OAKMONT, Pa. — Welcome to the U.S. Open, where golf gets cranked to 11 and the scores don’t make sense. Shane Lowry needed a hole-out eagle to break 80. Thriston Lawrence made double bogey on 9, and ...

There's a mantra in certain golf architecture circles that par is just a number. In other words, a hole, and its difficulty or quality, is not defined by the par on the scorecard but rather the design ...

LOS ANGELES — Among the top seven players entering the weekend, only Rory McIlroy and Harris English finished in the black versus Par-3s on the north course at Los Angeles Country Club. Collectively, ...