By: Global Golf Post The scene was set for record breaking long before Branden Grace handed in the first 62 in the long history of major championship golf during the third round of the 146th Open at Royal Birkdale. Where, on Friday morning, the early players did not exactly inspire the later starters with their wind-tossed…
By: Brian Keogh, Global Golf Post Staying the course when the mental test is the toughest is the sign of a champion, and Jon Rahm was thrilled to produce a near-perfect final-round 65 to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open by six strokes. His showing at Portstewart Golf Club was a far cry from…
By: Global Golf Post Kenny Perry won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday, posting a record 16-under 264 total to finish two strokes ahead of Kirk Triplett. Perry shot rounds of 65-64-67-68 at Salem County Club. It was his second U.S. Senior Open title and his fourth major victory on the PGA Champions. The 56-year-old…
By Global Golf Post For Ricky Fowler and Justin Thomas, low numbers put their names in the U.S. Open record book but not on the trophy. Fowler, whose opening 65 equaled the lowest score in relation to par in the first round of the U.S. Open, couldn’t make anything happen on Sunday, shooting a closing…
This year’s U.S. Open at Erin Hills marks only the 3rd time in modern history that the men’s Open championship has been hosted by a relatively new course. Very much like Super Bowls in football that have been granted to new stadiums, the Open has not returned, or scheduled to return, to those courses. 1976 –…
