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in Archives, Blog, Open Championship, Podcasts, US Open on June 27, 2023 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With the Golf Guy Season Eight -Episode Ten With the 2023 United States Open Champion Wyndham Clark

The United States Open Golf Championship returned to Southern California and the Los Angeles Country Club after a seventy-five-year hiatus to robust criticism from players and fans alike. Small galleries, lack of grandstands, forced carries, blind tee shots, and severely sloped fairways that ran off into gnarly fescue-protected island greens and rough marred the USGA’s…

in Archives, Blog, Podcasts, Shows, US Open, US Open on June 30, 2022 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 7 Episode 6 With 2022 U.S. Open Champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick

Undoubtedly, the game and sport of Golf is an import from the British Islands. Conceived, developed, and propagated on the wind-swept Linksland of the Scottish coast, it slowly migrated to the eastern seaboard of the American mainland, where it indifferently spread amongst the blossoming and burgeoning middle class created by the industrial revolution of the…

in Archives, Blog, US Open on June 22, 2021 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 6 Episode 9 With US Open Champion Jon Rahm

A volatile and hyper-competitive Spaniard in the mode of Seve Ballesteros, Jose Marie Olazabal, and Sergio Garcia, coming off a heartbreaking forced withdrawal because of COVID-19 Symptoms, after leading by six shots in the Memorial Tournament, Jon Rahm, embracing newfound humility, perseverance, patience, and a new son, wins the 121st United States Open Championship in…

in Blog, Podcasts on September 23, 2020 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 20 With 2020 United States Open Golf Champion, Bryson DeChambeau

In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…

in Archives, Shows, US Open on September 4, 2019 by Jeff Waters

The Clinic

The 101st United States Open Championship, contested at Pebble Beach Golf Links June 13-16, 2019, unveiled some special moments and memories. This story is just one of many. I have a confession to make. It hurts like hell to get out of bed in the morning, and I know, deep in my heart, it’s probably…

in Blog, Podcasts, Shows, US Open, US Open on June 15, 2019 by Jeff Waters

Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 4 Episode 21 Saturday At The Open-How Much Will They Win?

There have been a number of moments and events in the history of golf that have contributed to dramatic increases in purses and the amount of money that top professionals may win. Arnold Palmer has long been the person who put professional golf on the map with his dramatic flair, style and go-for-broke attitude. Tiger…