Rory McIlroy will be a European team leader this week. (Getty Images) Task Forces, dramatized wild-card picks, special practice sessions. As Rory McIlroy sees it, the United States is trying too hard to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. The four-time major winner and new FedEx Cup champion gave some simple advice to […]
Love: U.S. Ryder Cup team 'maybe best ever assembled'
September 24, 2016 by
Your browser does not support iframes. U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III raised the bar of expectations on his 11-man (soon to be 12-man) team on Friday morning. “We don’t have to do anything superhuman, we’re a great golf team,” Love said on “Fairways of Life” on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. “This is the […]
Lee Westwood says Woods could have 'adverse effect' on U.S. Ryder Cup team
September 22, 2016 by
Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood will be on opposite sides at the Ryder Cup. (Getty Images) This one might go up on the U.S. Ryder Cup team bulletin board — if they still have such things — at Hazeltine National next week. Lee Westwood, who will be making his 10th consecutive Ryder Cup appearance for […]
U.S. Ryder Cup wild-card hopefuls pressing to make final impression
September 10, 2016 by
J.B. Holmes is powering his way around Crooked Stick. (Getty Images) U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III has the task of selecting three of his four wild-card picks on Sunday after the BMW Championship. Conventional wisdom would suggest the captain’s microscope would be fixed on the players who came up just short of finishing […]
U.S. Ryder Cup team visits Gillette Stadium before Deutsche Bank
September 1, 2016 by
The current U.S. Ryder Cup team. (New England Patriots on Twitter) The New England Patriots weren’t in Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on Wednesday night, so the U.S. Ryder Cup team as currently constituted took the field. Captain Davis Love III and three of his four vice-captains — Steve Stricker, Tom Lehman and Jim Furyk, […]
Five years after brutal diagnosis, Sauers wins U.S. Senior Open by one
August 16, 2016 by
Gene Sauers celebrates winning the U.S. Senior Open (Getty Images) You might have been hard-pressed to convince Gene Sauers five years ago that he was still going to be playing professional golf in 2016. On Monday, he became a first-time major champion. Sauers won the U.S. Senior Open by a shot over Billy Mayfair and […]
Who do you take at the U.S. Open: The Big Three or the field?
July 14, 2016 by
OAKMONT, Pa. — The question going into the U.S. Open nine years ago was whether you would take 12-time major winner Tiger Woods or the remaining field of 155 players. Now, going into this Oakmont Open in 2016, the question is if you would take the Big Three or the 153 leftovers. So, do you […]
Weather delays plaguing U.S. Open at Oakmont
July 13, 2016 by
OAKMONT, Pa. — It’s raining cats and dogs here, not birdies and eagles. Weather delays, namely severe thunderstorms, have caused play to be stopped twice here at the 2016 U.S. Open. The first delay began at approximately 10:05 a.m. and lasted about 75 minutes. After less than an hour of play, the field was again […]
Watch Spencer Levin lose his freaking mind at the U.S. Open
July 10, 2016 by
Look, golf is a tough game. And the U.S. Open is the toughest test of golf in America. So you can forgive Spencer Levin for a Friday afternoon outburst in which he let fly all his demons at once. Levin was playing the seventh hole of the second round, the second round of 18 holes […]
U.S. Open Round 3 cheat sheet: What happened to Andrew Landry?
July 9, 2016 by
Updated as of 2:15 p.m. ET OAKMONT, Pa. — Thought Andrew Landry would shrivel up under the U.S. Open pressure and go away, didn’t you? Looked that way for a moment, when the stunning first-round leader went bogey-bogey-double on the front nine of Round 2 Saturday to fall from 4-under to even par. But Landry […]
