Written by Chris Bertram on Monday 3 June 2024
The US Open returns to Pinehurst’s No.2 course next month, back to where – for Americans at least – it all began. For the Home of Golf, read the Cradle of Golf. While we cherish St Andrews as the sleepy, enchanting birthplace of the game, America look to Pinehurst as its spiritual home. Both names engender the same enviable mystique at...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 4 June 2024
Ahead of the 124th US Open at Pinehurst, we spoke with Retief Goosen about his journey through the game, including both his US Open victories and his life before and since. Retief Goosen is a man so relaxed he is almost comatose. For the best part of three decades, he lived up to his ‘Ice Man’ moniker on the European and...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 4 June 2024
By looking back at trends from recent U.S. Opens it’s possible to cut the field down to size and work out the most likely winner in Pinehurst. US Open action returns to Pinehurst’s No.2 course in North Carolina for the first time since 2014 when Germany’s Martin Kaymer stormed to victory with a dominant eight-stroke battering of the field. And...
Written by Lewis Daff on Thursday 6 June 2024
8 high-profile names will be absent at Pinehurst No.2 when the 2024 US Open gets underway. But who are they and why have they missed out? It’s known as one of the toughest tests in golf for a reason, with course setups designed to make or break the best golfers in the world the US Open demands the most precise play...
Written by Lewis Daff on Friday 7 June 2024
Today’s Golfer looks back at the low amateurs at the US Open who have gone on to have successful professional careers. Looking at the elites of today, it’s easy to forget that every one of them began the game as amateurs just like the rest of us. The beginnings of the game saw Pros and Ams compete against each other for...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 7 June 2024
From the most wins to the record-breaking scorecards, Today’s Golfer gets you up to speed with every fact you’ll ever need about the US Open. The US Open tees off at Pinehurst No.2 for the fourth time in its distinguished 124-edition history, only by-passing seven years since 1895 due to World War I (1917, 1918) and World War II (1943-1945). Fun...
Written by Matt Cooper on Monday 10 June 2024
Men’s professional golf reunites at Pinehurst as LIV players do battle with their former colleagues in a bid for Major glory at the US Open. Join me as I take a closer look at the 12 stars from the Saudi-backed league hoping to hoist the trophy come Sunday evening. Ahead of last month’s PGA Championship Bryson DeChambeau was in a feisty...
Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 10 June 2024
The revered Course No.2 at Pinehurst hosts the 124th US Open and the final chance of 2024 to grab a Major on US soil. Here’s our guide to everything you need to know. Pinehurst No.2 will welcome a field of 156 players as it hosts the men’s Major Championship for the fourth time, 25 years after the US Open first headed...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Speaking ahead of the 124th US Open, Tiger Woods spoke on his prospects and what to expect from one of the toughest tests in golf at Pinehurst No.2. Collin Morikawa said at the Memorial last week that the 15-time Major champions’ game is “all still there”, and Tiger’s responses in the lead-up to every Major thus far in 2024 have indicated...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Entering his pre-tournament press conference with a flip-flop and toe-separator on his left foot, Jon Rahm described his foot injury as a ‘concern’ ahead of the US Open. Grimacing in pain at LIV Golf Houston last week before withdrawing, speculation started mounting as to whether Jon Rahm would make it to the year’s third Major championship at the US Open. And on...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Fresh from a fifth title this season at the Memorial, Scottie Scheffler brushes off the ‘target on his back’ tag and insists it’s a level playing field come Thursday. When the World No.1 tees off with Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy on Thursday for the 124th US Open, he will not be concerned with anyone placing any’ targets’ on his back. “When...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 11 June 2024
The Major drought is now a decade long, but Rory McIlroy believes he is closing in on that elusive fifth title and hunting down the European records of Seve and Faldo. Looking relaxed on the eve of the 124th US Open, Rory McIlroy spoke of the pride for his ‘body of work’ over the last 15 years, and despite a fifth...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Jon Rahm has withdrawn from the US Open at Pinehurst with a foot injury. The Spaniard, who was forced out of LIV Houston with the injury – a cut to his left foot that had become infected – at the weekend, had hoped to recover in time for the year’s third men’s Major and had faced the media earlier on Tuesday...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 12 June 2024
Divorce off. Rory McIlroy makes marriage U-turn ahead of the 124th US Open at Pinehurst. On the eve of the third major of the year Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll have resolved their differences and are looking forward to a new beginning. It was just days before the PGA Championship in Valhalla that news emerged Rory McIlroy had filed for divorce from...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Wednesday 12 June 2024
A major-record purse of $21.5 million was announced by the USGA on Wednesday at the US Open in Pinehurst. United States Golf Association (USGA) CEO, Mike Whan announced on the eve of the 124th US Open, the 1000th USGA-run tournament, that the field in Pinehurst would be competing for its biggest purse yet. The record-breaking prize fund represents not only the biggest...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 13 June 2024
The 124th US Open is over at Pinehurst No.2, but in case you missed any of the action, we’ve got the headline numbers from each day’s play. 156 players teed it up at the US Open in North Carolina, playing a minimum of 36 holes, each with their own unique professional and amateur journeys to this point. That’s a lot of...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Thursday 13 June 2024
I took a meander around Pinehurst’s 35,000 square foot merchandise tent to pick out my 10 favorite US Open keepsakes. I don’t do shopping. I’m the type of guy who finds a chair and starts moaning about how my feet ache after five minutes of entering a clothes shop with my wife. Not today though. I have a few exceptions, and golf...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Sunday 16 June 2024
I sat on Pinehurst’s perilous 13th green on Saturday which derailed the ‘boring golf’ express of Tony Finau, Ludvig Aberg, and more. Here’s my view on what it will take to walk away as the US Open champion. I write this as the early Sunday groups head out to convince themselves for one last time that Pinehurst No.2 can be tamed...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Sunday 16 June 2024
Bryson DeChambeau edges Rory McIlroy in Pinehurst thriller to secure a second US Open title. Two missed putts from inside five feet was the death of Rory McIlroy’s US Open campaign with Bryson DeChambeau making an epic up-and-down from the sand on 18 to win by one in a gripping to-and-fro battle. It was the most fitting end to an extraordinary...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 15 June 2024
My dehydrated ramblings on hole 11 at the US Open in the hope of seeing a vintage Tiger Woods. When Tiger Woods addressed the media on Tuesday he spoke of Pinehurst being a ‘war of attrition’ this week, referring to the patience and discipline required to stick to the plan, described by many of his colleagues as the ‘boring golf’ strategy. Little...