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Oklahoma State junior Ethan Fang held off a late charge with a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 1-up victory over Gavin Tiernan of Ireland, becoming the first American in 18 years to win the British Amateur.

Semiretired Lexi Thompson is entering the weekend contending for her first major title in more than a decade, while Jeeno Thitikul extended her lead at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

The U.S. Open had everything: an iconic venue, thick rough, fast greens, weather chaos and a 72nd-hole putt to win it all.

But it didn’t have the one thing majors can usually count on: large viewership.

J.J. Spaun’s victory at Oakmont featured the longest made putt of the entire tournament, on the final hole, to win his first major.

Yet the 2025 U.S. Open final round drew just 5.4 million average viewers.

That’s the lowest Sunday audience for a U.S. Open since the COVID-disrupted 2020 tournament at Winged Foot.

We’re three majors deep into the 2025 season and “LIV versus PGA Tour” is still one of the most fun storylines in professional golf.

At Augusta, it was all about Rory McIlroy who captured his first Masters and completed the career Grand Slam. At Quail Hollow, Scottie Scheffler dominated again, claiming his third major. At Oakmont, J.J. Spaun stole the spotlight with a dramatic U.S. Open victory.

So how did the two sides fare at the 2025 U.S. Open?

LIV vs. PGA: U.S. Open by the numbers

Group	Players in Field	Made Cut	% Made Cut	Top 10s	Best Finish
LIV Golf	14	6	42.9%	3	T4 – Hatton, Ortiz
PGA Tour	142	60	42.3%	7+	1st – J.J. Spaun

What stood out

LIV had a smaller group of players participating in the U.S. Open, yet they still had about the same made-cut percentage as the PGA Tour golfers. J.J. Spaun took home the win so we are now three majors in with no sign of an LIV champion in a major event for 2025.

Three LIV golfers cracked the top 10

Finding three LIV golfers in the top 10 is impressive.

Scottie Scheffler was comfortably in front until a double bogey on the par-4 17th and wound up tied with Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Thomas for the lead at the Travelers Championship.

Steven Alker, Tim Petrovic and Ricardo Gonzalez share the 2nd-round lead at Firestone in the PGA Tour Champions third major of the season.

I wasn't sure what to make of mini drivers. Then I saw the results, and the TaylorMade R7 Quad Mini Driver replaced my favorite club.

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Collin Morikawa was missing his iron shots left at the Travelers Championship, so he employed what he described as a 'very weird' tactic.

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For a limited time on Fairway Jockey, a wide range of Callaway products — including irons, wedges, putters and golf balls — are on sale.

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South Korea's Si Woo Kim withdrew from the Travelers Championship during second-round play due to a back injury.

Odyssey has a new chipper out and their calling this one their best yet. Here's what you need to know about the new Odyssey Chipper.

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The KPMG Performance Insights program is providing players with data and analytics to help them tackle the Fields Ranch East course.

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When comedian Jake Adams published a video review of Boca Grove, in Florida, it led to a chain of events that triggered a $50 million suit.

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Collin Morikawa's new Olson putter and Tommy Fleetwood's shaft changes highlight some notable gear changes at the Travelers Championship.

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Odyssey is releasing a new Chipper next week and some of you probably don’t even realize that you should be excited about that.

Admittedly, his release doesn’t evoke the same fanfare as a new Odyssey Square 2 Square or Giraffe Beam release. However, this release has the potential to help a struggling golfer more than a new putter would.

The Odyssey Chipper won’t help you on the green but it will help you get to the green.

Some of you have awful short games

Do you alternate between chunking and blading shots around the green? If so, the Odyssey Chipper is something that you should look into. We did a deep dive about chipper use a few months back and the bottom line is that many golfers could restore some pleasure to their games by adding a chipper to their bags.

Do you need a chipper? How many times a round do you flub a chip? Have you bladed your first chip across the green, following up that shot with an overcorrected chunker?

Teaching pro Heather Angell's dream week at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA came to a quick end when she was disqualified for a rare rules error.

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When Costco’s Kirkland Signature golf ball first hit warehouse shelves, it took the golfing world by storm. Here was a urethane-covered ball for less than $20 a dozen—something industry experts had deemed impossible until the retail giant made it happen. While the three-piece offerings that followed—now in their fourth generation—have never quite lived up to the performance of that legendary original, they’ve maintained a cult following largely because of their insane value proposition.

