Shinnecock

A field of 156 golfers will tee it up at Shinnecock Hills for the 2018 U.S. Open. But getting to the Southampton, N.Y., course is a competition in itself. The USGA announced it has received 9,049 entries for this summer's tournament in Long Island. Out of that figure, only 54 are currently exempt from qualifying.

The confusion over who designed the historic Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton is a dilemma that could be referred to as a case of the Willies: Golf professionals Willie Dunn and Willie Davis have both been credited with determining its layout. But a new painting by Bohemia-based artist Elaine ...

Fox Sports has announced its live coverage plans for its 2018 USGA events, which includes more than 150 hours of coverage across the nine championships. Headlining the release is more than 45 hours of coverage from the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. The Sectional Qualifying Show on FS1 will kick ...

Shinnecock Hills boasts history like few courses in the country can. It hosted the second U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur ever played back in 1896. That year, James Foulis -- a Scottish-American -- won after finishing in a tie for third a year earlier at Rhode Island's Newport Country Club in the inaugural U.S. ...

In two previous appearances at Shinnecock, Woods (as an amateur) withdrew from the 1995 event with a sore neck, and finished T-17 in 2004. The 42-year-old missed the cut in his last U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in 2015. In six outings this year, Woods has finished inside the top 25 four times, highlighted ...

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has voted to re-elect Lance Gumbs, a former tribal chairman, to its council of trustees, in an upset that represented a vindication for the one-time leader. Gumbs, who operates the Shinnecock Indian Outpost on Montauk Highway in Southampton, in 2012 was the subject of a ...

Several inches of snow blanketed half-built structures and machinery dotting the landscape at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Monday morning, belying the fact that in just a little more than two months, the world's best male golfers will descend on the course for the 118th U.S. Open Championship.

Our check-in on how the summer rental season is shaping up out there finds more early interest than usual, especially because Southampton's Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is hosting the U.S. Open in June. Unlike that time-honored tradition of city dwellers heading to the East End in the summer, attendance ...

Shinnecock Family Still Trying To Put Pieces Together After 2016 Fire ... A year and a half after a fire destroyed their home on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, the Collins family is holding on to hope that the State Police still will nail the culprits who started the blaze—and now is offering a $20,000 reward ...

A peek through the scope set up on the top deck by Aaron Virgin, vice president of the environmental organization Group for the East End, revealed more about the huddle of 70 blubbery seals lying across a sandbar in Shinnecock Bay on Saturday. Bellies down and tails up, some of the seals napped in the ...

The USGA has released its list of the 112 local qualifying sites for the 2018 U.S. Open. The 18-hole qualifiers will be contested across 45 states (apologies to Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, North Dakota, and Mississippi) and Canada between April 30 and May 17. Florida (15) and California (14) have ...

Hunter, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, said she disagreed with McKenna's reasoning. “I don't experience it in that way,” she said. “This is not a day that is . . . recognizing or acknowledging the fact that this territory is within the territory of its original people, its original inhabitants and that is the ...

The 11th green at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, shown Oct. 4, 2017. ... The jobs include a variety of catering positions such as tent supervisors, beverage managers, bartenders, servers, tent chefs and dishwashers for the event, which will take place at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club June 11 to 17. Ridgewells ...

The change is takes effect immediately and would be used at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island in June if there is a tie after 72 holes. The U.S. Golf Association also decided to make its other three open championships two-hole playoffs – the U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Senior Women's ...