The U.S. Open, the third main championship of the season, is just per week away.
A number of high golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League can be making an attempt to fine-tune their video games earlier than they arrive at Oakmont Nation Membership exterior Pittsburgh subsequent week.
World No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy can be again in motion on the RBC Canadian Open on the PGA Tour, and defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau will tee it up within the LIV Golf League’s match in Gainesville, Virginia.
“We’re all making an attempt to perform feats that have not been achieved in a very long time, and going back-to-back could be nice,” DeChambeau stated. “Three in a row could be a fair higher accomplishment, so it’s behind my head.”
What’s subsequent on the PGA Tour
RBC Canadian Open
When: Thursday-Sunday
The place: TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario
Defending champion: Robert MacIntyre
Purse: $9.8 million
Rory is again
After skipping final week’s Memorial Match, a signature occasion, McIlory is again in motion north of the border. After profitable the Canadian Open in 2019 and 2022, McIlroy will try to turn out to be solely the fourth three-time winner (Tommy Armour, Sam Snead and Lee Trevino are the others).
McIlroy likes that the PGA Tour moved the Canadian Open up a month on the schedule.
“I truthfully love the date change,” McIlroy stated. “I like that it is the week main into the U.S. Open. I informed this story a bit bit, however earlier than enjoying on this occasion, 2016, 2017, 2018, I missed three cuts in a row on the U.S. Open. Since enjoying the Canadian Open the week earlier than, I’ve had six top-10s in a row, so there’s one thing to that.”
After finishing the profession Grand Slam together with his victory on the Masters, McIlroy admitted “grinding on the vary for 3 or 4 hours each day is possibly a bit harder than it was.”
“You’ve this occasion in your life that you’ve got labored in direction of and it occurs, typically it is laborious to seek out the motivation to get again on the horse and go once more,” McIlroy stated. “I believe the final two weeks have been good for me simply as a reset, simply to type of determine the place I am at in my very own head, what I wish to do, the place I wish to play. Yeah, reset some targets.”
Scheffler secures Ryder Cup spot
The Ryder Cup continues to be greater than three months away, however world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler grew to become the primary golfer to safe a roster spot on the U.S. staff that can battle the Europeans at Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, New York, Sept. 26-28.
The PGA of America introduced Wednesday that Scheffler has secured sufficient Ryder Cup factors with 25,918.25, which is twice as many as some other golfer. Xander Schauffele is second with 11,905.84.
“Scottie continues to show why he’s the No. 1 participant on the planet, showcasing unbelievable consistency and dominance week to week,” U.S. staff captain Keegan Bradley stated in a press release. “He’s the last word staff participant and I’ve little doubt that he can be prepared and motivated come September. I couldn’t be extra excited to have him as a member of the U.S. Group.”
The highest six eligible golfers following the BMW Championship on August 17, 2025 will make the squad. Bradley may also make six captain’s picks.
It will likely be Scheffler’s third Ryder Cup look. He went 0-2-2 within the U.S. staff’s 16½-11½ loss at Marco Simone Golf & Nation Membership exterior Rome in 2023, and 2-0-1 as a rookie in a 19-9 victory in 2021 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.
“Representing the USA on the Ryder Cup has been one of many biggest honors of my profession, and I stay up for doing so for a 3rd time this September,” Scheffler stated. “I’ll do no matter it takes to assist our staff reclaim the Cup and can’t wait to play in entrance of the passionate New York spectators at Bethpage Black.”
Clanton’s time is lastly right here
Three golfers within the RBC Canadian Open discipline, Luke Clanton, Gordon Sargent and David Ford, are making their professional debuts.
Expectations are already sky-high for Clanton, a former Florida State star, who was a two-time runner-up on the PGA Tour as an beginner final 12 months, tying for second on the John Deere Traditional and RSM Traditional. He was the primary beginner since Jack Nicklaus in 1961 with three or extra top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour in a season.
Clanton tied for fifteenth on the Farmers Insurance coverage Open and for 18th on the Cognizant Traditional in The Palm Seashores this 12 months.
“It has been unbelievable,” Clanton informed reporters in Canada. “Like I stated, it is one thing you dream for at all times, continuously. To sort of now be right here and to name myself an expert is a bit bit — truthfully, a bit bit bizarre at first as a result of I’ve at all times been an beginner.
“It is superb. I am simply excited to return out right here and compete. It isn’t concerning the cash. It isn’t about any of the celebrity. It is about competing with these guys on tour. It is one thing I’ve chased for my complete, whole life, and particularly my household.”
Clanton was the No. 1 beginner on the planet earlier than turning professional this week, and he collected the Ben Hogan Award as the highest collegiate golfer by profitable 4 occasions at FSU this spring.
Clanton will play the primary two rounds with McIlroy and Ludvig Åberg.
On Tuesday, Clanton thanked his mom, Rhonda, who lately retired after working greater than 4 many years as a Delta flight attendant, and his father, David, who owned two companies to assist ship his son to non-public faculty and help his golf.
“What they didn’t only for me, however my two older sisters as nicely, to get us by way of every thing, it was unbelievable,” Clanton stated. “Once more, my mother and pop are two hard-working folks, they usually’ll by no means, ever take credit score for it, which sort of pisses me off typically as a result of they did every thing they may.”
