The 2026 Open final-round preview: Sam Burns takes a two-shot lead into Sunday at Royal Birkdale, chased by Ryan Fox’s record-tying 62, Si Woo Kim, Lucas Herbert, Ludvig Aberg, Bryson DeChambeau and a lurking Scottie Scheffler.
Sunday at Royal Birkdale: Burns Leads, Fox Flies, and the Open Won’t Sit Still Read More »
Two rounds into the 2026 Open at Royal Birkdale: Lucas Herbert’s record-tying 62 leads, Cameron Young chases, Bryson DeChambeau is penalised, and a 1-over cut sends Fleetwood, Rahm and Spieth home.
Royal Birkdale, After 36: A Record 62, a Two-Shot Lead, and a Brutal Cut Read More »
Muirfield is the links every architect names as the fairest test in golf. A study of the Honourable Company’s home in Open Championship week.
Course of the Week — Muirfield, the Purest Test in Golf Read More »
Tommy Fleetwood learned the game a few miles from Royal Birkdale. A profile of the Southport local and what an Open win at home would mean.
The Local — Tommy Fleetwood’s Royal Birkdale Read More »
Three of golf’s four majors ask the same question. The Open asks a different one — and that is why it is the only one that still tells the truth.
The Open Is the Only Major That Tells the Truth Read More »
Open Championship style is the only golf fashion genuinely about function. A field guide to dressing for the wind at Royal Birkdale.
Links Style at Royal Birkdale — The Open Championship Fashion Report Read More »
A bogey-free closing 64 ends a three-year drought and sends Tom Kim to Royal Birkdale as the last man standing on links turf.
Tom Kim Wins the 2026 Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club Read More »
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. 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. Here’s what actually changes.
Royal Birkdale sits on a strip of dune land between Southport town and the Irish Sea. It has hosted more Opens since 1954 than any other course except St Andrews. And yet, in the hierarchy of famous links, it exists slightly beneath the radar — the working man’s Open venue, the one nobody quite talks about with the reverence it deserves. Here’s why that’s wrong.
Course of the Week: Royal Birkdale — The Southport Links That Nobody Talks About Enough Read More »
Tom Kim entered the 2026 Scottish Open ranked outside the world’s top 40. He shot a bogey-free 64 on Sunday at The Renaissance Club to win his first tournament in three years. He arrives at Royal Birkdale this week as the most in-form player in the field. Here’s how a player who had briefly looked like a lost prodigy became, in the span of a single Sunday, the story of the summer.
Tom Kim’s Renaissance — How a Bogey-Free Sunday 64 Changed Everything Read More »
