Lee Westwood News

With the season's second major now in the rear-view mirror, the PGA Tour heads to Connecticut for the Travelers Championship .

Justin Rose reads newspaper accounts of his U.S. Open win Monday morning. Rose is playing this week at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn.

May 12, 2013; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA; Marc Leishman tees off on the first hole during the final round of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass - Stadium Course.

Ever since Greg Norman's final-round implosion allowed Nick Faldo win the Masters in 1996, a generation of fine English talent has come up short in golf's four major championships.

U.S. Open champion Justin Rose has no plans to take any time off after winning his first major championship.

Lee Westwood and Luke Donald reached No. 1 in the world. Ian Poulter turned into a rock star in the Ryder Cup.

This "golden generation" of English golfers -- Lee Westwood, Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Ian Poulter and Justin Rose -- was long ago hailed as the second coming of Europe's "Big Five" -- Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Ian Woosnam, Bernhard Langer and Sandy Lyle -- and, like their illustrious predecessors, expected to win majors aplenty.

Which way will Phil Mickelson - who has more runner-up finishes than anyone in history at the U.S. Open - move on moving day? We'll discuss these questions and more in this selection of winners and losers from Day 3 of the season's second major.

Can't tell you how much we hackers hate it when the pros make golf look as easy as bingo.

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The Travelers Championship , which will be played from June 17 to 23 at TPC River Highlands, has finalized this year's player field, according to a tournament press release.

Tiger Woods reacts to missing a putt on the fourth green during the first round of the 2013 US Open.

Hopes of a first English win at the US Open since Tony Jacklin 43 years ago were rising on Friday with Justin Rose, Luke Donald and Ian Poulter all in contention at Merion Golf Club.

BASKET CASE Lee Westwood's caddie, Mike Kerr, held one of the unique Merion Golf Club wicker-basket pins Friday.

With the sun shining through in Pennsylvania for the second round of the 2013 U.S. Open, we didn't have any of the delays or suspensions of play on Friday that we saw during Thursday's opening round.

In the lead up to the US Open at Merion Golf Club, all the talk was about how easy the course was going to be.

The top portion of the leaderboard of the 113th U.S. Open is peppered with players from Europe -- Lee Westwood , Luke Donald and Peter Hedblom -- and several others are not far behind.

They say you can't win a tournament on day one, you can only lose it. Not true. There was a winner in the first round of the 113th U.S. Open, and it wore long, green hair and a lot of red wicker.

Phil Mickelson arrived at Merion Golf Club about four hours before his 7:11 a.m. tee time and still managed to shoot a 3-under 67 for the clubhouse lead at Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Open.

Golf 's greatest test has been, well, tough. Balls are being hit all over a very soggy course, delivering bruises to some and brilliant souvenirs to others.