Andrew Beaton
Sports Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
I cover the NFL and sports for @WSJSports; may occasionally tweet about chess. Email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
For years, Brian Rolapp was talked about as a potential successor to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Instead, he’s taking his playbook to professional golf. Over the course of several months, Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour’s search committee heard dozens of pitches from candidates hoping to become the Tour’s first ever chief executive. But the one that stood out came from someone with no experience in professional golf at all. They wanted to make the PGA Tour more like the National Football League.
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wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
In astonishingly quick fashion on Sunday, J.J. Spaun appeared to play himself completely out of contention at the U.S. Open. With five bogeys over the first six holes, he shot a 40 on the front nine and tumbled down the leaderboard. When a downpour hit Oakmont Country Club and interrupted play midway through his final round, Spaun could have been forgiven if he never even bothered to re-emerge from the clubhouse.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Will Dehmel |Andrew Beaton
There was just one thing he had failed to consider. It wasn’t a par-4. Instead, Morikawa was staring down the longest par-3 ever witnessed in major championship history.For this week’s U.S. Open, No. 8 at Oakmont Country Club is officially listed at 289 yards. But the tournament often inserts alternate tees, meaning for at least one round of play this week, the hole will likely reach 301 yards.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
When renowned golf architect Gil Hanse was asked to renovate the course at Oakmont Country Club ahead of this week’s U.S. Open, he knew it presented two fundamental challenges. First, he had to make sure it was fiendishly difficult. After all, Oakmont has been regarded as one of the toughest courses around ever since it was established more than a century ago. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
Matt Vogt caddied at Oakmont as a kid, runs a dental practice and hits the ball farther than most pros. Now the 6-foot-6 amateur is headed back to Oakmont trying to win a major. Dr. Matt Vogt had just finished playing 36 holes of golf last week, and as soon as he got off the course, he put in an urgent call to his dental practice. Someone would need to cover his patients the next week, Vogt explained. He was going to miss work again, and he had an unusual excuse.
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He's 6-foot-6. He hits the ball farther than most guys on the PGA Tour. And you probably know him as the dentist playing in the U.S. Open. “He won’t look like a dentist that everybody thinks of filling their cavities." https://t.co/pVwyYPfqsB
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