Costco’s legion of loyal followers knows the drill: grab a hot dog and a dozen golf balls for what most brands charge for four sleeves. It’s bulk buying at its finest and, for years, Kirkland has dominated the under-$20 urethane space almost unopposed—if only because virtually no one else was playing in that sandbox.

But now there’s competition in the warehouse aisles.

Sam’s Member’s Mark: The alternative to the alternative?

Recently, we published data showing how the new Kirkland Performance+ stacks up against the Titleist Pro V1. What we didn’t tell you is that at the same time, we tested another challenger: Sam’s Club Member’s Mark Pro Series 2 golf ball. Today, we’re comparing the performance of golf balls from the biggest names in bulk goods. How weird is that?

Since Costco’s launch, they’ve essentially owned the ultra-affordable urethane category. With Sam’s entering the fray, we wanted to see how this other warehouse ball compared to what has become the de facto gold standard in budget-friendly premium golf balls. Think of it as rotisserie chicken versus … well, other rotisserie chicken, but for your golf bag.

Did you know that the USGA’s “one ball rule” is actually just a local rule? Yep, it’s an optional thing that’s more or less off by default until a tournament committee decides to turn it on. While the pros on TV are usually locked into one model during PGA Tour events, your weekend game with buddies? That’s a totally different story.

Here’s a fun fact: while the Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship (aka “British Open”) enforce the one-ball rule, the PGA Championship doesn’t. While it’s the most extreme example, theoretically, a player could have teed up 18 different models in a single round at Quail Hollow earlier this year.

What does this mean for you? Simply put, you’re totally within your rights to play multiple models during a round of golf.

Now, I know this flies in the face of everything we’ve discussed about choosing a golf ball. The conventional wisdom says find “your ball” and stick with it forever (or until the new model comes out.) Learn its flight characteristics, know exactly how far it goes, understand how it spins. All that makes perfect sense, right?

But what if we’ve been thinking about this all wrong?

Mallet versus blade putters: one of golf’s most debated topics. But we don’t deal in subjective opinions at MyGolfSpy; data is our deal. So we decided to look at actual performance and see what the best putters on the PGA Tour are using. We pulled the top 10 PGA Tour players in Strokes Gained putting and investigated what putters they’re using. If anyone has figured out if mallet or blade takes the cake, it’s them.

Top 10 PGA Tour putters and their putter models

Player	Putter Model	Type
Sam Burns	Odyssey Ai-ONE 7S	Mallet
Harry Hall	Odyssey O-Works #1 Wide / Ai-One DW	Blade
Brandt Snedeker	Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie	Mallet
Danny Willett	Scotty Cameron T-5 Tour Prototype	Blade
Sam Ryder	Odyssey White Hot Versa Seven S	Mallet
Nico Echavarria	Odyssey Tri-Hot 5K Seven	Mallet
Denny McCarthy	Scotty Cameron GoLo N7 (Tour-only)	Mallet
Jacob Bridgeman	Bettinardi DASS BB Zero Tour	Blade
Sami Valimaki	Odyssey Ai-One #1	Blade
Cameron Young	Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5 Tour Prototype	Mallet

Blade versus mallet: What the data shows

Of the 10 best putters on Tour:

Six are using mallet puttersFour are using blade putters

For a long time, blade putters were thought to be the most popular choice for professional golfers but we have seen a shift. The shift all comes down to data and what works and this aligns closely with Shot Scope’s amateur data which showed that mallet users:

Make more putts inside six feet (82% vs. 75%)Three-putt less often (2.3 vs. 2.6 per round)Perform worse on lag putting but make up for it with better short-putting conversion

For the top 10 percent of putters in the Shot Scope database, it was even more lopsided:

93% make rate inside six feetJust 0.7 three-putts per round

What does it all mean?

Looking at these top 10 players, as well as the new data on blade versus mallet putters for amateurs, there are a few things we can determine:

Last fall, I put together a list of the most overrated golfers in history.

Admittedly, that was a tough list to put together. We’re talking about some of the best golfers to ever play. Some of them on the list are major champions or Hall of Famers. To call them “overrated” is a bit harsh and it’s highly subjective.

But, hey, we’re just gabbing it up around the water cooler here. Feel free to disagree.

This time, how about we talk about the golfers who are underrated?

I define “underrated” as golfers who have accomplishments that outpace their popularity or reverence. Guys who should probably be talked about more often but maybe they were (or are) overshadowed by others in their era.