AS phenomena go, the weather curiosity known as the Marine Layer — a thick blanket of fog that hovers over the Bay Area of San Francisco – is mostly a nuisance.

Champion needs to take page from patient McDowell’s US Open play book.

Not quite ignorant enough to think that we invented golf, we Americans have taken disconcerting liberties with the game.

If you accept as truth what has been widely reported, that this northern California city is one of the world’s most beautiful, the evidence was not readily available yesterday morning to substantiate that claim.

When Johnny Miller closed with a record-breaking 63 to win the 1973 US Open at Oakmont, the fallout was horrific.