The U.S. Open, the third main championship of the season, is just every week away.
A number of high golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League will probably 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 will probably 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 event in Gainesville, Virginia.
“We’re all making an attempt to perform feats that have not been performed in a very long time, and going back-to-back could be nice,” DeChambeau mentioned. “Three in a row could be an excellent higher accomplishment, so it’s at the back of 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 grow 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 mentioned. “I like that it is the week main into the U.S. Open. I advised this story just a little 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 day by day is perhaps just a little harder than it was once.”
“You’ve gotten this occasion in your life that you have labored in the direction of and it occurs, generally it is laborious to search out the motivation to get again on the horse and go once more,” McIlroy mentioned. “I feel the final two weeks have been good for me simply as a reset, simply to kind of determine the place I am at in my very own head, what I need to do, the place I need 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 turned 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 earth, showcasing unimaginable consistency and dominance week to week,” U.S. staff captain Keegan Bradley mentioned in an announcement. “He’s the final word staff participant and I’ve little question that he will probably be prepared and motivated come September. I couldn’t be extra excited to have him as a member of the U.S. Crew.”
The highest six eligible golfers following the BMW Championship on August 17, 2025 will make the squad. Bradley can even make six captain’s picks.
Will probably 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 US on the Ryder Cup has been one of many best honors of my profession, and I stay up for doing so for a 3rd time this September,” Scheffler mentioned. “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 area, 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 novice final yr, tying for second on the John Deere Traditional and RSM Traditional. He was the primary novice 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 yr.
“It has been unimaginable,” Clanton advised reporters in Canada. “Like I mentioned, it is one thing you dream for all the time, consistently. To sort of now be right here and to name myself knowledgeable is just a little bit — truthfully, just a little bit bizarre at first as a result of I’ve all the time been an novice.
“It is superb. I am simply excited to come back 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 entire, whole life, and particularly my household.”
Clanton was the No. 1 novice on the earth 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 a long time 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 part, it was unimaginable,” Clanton mentioned. “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 generally as a result of they did every part 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 “robust mentality” is one among his finest attributes.
When Clanton was requested whether or not the LIV Golf League tried to recruit him, he mentioned, “I need to play the PGA Tour, fairly easy. I need to play towards one of the best, I need to compete in majors, and that is it. Easy.”
Sargent was the 2022 NCAA particular person champion as a Vanderbilt freshman and low novice 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 pictures 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 mentioned. “It is loads of 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 mentioned 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 positive 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 might ever in my life get a possibility to do it, however the President himself was like, ‘Simply go on the market and hit some pictures,'” DeChambeau mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘Okay, sure, sir.’ It was fairly the expertise. It was 105 yards and I hit just a few good pictures to a few ft and virtually made just a few of them, too.”
The reigning U.S. Open champion says his main purpose stays profitable golf tournaments.
“Do I need to win each single event I present as much as? 100%,” DeChambeau mentioned. “I am by no means not going to be the toughest competitor on the market in my perspective. Nevertheless it additionally allowed me to do different issues that are significant, as nicely.
“I feel creating my YouTube channel was one thing that I’ve all the time wished to do, seeing what MrBeast and Dude Good had performed within the mid-2010s, and I mentioned, ‘Why cannot I do this, as nicely? I feel there’s a possibility to be as influential as I’m now, and this was only the start. I feel there’s much more to come back.”
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 complete of 4-under 143 left him seven strokes behind Scheffler.
“I did not really feel like I performed my finest recreation,” Niemann mentioned. “I felt like there was much more on the time to play higher. I knew I may have a manner higher consequence. However I feel we will take the positives and go step-by-step. It is my first top-10 in a significant, in order that’s a optimistic.”
Profitable within the LIV Golf League hasn’t been an issue for Niemann, who has completed first 5 occasions since February 2024, together with thrice this season. His success within the Saudi Arabian-financed circuit triggered Phil Mickelson to name him one of the best golfer on the earth, which raised some eyebrows.
“I feel 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 finest identical gamers repeatedly,” Mickelson mentioned. “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 degree of competitors each single week, and it is powerful to essentially grasp that and the way nice that’s when it is new.”
Preparing for Oakmont
Mickelson, Niemann and different LIV Golf gamers consider this week’s setup at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership, which hosted 4 Presidents Cups and the 2024 Solheim Cup, is a correct take a look at for subsequent week’s U.S. Open.
“Now we have greens which might be rolling 14 to fifteen on the stimpmeter, identical to we’ll subsequent week,” Mickelson mentioned. “Now we have 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, identical 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 is going to be laborious,” Niemann mentioned. “I do know it will be an excellent problem. Greens are going to be flying, so I really feel prefer it’s not going to be loads of 5-footers, 6-footers for birdie. I really feel it will be loads of the place you place your golf ball to have an uphill putt perhaps, which goes to be simpler.
“They need to win it over par, so on the finish of the day it is not who makes extra birdies, I really feel prefer it’s who makes much less bogeys and fewer errors.”
