Tod Leonard
Senior Editor at Golf Digest
West Coast-based editor and writer for https://t.co/Pb3MAw4JcA
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golfdigest.com | Tod Leonard
For years, since he coached J.J. Spaun at San Diego State in the early 2010s, Ryan Donovan has watched the golfer float between cockiness and crushing self-doubt. Spaun, the improbable winner of the U.S. Open at Oakmont on Sunday, came from humble beginnings, growing up in working-class San Dimas in L.A.’s San Gabriel Valley.
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golfdigest.com | Tod Leonard
U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun grew up in Los Angeles, and all over Southern California there are far more kids who pick up a skateboard at one time than try golf clubs. There is, after all, a better chance of a neophyte, or grom, running into Tony Hawk or Shawn White at a skatepark rather than hitting balls on the range at a private club with Phil Mickelson or Xander Schauffele.
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1 week ago |
golfdigest.com | Tod Leonard
Like any savvy patient who gets a bad diagnosis, Sam Burns wanted a second opinion. When his drive on Oakmont’s par-4 15th hole stayed on the fairway next to the first cut, he seemed to catch a good break. But when Burns arrived at the ball, it looked and felt to him that it was sitting in standing water from the day’s earlier heavy rain storm. Tied for the lead at one over at the time, Burns asked for an official to take a look.
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2 weeks ago |
golfdigest.com | Tod Leonard
Very few people will ever know what the true relationship was between Arnold Palmer and O.J. Simpson. As two sporting icons, were they friends, or merely fellow “actors” shooting very corny Hertz commercials together in the mid-1980s? What we do know is that their lives became unintentionally tangled in the most bizarre way on a summer Friday nearly 31 years ago. The date was June 17, 1994, and it was filled with memorable sporting events.
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3 weeks ago |
golfdigest.com | Tod Leonard
Rory McIlroy’s buildup to next week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont took a further concerning turn on Friday in the RBC Canadian Open. In his first start since his worst finish this season—a T-47 in the PGA Championship—the reigning Masters champion suffered an extremely rare setback—he missed the cut at TPC Toronto. Making the weekend ended up not being close, as McIlroy struggled to a six-over-par 78 in the second round that included him making a quadruple bogey on the par-4 fifth hole.
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