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A record 62. A brutal cut. Moving day at Birkdale.
Royal Birkdale, after 36.
Lucas Herbert ties the all-time major record with a 62 and leads at eight under. Cameron Young chases. Bryson is penalised. And a one-over cut sends Fleetwood, Rahm and Spieth home. Our halfway report.
Read the report → Course of the WeekRoyal Birkdale, reimagined.
Ten Opens since 1954. More champions than any English course except St Andrews. And the popular hierarchy has never quite given it the credit it deserves. Here’s why Birkdale is the fairest of the Open venues.
Read the profile →Two down, one to go.
Wyndham Clark. Wire-to-wire.
He held a six-stroke lead entering Sunday. He lost most of it. He held onto the last stroke. Ninth player in US Open history to lead every round, against a gallery singing happy birthday to Scheffler. This is how he did it.
Read the recap → The Board · PGA ChampionshipAaron Rai. First English Wanamaker since 1919.
A closing 65. A 68-foot birdie at the par-3 17th. A three-stroke margin. Aaron Rai is the first Englishman to lift the Wanamaker Trophy since Jim Barnes in 1919.
Read the recap →Player profiles.
Evergreen, in-depth profiles of the biggest names across the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and the DP World Tour — career stats, major championships, playing style and the stories behind them. Now thirty-one profiles and counting, with new players added every week.
Cameron Young.
Golf’s great nearly man no more — a Players champion and former World No. 3, in the top three at Royal Birkdale and chasing the major his talent has long promised. The full profile.
Read profile → LIV GolfLucas Herbert.
The Bendigo man who tied the all-time major scoring record with a 62 to lead the 2026 Open — seven wins around the world, and now a genuine tilt at the Claret Jug. The full profile.
Read profile →Links golf is not just a different setting for the same game. It is, in some deep sense, a different game entirely — one that rewards a specific kind of mental adaptability that American parkland courses do not require. — from this week’s Essays
Long reads, written like they matter.
The links test.
Every summer, the world’s best golfers arrive in Britain and, for one week, have to unlearn most of what makes them successful the other 51 weeks of the year. What actually changes at the Open Championship — and why the mental adjustment separates winners from also-rans.
Read essay → Tour Life · ProfileThe local at Birkdale.
Tommy Fleetwood learned the game a few miles from Royal Birkdale, and joined the club as a boy. The best player without a major, chasing the Claret Jug on the links that built his swing. What a home win would mean.
Read profile →The purest test in golf.
Home of the oldest club in the world, and the links every architect names as the fairest. Two loops, ruthless revetted bunkers, and a wind that hits from every direction. Muirfield hides nothing.
Read profile → Fit of the Week · The OpenLinks style at Birkdale.
Open Championship style is the only golf fashion genuinely about function — and better for it. The waterproof as statement piece, Border-mill knitwear, and the trousers that survive a Lancashire crosswind.
Read the report →Read something excellent.
The only major that tells the truth.
Three of golf’s four majors now ask the same question. The Open asks a different one — wind, ground, invention, acceptance — and that is why it is the only one that still reveals who can actually play.
Read → The Board · Scottish OpenTom Kim wins at The Renaissance.
A bogey-free closing 64 ends a three-year drought and sends the prodigy to Royal Birkdale as the last man standing on links turf. The tune-up win that reset his season, one week before the Open.
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