How ironic that it would happen during duty for U-23s. In the final friendly match before Bayern Munich's U-23 season premiere, two U-19 talents filled in for those making their debuts for the Bavarians' senior team and duly picked up serious injuries. Bayern's official website has the details:
Painful news for Thibault Maspimby and Leopold Schmid : The [center back and defensive midfielder] suffered injuries in the FC Bayern Amateurs ' final pre-season friendly against SSV Ulm 1846 Fußball (1-3 ) on Sunday afternoon and will be sidelined for the time being. Maspimby, who came on as a substitute in the second half and made his debut for the Amateurs, suffered a knee injury. Schmid is out for now due to a forearm injury. We wish you both a speedy and full recovery!
Leopold Schmid had risen to prominence in the U-19s following David Santos Daiber's promotion to the U-23s in January 2026 and did an impressive job of filling the hole left behind. He would have hoped to have retained that momentum and perhaps push for a winter promotion to the U-23s of his own. He will need to regain the momentum now.
Thibault Maspimby, in the meantime, was an ever present for the U-17s last season and would have been so for the U-19s this season, as well. Hopefully this knee injury will turn out to be one of the less severe ones.
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Lucas Glover caused a real stir during the 3M Open last week.
Glover is one of the more experienced pros on the PGA Tour, and he is extremely outspoken with that.
The man from Greenville, South Carolina, proved that in abundance last week at TPC Twin Cities.
Glover's biggest pet peeve is AimPoint – the green-reading method that has become so popular among professional golfers over the past few years and, indeed, amateurs.
After holing a birdie putt on his 10th hole during the final round of the 3M Open on Sunday, Lucas Glover took off his golf shoes before leaving them on the side of the green.

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The Open Championship, that's the name and it always has been.
So from where did anyone get "The British Open"?
Only Americans called golf's oldest major championship the "British Open." It is sometimes shortened to "The Open," the name reflecting the purpose and that's it is open to all, according to The Open's official website.
The tournament's official start dates back to 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland, making it the oldest pro golf tournament and there was no competition for the Open Championship. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club continued to use the name for 35 years with no conflicts. But that changed when the United States Golf ******* ociation introduced the U.S. Open in 1895. The British Open name is strictly prohibited by R&A.
The tournament was made as a final decision for the Champion Golfer of the Year. It was open to both professionals and amateurs, regardless of background. Pretty much anyone good enough to compete could play. Other golf majors, like the Masters which is closed to professionals, or the U.S. Open which is invitation only. The Open is one of a kind.

SOUTHPORT, England— Ludvig Aberg’s preparation for the Open got off to an inauspicious start.
In a walk-and-talk with Open Championship media at Royal Birkdale Tuesday morning, Aberg relayed that he had some travel difficulties arriving to the United Kingdom earlier this month. For starters, his bag was lost for three days. Not necessarily an uncommon occurrence, both for those at the professional level and amateurs chasing the ball around the globe.
Unfortunately for Aberg, things did not improve when his bag was ultimately discovered.
“When I pulled it out my driver was snapped in half,” Aberg said. “My Foresight, the quad that I use, was cracked in half.”
When the Open reporter joked that his numbers were off, Aberg pantomimed putting his finger in the air to judge the wind.

The Walker Cup is two months away, and the USGA announced Wednesday the first four selections for the United States squad.
Preston Stout, Tyler Watts, Ethan Fang and Miles Russell will represent the stars and stripes Sept. 5-6 at Lahinch in Ireland, site of the 51st Walker Cup — a biennial match between the top amateurs from the United States and those from Great Britain and Ireland.
Stout, Watts and Fang earned automatic spots on the U.S. side thanks to being the highest-ranked Americans in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, while Russell was selected by the Walker Cup committee.
Stout, a rising senior at Oklahoma State, recently moved to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He won the individual ******* le at the NCAA Men's Golf Championship in June and was on the Walker Cup team last year at Cypress Point. He also won medalist honors at the 2025 U.S. Amateur and he's likely to be No. 1 on the PGA Tour University Class of 2027 rankings. Last week, he made his first cut in a PGA Tour event, finishing in the top 15 at the John Deere Classic, where he played on a sponsor exemption.
Watts won the Northeast Amateur two weeks ago, jumping into the top five of WAGR and becoming the youngest champion in the event's history. The 18-year-old is ranked No. 3 in the world and is an incoming freshman at Tennessee, where he's likely to be one of several teenagers on the team.

