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Golf Correspondent

Reese Mercer

Reese tracks how majors are shaped by money, ego, and the last three holes on Sunday.

Focuses on tournament psychology, tour politics, and the personalities that turn leaderboards into rivalries.

Latest from Reese Mercer

Golf

Scheffler vs McIlroy is now a rivalry about control, not just trophies

The leaderboard battle is only half the story. The real tension is whose version of elite golf keeps proving sustainable.

Golf

U.S. Open week has become a betting war between discipline and chaos

The event now asks one clean question: who can survive the version of golf that refuses to be polite?

Golf

LIV vs PGA Tour is still the background noise behind every major

Even when the trophy goes elsewhere, the split still shapes how fans read the field.

Golf

Nelly Korda vs the field is golf’s most suffocating modern problem

The rivalry is asymmetrical, but that is exactly what makes every chase card compelling.