Latest from PGA Tour and LIV Golf: McIlroy's back and DeChambeau is everywhere

The U.S. Open, the 3rd large title of the season, is lone a week away.

Several apical golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League volition beryllium trying to fine-tune their games earlier they get astatine Oakmont Country Club extracurricular Pittsburgh adjacent week.

World No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy volition beryllium backmost successful enactment astatine the RBC Canadian Open connected the PGA Tour, and defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau volition tee it up successful the LIV Golf League's tourney successful Gainesville, Virginia.

"We're each trying to execute feats that haven't been done successful a agelong time, and going back-to-back would beryllium great," DeChambeau said. "Three successful a enactment would beryllium an adjacent amended accomplishment, truthful it is successful the backmost of my head."

What's adjacent connected the PGA Tour

RBC Canadian Open
When: Thursday-Sunday
Where: TPC Toronto astatine Osprey Valley (North Course), Caledon, Ontario
Defending champion: Robert MacIntyre
Purse: $9.8 million

Rory is back

After skipping past week's Memorial Tournament, a signature event, McIlory is backmost successful enactment northbound of the border. After winning the Canadian Open successful 2019 and 2022, McIlroy volition effort to go lone the 4th three-time victor (Tommy Armour, Sam Snead and Lee Trevino are the others).

McIlroy likes that the PGA Tour moved the Canadian Open up a period connected the schedule.

"I honestly emotion the day change," McIlroy said. "I emotion that it's the week starring into the U.S. Open. I told this communicative a small bit, but earlier playing successful this event, 2016, 2017, 2018, I missed 3 cuts successful a enactment astatine the U.S. Open. Since playing the Canadian Open the week before, I've had six top-10s successful a row, truthful there's thing to that."

After completing the vocation Grand Slam with his triumph astatine the Masters, McIlroy admitted "grinding connected the scope for 3 oregon 4 hours each time is possibly a small tougher than it utilized to be."

"You person this lawsuit successful your beingness that you've worked towards and it happens, sometimes it's hard to find the information to get backmost connected the equine and spell again," McIlroy said. "I deliberation the past 2 weeks person been bully for maine conscionable arsenic a reset, conscionable to benignant of fig retired wherever I'm astatine successful my ain head, what I privation to do, wherever I privation to play. Yeah, reset immoderate goals."

Scheffler secures Ryder Cup spot

The Ryder Cup is inactive much than 3 months away, but satellite No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler became the archetypal golfer to unafraid a roster spot connected the U.S. squad that volition conflict the Europeans astatine Bethpage Black Course successful Farmingdale, New York, Sept. 26-28.

The PGA of America announced Wednesday that Scheffler has secured capable Ryder Cup points with 25,918.25, which is doubly arsenic galore arsenic immoderate different golfer. Xander Schauffele is 2nd with 11,905.84.

"Scottie continues to beryllium wherefore helium is the No. 1 subordinate successful the world, showcasing unthinkable consistency and dominance week to week," U.S. squad skipper Keegan Bradley said successful a statement. "He is the eventual squad subordinate and I person nary uncertainty that helium volition beryllium acceptable and motivated travel September. I could not beryllium much excited to person him arsenic a subordinate of the U.S. Team."

The apical six eligible golfers pursuing the BMW Championship connected August 17, 2025 volition marque the squad. Bradley volition besides marque six captain's picks.

It volition beryllium Scheffler's 3rd Ryder Cup appearance. He went 0-2-2 successful the U.S. team's 16½-11½ nonaccomplishment astatine Marco Simone Golf & Country Club extracurricular Rome successful 2023, and 2-0-1 arsenic a rookie successful a 19-9 triumph successful 2021 astatine Whistling Straits successful Wisconsin.

"Representing the United States astatine the Ryder Cup has been 1 of the top honors of my career, and I look guardant to doing truthful for a 3rd clip this September," Scheffler said. "I volition bash immoderate it takes to assistance our squad reclaim the Cup and cannot hold to play successful beforehand of the passionate New York spectators astatine Bethpage Black."

Clanton's clip is yet here

Three golfers successful the RBC Canadian Open field, Luke Clanton, Gordon Sargent and David Ford, are making their pro debuts.

Expectations are already sky-high for Clanton, a erstwhile Florida State star, who was a two-time runner-up connected the PGA Tour arsenic an amateur past year, tying for 2nd astatine the John Deere Classic and RSM Classic. He was the archetypal amateur since Jack Nicklaus successful 1961 with 3 oregon much top-10 finishes connected the PGA Tour successful a season.

Clanton tied for 15th astatine the Farmers Insurance Open and for 18th astatine the Cognizant Classic successful The Palm Beaches this year.

"It's been incredible," Clanton told reporters successful Canada. "Like I said, it's thing you imagination for always, constantly. To benignant of present beryllium present and to telephone myself a nonrecreational is simply a small spot -- honestly, a small spot weird astatine archetypal due to the fact that I've ever been an amateur.

"It's amazing. I'm conscionable excited to travel retired present and compete. It's not astir the money. It's not astir immoderate of the fame. It's astir competing with these guys connected tour. It's thing I've chased for my whole, full life, and particularly my family."

Clanton was the No. 1 amateur successful the satellite earlier turning pro this week, and helium collected the Ben Hogan Award arsenic the apical collegiate golfer by winning 4 times astatine FSU this spring.

Clanton volition play the archetypal 2 rounds with McIlroy and Ludvig Åberg.

On Tuesday, Clanton thanked his mother, Rhonda, who precocious retired aft moving much than 4 decades arsenic a Delta formation attendant, and his father, David, who owned 2 businesses to assistance nonstop his lad to backstage schoolhouse and enactment his golf.

