James Colgan
News and Features Editor at Golf Magazine
Writer @GOLF_com | Best to Bring Home to Mom & Dad ‘15 | Syracuse ‘19 | Huge fan of the underdog.
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golf.com | James Colgan
In the spring of 2016, Kevin Clark received an unexpected job offer. A group of media friends were starting a sports website with ambitious plans and opaque goals, and they wanted Clark, then a reporter working his dream job at the Wall Street Journal, to join. Clark debated the decision as he descended upon Boca Raton, Fla., for the annual NFL owners’ meetings. The upside of the new job was obvious — it was a black box, an upside play, a great unknown. The downside was equally terrifying.
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golf.com | James Colgan |Dylan Dethier
OAKMONT, Pa. — How do you like your U.S. Opens? How far do you like to see your golfers pushed? To the edge? A little past that? A little past that? Sunday’s final round at Oakmont got off to a relatively normal start and then — first gradually, then suddenly — went completely off the rails. What follows are 20 snippets that provide an incomplete account of Sunday’s insanity at Oakmont. J.J. Spaun bogeyed the first hole but had a nice look from the fairway at the short par-4 2nd.
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golf.com | James Colgan
OAKMONT, Pa. — Robert MacIntyre knew before he knew how. He’d battled through 72 holes of a real, kick-in-the-teeth U.S. Open — through hellish rough and heinous lies, through stifling heat and a driving rainstorm, through birdies and bogeys. And yet, after four brutal days at Oakmont, he’d fallen short. “I’ve been saying it all week,” he said after a final-round 69 briefly made him the clubhouse leader.
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golf.com | James Colgan
OAKMONT, Pa. — The best golf is good theater. While Rory McIlroy’s performance at this week’s U.S. Open was many things — strange, tumultuous, disappointing, mystifying — there is little debating that it was also very good theater. The rising acts came on Thursday and Friday, when McIlroy ejected from contention by tossing clubs, shattering tee markers and shirking the press.
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golf.com | James Colgan
OAKMONT, Pa. — Two years ago, Viktor Hovland strategized a Sunday in contention at the PGA Championship the way major champions in contention have strategized since the beginning of time. “Yeah, another boring answer,” he said, repeating lines he’d said all week at Oak Hill. “I don’t think this is a course where you can kind of get too crazy.
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proud of @Sean_Zak for breaking 200 at this year's U.S. Open courses. many thought he couldn't do it! but he did!
36 U.S Open holes in 36 Hours. Can @Sean_Zak break 85 at both? 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐬. 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫: 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞. 📺 https://t.co/PeudpMW9EG https://t.co/vw88dsbWMC
Missed this yesterday but VERY cool new drone tracer on Tour telecasts. Allegedly tracking probabilities down to the hundred-millisecond, with the tracer changing colors based on the likely location. Give me the red tracer of death!!!
🏌️♂️ Lowry 🏌️♂️ MacIntyre 🏌️♂️ Conners Launching it on the 499-yard par-4 9th @RBCCanadianOpen. https://t.co/OalT5kixPk
artistic rendering of the nelly charley and lexi trio https://t.co/pQtkCiBTa7
Nelly Korda, Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson the mega-group at this week's U.S. Women's Open. Going off 1:25p local time Thursday.
