win this time, but it was good enough to tie for fourth when\u00a0Scottie Scheffler\u00a0failed to birdie his 18th hole. If Scheffler had, he would have created a tie for third with Tom Kim and knocked Mitchell and J.T. Poston into a tie for fifth.
\n\nAfter earning his way to Shinnecock by advancing from a 36-hole qualifier in Georgia, the 34-year-old Mitchell went on to his best finish in a major \u2014 and in any PGA Tour start this season.
\nMitchell, who is No. 100 in the world golf ranking, said he is used to not knowing from week to week where and when he will be playing next. But now he knows he will be playing the Masters and U.S. Open next year.
\n\u201cMy best finish in a major by far, might be the best finish of the year, actually, and it\u2019s at this kind of place,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI\u2019ve never necessarily believed that I was \u2014 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s good enough, but was able to accomplish something this big, and for me right now, a T-4 is a win in my book.\u201d
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Sam Burns tossed his putter aside, fell to his palms and then down to his knees. The crowd around him groaned.
\nHe was that close to sinking a birdie putt on the 18th hole to tie leader Wyndham Clark at the U.S. Open and instead missed just right by a half-inch \u2014 maybe.
\n“I really thought I made that putt,” Burns said after shooting a 67 Sunday to get to 3 under for the tournament and go into the clubhouse one stroke behind Clark. \u201cIt just didn’t go in.\u201d
\nBurns sat down in the scoring tent, let out an exasperated sigh and put his hands on his head. He could only watch as Clark birdied No. 16, bogeyed 17 and two-putted in on 18\u00a0to win by the single shot\u00a0Burns did not make down the stretch.
\n“I felt like I was chasing all day,” Burns said. \u201cIt’s unfortunate I just came up one short.\u201d
\nThe heartbreak at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island came a year after Burns’ miserable finish at the U.S. Open at Oakmont outside Pittsburgh.\u00a0He led after two rounds, played in the final group Sunday and\u00a0everything fell apart in the rain\u00a0when he shot 78 to fall out of contention and into a tie for seventh.
\nBurns was brilliant Sunday in his bid for retribution. Entering the final round at even par, seven back of Clark, Burns birdied three of his first eight holes to move\u00a0past Scottie Scheffler\u00a0and others into second place.
\n\u201cTo start the day seven shots back, I knew it was going to take something really special,\u201d Burns said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have asked for a better start.\u201d
\nClark bogeying three of his first seven holes made it close, but Burns was never able to pull into a tie for first. Three-putting at No. 15 put him in a difficult spot, and he thought the back nine was playing difficult.
\nWith Clark shooting the same back-nine 35, Burns felt differently following this loss than a year ago, saying, \u201cThe guy who played the best won.\u201d
\nIt just wasn’t him.
\n\u201cLast year at Oakmont, I felt like more I lost the golf tournament,\u201d Burns said. “I certainly don\u2019t feel that way today. I gave it my best, and I did everything I could to have a chance to win.\u201d
\nWhen Burns was hitting balls on the driving range Sunday night, his dad, Tom came over with a fatherly message on Father’s Day.
\n\n\u201cHe just said he was really proud,\u201d Sam Burns said as he got choked up. \u201cI think we both knew how special it could have been for Father\u2019s Day. But I know he\u2019s proud.\u201d
\nBurns’ wife, Caroline, is 37 weeks pregnant with the couple’s second child, he said. Burns played with 2-year-old son Bear while waiting for Clark to finish and left the course with life perspective after another difficult defeat.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy life we live sometimes,\u201d Burns said. \u201cAs a competitor, you want to go out there and compete as hard as you can and try to win. But at the end of the day, when you\u2019re off the golf course, it\u2019s really not that important and family is a lot more important than golf.\u201d
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