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Team USA have stolen the post-Ryder Cup headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. First up were the revelations from Patrick Reed, who all but blamed the decision making of Captain Jim Furyk and Jordan Spieth for the 17 1/2 to 10 1/2 defeat to Europe last week. See Also: Reed Sensationally Blames Spieth & Furyk For US Ryder Cup Defeat …

US team-mates Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka reportedly almost came to blows while visiting their opponent’s team room after Europe’s 17 1/2-to-10 1/2 Ryder Cup victory on Sunday evening. According to multiple reports, including those on the Telegraph and the Golf Channel, the pair had to be physically separated as they came close to an altercation. The Golf Channel also report …

Jim Furyk travels to Paris on Friday with a Ryder Cup team that has been called the USA’s strongest to-date. The Americans snapped a three-event losing streak last time out at Hazeltine, and arrive in France as favourites. Here are the 12 players who will defend the Ryder Cup for the United States, and try to win on European soil …

American Brooks Koepka has won his second Major championship at Shinnecock Hills. The brutally tough course caused much drama throughout the week, but in the end, it was last year’s U.S. Open champion who tamed the beast with a final tally of +1. Koepka, who won the event at Erin Hills in 2017, was six shots off the lead after …

Dustin Johnson surrendered a four-shot lead in his first six holes and finished the day in a four-way tie for the US Open lead as Shinnecock Hills battered the world’s best golfers on Saturday. World number one Johnson closed with a bogey at the par-four 18th in a seven-over par 77 that left him tied atop the leaderboard at three-over …

Tiger Woods finished with a back-to-back birdies Friday to boost his slim hopes of making the halfway cut at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills. Woods looked certain to miss the US Open cut for just the third time in his career as a bogey at his 15th hole — the par-four sixth — pushed him to 12-over for the …

World number one Dustin Johnson fired two birdies in his first nine holes Friday to edge ahead of the pack at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills. Johnson, one of just four players to emerge from a punishing first round under par, teed off on 10 and picked up shots with birdies at the 11th and 16th to move to …

Top-ranked Dustin Johnson fired a one-under-par 69 to head a group of four players sharing the first-round on Thursday as a wind-whipped Shinnecock Hills offered a classic US Open test. As Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson saw their hopes of milestone major victories suffer serious setbacks, it was England’s Ian Poulter, and Americans Scott Piercy and Russell Henley who stood …

Heading into the 118th U.S. Open, Dustin Johnson was the 8/1 favourite after winning last week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic. Now well into his first round, DJ is as low as 2/1 to add his second U.S. Open to a bulging trophy cabinet. Conditions were brutal this morning, with the likes of Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth shooting …

Ahead of the 118th U.S. Open this week, we power rank the top twenty players in contention per the bookmakers’ odds. While conflicting thoughts abound on how difficult the set-up at Shinnecock Hills will be, we will focus on form, statistics, and event/course suitability in determining who is best-placed to claim victory in the year’s second Major. Although they don’t …

Dustin Johnson warmed up for the US Open by reclaiming the world number one ranking on Sunday, cruising to a six-shot victory at the Fedex St.Jude Classic. Johnson, who started the day alongside Andrew Putnam at the top of the leaderboard, held his nerve to close with a four-under-par 66 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. The 33-year-old sealed his …

World number one Dustin Johnson was forced to withdraw from the Masters on Thursday afternoon, minutes before he was due to tee off in the first hole. Johnson fell down the stairs of his rented property on Wednesday evening, putting his participation in the competition in doubt. The 32-year-old was on anti-inflammatories and bedrest for the rest of the night …

The day is finally here for golf fans all over the world. The first major of the year is taking place, and all eyes are on Augusta National for the Masters. But who will be putting on that famous green jacket on Sunday evening? Dustin Johnson was the outright favourite in many people’s eyes, but an injury on the eve of …

Dustin Johnson’s participation in the Masters this week has been thrown into major doubt, after the world number one suffered a back injury at home. BREAKING: Dustin Johnson is a doubt for #TheMasters after falling down stairs at his rental house and hurting his back. — eirSport (@eirSport) April 5, 2017 2016 US Open champion and PGA Player of the …

World number three Jason Day is to return to competitive action in a more upbeat mood at this week’s Masters in Augusta. Day’s involvement in the competition has been in doubt recently as the Australian had been concentrating on his mother’s lung cancer battle, withdrawing from the  WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play after only six holes last month. However, Day’s mother …

Rory McIlroy is the only man capable of coming between Dustin Johnson and the famed green jacket at Augusta next week, according to Padraig Harrington.  As both golfers chase their maiden green jacket, Harrington believes that McIlroy is the only player travelling to The Masters next week who can beat Johnson with the hot streak he is currently on. World …