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1 week ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Viktor Hovland entered U.S. Open Sunday at Oakmont as the man who seemed most likely to track down 54-hole leader Sam Burns and etch his name into major championship history. The 27-year-old Norwegian has been on an endless quest for the right feel. He was at the top of the golf world when he won the FedEx Cup in 2023 and then tore his swing down in search of something better, something purer, something that felt more like Viktor Hovland. That search led him into the wilderness.
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1 week ago | 
golf.com | Josh Schrock |Jack Hirsh
A U.S. Open champion will be crowned later today at , but the only question remaining is who that might be. Sam Burns heads into the final round at four under, leading Adam Scott and J.J. Spaun by one, with Viktor Hovland lurking three back. Those are the only players under par at a brutal Oakmont.
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1 week ago | 
golf.com | Josh Schrock |Alan Bastable
OAKMONT, Pa. — When a siren sounded at Oakmont Country Club Friday evening, signaling the end of play for the day, just a handful of players were still on the course, putting the finishing touches on their second rounds. Among them was Philip Barbaree Jr., a 27-year-old pro from Shreveport, La., who made his way into this 125th U.S. Open by surviving the gauntlet of both local and final qualifying.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Through 36 holes of the 2025 U.S. Open, there has been one clear winner: famed and brutal has pummeled the world’s best in western Pennsylvania. After two rounds, only three players are under par, and several of the game’s best slammed their trunks and went home after Friday’s cut, including defending champion Bryson DeChambeau. Oakmont has inflicted pain on those walking its grounds this week, be they an elite PGA Tour star or an amateur qualifier.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Alan Bastable |Josh Schrock
Last year at the U.S. Open, Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau dueled on the weekend at Pinehurst No. 2, with DeChambeau coming out on top. It has been a different story at this year’s U.S. Open for two of golf’s protagonists. Instead of battling each other at famed Oakmont, McIlroy and DeChambeau spent Friday fighting the Henry Fownes-designed brute in an attempt to play the weekend.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Josh Schrock |Josh Berhow
OAKMONT, Pa. — It’s not necessarily breaking news that Oakmont Country Club is hard. It doesn’t have that warning sign like Bethpage Black, but it doesn’t need one. Here, we’ll let John Bodenhamer, the USGA’s chief championships officer, explain:“The thing that is here at Oakmont more than anything else that impacts golf and the test is simply gravity. That’s the property,” he said, speaking to the media during the USGA’s pre-tournament press conference on Wednesday. “The rough.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Phil Mickelson knows the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club could be his last go-round at the only major championship he hasn’t won — the one he has long coveted. The 54-year-old Mickelson has started to confront his golfing mortality. Before last week’s tournament at LIV Virginia, Mickelson also acknowledged that this U.S. Open could be a farewell. “There’s a high likelihood that it will be, but I haven’t really thought about it too much,” Mickelson said last week.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Every few years, the U.S. Open returns to Oakmont Country Club, and the world’s best arrive knowing that they are likely about to get their teeth kicked in for the next week. They do so mainly without complaint. This is, after all, Oakmont. Bryson DeChambeau dubbed the Henry Fownes’ masterpiece the “toughest golf course in the world.” Xander Schauffele noted that at the U.S. Open, the carnage is the point.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Bryson DeChambeau has put a lot of work into growing his brand both on and off the competitive golf course, with his popular YouTube channel playing a big role in expanding his fan base. DeChambeau enjoys discussing his YouTube channel, his thought process behind growing it, and his conviction that it has a long-term place in the golf ecosystem. With DeChambeau blazing the YouTube trail, some other pro golfers have started channels of their own, including Tommy Fleetwood and Phil Mickelson.
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2 weeks ago | 
golf.com | Kevin Cunningham |Josh Schrock
Nine years ago, Dustin Johnson, then the No. 3-ranked player in the world, arrived at and authored the defining moment of his golfing career. Plagued by bad luck and close calls to that point, the long-bombing Johnson entered the 2016 U.S. Open still in search of his first career major — looking for the victory that his rare combination of effortless power and accuracy always said he was destined to secure.
