Will Shinnecock <\/b>Hills again prove a controversial major venue? The past two US Opens there have been extraordinarily eventful.<\/p>\n
In 2004 the greens became so hard they were almost unplayable and in 2018 Mickelson resorted to hitting a putt on the move, preferring a two-shot penalty to hitting his ball off the 13th green. What will June bring at the venerable but capricious Long Island venue?<\/p>\n
Could Tiger <\/b>Woods be in the field? Sadly the 15-times major-winning great is still recovering from his latest back surgery. His influence will surely be greater off the course – planning a revamped PGA Tour schedule and perhaps taking over the US Ryder Cup captaincy.<\/p>\n
The US <\/b>Women’s Open will be a fascinating week at LA’s Riviera Country Club, a great venue that will hold the golf events at the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n
Brendan Valdes <\/b>is another young American left hander worth watching as he embarks on a full PGA Tour season for the first time. The 22-year-old enjoyed a stellar college career at Auburn where he amassed a record 558 birdies and already has a tour top-10 to his name.<\/p>\n
The AIG Women’s <\/b>Open returns to Royal Lytham and St Anne’s at the end of July, where Georgia Hall was the champion in 2018. Could this be a forerunner to the Lancashire links staging the men’s Open which was last held there 14 years ago? We still do not know where the 2028 championship will be held.<\/p>\n
X <\/b>has to be Xander Schauffele because, well, where else could I go? But the American must be due to rediscover the form that brought two majors in 2024 and render last year’s injury-induced inconsistency a mere blip in a fine career to date.<\/p>\n
Cameron Young <\/b>showed at the Ryder Cup that he is built for the big time. Ensconced in the world’s top 20 and now with a long awaited tour win under his belt, expect the New Yorker to push for top-10 recognition in 2026.<\/p>\n
And with the sad recent death of Fuzzy Zoeller, Will Zalatoris <\/b>must carry the banner at the end of the alphabet.<\/p>\n
Having returned from his latest back surgery, at an event in South Africa at the end of last year, there are many fans desperate to see a sustained recovery.<\/p>\n
The popular 29-year-old says his latest return is a “rebirth” and is now hoping to add to the six major top-10s he accrued between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Shinnecock Hills again prove a controversial major venue? The past two US Opens there have been extraordinarily…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-496557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115848362234078534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}