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The 122nd US Open Championship, The Country Club, Brookline, MA: 16-19 June 2022

The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts

In the video above, from Golf Digest: 

Golf Digest's Architecture Editor, Derek Duncan, narrates this spectacular hole by hole flyover of The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts host of the 2022 U.S. Open.

From PGA TOUR, Nine Things to Know, by Jim McCabe:

The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, has been the scene of some of the game’s most historic moments, so it’s fitting that it will offer an old-school test for this week’s U.S. Open.

You like tight fairways, thick rough, greens that are smaller than small, and big, bodacious rock outcroppings? Then The Country Club should satisfy you.

Said Gil Hanse, who has been consulting with TCC officials for more than 10 years to update this brilliant course: “It’s going to be an interesting mental test.”

In other words, the U.S. Open the way it used to be.

To prep you for the 122nd U.S. Open and just the fourth at The Country Club, here are Nine Things to Know about this historic course.

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Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed 2022, Halmstad GC, Sweden, 9-12 June

LET Sustainability Project - Beach Clean up at Halmstad

From LET Blog, 8/6/22:

Golfers from the Ladies European Tour (LET) and DP World Tour joined forces and participated in a beach clean at the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed.

Sustainability is one of the key pillars of the tournament, which is being played at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden, with a big focus on environmental responsibility.

And four players, two from each tour, headed down to the local beach to pick up litter alongside some local school kids on Tuesday June 7.

LET players Julia Engström and Elin Arvidsson, who are both local to the Halmstad area, were on hand to assist...

DP World Tour players Johannes Veerman and Jason Scrivener also picked up litter and interacted with the local children.  Read more

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2022 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 19-22 May

Southern Hills Country Club: every hole narrated, and "Nine things to know"

From Golf Digest:

Golf Digest's Architecture Editor, Derek Duncan, narrates this spectacular drone flyover of Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  [Video above]

From PGA TOUR, Nine Things to Know: Southern Hills CC, by Jim McCabe

Among the intriguing "things to know" revealed by McCabe is this gem:

#5.    Hubert Green played under a death threat

Hubert Green was leading the 1977 U.S. Open at Southern Hills by one stroke with four holes remaining when he pulled his tee shot left of the 15th fairway. He tried his best to keep his distance from his caddie, Shayne Grier. The caddie knew why.

Told of a death threat on his life called into the Oklahoma City FBI – an anonymous woman said gunmen would shoot Green at the 15th hole – Green had been given options by USGA President Sandy Tatum and police officers. Green said there was only one option. He’d play on.

In an interview with the Boston Globe in 2007, Grier said Green was keeping his distance so if there was a shooting, the player would be the only target. The gregarious Grier, still a volunteer official with Mass Golf, said he caught up with Green on the 15th and said, “Let’s give them two targets to shoot at.”

The levity might have helped. Green recovered from the left rough and made par at 15, then birdied 16 to increase his lead to two. He negotiated a par at 17 and could afford the safe bogey at 18 to win by one over Lou Graham.  Read more

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ISPS Handa Championship in Spain, Infinitum Golf, Tarragona: 21-24 April 2022 

From DP World Tour, Five Things to Know

The DP World Tour returns this week with the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain at Infinitum’s Lakes Course, in Tarragona. Here are five things to know about the first of two new tournaments taking place over consecutive weeks in Spain…

Start of four-week stretch on European soil

The ISPS Handa Championship in Spain is the first of four events in succession to take place on European soil between the season’s first two Major Championships.  Read more

From Golf Australia, The Preview by Rod Morri

A new event but not a completely unfamiliar course to many in the field this week as the DP World Tour kicks off a two-week stint in Spain with the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain. 

The tournament – one of two added to the schedule early this year – will be played at the Infinitum Resort in Tarragon, home to the final stage of Qualifying School in recent years.  Read more

From DP World Tour News

Pablo Larrazabal is excited by the prospect of entertaining his home fans as he aims to maintain his excellent form when the DP World Tour returns this week for the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain.

The Spaniard, who sits 11th in the DP World Tour rankings, won his sixth DP World Tour title at the MyGolfLife Open in South Africa in March.

