Zach Johnson News

Cedar Rapids, IA - PGA TOUR player and Cedar Rapids native Zach Johnson announces his fellow PGA TOUR players, Steve Stricker, Kyle Stanley and Mark Wilson will be joining him for the 2013 Zach Johnson Foundation Classic.

Woods went out-of-bounds on his second tee shot of the final round at Merion and closed with a 4-over 74. That gave him his worst 72-hole score as a pro in the U.S. Open, and it tied for his high score in any major.

Somewhere along the eighth fairway on Sunday, I looked down at my phone and saw a complaint about how horrible the golf was, with players on almost every hole dropping shots left and right.

Zach Johnson hits out of a bunker on the 10th hole during the second round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Golf Club, Friday, June 14, 2013, in Ardmore, Pa.

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Among those who had the shortest week at the U.S. Open took the longest road to even get to Merion.

Luke Donald has such a good short game he could land an egg on the top of Peyton Manning's helmet and not crack the shell.

Difficult, the USGA's Mike Davis said this week, is "our DNA." And making a course play difficult, the executive director said, is easy to do.

Under the peculiar circumstances at Merion Golf Club this week where the US Open is being staged, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy were more than happy to settle for three-over par 73s in the second round.

Cedar Rapids native Zach Johnson finished his tournament by shooting a first-round 74 and a second-round 77 at the U.S. Open.

It's something the PGA Tour regularly enacts with mud on a course, so players can feel a true ball flight.

As the 2013 U.S. Open is set to tee off Thursday morning, the experts' picks are rolling in and they don't all include favorite Tiger Woods .

Dottie Pepper makes it clear. It was the writers who used the word "retirement" with regard to her broadcasting career.

Charlie Riedel Associated Press The United States Golf Association returned to Merion Golf Club for the U.S. Open after a 32-year absence.

Turns out Rory McIlroy decided to do the Rocky thing before teeing off in the U.S. Open.

IN HIS OWN WORDS : Chambersburg native Mike Davis, the USGA executive director, took the podium for a news conference Wednesday morning.

Tiger, Rory and Adam. If you follow the PGA Tour, first names are enough to identify golf's top three players at the moment.

He's the youngest player in the field at the U.S. Open. Pittsford's Gavin Hall has already had the experience of a lifetime and the tournament doesn't start until Thursday.

Look up and down the entry list and you'll find curiosities with players when it comes to the U.S. Open, but nothing confounds quite like the overall record of Luke Donald and Zach Johnson.

Look up and down the entry list, and you'll find curiosities with players when it comes to the US Open.