AFTER Adam Scott’s welcome victory in the US Masters, it was hard to imagine a more popular winner could be possible, a winner who had also shared the Australian’s experience of the highs and lows of professional sport at the highest level.

PHIL Mickelson was left suffering more “heartbreak” as the US Open once again eluded him on Sunday.

JUSTIN Rose hopes his US Open triumph can inspire more ­English players to win major championships – but he also wants more of them for himself.

SCOTLAND’S Martin Laird last night finished the 113th US Open with a round of 68 and some strident criticism of tournament organisers for making players “look like idiots” with “ridiculous” pin positions.

JUSTIN Rose today survived a rollercoaster final round to win his first major title in the US Open and inflict further misery on Phil Mickelson.

This week’s US Open in Merion near Philadelphia features four Scots – Russell Knox, Martin Laird, Chris Doak and Paul Lawrie – none of whom is realistically expected to win.

THE connection between North Berwick and Merion Cricket Club at Ardmore in Philadelphia goes back over a hundred years to 1898 when Robert M Thomson, a fisherman’s son from North Berwick was appointed head pro at Merion Cricket Club.

JACK Nicklaus, displaying the vast talent and iron will that made him golf’s incomparable champion, ground out a last-round 68 in Springfield, New Jersey and secured what may be the most welcome of all his titles, a record-matching fourth US Open crown.

England’s Luke Donald was yesterday just one shot off the clubhouse lead in the delayed second round of the US Open as Merion proved beyond doubt it had stood the test of time.

Phil Mickelson had the early first-round lead to himself at the US Open last night despite having arrived at Merion Golf Club just hours before his 7:11am tee time.

US OPEN organisers are preparing for severe thunderstorms and high winds for today’s opening round at Merion, which has already been saturated by more than six inches of rain since Friday.

Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer and Clint Eastwood are among the star names featuring in a new campaign designed to improve the pace of play whose theme is taken from the iconic film Caddyshack.

Luke Donald insists he is as determined as ever to win a major championship as the search for an English winner of one of golf’s four biggest prizes continues.

The US Open returns to Merion Golf Club for the fifth time in its history this year, having hosted three memorable championships in the modern era.

Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy are back to being the best of friends, but also back to hoping for two different types of US Open at Merion.

IT HAS been five frustrating years for Tiger Woods since he won the most recent of his 14 major titles but the world No 1 says nothing has changed for him in the way he approaches golf’s biggest events.

COLIN Montgomerie believes Tiger Woods can easily turn from a hacker back into a major winner again this week, but also reckons a struggling Rory McIlroy could “flick the switch” to land a second US Open title in three years.

SCOTLAND’S Catriona Matthew came agonisingly close to clinching her second career major as she lost out in a gruelling play-off to World No 1 Inbee Park in the LPGA Championship at Pittsford, New York.

COLIN Montgomerie fears Sergio Garcia could step on to the first tee at this week’s US Open at Merion to a chorus of boos as the Spaniard makes his first appearance on American soil since aiming a perceived racist remark towards Tiger Woods.

CORHAMPTON’S Neil Raymond won the St Andrews Links Trophy by two shots with a six-under-par total of 282 yesterday.