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 »
Wyndham Clark led the 2026 US Open at Shinnecock Hills from the first round to the last. He held a six-stroke advantage entering Sunday. He lost most of it. He held onto the last stroke. He is the second player in twelve years to win the US Open wire-to-wire, and he did it against a gallery that spent Sunday afternoon actively rooting for someone else. This is how he did it.
Wyndham Clark’s Second US Open — Wire-to-Wire at Shinnecock, Against All the Noise Read More »
The 154th Open Championship tees off Thursday at Royal Birkdale in Southport. Scottie Scheffler arrives as world number one and +700 favourite. Rory McIlroy arrives with links form and a T4 memory of 2017. Tommy Fleetwood arrives as the local, wanting the story of a lifetime. The final men’s major of 2026 has the field it deserved.
The Open at Royal Birkdale — Scottie, Rory, and the Only Major Left in 2026 Read More »
Tiger Woods made it iconic. Henrik Stenson built a career around it. The stinger — the punched, low-flying long iron that bores through wind and lands soft — was once the defining shot of a complete professional. In 2026 you rarely see it on tour. Here’s what we’ve lost.
The Lost Art of the Stinger — Why Golf’s Most Beautiful Shot Is Disappearing Read More »
We profiled Aronimink last week. This week we go to the other Donald Ross course that has a fair claim to being his masterpiece. Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina is the most influential American course of the 20th century, the home of American golf in a way no other club has matched, and the venue that has hosted four US Opens, three of them in living memory. Here’s why.
Course of the Week: Pinehurst No. 2 — Donald Ross’s Other Masterpiece Read More »
The Masters has the jacket. The US Open has the patriotism. The Open has the claret jug and history. The PGA Championship has the largest trophy in major golf — and the smallest cultural footprint. That’s wrong, and Aaron Rai’s Sunday at Aronimink is the proof.
The Wanamaker Is Golf’s Most Underrated Trophy. Aaron Rai Just Proved Why It Matters. Read More »
