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2026 US Open: What to Expect at Shinnecock Hills

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The 126th national championship arrives with a field, a venue, and several storylines that are difficult to look away from

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The 2026 United States Open Championship begins on 18 June at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York. One hundred and fifty-six players will contest the 126th edition of the national championship over four days on a course that has hosted the major five times and has never shown much interest in being lenient about it. The USGA accepted 10,201 entries for this year’s field — one short of the all-time record — before 62 players earned their places through final qualifying on Monday. (CBS Sports)

Shinnecock Hills: What the Course Requires

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club aerial view Southampton New York US Open 2026

Shinnecock sits on the eastern end of Long Island, shaped by open ridgelines and the kind of sea wind that shifts and strengthens throughout the day. The layout uses the natural terrain — firm fairways, fast contoured greens, rough calibrated to punish every stray shot — rather than manufactured hazard. The test is wind-dependent and precision-driven, and the course has no interest in flattering its field. Previous US Open champions at Shinnecock include Raymond Floyd, Corey Pavin, Retief Goosen, and Brooks Koepka. None of them played aggressively into the trouble. They managed their way to the title. (Golf Digest)

Scheffler, the Grand Slam, and the Calendar

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Scottie Scheffler arrives as world number one and, following his Masters title, the player who stands two majors short of a career Grand Slam. The timing adds a layer the fixture calendar did not need to manufacture: the final round falls on Sunday 21 June — Father’s Day and Scheffler’s 30th birthday. He is the best player in the world by almost every measurable standard. The question Shinnecock will put to him, as it puts to everyone, is whether that changes anything on a course that has seen reputations arrive and depart without ceremony. (Betsperts Golf)

McIlroy: Masters Champion, Shinnecock Survivor in Progress

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Rory McIlroy arrives as reigning Masters champion — a sentence that took twenty-one years to write. His record at Shinnecock is less encouraging: he opened with an 80 in 2018 and missed the cut. The course was not impressed by his reputation that week and gave him nothing in return. His game in 2026 is in considerably better shape than it was eight years ago, and the storyline — Masters champion seeks redemption at the scene of one of his worst major rounds — does not require embellishment. (Golf Magic)

The Rest of the Field Worth Watching

Brooks Koepka is the only player in this year’s field who has won at Shinnecock Hills. That is not a trivial distinction on a course where temperament and course knowledge matter as much as swing mechanics. His ball-striking in 2026 has been strong; the putter has been the variable. Jon Rahm, fresh from a runners-up finish at Valderrama last weekend, arrives with the form to contend in a major. Tommy Fleetwood has unfinished business at this venue — he came within range of the title in 2018 and the memory of it has not faded. Cameron Young, a New York native with two wins already in 2026, is playing the best golf in the field right now and will have the home crowd with him from the first tee. (Golf Channel)

The US Open occupies its own corner of the golf calendar — four days of precision, pressure, and occasional suffering at one of the game’s most demanding venues. While Shinnecock commands the world’s attention this week, the Algarve is mid-season and playing as well as it gets. Browse our Algarve golf holidays and put your own round on the schedule.


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Colin Montgomerie Headlines the Legends Tour Return to Costa Navarino

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The Staysure Legends Tour brings Major champions back to Greece for a third consecutive year, 12–14 June

The Staysure Legends Tour arrives at Costa Navarino next week for the third consecutive year, and this edition arrives with perhaps its strongest field yet. The Costa Navarino Legends Tour Trophy runs 12–14 June across two of the destination’s four championship courses — the fourth event on the 2026 Staysure Legends Tour calendar and the tour’s first continental European stop of the season.

Colin Montgomerie at the Staysure Legends Tour 2026

Colin Montgomerie is confirmed as the headline name. There are worse ways to spend a week in June. (legendstour.com)

Montgomerie Leads a Field Worth Watching

Montgomerie arrives in Messinia with a record that requires no embellishment: eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, 31 wins on tour, and the captaincy of Europe’s victorious 2010 Ryder Cup side. He is joined by defending champion Peter Baker, who won the 2025 edition without dropping a shot across the entire final round — a performance that set a bar most mortals would struggle to locate, let alone clear.

Paul Lawrie, the 1999 Open Champion, is also in the field. Lawrie was the story of last year’s event, carding a course-record ten-under 62 on The Hills Course in round two before Baker edged him on the final day. Michael Campbell completes a headline quartet that accounts for three Major titles between them. (golfbusinessnews.com)

The Courses: Designed for This Level of Golf

The tournament is played across two of the four layouts at Costa Navarino — The Hills Course and the International Olympic Academy Golf Course, both designed by two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal. Both sit at Navarino Hills, the 125-hectare development named the World’s Best New Golf Development at the 2020 World Golf Awards.

