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National Post
3 days ago
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- National Post
On Tour: Will Keegan Bradley be a player captain at the Ryder Cup?
Article content WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of On Tour with Jon McCarthy, Postmedia's Rob Wong chats with Toronto SUN National Golf Writer Jon McCarthy about the potential of Keegan Bradley being a player captain for Team USA at the upcoming Ryder Cup and why Collin Morikawa continues to take issue with the media.
Toronto Sun
3 days ago
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- Toronto Sun
On Tour: Will Keegan Bradley be a player captain at the Ryder Cup?
Keegan Bradley holds the championship trophy after winning the Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands, Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Cromwell, Conn. Photo by Jessica Hill / AP Photo WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of On Tour with Jon McCarthy, Postmedia's Rob Wong chats with Toronto SUN National Golf Writer Jon McCarthy about the potential of Keegan Bradley being a player captain for Team USA at the upcoming Ryder Cup and why Collin Morikawa continues to take issue with the media. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Toronto Raptors Sunshine Girls Canada Celebrity Music
Toronto Sun
14-06-2025
- Climate
- Toronto Sun
Will rain sink Oakmont's ability to punish players at U.S. Open on weekend?
Get the latest from Jon McCarthy straight to your inbox Collin Morikawa of the United States looks on during the third round of the 125th U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club on June 14, 2025 in Oakmont, Pa. Photo by Warren Little / Getty Images OAKMONT, Pa. — The story of this U.S. Open isn't simply how hard Oakmont is playing, it's how hard it's playing considering the course has been fighting Mother Nature all spring. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account At any other major championship venue, there would be worry from organizers, media, and club members that a wet golf course would be caught with its pants down and get humiliated by the world's best players. Yet, here at Oakmont, it's the golf course humbling the players despite Mother Nature apparently being paid off by the golfers. After 36 holes, just three of the 156 players in the field were under par. 'We're all playing the same course, and it's going to be hard,' Xander Schauffele said. 'You may think something's unfair, but it doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Whoever can sort of deal with it the best is going to play well. That's the attitude I've had: Look at it as a fun challenge versus feeling like you're living in a nightmare.' Jon McCarthy has something for every golfer, with a notably Canadian slant. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It's rained heavily all month. Before the tournament week even arrived, USGA boss Mike Whan was warning media heading to the Pennsylvania golf course to bring rubber boots. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Bring boots! 13 (inches) of rain in past 10 weeks.' (UPDATE: Nobody brought boots.) A sunny Wednesday, and a calm, rain-free Thursday likely had the Jaws theme song going through players' heads, but conditions never got anywhere near the limit over the first 36 holes on Oakmont's notoriously insane greens. 'It was starting to look like another day of hot, dry weather and the weekend would be very difficult out here,' Adam Scott said on Friday. 'There were certain greens that had a slickness about them and a firmness too. Fairways even getting a little bit like that. So the rain might keep it under control, hopefully, and spare us some frustrations.' Another serious downpour arrived Friday night into Saturday and, before play began, the USGA made the unusual decision to proactively offer refunds for any fans deciding not to show up to watch the third round of the U.S. Open. Quite a fan-friendly gesture, and as TSN's Bob Weeks pointed out on social media, a clear sign that if you are coming you might not want to wear your white golf pants. Early Saturday, a wonderful camera angle showed Rory McIlroy hitting a fairway wood in Round 3 following another night of downpours at the famously difficult golf course. After impact there is an explosion of grass and mud and water as his club tears easily through the waterlogged turf. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The forecast calls for rain most of the day Saturday and Sunday. What does it mean for the U.S. Open? Will weekend rain bring the water that breaks the dam on Oakmont's ability to punish golfers? Don't bet on it. World Golf Columnists Sunshine Girls World
Toronto Sun
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
Oakmont breaking golfer's souls: 'I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think'
