Archive for June, 2011

Much will be made of Rory McIlroy’s breathtaking, record-setting victory at the U.S. this past weekend. Much will be deserving. Much will be pure conjecture. But what we can never add to or take away from his finish yesterday is history. The 22-year-old set 12 USGA records en route to his eight-stroke victory over a doubly unlucky Jason Day and the rest of the field. Before getting to those, I (of course) want to throw my two-sense into what we were just fortunate enough to witness. Rory McIlroy made winning a major title look easier than anyone else has in [...]

A little extra buzz courses through the golf world this week as the world’s elite make their second stop on the PGA Tour major circuit, the U.S. Open. The summer startup returns this year to the Blue Course at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., the first time since Ernie Els captured his second U.S. Open title 14 years ago. Absent Tiger Woods, the field will ready itself for battle with a 7,300-yard golfing compound that, incidentally, doubled as a military training ground during WWII. Before surveying the combatants, let’s briefly talk about our conspicuous AWOL, Tiger Woods, who will [...]