The International Olympic Course at Navarino Hills, Costa Navarino, overlooking the Bay of Navarino, Greece The Hills Course at Navarino Hills, Costa Navarino, overlooking the Bay of Navarino, Greece

Elevated above the coastline with sweeping views of the Bay of Navarino and the Ionian Sea, both courses offer the kind of elevation changes and precision demands that tend to separate a good field from a great leaderboard. The Hills Course, scene of Lawrie’s record round last year, will be carrying a certain atmosphere going into the final day. (costanavarino.com)

The Setting

Costa Navarino sits in Messinia, in the southwest Peloponnese — a region of olive groves, ancient hilltop fortresses, and one of the most storied stretches of coastline in the Mediterranean. The Bay of Navarino, watched over by the 13th-century Niokastro fortress, was the site of the last great naval battle fought under sail.

The coastline of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese, Greece, home to Costa Navarino
The light here in June sits low and golden over the Ionian Sea well into the evening. The food is exceptional, the pace is unhurried, and the courses are among the most visually arresting in Europe. It is, in short, the kind of place that makes the rest of the tour calendar look like it is trying too hard.
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Costa Navarino is one of those destinations that tends to settle the argument before you have finished making it. Four signature courses, two of them designed by a two-time Masters champion, set above one of the most beautiful bays in the Mediterranean. Accommodation that matches the golf step for step. And a corner of Greece that most of Europe has yet to fully discover. If the tournament has planted a seed, our Costa Navarino golf holidays are a good place to start.


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The Open de Portugal Returns to PGA Aroeira Lisboa

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After nearly thirty years away, one of European golf’s most storied tournaments comes home to the Wentworth of Lisbon

This September, the pine forests south of Lisbon will host professional golf again. The 64th Open de Portugal takes place at PGA Aroeira No.1 from 17 to 20 September 2026, marking the return of tournament golf to a course that has been part of the game’s fabric in Portugal for over half a century. The event is part of the HotelPlanner Tour and carries a prize fund of €300,000, with 156 players competing over four days. (HotelPlanner Tour)

Open de Portugal Returns to Aroeira

A Tournament Older Than the European Tour Itself

The Open de Portugal has been running since 1953 — nearly two decades before the European Tour existed. When the Tour launched its inaugural calendar in 1972, this was one of the events on it. That kind of longevity is rare in professional golf, and it places the tournament in company that very few events on the current schedule can claim. For the Portuguese Golf Federation, this is one of the centrepiece moments of the national golfing calendar.

The Course and Its Reputation

PGA Aroeira No.1 opened in 1972, the work of architect Frank Pennink, and was quickly given the nickname ‘the Wentworth of Lisbon’ by visiting players. The comparison was always a compliment with range — the course measures 6,122 metres over a traditional par 72 layout, winding through dense pine forest, and precision rather than power is the dominant theme, with tall trees doing the work that fairway bunkers do elsewhere. It is a course that rewards patience and punishes optimism.

Aroeira Fairway and Green

In 1996 and 1997, the course hosted the European Tour’s Portuguese Open — and the 2026 return closes a gap of nearly three decades. Portugal’s only PGA National, PGA Aroeira has recently emerged from a period of significant renovation, with new tees, reshaped bunkers, and cleared woodland between fairways opening up the layout and showing the course at its best. The resort was also named Europe’s Best Eco-Friendly Golf Facility 2025 at the World Golf Awards — recognition that the work done here goes beyond the scorecard.

What Brings 156 Professionals to Lisbon

The Open de Portugal is a Road to Mallorca event, awarding 2,000 points in the rankings that determine which players graduate to the DP World Tour at the season’s end. For many in the field, September at Aroeira will be one of the defining weeks of their year. The HotelPlanner Tour has been a reliable launching pad — recent winners at Royal Óbidos and other Portuguese venues have gone on to establish themselves at the highest level.

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September at Aroeira

The conditions in mid-September around Lisbon are, frankly, excellent for golf. The resort sits within a protected pine forest on the Setúbal Peninsula, about 30 minutes from central Lisbon, with the Atlantic close enough to keep temperatures civilised. When the professionals leave, the course will be in tournament shape — and open for the rest of us.

PGA Aroeira No.1 is part of the Tee Times Lisbon Portfolio portfolio. If you would like to play the same course that hosts the 64th Open de Portugal, we can book your round.