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#bryson-dechambeau

At 81 yards, the par-3 15th hole at Los Angeles Country Club on Saturday was the shortest hole in the history of the U.S. Open.Only a golfer can fully grasp the mental torment that such a bite-size challenge poses, but here is one way to understand the situation: No one likes a hole where it's easier to throw the ball onto the green than it is to hit it there with a golf club.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Six weeks ago on Sunday, Brooks Koepka did not sleep.He had brooding to do and demons to chase.After everything the ghastly knee injury, the agony of unfulfilled ambition, the taunts and the splenetic rift in professional golf that he helped personify he had rallied to a Masters Tournament lead, and then he had fizzled.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.For a while during the third round of the P.G.A. Championship on Saturday, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and three or four other golfers were roaming the august grounds of the Oak Hill Country Club with their caps on backward.It makes me feel cool, Rose said.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Four years ago, less than a week before he won his second consecutive P.G.A. Championship, Brooks Koepka allowed the world inside his swaggering mind.One hundred fifty-six in the field, so you figure at least 80 of them I'm just going to beat, he said at Bethpage in 2019.You figure about half of them won't play well from there, so you're down to about maybe 35, he added.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Justin Rose, the golfer you remember but maybe have not thought all that much about lately in major tournaments, had hit two fairways all day.He had birdied as often as he had bogeyed.And when he walked off the course on Friday, his tournament score at one under par, he was positioned to contend at the P.G.A. Championship this weekend.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.Bryson DeChambeau walked onto his final green in the first round of the 2023 P.G.A. Championship on Thursday and the modest gallery awaiting him remained hushed.DeChambeau was leading the event and on his way to a sterling 18-hole score, his best at an American major championship in three years.

The PGA Tour, LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund asked a federal judge in California on Friday to dismiss the litigation that catapulted golf's economic and power structure into the American court system.The request to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be refiled, came less than two weeks after the tour and the wealth fund, which bankrolled LIV, announced a tentative agreement to form a partnership.