Clanton hits it far off the tee (his 312.4-yard common would rank 14th on tour if he’d performed sufficient rounds to qualify), and he says his “sturdy mentality” is one in every of his greatest attributes.
When Clanton was requested whether or not the LIV Golf League tried to recruit him, he stated, “I wish to play the PGA Tour, fairly easy. I wish to play towards one of the best, I wish to compete in majors, and that is it. Easy.”
Sargent was the 2022 NCAA particular person champion as a Vanderbilt freshman and low beginner on the 2023 U.S. Open. He secured a PGA Tour card by way of the PGA Tour College Accelerated pathway in October 2023, however deferred turning professional to return to Vanderbilt.
Ford, who received 5 occasions at North Carolina this previous season, completed No. 1 within the PGA Tour College Rankings to earn his card. He captured the Jack Nicklaus Award and Fred Haskins Awards this spring.
All three golfers are assured PGA Tour standing by way of the 2026 season.
What’s subsequent within the LIV Golf League
LIV Golf Virginia
When: Friday-Sunday
The place: Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership, Gainesville, Virginia
Defending champion: Harold Varner III
Purse: $25 million
Bryson’s busy month
Together with tying for second on the PGA Championship, defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau crushed tee photographs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a mountain vary and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and the White Home.
It was simply one other routine month for skilled golf’s content material king, who has greater than 2 million followers on his YouTube channel.
“How do I discover time to sleep? I really sleep fairly nicely,” DeChambeau stated. “It is numerous planning. We put together, strategize and execute accordingly with these recreation plans, and when issues work primarily based upon different folks’s schedules.”
DeChambeau was a again passenger for a few 180 mph laps on the famed oval in Indiana, and stated he is now utilizing salt from Utah in his meals.
Day within the lifetime of a leisure golfer… pic.twitter.com/2g7WFZFN6H
— Bryson DeChambeau (@brysondech) June 2, 2025
DeChambeau wasn’t certain about hitting golf balls on the again garden of the White Home till President Donald Trump urged him to do it.
“I by no means thought I’d ever in my life get a possibility to do it, however the President himself was like, ‘Simply go on the market and hit some photographs,'” DeChambeau stated. “I used to be like, ‘Okay, sure, sir.’ It was fairly the expertise. It was 105 yards and I hit a number of good photographs to a few ft and nearly made a number of of them, too.”
The reigning U.S. Open champion says his major purpose stays profitable golf tournaments.
“Do I wish to win each single match I present as much as? one hundred pc,” DeChambeau stated. “I am by no means not going to be the toughest competitor on the market in my perspective. However it additionally allowed me to do different issues that are significant, as nicely.
“I believe creating my YouTube channel was one thing that I’ve at all times needed to do, seeing what MrBeast and Dude Excellent had achieved within the mid-2010s, and I stated, ‘Why cannot I try this, as nicely? I believe there’s a possibility to be as influential as I’m now, and this was just the start. I believe there’s much more to return.”
Turning the nook
Torque GC captain Joaquín Niemann hopes he has lastly turned the nook after tying for eighth within the PGA Championship, his first top-10 end in 24 begins within the huge 4. His 72-hole whole of 4-under 143 left him seven strokes behind Scheffler.
“I did not really feel like I performed my greatest recreation,” Niemann stated. “I felt like there was much more on the time to play higher. I knew I may have a approach higher end result. However I believe we are able to take the positives and go step-by-step. It is my first top-10 in a serious, in order that’s a optimistic.”
Successful within the LIV Golf League hasn’t been an issue for Niemann, who has completed first 5 occasions since February 2024, together with 3 times this season. His success within the Saudi Arabian-financed circuit induced Phil Mickelson to name him one of the best golfer on the planet, which raised some eyebrows.
“I believe as a result of LIV is new, they do not fairly notice the sector and the power of the sector, and the blokes you are enjoying towards are these greatest similar gamers repeatedly,” Mickelson stated. “Joaco is profitable and he’s enjoying each single week [against] Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson and these guys. He is enjoying towards that very same stage of competitors each single week, and it is powerful to actually grasp that and the way nice that’s when it is new.”
Preparing for Oakmont
Mickelson, Niemann and different LIV Golf gamers imagine this week’s setup at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership, which hosted 4 Presidents Cups and the 2024 Solheim Cup, is a correct check for subsequent week’s U.S. Open.
“We’ve got greens which are rolling 14 to fifteen on the stimpmeter, identical to we’ll subsequent week,” Mickelson stated. “We’ve got contours, undulations identical to we’ll subsequent week. Quick recreation, contact, chipping across the greens, tough, velocity, lag drills and velocity and contact on the greens, all of that is crucial right here, similar factor as subsequent week. It could not be a greater spot to prepare.”
The final time the U.S. Open was performed at Oakmont in 2016, Dustin Johnson’s profitable rating was 4-under 276. Solely 4 golfers had scores underneath par.
“It will be laborious,” Niemann stated. “I do know it’ll be an excellent problem. Greens are going to be flying, so I really feel prefer it’s not going to be numerous 5-footers, 6-footers for birdie. I really feel it’ll be numerous the place you place your golf ball to have an uphill putt possibly, which goes to be simpler.
“They wish to win it over par, so on the finish of the day it isn’t who makes extra birdies, I really feel prefer it’s who makes much less bogeys and fewer errors.”
