8:29 PM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — There has been drama at this U.S. Open from the moment players arrived on property. Before it started, it wasn’t about the golf. It was about the state of golf. Now, though, it’s about the golf, with a leaderboard that has a mix of stars, up-and-comers and a few
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11:39 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — A lot can happen on a Saturday at the U.S. Open, especially with a leaderboard as packed as this one. With a mix of big names and lesser-known ones, things could get interesting on a cooler, windier day at The Country Club. Get ESPN+ here | Download the app
8:11 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN BROOKLINE, Mass. — In the midst of a tenuous time for golf, Brooks Koepka said earlier this week he wanted the focus to be on the U.S. Open. After two rounds, with Phil Mickelson now gone after having missed the cut, it’s safe to say that the focus has shifted
8:31 PM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Here are the tee times for the third round of the U.S. Open at The Country Club: All times ET (a) denotes amateur 9:49 a.m. — Joseph Bramlett, Stewart Hagestad (a) 10 a.m. — Sebastian Munoz, Patrick Cantlay 10:11 a.m. — Sam Bennett, Denny McCarthy 10:22 a.m. — Sam
7:12 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — There was a lot going on in the first round of the 2022 U.S. Open. The requisite drama around Phil Mickelson? Check. A few tossed clubs? You bet. Kids running off with defending champion Jon Rahm‘s ball on the 18th hole? OK. Wild turkeys on the course? Sure. Canadian
8:56 PM ET ESPN News Services BROOKLINE, Mass. — Adam Hadwin wasn’t officially in the U.S. Open until eight days ago. He walked off The Country Club on Thursday with his best score ever in a major for a one-shot lead. With the focus finally shifting away from Saudi-backed rival league LIV Golf Invitational Series,
8:21 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Perhaps the talk of LIV Golf vs. the PGA Tour will subside for a few days, with the start of the U.S. Open at The Country Club officially here. Or, at least, it will stall until 1:47 p.m., when Phil Mickelson arrives on the first tee. Mickelson, the face
2:23 PM ET Rory McIlroy is the consensus favorite to win the U.S. Open this week at sportsbooks around the U.S. Fresh off his win at the RBC Canadian Open, McIlroy climbed up the odds boards, surpassing top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and taking over the role as consensus favorite entering this week’s U.S. Open at The
1:39 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN BROOKLINE, Mass. — Bryson DeChambeau says he doesn’t plan to play in the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship next week at TPC River Highlands. DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S. Open winner, joined the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series last week. He briefly addressed his status for the Travelers while on the putting
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 U.S Open Championship returns to Brookline Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, for the first time since 1988, with a loaded field of 156 golfers vying for the top 60 spots to advance. 2011 U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy enters the weekend as the favorite after winning the RBC
7:43 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — We interrupt the ongoing drama of who has left the PGA Tour — and who might still be going to the LIV Golf Invitational Series — for the 122nd U.S. Open, the third major championship of the season. With two golf worlds colliding at The Country Club this week,
11:50 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka criticized reporters on Tuesday for asking him questions about the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, which he said was casting a “black cloud” over this week’s U.S. Open. “I’m here at the U.S. Open,” Koepka said. “I’m ready to play the U.S. Open, and
10:32 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Rory McIlroy said he is disappointed that some PGA Tour players took the “easy way out” and joined the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, and in how six-time major champion Phil Mickelson helped create the new circuit. McIlroy, speaking at a news conference Tuesday ahead of this week’s U.S.
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8:43 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — The year’s third major comes with plenty of drama. Tiger Woods, who limped his way through the Masters and most of the PGA Championship before withdrawing, is sitting this one out to let his body recover. Phil Mickelson, who has not played in the United States in more than
7:40 PM ET ESPN News Services BROOKLINE, Mass. — Bryson DeChambeau called his move to the LIV Golf series “a business decision,” and a difficult one at that. The 2020 U.S. Open champion, who as recently as 10 days ago had said he was sticking with the PGA Tour, offered his first comments about his
3:28 PM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — Here are the tee times for the first two rounds of the U.S. Open at The Country Club. All times ET (a) denotes amateur Thursday 1st tee 6:45 a.m. — Michael Thorbjornsen, Erik Barnes, Matt McCarty 6:56 a.m. — Matthew NeSmith, Patrick Rodgers, Travis Vick 7:07 a.m. — Troy
7:07 PM ET BOSTON — In his first interview since suspending 17 players for competing in the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan defended the punishment in an interview with CBS Sports during the final round of the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday. Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson, two-time major winner