The BMW Championship will have a new name in 2020 when the tournament is played at Olympia Fields. BMW’s contract with the PGA Tour and Western Golf Association expires after this year’s event. Once the final putt drops at Medinah in August, the company will not return as title sponsor, the Tribune...
Michelle Wie returned to competition Thursday in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship looking as if she had never left. She was icing her right hand. She shot a 12-over 84. And then she wondered, through tears, how much time she had left. "It's hard," Wie said after matching her highest score on the...
A runaway golf cart ripped through spectators gathered at the U.S. Open and injured five people after a box fell from the front seat of the unoccupied vehicle and onto the gas pedal. A vendor set to make deliveries Friday parked his cart, loaded with boxes, near the 16th fairway at Pebble Beach...
Justin Rose isn’t quite on top of the world yet, but he is on top of the leaderboard at the U.S. Open and that’s good enough for now. “I wouldn’t say it’s exhilarating, because I feel like my mind-set is I am in a 72-hole tournament,” Rose said Thursday evening under cool, slate-gray skies just...
Soft course, plus light wind makes for prime scoring as 39 players reach red numbers in first round
There would be no debacle, nothing to distract golf lovers from fully enjoying the visual bounty that is the Pebble Beach Golf Links. The U.S. Golf Assn. took extensive measures to ensure that for the first round of the 119th U.S. Open on Thursday. It showered the course with abundant water, and...
For a guy who doesn’t wring his hands over first impressions, Rickie Fowler knows how to make a good one. Since the start of 2017, he’s 20-under par in the opening round of major championships, a trend he maintained Thursday with a five-under 66 in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach to put him in four-way...
You can’t win the U.S. Open on Thursday, but you can sure lose it. That’s Rory McIlroy’s disposition heading into the opening round at Pebble Beach, where he will look to maintain his momentum from last weekend’s seven-shot victory at the Canadian Open. “My first rounds at Augusta and Bethpage...
Jason Day admits the conversation that put Steve Williams on his bag this week for the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach involved the golfer making more of a sales pitch than the caddie. “He says that I pulled him out of a hole. But the hole was probably about as flat as this bloody table here,” Day said...
For a guy trying to complete the career majors Grand Slam on a golf course he dearly loves, Phil Mickelson could not be more under the radar this week at the 119th U.S. Open. Mickelson didn’t come to the media center at Pebble Beach for a formal pretournament interview, as he has for probably two...
Blame the expectations on the U.S. Open in 2000. The images of Tiger Woods carving up Pebble Beach Golf Links with freakish accuracy, using irons and otherworldly putting, is the lasting impression of how dominant he can be while playing on the Monterey Peninsula. In arguably his greatest triumph...
The morning mist was thick at Pebble Beach on the day before the start of the 2000 U.S. Open. Twenty-one professional golfers stood in a line along the 18th fairway and fired drives on command into the glistening sea. The tribute, an alternative to a 21-gun salute, was in honor of Payne Stewart,...
It would seem the quarry would be bare of rock chips for Brooks Koepka to place on his broad shoulders. Incredibly, after four major victories in fewer than two years, Koepka keeps finding more. On Tuesday at Pebble Beach, where Koepka will try to win a third straight U.S. Open beginning Thursday,...