PITTSBURGH — Dustin Johnson is no stranger to rules violations. Nor had he been immune from finding a way to cough up a major championship.

But he didn’t let either get in his way the previous time the U.S. Open was held at Oakmont — not even when the USGA admittedly botched the way it handled a rules infraction that set off a maelstrom ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The U.S. Open is generally the toughest of the four major golf tournaments, so it is appropriate it will be played this year for the 10th time ever at Oakmont, a course generally regarded as one of the five toughest in the United States.

A good friend of mine described Oakmont Country Club as “a beautiful walk ruined by having...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Ben Griffin took the lead on the first hole of the final day with an eagle and never relinquished his lead — but he had to make a putt on 18 to secure the win Sunday afternoon at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial.

Matti Schmid was tied atop the leaderboard with Griffin at the start of Sunday’s round, and after ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Rocco Mediate will not be in the field of 156 players when the U.S. Open returns to Oakmont, about 30 miles from his hometown of Greensburg.

He stopped playing in the U.S. Open in 2010, shortly after he joined the PGA Tour Champions. His missed cut at Pebble Beach was his final appearance in the national championship.

But ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — After starting Saturday sharing the lead, Ben Griffin and Matthias Schmid continued their control of the leaderboard at the Charles Schwab Challenge with the pair nursing a four-stroke lead headed into Sunday’s final round.

Schmid, a German native and PGA Tour rookie, started his day with three straight birdies, ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Zeke Newberry and his family were flown out to the Charles Schwab Challenge at the Colonial for a special VIP experience by the nonprofit Children’s Flight of Hope.

The organization has been helping fly families to critical life-altering and changing treatments since founded by Al Wethington in 1990.

As part of the VIP ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — John Pak surged to the Schwab Challenge lead on Thursday and on Friday added a 2-under par performance, but he lost his hold atop the leaderboard at Colonial Country Club.

Ben Griffin and Matti Schmid are tied at 11-under par for the lead midway through the four-day tournament.

Griffin is having one of the best seasons of...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The first round of the Charles Schwab Classic is in the books, and John Pak leads the field with a score of seven under par.

Pak, 26, was born in Scotch Plains, N.J., and is looking for his first win on the PGA Tour and has one top-25 finish this season, a tie for 17th at the Mexico Open at VidantaWorld.

Pak talked about ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — OK, I’ve got one for you. The three best golfers in the world all walk into the tee box at the 16th hole at Quail Hollow ... and walk off the green a few minutes later with matching double bogeys and frustrated glares.

Don’t think that’s funny? Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele didn’t either, as ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — OK, I’ve got one for you. The three best golfers in the world all walk into the tee box at the 16th hole at Quail Hollow ... and walk off the green a few minutes later with matching double bogeys and frustrated glares.

Don’t think that’s funny? Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele didn’t either, as ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2018, back when he was a mere freshman golfer at UNC, Ryan Gerard and five of his Tar Heel teammates were plopped on the 18th tee of Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte and asked to do something immensely difficult.

Something pros still struggle to do — as many did Thursday.

Get a par.

“We came out here as preparation ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quail Hollow Club president Johnny Harris was busy hosting the largest party in Charlotte on Thursday — the first day of the 2025 PGA Championship.

Wearing a coat and tie in 80-degree weather, Harris bustled about supervising all the small problems that crop up when you get 40,000-plus people together in the Queen City. ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Luke Donald is turning the Queen City into Redeem City.

Heading into the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow this week, even considering the 47-year-old Englishman a long shot to contend might have been generous. Once part of a back-and-forth battle with Rory McIlroy for the world No. 1 ranking, Donald has been absent from ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ol’ Tillie would’ve been proud.

Proud of his golf course. Proud of the players. Proud of his people.

The PGA Tour stopped in Philadelphia for the first time in seven years and the first time ever at Philadelphia Cricket Club, an undersized masterpiece of agronomy and agriculture built 103 years ago among horse farms and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — If it wasn’t going to be Rory McIlroy, another Irishman would suffice. In the final pairing Sunday, Shane Lowry was the no-doubt crowd favorite. Irish flags and soccer kits dotted some of the galleries. Every time he and Sepp Straka moved between holes, it was a Lowry love fest in the final round of the Truist Championship in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Winning a golf tournament is stressful, and so Sepp Straka’s Sunday will come with pressure and queasiness. The Austrian built like a linebacker is tied for the lead with Shane Lowry at the Truist Championship after a 4-under 66 Saturday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Sunday will be about managing all that comes with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — They don’t make short par-3s like they used to. In fact, they pretty much don’t make them at all anymore, at least on the courses designed for current professional golfers.

But that doesn’t mean the best in the game don’t appreciate the charm of a 100-125-yard hole, like the miniature, but vexing, No. 14 at Philadelphia...Read more

The 16-year-old son of golfing great Tiger Woods failed for the second time to qualify for the U.S. Open.

Charlie Woods came up seven shots off the mark to make the cut at Florida’s Wellington National Golf Club on Thursday.

It marked the second consecutive year he came up short of playing in the prestigious tournament his dad has won three ...Read more

DENVER — A California coroner’s office has officially ruled that the death of Jeff Sperbeck, the sports agent who died after falling from a golf cart driven by longtime friend and business partner John Elway, was an accident.

On Friday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department — which launched an investigation into Sperbeck’s death ...Read more