At a time when college athletics is confronting the expanding influence of legalized sports gambling, NIL money, and unprecedented access to athletes, the conversation often sounds new.
It isn’t.
What is too often missing is the reminder that integrity isn’t new either. In September 1960, just days before the University of Florida was set to face Florida State, a young Gator fullback named Jon MacBeth found himself at the center of something far bigger than a football game.
He was approached by gamblers. Not casual bettors—but part of a broader, organized effort tied to what would soon become one of the most significant point-shaving investigations in American sports history. These were not amateurs. This network stretched from college campuses to New York and into the orbit of organized crime figures who were actively probing college athletics for vulnerabilities.
The proposition was straightforward: influence the outcome against the point spread. Don’t necessarily lose, just make sure the margin stayed within a certain number. It’s the same scheme many of us still worry about today. It could ruin athletic competition.

NHL Draft Tracker 2026: Full Results, List of Picks From Rounds 1-7 originally appeared on SportsNet Pittsburgh. Add SportsNet Pittsburgh as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The 2026 NHL Entry Draft wrapped up on Saturday in Buffalo as the league officially welcomed its next generation of stars. The two-day event kicked off with a prime-time first round on Friday night at KeyBank Center — making Buffalo the first city to host the draft in its new decentralized format — before concluding with Rounds 2 through 7 on Saturday afternoon.

Leading the class was exceptional-status forward Gavin McKenna, who was selected No. 1 overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs, followed by Anton Stenberg to the San Jose Sharks at No. 2 and Caleb Malhotra to the Vancouver Canucks at No. 3.
On Saturday afternoon, Rounds 2 through 7 of the draft came and went in Buffalo, with 192 players selected through the afternoon. Whether international players, ones in the American leagues, or amateurs prepping for the collegiate level, teams picked up valuable pieces to add to their prospect pools.
One of the most fascinating storylines of the weekend came from the Pittsburgh Penguins, who kept an incredible family dream alive by drafting twin brothers Liam and Markus Ruck. GM Kyle Dubas selected Liam, a goal-scoring winger, at No. 22 overall on Friday, before calling his twin brother and elite playmaker, Markus, at No. 39 on Saturday. The dynamic duo finished top-two in WHL scoring with Medicine Hat last season and will now head to the pros together.
But the draft wasn’t just about picks. There were some major trades.

The Boston Bruins traded the No. 23 overall pick and a 2028 first-round pick (top-10 protected) to acquire winger JJ Peterka from the Utah Mammoth. Around the NHL, the New York Rangers acquired Pavel Dorofeyev, the St. Louis Blues traded for Mason McTavish, and the Carolina Hurricanes picked up the rights to John Carlson.

As eyes shift towards free agency on July 1, franchises will walk away from the KeyBank Center pleased with how they bolstered their futures. Soon enough, some of these players will be the future of the NHL.

Louise Wilson, an inductee in both the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame and the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame, died June 23. She was 96.
Born Dec. 29, 1929, Wilson was a member of the Women’s Falls Cities Golf ***** ociation for amateurs. She was a multi-time winner of the Women’s Kentucky State Amateur Championships and a course record holder at Harmony Landing in Oldham County.
According to previous Courier Journal reporting, Wilson played in her first Falls Cities tournament in 1947 and won it multiple times from 1952-2003. She was also a semi-finalist in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in 1961. She was later inducted in the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame in 1991.
Her golf journey began when she was 12, living with her family in Cherokee Triangle. She walked to the public Cherokee Golf Course, where the pro in residence gave her free lessons.
“I think I developed an addiction,” she told The Courier Journal in 2015. “I remember one Saturday I played 54 holes carrying my bag."

For the first time since 2018, there are co-low amateurs at the U.S. Open.
World No. 1 amateur Jackson Koivun, who is competing in his final event as an am, and Ryder Cowan, the rising senior at Oklahoma competing in his first major championship, both finished at 5-over 285 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, to share medalist honors in the third major championship of the year. Cowan birdied the 71st hole to get into a tie with Koivun. On the closing 18th, he had a birdie putt to nab low am honors all to himself but left it short.
More: 5 amateurs made the cut. Here's how they finished at the 2026 U.S. Open
"Shinnecock was so much fun this weekend," Koivun said. "Just happy to walk away with a birdie on the last hole, but golf course is so good, so much fun. A lot of thinking to do, and can definitely mentally wear you down. But just happy to be able to say I went out there and tried my hardest."
The duo were among 20 amateurs in the field when the week began and five who made the cut.

