Blog: Local Knowledge
- Woods, Mickelson, Scott form premier pairing
- The USGA released the pairings for the first two rounds of the U.S. Open next Thursday morning and Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will be paired together. The top two players win the world will...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- John Atkinson
- We got a couple of very nice notes on the Golf Digest US Open Challenge special on NBC Sunday afternoon and contest winner John Atkinson. As one of 56,374 entrants in the Golf Digest contest,...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Thoughts
- Reactions to the first four days of the Open: 1. Reaction No. 1 comes from Brian Lange of Sanford, Florida, who says he is speaking for "Golf Fans Worldwide": Dear Augusta National, After viewing the...
Blog: Local Knowledge
- Rosaforte: More on the Justin Hicks identity crisis
- LA JOLLA, Calif. — As we mentioned yesterday, there have been several cases of mistaken identity between Justin Hicks and Justin Hicks, not that either looks much like each other. The Justin Hicks who leads...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- U.S. Open Contest
- We continue to get interesting comment on the U.S. Open Contest, which will conclude on June 6th when Tony Romo, Matt Lauer and Justin Timberlake join contest winner John Atkinson at Torrey Pines. Most of...
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- US Open Contest
- Kurt Rightmyer of Los Osos, California, is one of many readers to question our Final Five choices in the US Open Contest. We've heard that their handicaps are too low (see previous posts here) and...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Contest passes 13,000
- Our U.S. Open Contest, through which one lucky reader will play Torrey Pines under Open conditions in front TV cameras the weekend before next June's Open, has reached 13,067--a heck of lot of Walter Mittys....
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- Friday notes
- Jeff Brehaut, playing in his first major championship in 21 years as a professional, shot rounds of 73-75 and should make the cut. “The biggest thing is I haven’t been great, but I’ve been...
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- More reaction to the US Open Challenge
- Reader Brian J. Doherty of Mill Creek, Washington, had his problems with our U.S. Open Challenge. GREAT idea, good timing, POOR execution of the "Challenge" at Torrey prior to the Open... Loved the idea. Most...




















