Matt Kuchar Makes Hole-In-One, Doesn't Win Car Because Of Ridiculous Rule

By Alex Myers Thankfully, a rich PGA Tour star not getting to keep a shiny new car is the height of a first-world problem. But what happened to Matt Kuchar at the WGC-HSBC Champions on Saturday still falls under the category of highway robbery.Kuchar made a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th in the third round, just a few feet away from a Cadillac that's on display as a prize for such a shot. So why is the car staying in Shanhai and not being shipped to Kuchar's driveway? Because of some fine
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Why you won't be seeing the MetLife "Snoopy" blimps at PGA Tour events anymore

By:  Alex Myers If you've attended a PGA Tour event, odds are you've seen them. If you've watched one on TV, you've definitely noticed their handiwork. The MetLife blimps have become a staple of golf broadcasts, but you won't be seeing "Snoopy One" or "Snoopy Two" in 2017. Or ever again, for that matter.Why? The Wall Street Journal reported MetLife is breaking ties with Snoopy, dropping the cartoon character that has served as its logo for the past 31 years. As the insurance giant reassesses its
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Why it just got a little bit harder to make a cut on the PGA Tour

By Alex Myers A new rule this season will make it a little bit harder to make a cut on the PGA Tour. Emphasis on a little.  And it's actually not so much a new rule as a tweak on the old one. The AP's Doug Ferguson reported the wording for who makes the cut at a typical tour event has been changed from the "top 70 professionals and ties" to simply, the "top 70 and ties." In other words, amateurs in the field can now bump players on the cut line.As Ferguson points out, this minor difference would
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When is it OK for a healthy player to withdraw from a tournament? It depends

By Max Adler Is thinking you’re going to play bad an acceptable reason for withdrawing from an athletic competition? Though Tiger Woods has ceased to be a role model in life, he’s still very much one in sport, and so the likely future Ryder Cup captain’s turnabout at the Safeway Open three days after signing up warrants this specific ethical scrutiny.If your son or daughter (or member-guest partner) decided on the eve of an event that he or she just weren’t feeling up to it—physically fine but
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DRIVING DISTANCES ON THE TOUR NOT QUITE AS CALAMITOUS AS FEARED

By Mike Stachura With Joe Miller’s mind-boggling distances in winning the World Long Drive Championship on Wednesday, it may make some wonder just what his mile-long hitting spree says about the state of driving distance in the game today.While it’s true that Miller’s winning drives in the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals averaged a nearly off-the-grid 433 yards—blowing away the field and blowing up Twitter in the process—let’s remember that the setup at Oklahoma’s WinStar Resort and Casino
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After Arnie: How Two Close Friends Cope With Palmer’s Passing

By  Jaime Diaz Two of the men who were closest to Arnold Palmer—in age and in the professional and personal ways they assisted their great friend—were Doc Giffin and Charlie Mechem.At 87, Giffin is as old as Palmer was at his death on Sept. 25. A former Pittsburgh newspaper man, Giffin has since 1966 been the ubiquitous and efficient, but uncannily unobtrusive, “Assistant to Arnold Palmer.” Mechem, who will be 87 next September, is the former LPGA commissioner who, since 1996, was Palmer’s
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U.S. Ryder Cup Teams and How They Help Undermine Their Own Efforts.

By:  Brian Wacker CHASKA, Minn. -- Phil Mickelson spent Thursday morning at Hazeltine National apologizing for his verbal takedown a day earlier of 2004 Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton.Another day, another example of the U.S. seemingly not being able to get out of its own way.There are a lot of reasons the Americans have lost six of the last seven and eight of the last 10 Ryder Cups -- simply being outplayed chief among them -- but an argument can be made that tripping over their own feet is right
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