The week began with 20 amateurs in the field at the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, and five ended up making the cut.
Among the youngsters who made the weekend include four making their major championship debuts and the No. 1 amateur and No. 1 junior in the world (who happened to be paired together both rounds this weekend). And for the first time since 2018, there is a tie for low am.
Amateurs are always a big part of the U.S. Open. It's not always a guarantee they make the cut, but when they do, it's a fun competition within a competition to see who will be celebrated next to the champion at day's end.
2026 U.S. Open live updates: Can anyone catch Wyndham Clark at Shinnecock?
Here's a look at how the five amateurs who made the cut finished at the U.S. Open:

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — One is barely old enough to drive a car. The other is just old enough to drink alcohol. Neither were born when Retief Goosen won here in 2004. But on Saturday at the 2026 U.S. Open, amateurs Miles Russell and Jackson Koivun shared a tee time during the third round at Shinnecock Hills.
They were standing on side of the tee box on the opening hole (Russell is a left-hander so positions on the left), as I watched them getting ready to take on the wind of Saturday morning and couldn’t believe just how young the pair were. Russell, the No. 1 ranked junior golfer in the world, is 17, Koivun, the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world, his elder at 21. Combined, they are the same age as Jason Day (38).
But this is the U.S. Open and both made the cut for the weekend at three over par. If there were nerves, they don’t show. Koivun dropped his ball down on the first tee, no tee, and hit a crisp 3-wood down the middle of the fairway.
With pro bags, college scorecard holders and high school faces, the pair strolled together on the front nine at Shinnecock, not talking a lot and already conducting themselves like professionals. Koivun is set to make his pro debut later this month, and has a PGA Tour card locked up through 2027.
His super power? Ask anyone that watched him play at Auburn the last three years and they’ll tell you it’s his putter. He showed it off early, holing a 20-footer for birdie on the fourth. However, 210-yard bunker shots are tricky, even for All-Americans. The 21-year-old topped his second shot on the sixth hole, barely trickling into a hazard and finishing the hole with a double bogey.

The 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is offering a championship-record purse.
The USGA announced earlier in the week that total prize money would be upped by $1 million to $22.5 million. Saturday after the cut, the organization released the full breakdown.
Here's how the purse will be paid out to the 67 professionals who made the cut in the season's third major (will be updated with individual payouts when play concludes Sunday evening):
Note: the 69 professional who missed the cut will received a $10,000 stipend. Amateurs do not receive compensation.
Win: $4,500,000

Jannis Bärtl’s recent contract renewal completes a surprising renaissance at Bayern Munich. His previous contract was set to expire in 2027 but has now been extended for an undisclosed amount of years. Bayern’s website announced the news:
FC Bayern have signed goalkeeper Jannis Bärtl (born June 24, 2006) to a long-term contract. Apart from a two-year loan spell at Karlsruher SC [from 2023 to 2025], the amateur keeper has spent his entire career in the youth academy of the German record champions.
Michael Wiesinger, Head of Sport and Youth Development: “Apart from his time at KSC, Jannis received his entire goalkeeping training at FC Bayern. He is therefore a true homegrown talent. Last season he showed consistent performances with the reserves and was recently a regular in training with the first team. We are pleased with his development and are delighted that he wants to take the next steps with us.”
“I’ve been wearing the FC Bayern jersey since I was eight years old. Last season, with the DFB Cup win, the many experiences with the professionals, and the numerous appearances with the amateurs, was something very special for me. I’m all the more delighted about the decision to extend my contract with FC Bayern and I’m looking forward to continuing our journey together.”
The goalkeeper, born in Regensburg, has been playing in the youth academy of the German record champions for almost twelve years, with the exception of two years in Karlsruhe. Last season, Bärtl made 20 appearances in the Regionalliga Bayern, keeping six clean sheets. The 19-year-old also participated in several first-team training sessions this season, was named to the squad four times, including in the DFB Cup final, a 3-0 victory against VfB Stuttgart.

