Golf

6/12/2025 |  Flashlights and glowing golf balls. How a NY man played for 35 hours in quest for world record (Associated Press (AP)) A New York man is laying claim to the record for most consecutive hours playing golf — a 35-hour stint on a course on Long Island that began early Sunday evening and ended early Tuesday morning.

6/12/2025 |  Adam Scott at another US Open and headed for century mark in the majors (Associated Press (AP)) OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Adam Scott is one year away from an impressive streak that the Australian considers to be a classic glass half-full moment in golf.
The U.S. Open is his 96th consecutive major championship appearance dating to the 2001 British Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
“It sounds like a lot to have won one,” Scott said with a laugh, referring to his lone major title in the 2013 Masters. “It would be twice as good if there was one more.”

6/12/2025 |  US Open tee time awaits Docherty less than a month after horrific car accident (Associated Press (AP)) OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — What Alistair Docherty thought was smoke was really the powder bursting out of the freshly deployed airbag.
There was no mistaking the blood and glass covering everything in the wrecked white minivan.
Docherty was driving May 20 when he got T-boned in an intersection, two days before the Korn Ferry’s Visit Knoxville Open. On June 2, the 31-year-old, who missed his PGA Tour card by two spots at the end of last season, qualified for the U.S. Open. 

6/12/2025 |  US Open underway with high expectations for Scheffler and a tough test for all (Associated Press (AP)) OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — The first shot of the 125th U.S. Open on Thursday embodied so much of what this championship is about. Matt Vogt, an Indiana dentist who went through 54 holes of qualifying, sent his tee shot soaring into the rough at Oakmont.

6/12/2025 |  How the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont altered golf history, legendary careers of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer (CBS Sports) There are a few moments to which we can point and see the trajectory of an entire sport change. In golf, the 1962 U.S. Open was one such turning point as a young challenger named Jack Nicklaus seemingly came out of nowhere to defeat the theretofore unbeatable Arnold Palmer in his own backyard.