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SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | It’s one thing to use the Rules of Golf to your advantage. It’s part of the game, counsel passed down through years. It’s something else to abuse the rules the way Phil Mickelson did Saturday at Shinnecock Hills. He’s not going to win the U.S. Open…
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | If Sunday at Shinnecock Hills is anything like Saturday, well, that may be more than anyone can handle. When everything came to rest at sundown Saturday, four players – Daniel Berger, Tony Finau, defending champion Brooks Koepka and 2016 champion Dustin Johnson – shared the lead…
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | By lunchtime Saturday, Shinnecock Hills could hardly have been better. Warm and sunny with just a gentle breeze, it was an almost perfect mid-June day. Then the wind arrived, the fangs came out and the U.S. Open was on edge again. Did the USGA push Shinnecock…
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | Phil Mickelson has a simple message for anyone bothered by his unconventional use of the Rules of Golf, specifically Rule 14-5. “If somebody is offended by that, I apologize to them. But toughen up,” Mickelson said. “This is not meant that way. I just wanted to…
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | The happiest man at Shinnecock as the third round dawned might have been Dustin Johnson, the leader by four strokes, or Matt Parziale, the amateur, a fireman from Boston, Mass., who had reached the weekend. Actually, the happiest man was none of these but Thomas Bjørn,…
SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK | First, the scenario and then the question. You’re coming to the end of your second round at the US Open. The cut is of no concern because you are so close to the leader you could almost touch him. Just two holes remain and if you…