'Honestly, I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think about any perspective.' Get the latest from Jon McCarthy straight to your inbox Jon Rahm of Spain plays a shot from the seventh tee during the second round of the 125th U.S. OPEN at Oakmont Country Club on June 13, 2025 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Photo by Andrew Redington / Getty Images OAKMONT, Pa. — Oakmont is up to it's old trick of breaking golfer's minds, and a few of the world's best seem ready to snap at this incredibly difficult U.S. Open course. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account 'Honestly, I'm too annoyed and too mad right now to think about any perspective. Very frustrated. Very few rounds of golf I played in my life where I think I hit good putts and they didn't sniff the hole, so it's frustrating,' said Jon Rahm after following Thursday's 69 with a 75 on Friday. 'I didn't see anything go in beside a 7-footer on seven,' the Spaniard said of his bad day on the greens. 'That's it. That's a very hard thing to deal with to try to shoot a score out here.' Jason Day took matters into his own hands — actually into his foot — after a poor putting day on Thursday. The Aussie bounced back from an opening round 76 with a second round 67 and will play the weekend. 'I bent my putter. Yeah, I just manually bent it myself. Stood on it,' he said when asked what changes he made after Round 1. 'That's kind of how I used to do it back in the day. It just hadn't been looking very good to me personally, kind of looks a little bit hooded, the grip's on a little bit closed too, so that's not a positive for me. But I bent it enough to make it look more open, which is good.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The result? 'Putted a lot better today.' Denny McCarthy is one of the very best putters on the PGA Tour, but despite putting very well on Friday he still walked off with a 74. He said most players aren't complaining, they are simply resigned to their fate. 'They're really slopey undulated greens, but there hasn't been a ton of talk. It's just kind of the common theme; everyone seems like they're exhausted when they come in off the course just because it's a punch in the face,' McCarthy said. 'Even if you've played okay and grind it out and shoot a couple under to a couple over, it's still just a grind. It just takes a lot out of you.' Sam Burns shot an almost unbelievable 65 on Friday and said sometimes trying to be perfect can be the enemy of golfers, especially on Oakmont's notorious greens. 'I try to keep it very simple. I think if you look at putting, the ball is rolling on the ground. There's a lot of imperfections on grass,' he said. 'There's a lot of different lines the ball can go in, depending on the speed, so if you try to be too perfect with putting it can drive you crazy, so I just try to really read it, put a good roll on it, focus on the speed and hope for the best.' But we all know what Red told Andy in Shawshank Redemption : 'Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.' World Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto & GTA Canada Celebrity
Toronto Sun
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
Scottie Scheffler: I'm not out of it, and slow play is OK at U.S. Open
Scottie Scheffler hadn't shot an over-par round since last year's U.S. Open, he has two of them here but says he is far from out of it. Get the latest from Jon McCarthy straight to your inbox Scottie Scheffler of the United States looks on from the ninth green during the second round of the 125th U.S. OPEN at Oakmont Country Club on June 13, 2025 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. (Photo by /Getty Images) Photo by Patrick Smith / Getty Images OAKMONT, Pa. — Scottie Scheffler hadn't shot an over-par round since last year's U.S. Open, he has two of them so far this week at Oakmont but says he is far from out of the season's third major championship. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Despite heading to the weekend at four-over par, the world No. 1 had a consistent message after shooting a second round 71: he's still in it. 'Definitely not out of the tournament,' he said. 'With the way I was hitting it was easily a day I could have been going home and battled pretty hard to stay in there. I'm 4-over. We'll see what the lead is after today, but around this golf course I don't think by any means I'm out of the tournament.' Through two rounds, Scheffler has hit 13 of 28 fairways and the world's best ball-striker was ranked just 68th in the field with his approach shots when he walked off the course. 'I feel like I battled really hard. It's challenging out there,' he siad. 'I was not getting the ball in the correct spots and paying the price for it. Felt like me getting away with 1-over today wasn't all that bad. It could have been a lot worse.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With average rounds times in the five-and-a-half hour range on the extremely difficult course, Scheffler initally bristled when asked why rounds were taking so long. 'Why do you think?' he asked back. When asked if the rounds have felt long to him, Scheffler relented and weighed in. 'It felt long to me. Both the par-5s we basically walked up on the group in front of us. When it's up on No. 8 — you've got a drivable par-4 on 17. (The long par-3 eighth hole) is basically a drivable par-4, too. You guys are the ones watching. I'm just trying to play. I've got too many concerns other than the pace it takes to get around this place.' Scheffler said the pace of play doesn't get under his skin. 'No. Going into a golf course like this with this many players and this tough of a golf course, you know it's going to take a while,' he said. 'Look at the ground we've got to cover out there to walk 18 holes. That's a big piece of property. It just takes time.' 'It just takes time to hit that many golf shots,' he then joked. World Toronto Maple Leafs Canada Toronto & GTA Celebrity
