Francesco Molinari won the 147th Open Championship by 2-shots over Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy, Kevin Kisner, and Xander Schauffele. Molinari had 16 pars and two birdies, including one on the final hole, go clinch the win with a 8-under total a Carnoustie.
I got this e-mail this morning.
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Boo-urns!!
Brooks Koepka won his second consecutive U.S. Open by a shot over Tommy Fleetwood at Shinnecock Hills. Koepka shot a final round 2-under 68, and became the first back-to-back winner of the U.S. Open since Curtis Strange in 1988-1989.
A two-putt bogey on the 72nd hole does it. @BKoepka is the 118th #USOpen champion, and the first back-to-back champion since 1989! pic.twitter.com/DaWUiRGHCw
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 17, 2018
Fleetwood shot a final-round score of 63 but came up one shot short.
.@TommyFleetwood1's 63 is just the sixth in #USOpen history, and just the second in the final round! pic.twitter.com/1UmK2RM8qa
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 17, 2018
One of the big controversies from this U.S. Open is when Phil Mickelson seemingly lost is mind temporarily on the 13th hole on Saturday when he missed a bogey putt and then ran to hit the ball again before it could roll down a slope and off the green.
A remarkable sequence on Hole 13, where Phil Mickelson was assessed a two-stroke penalty for hitting a moving ball and ended up making a 10 on the hole. pic.twitter.com/kx6ieYiOGR
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 16, 2018
This is very much the same kind of move that John Daly did at the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in 1999 when he tried to putt a ball from a collection area up onto the green but didn’t quite hit it hard enough. As the ball rolled back down on its way to where it was just played from, Daly strutted to it and “polo”ed the ball up the slope and across the green.
As I remember the incident, it was in the second round and Daly had played great on Thursday and talked about how great the course setup was, until he struggled on Friday and suddenly the course setup was “a joke”.
Back to Mickelson in 2018 on Saturday. He claims he did what he did in order to not have to chip back up onto the green again, so he decided to hit the moving ball, take a 2-shot penalty for hitting a moving ball, and then finish the hole and move on to the next one.
Mickelson’s “use” of the rules is stretching the whole idea of players using the rules to their advantage (usually this happens when they get free relief or a drop where they get out of a bad lie and into a position where they can recover). I don’t think this use of the rules is good for the game of golf, and basically is like cheating. During the broadcast, David Fay, former president of USGA and Fox’s rules expert, said that if he were part of the USGA’s current decision making process that he would have recommended disqualification for Mickelson’s actions.
Anyways, Here are some of the highlights from the final round:
Want to see how the late-round drama unfolded Sunday at the 118th #USOpen? Don't worry, we have you covered. pic.twitter.com/JdijrixuNy
— U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 18, 2018
Webb Simpson won the Players Championship in a runaway, however the shot of the tournament goes to Brooks Koepka who made an albatross on the par-5 sixteenth.
Brooks Koepka makes an albatross (!) from 208 yards out on the par-5 16th 💪 pic.twitter.com/Fzyn4oKie8
— Golf Digest (@GolfDigest) May 13, 2018
Simpson won by 4 shots over Charl Schwartzel and Jimmy Walker, but he started the day with a 7-shot lead and no one ever got closer than 4 shots all day. With the win, Simpson moves up to 8th position (up from 41st) on our Power Rankings.
Here are the highlights from the final round from the PGA Tour’s YouTube page:
Photo I took of the 12th hole at Augusta National Golf and Country Club during the 2014 practice round I attended.
This week I got the e-mail, the e-mail where the Masters Tournament informs me that I can apply for tickets to the next year’s Masters. Everyone in the world should go to this place at least once in their lives.
You can enter at https://tickets.masters.com/app/welcome. Entries close on June 1, 2018.
Good luck.
I saw a comment on a Martin Hall tip video thanking Martin for a “wiping up the spilled milk” tip and so I had to go and try to find what this meant. This is what I found. Martin gives 3 tips for eliminated the slice, and finishes with “wipe up the spilled milk”.
Jason Day won the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow by two shots over Aaron Wise and Nick Watney.
Day hit the shot of the tournament on the 71st hole to pretty much clinch the victory.
Not your typical 7-iron from 230 yards …
It hits the flag! Miraculous.@JDayGolf now leads by 2. #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/s4C5snlJZP
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 6, 2018
SEVEN IRON FROM 230!!! Sheesh.
Here are the final round highlights from the PGA Tour’s YouTube page:
Revolution Golf sends me an e-mail every day. Sometimes they are trying to get me to sign up for their pay section or sell me some product, but more often than not it is a golf tip.
The tip they sent today was from Martin Hall (of the Golf Channel’s School of Golf), and it was a simple way of thinking about the downswing. John Jacobs, one of Martin’s greatest influences, had a short six word phrase to teach the downswing: “Out of the way and underneath.”.
“Out of the way” means to get your hips out of the way, and “underneath” is to turn your right shoulder underneath. Martin explains it much better. If you want to watch the video, you can find it >>HERE<<.
