Tiger Woods didn’t just rewrite the golf record book. He rewrote sports psychology too — he and Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and every other maniacally driven, winning-is-everything athlete who placed their sport above everything else in their life.

It's a homecoming for 2025 Masters champion Rory McIlroy as the Open Championship returns to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. The five-time major champion hasn't won the Open in over a decade, and to make matters even worse,

The PGA Tour's Open Championship begins on Thursday in Scotland, where the top players on tour will compete at the Royal Portrush Golf Club's Dunluce Course.