Browsing: The Open

The first fairway at St Andrews looks impossibly wide, an open runway begging for Ludvig Åberg’s violent, modern speed. But…

Bryson DeChambeau at St Andrews remains one of golf’s cleanest contradictions. He brings the loudest kind of modern game to…

St Andrews and its unforgiving driving accuracy begin with the sharp, metallic crack of a driver echoing off the R&A…

Why Scottie Scheffler Will Struggle With the Fairway Bunkers at St Andrews begins with a strange tension, because the argument…

Can a rookie win The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale? The question rises out of the Southport air before the…

There is a specific, sickening silence that happens at Royal Birkdale. It comes in the three seconds after a ball…

Royal Birkdale’s false comfort starts with vanity, because golfers are vain creatures and this place knows exactly where to press.…

The most dangerous sight in Southport is not always a pot bunker. It is not always gorse, either. Sometimes it…

Birkdale in a crosswind sounds manageable until you stand on the 1st tee at Royal Birkdale, glance right at the…

How to read links greens will decide far more than a few lag putts at Royal Birkdale this summer. A…