After a three-week break since his last Tour appearance at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, where he finished tied fifth, Larrazábal is refreshed for the first of back-to-back events in Spain.  Read more

Australians in the field:  Zach Murray, Jake McLeod, Scott Hend, Wade Ormsby, Maverick Antcliff

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Mykhailo Golod is holding out in Kiev

From Golf Digest, by Joel Beall, 3/3/22:

“My golf course, Kyiv Golf Club, my home club, the Russians have occupied it. They’re inside the clubhouse and sort of making a camp for themselves,” Mykhailo says.

“It’s one of really only two good golf courses in the country, the other is in Kharkiv. And there, half of the city has been blown up. It’s horrible. I have friends there, I message them five times a day asking if they’re alright.

I’m not even asking about the course because it doesn’t seem to matter at this point. But it’s tough to think about.”

Read full article here 

...includes photos, video and background

One quite poignant moment is when Mykhailo expresses joy at Rory's lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Even sheltering from bombardment, golf for him is "like meditation" (as he describes his own practice shots).

Dromoland Castle to host the 2022 Women's Irish Open

From The 42.ie:

This will be the first time women’s professional golf will be played in the Republic of Ireland since 2012.

DROMOLAND CASTLE HAS been confirmed as the venue for the 2022 Women’s Irish Open, which will be staged at the Clare venue from 22-25 September this year.

The return of the Ladies European Tour event marks the first time women’s professional golf will be played in the Republic of Ireland since 2012.

The championship was previously held 15 times between 1994 and 2012 with some of Europe’s top golfers amongst the champions including Norway’s Suzann Pettersen, Sweden’s Sophie Gustafson, England’s Laura Davies and, most recently, by the 2021 Solheim Cup winning Captain, Scotland’s Catriona Matthew.

Dromoland Castle’s 18-hole 6,824 yards par 72 championship course was designed by Ron Kirby and JB Carr. The course and accompanying practice facilities are currently undergoing a €2 million upgrade.  Read more

PGA TOUR 2022, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, California: 3-6 February

From Five Things to Know, by Sean Martin:

The PGA TOUR visits picturesque Pebble Beach this week for one of its most historic events, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The tournament is back to its traditional format this year, with three courses in use and a return of the pro-am competition. Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula also will be in use, with the final round being played on the famed links that Robert Louis Stevenson is credited with calling the “the most felicitous meeting of land and sea.”

Jack Nicklaus picked Pebble Beach as his preferred site if he had just one last round to play. Fortunately for PGA TOUR players, they can return to Pebble Beach on an annual basis.

As Nature Intended It:

It’s impossible to fathom now, but the first attempt to construct the Pebble Beach Golf Links was unsuccessful. Twenty-five memberships for the new seaside course were sold for $25 apiece...  Read more

Tiny Targets

Its small putting surfaces are one of Pebble Beach’s defining characteristics. The greens average 3,500 square feet, making them the tiniest on TOUR.

Those greens are one reason Rich Beem, the 2002 PGA Championship winner, called Pebble Beach “one of the most intimidating golf courses I’ve ever played.”  Read more

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PGA TOUR 2022: American Express, La Quinta, Palm Springs, California: 20-23 Jan

"Alcatraz" - The 17th hole at PGA West, Stadium course

From Palm Springs Life, by Emily Chavous, 16/4/19:

They call it Alcatraz — an island green that taunts players at the tee a mere 166 yards away. The entire Pete Dye–designed Stadium Course at PGA West in La Quinta brims with hazards, and the 17th hole, with more lake than grass, is touted by pros as being among the sport’s most diabolical. As Dye described it, “Love and hate can be found here.”

Its 1987 PGA Tour debut stirred up quite the rumble.

“The course is on the outskirts of Indio but host [Bob] Hope says the back tees are in Hemet. It doesn’t matter where they are. No one will ever play them,” Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray wrote that year.  “You need a camel, a canoe, a priest and a tourniquet to get through it.”

In the 1987 Skins Game, swinging alongside Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Fuzzy Zoeller, Dallas-born Lee Trevino conquered Alcatraz with a hole-in-one. Even so, tour pros collectively — and successfully — signed a petition to remove Stadium Course from the rotation in 1988.

It took almost three decades for the Professional Golfers Association to warm up to Dye’s design, but in 2016, Alcatraz reassumed its position on the tour. Jason Dufner cinched his 2016 CareerBuilder Challenge (now Desert Classic) victory with a par-saving recovery shot from the 17th green’s rocky perimeter.

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