One can only imagine that on occasion a member of the Myopia Hunt Club north of Boston — clear across America by some 3,000 miles from Chambers Bay and the 115th U.S. Open — will come across a golf ball long ago lost by one W.E. Stoddard. 

Graeme McDowell can’t wait for another thrilling major championship rollercoaster ride and he’s already setting his sights on the Claret Jug following his gutsy runner-up finish in the US Open at The Olympic Club.

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

RORY McILROY could skip next year’s Irish Open for a return to the scene of his US Open triumph if the European Tour opts for a late June date.

THE European Tour is about to begin talks with a new sponsor that could see the Irish Open move from its August Bank Holiday slot to the end of June.