Don't hit it into the rough at the U.S. Open. Even more so, don't hit it into the wispy stuff at Shinnecock Hills.
Patrick Reed found out the hard way Thursday in the opening round, with his tee shot on the 14th traveling 347 yards but ending up in the long stuff right of the fairway. Then he stepped up for his second shot, and cover your eyes.
A hosel rocket normally saved for amateurs, the grass just grabs Reed's club as he tries to make contact and sends the ball almost straight left into the rough on the other side of the fairway.
Reed managed to make bogey on the hole and signed for 2-over 72 on Thursday, a solid score in difficult conditions during the first round. However, the highlight of his round was a lowlight that reminded everyone pros are like us sometimes.
Cameron Jourdan is an **** istant editor of Golfweek, focusing on college and amateur golf as well as LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Shinnecock Hills is widely considered one of golf’s cathedrals.
For Matt Robles, it’s his dojang.
When Robles wasn’t cutting his teeth at the local muni in Downey, California, a blue-collar city in south Los Angeles, just miles from Compton, he was sharpening his mind at the taekwondo training hall. One of the five tenants of the Korean martial art is to respect one’s instructor; if not, physical punishment is warranted, usually in the form of duck walks or frog jumps.
This week, Robles’ grandmaster is William Flynn, whose beautiful-yet-punishing design will host this week’s 126th U.S. Open. Robles, a 20-year-old rising junior at Santa Clara, is one of 62 open qualifiers, 34 first-timers and a record-tying 20 amateurs in the 156-man field, each competitor hoping to not just solve this intricate test but survive the exposed, undulating layout that will surely be pummeled by up-to-40-mph gusts over the next few days.
Robles will hit the first shot of major career at 2:42 p.m. ET Thursday, part of the last threesome off the 10th tee that won’t finish until at least dusk.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Miles Russell is certainly not the youngest player to compete in the U.S. Open. He’s not even the only 17-year-old in the field at Shinnecock Hills — Giuseppe Puebla also made it through a 36-hole qualifier at the same site. They are Nos. 1 and 2 in the American junior ranking.
But there is a lot more hype when it comes to Russell. Along with being top-ranked in the American Junior Golf ****** ociation, he is No. 7 among all amateurs in the world.
This is his first U.S. Open.
“It’s still another tournament,” Russell said Wednesday. “I’m going to treat it like if it was an AJGA, where I’m just trying to come here and play good golf and see where my game lines up with some of the best players in the world.”
Russell is headed to Florida State, along with golf buddy Charlie Woods, the son of Tiger Woods. Charlie Woods caddied for Russell during the U.S. Open qualifier.

"I thought, 'Why not? Why not me?'"
Amy Pu is talking about the moment she decided she would try to become the first ever professional referee in British boxing.
The Taiwan-born official was working as an amateur referee when she was approached by a member of the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) about doing it on a professional basis.
The problem was - no woman had ever done it before and no other woman has done it since.
"I hadn't thought about turning professional because my goal was to progress to international level in the amateurs," Pu, who was a qualified England Boxing official, tells BBC Sport.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Open brought big wind and not nearly as much activity for a Monday, typical these days of practice rounds at majors that move to a different course each year.
More players are coming early, not so much to avoid the rush but to avoid the wait.
“It’s gotten terrible,” Justin Thomas said leading into the third major of the year. “You have to sign up for tee times at the (British) Open and U.S. Open, and then people sign up with you and play in a foursomes. You can’t play nine holes in less than three hours.”
The way around that is to follow a script from Jack Nicklaus back in his prime — see the course early before it becomes populated with pros and amateurs, contenders and dreamers.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy took a detour on their way to Ohio two weeks ago to play Shinnecock Hills, the first time seeing it for the No. 1 player, a refresher course for McIlroy.

This year marks the 126th U.S. Open and in all that time, no one has won the event more than four times.
So who has the most wins in the national championship? We'll keep you waiting just a tad longer here but you should know that four golfers have each won the U.S. Open trophy four times and two golfers have won it three times.
There are another 12 who have won the ******* le twice, but this list is about the most wins all time, so let's get to it.
Willie Anderson won the U.S. Open four times − 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905 − with his last three coming in succession. He is the only golfer to win the ******* le three years in a row. His 1901 win featured a third-round 83 and the highest four-day total (331).
Bobby Jones is one of seven golfers to have won the U.S. Open two years in a row. Overall, his wins came in 1923, 1926, 1929 and 1930. He is one of five amateurs to win the Open and the only am to win it more than once.

EAST PROVIDENCE — Nick Dunlap won the Northeast Amateur, U.S. Amateur and his first PGA Tour event within the span of a few months beginning in summer 2023.
That sizzling stretch of success started here, and it’s an example of how close players who tee it up at Wannamoisett Country Club in a couple of short weeks are to the top of the golf world. It could be just a matter of time before the next champion on the classic Donald Ross layout is bound for something greater.
Preston Stout captured the 63rd edition of the event last year, riding an 8-under 61 in his second round to cruise by eight shots. He just became the 10th player from Oklahoma State to capture an individual NCAA championship and is among the amateurs who have qualified for next week’s U.S. Open at nearby Shinnecock Hills on Long Island.
“I think it’s the depth of the players today that’s so impressive,” Northeast Amateur cochair Ben Tuthill said Tuesday, June 9. “There are just so many — and a lot who aren’t going to be in our field.
“They just started playing and learning the game and competing at such a young age, and they’re ready to perform at the highest level before they’re old enough to go to college or drive a car. It’s crazy.”