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Wyndham Clark’s Second US Open — Wire-to-Wire at Shinnecock, Against All the Noise

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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.

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The Open at Royal Birkdale — Scottie, Rory, and the Only Major Left in 2026

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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.

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Course of the Week: Pinehurst No. 2 — Donald Ross’s Other Masterpiece

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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.

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Aaron Rai’s Long Road to Aronimink — How the Quietest Player on Tour Won a Major

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Before Sunday at Aronimink, Aaron Rai was professional golf’s most underrated technician — a Wolverhampton-born Englishman of Sikh and Kenyan-Indian heritage who hit fairways for a living and made very little noise doing it. The major championship that announced him to the world was a long time coming. Here’s how he got here.

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