RETIEF GOOSEN

M.J. Daffue’s problems Friday at the U.S. Open began on a cheap piece of carpeting in a hospitality suite left of the 14th fairway. There was nothing about Daffue’s shot off the deck of the hospitality suite that could’ve predicted his freefall from 6-under par and a three-shot lead to outside the top 10 by the end of his second round.

Justin Thomas is the kind of major champion Southern Hills usually produces.

Southern Hills has undergone an extensive restoration effort ahead of this week's PGA Championship, helping to return the venerable Tulsa layout into what its designer Perry Maxwell had in mind.

Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is among the golf courses with a history of hosting the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship.

FLINT – A field of 82 players will compete in the fourth annual Ally Challenge this week at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club. The $2-million PGA Tour Champions event begins with the first round Thursday and will conclude with the third and final round Sunday. The event’s first three champions – Paul Broadhurst (2018), Jerry Kelly (2019) and Jim Furyk (2021) – will all be in the field. Furyk is among 10 players who won the PGA Tour’s Buick Open when it was Warwick Hills. The Buick Open champions in the field are Woody Austin, Fred Couples, Billy Mayfair, Rocco Mediate, Scott Verplank, Tom Pernice Jr., Kenny Perry, Vijay Singh and Scott Verplank.

He finished 58th in last year’s Ally Challenge and his three top 10 finishes in 23 events during the 2020-21 season. His lone PGA Tour Champions victory since joining the 50-and-over circuit was in 2019 at the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship. At one point in the 2018 Ally Challenge, O’Meara held a share of the lead before finishing tied for third. More information on the tournament is available from the Ally Challenge website. MORE:Nicklaus, Trevino, Izzo to play Ally Challenge Celebrity ShootoutJim Furyk wins Ally Challenge in PGA Tour Champions debut

A look back at the U.S. Open from 10 years ago to 100 years ago offers a mixture of record performances and blown putts, of playoffs and perhaps one of the most underappreciated victories by a major champion.

Phil Mickelson has changed his mind about taking an exemption to the U.S. Open.