"What they did not conscionable for me, but my 2 older sisters arsenic well, to get america done everything, it was incredible," Clanton said. "Again, my ma and dada are 2 hard-working people, and they'll never, ever instrumentality recognition for it, which benignant of pisses maine disconnected sometimes due to the fact that they did everything they could."

Clanton hits it acold disconnected the tee (his 312.4-yard mean would fertile 14th connected circuit if he'd played capable rounds to qualify), and helium says his "strong mentality" is 1 of his champion attributes.

When Clanton was asked whether the LIV Golf League tried to enlistee him, helium said, "I privation to play the PGA Tour, beauteous simple. I privation to play against the best, I privation to vie successful majors, and that's it. Simple."

Sargent was the 2022 NCAA idiosyncratic champion arsenic a Vanderbilt freshman and debased amateur astatine the 2023 U.S. Open. He secured a PGA Tour paper done the PGA Tour University Accelerated pathway successful October 2023, but deferred turning pro to instrumentality to Vanderbilt.

Ford, who won 5 times astatine North Carolina this past season, finished No. 1 successful the PGA Tour University Rankings to gain his card. He captured the Jack Nicklaus Award and Fred Haskins Awards this spring.

All 3 golfers are guaranteed PGA Tour presumption done the 2026 season.

What's adjacent successful the LIV Golf League

LIV Golf Virginia
When: Friday-Sunday
Where: Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville, Virginia
Defending champion: Harold Varner III
Purse: $25 million

Bryson's engaged month

Along with tying for 2nd astatine the PGA Championship, defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau crushed tee shots astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a upland scope and the Bonneville Salt Flats successful Utah and the White House.

It was conscionable different regular period for nonrecreational golf's contented king, who has much than 2 cardinal followers connected his YouTube channel.

"How bash I find clip to sleep? I really slumber rather well," DeChambeau said. "It's a batch of planning. We prepare, strategize and execute accordingly with these crippled plans, and erstwhile things enactment based upon different people's schedules."

DeChambeau was a backmost rider for a mates of 180 mph laps astatine the famed oval successful Indiana, and said he's present utilizing brackish from Utah successful his meals.

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DeChambeau wasn't definite astir hitting play balls connected the backmost tract of the White House until President Donald Trump urged him to bash it.

"I ne'er thought I would ever successful my beingness get an accidental to bash it, but the President himself was like, 'Just spell retired determination and deed immoderate shots,'" DeChambeau said. "I was like, 'Okay, yes, sir.' It was rather the experience. It was 105 yards and I deed a fewer bully shots to a mates feet and astir made a fewer of them, too."

The reigning U.S. Open champion says his superior extremity remains winning play tournaments.

"Do I privation to triumph each azygous tourney I amusement up to? 100 percent," DeChambeau said. "I'm ne'er not going to beryllium the hardest rival retired determination successful my perspective. But it besides allowed maine to bash different things which are meaningful, arsenic well.

"I deliberation creating my YouTube transmission was thing that I've ever wanted to do, seeing what MrBeast and Dude Perfect had done successful the mid-2010s, and I said, 'Why can't I bash that, arsenic well? I deliberation there's an accidental to beryllium arsenic influential arsenic I americium now, and this was conscionable the beginning. I deliberation there's a batch much to come."

Turning the corner

Torque GC skipper Joaquín Niemann hopes helium has yet turned the country aft tying for eighth successful the PGA Championship, his archetypal top-10 decorativeness successful 24 starts successful the large four. His 72-hole full of 4-under 143 near him 7 strokes down Scheffler.

"I didn't consciousness similar I played my champion game," Niemann said. "I felt similar determination was a batch much astatine the clip to play better. I knew I could person a mode amended result. But I deliberation we tin instrumentality the positives and spell measurement by step. It's my archetypal top-10 successful a major, truthful that's a positive."

Winning successful the LIV Golf League hasn't been a occupation for Niemann, who has finished archetypal 5 times since February 2024, including 3 times this season. His occurrence successful the Saudi Arabian-financed circuit caused Phil Mickelson to telephone him the champion golfer successful the world, which raised immoderate eyebrows.

"I deliberation due to the fact that LIV is new, they don't rather recognize the tract and the spot of the field, and the guys you're playing against are these champion aforesaid players repeatedly," Mickelson said. "Joaco is winning and helium is playing each azygous week [against] Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson and these guys. He's playing against that aforesaid level of contention each azygous week, and it's pugnacious to truly grasp that and however large that is erstwhile it's new."

Getting acceptable for Oakmont

Mickelson, Niemann and different LIV Golf players judge this week's setup astatine Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, which hosted 4 Presidents Cups and the 2024 Solheim Cup, is simply a due trial for adjacent week's U.S. Open.

"We person greens that are rolling 14 to 15 connected the stimpmeter, conscionable similar we volition adjacent week," Mickelson said. "We person contours, undulations conscionable similar we volition adjacent week. Short game, touch, chipping astir the greens, rough, speed, lag drills and velocity and interaction connected the greens, each of that's captious here, aforesaid happening arsenic adjacent week. It couldn't beryllium a amended spot to get ready."

The past clip the U.S. Open was played astatine Oakmont successful 2016, Dustin Johnson's winning people was 4-under 276. Only 4 golfers had scores nether par.

"It's going to beryllium hard," Niemann said. "I cognize it's going to beryllium a bully challenge. Greens are going to beryllium flying, truthful I consciousness similar it's not going to beryllium a batch of 5-footers, 6-footers for birdie. I consciousness it's going to beryllium a batch of wherever you presumption your play shot to person an uphill putt maybe, which is going to beryllium easier.

"They privation to triumph it implicit par, truthful astatine the extremity of the time it's not who makes much birdies, I consciousness similar it's who makes little bogeys and little mistakes."