Field Level Media’s Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.
PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: RBC Canadian Open (Nick Taylor)
THIS WEEK: U.S. Open, Los Angeles, June 15-18
Course: The Los Angeles Country Club, North Course (Par 70, 7,421 yards)
Purse: TBA (Winner: TBA)
Defending Champion: Matt Fitzpatrick
FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday, 9:40 a.m.-1 p.m. (Peacock); 1-8 p.m. ET (USA), 8-11 p.m. (NBC); Saturday, 1-11 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 12-1 p.m. (Peacock), 1-10 p.m. (NBC)
Twitter: @USOpenGolf
NOTES: The 156-player field will be cut to the low 60 players and ties following 36 holes. … This is the first major championship to be held at the Los Angeles Country Club, and it will be contested on the North Course. The first edition of the Los Angeles Open (now The Genesis Invitational) was played on the North Course in 1926 and was held there four additional times. … Jon Rahm will make another attempt to become the first player to win five times in a season since Justin Thomas in 2016-17. He’s also attempting to be the first winner of multiple majors in a year since Jordan Spieth in 2015. … Fitzpatrick is trying to become the first player to successfully defend a U.S. Open title since Brooks Koepka in 2018. … Rory McIlroy has 18 top-10s in majors since claiming the most recent of his four career majors at the 2014 PGA Championship. This will be his 33rd start in a major since that victory. … No. 4 Patrick Cantlay, a Los Angeles-area native, is the highest-ranked player in this week’s field who has yet to win a major title.
BEST BETS: Scottie Scheffler (+700 at BetMGM) has 16 consecutive finishes of T12 or better, including a win at this year’s The Players and T2 at the Masters. He finished T2 to Fitzpatrick last year. … Rahm (+1000) won the 2021 U.S. Open and captured his second major at this year’s Masters. … Koepka (+1100) is already a two-time U.S. Champion. In this year’s first two majors, he finished T2 at the Masters and won his third PGA Championship. … Viktor Hovland (+1600) battled Koepka down the stretch on Sunday at the PGA and followed it up with a win at the Memorial. He’s the only player to finish in the top 10 in each of the past three majors. … Max Homa (+2800) set the course record at the Los Angeles Country Club with a 61 in the first round of the 2013 Pac-12 Championship.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Travelers Championship, Cromwell, Conn., June 22-25
LPGA Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: ShopRite LPGA Classic (Ashleigh Buhai)
THIS WEEK: Meijer LPGA Classic, Belmont, Mich., June 15-18
Course: Blythefield Country Club (Par 72, 6,556 yards)
Purse: $2.5M (Winner: $375,000)
Defending Champion: Jennifer Kupcho
Race to the CME Globe leader: Jin Young Ko
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Saturday, 3-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1-2 p.m. (Peacock), 2-4 p.m. (CBS/Paramount+)
Streaming: (All times golfchannel.com, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports App and Peacock)
Twitter: @MeijerLPGA
NOTES: Kupcho defeated Nelly Korda and Leona Maguire in a playoff last year. … This is the final tune-up before the second major of the year next week at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. … Brooke Henderson is a two-time winner of the event. … Rachel Kuehn, the No. 5-ranked amateur in the world, is in the 144-player field on a sponsor’s invitation. So, too, is former Michigan State star Brooke Biermann, who will make her LPGA Tour debut, and The John Shippen National Invitational winner Paige Crawford.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Springfield, N.J., June 22-25
Champions Tour
LAST TOURNAMENT: American Family Insurance Championship (Steve Stricker)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steve Stricker
HOW TO FOLLOW
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, Endicott, N.Y., June 23-25
LIV Golf League
LAST TOURNAMENT: LIV Golf D.C. (Individual: Harold Varner III; Team: Torque GC)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: LIV Golf Valderrama, Andalucia, Spain, June 30-July 2
–Field Level Media
