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HONOLULU (AP) The Sony Open is where Justin Thomas broke the PGA Tour’s scoring record, starting with his 59.

And it was that round when Jordan Spieth got a taste of his own medicine.

Thomas and Spieth were paired together for the opening round at Waialae Country Club, and no one celebrated more than Spieth when he watched his longtime friend make eagle on his 18th hole for a 59 .

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But here’s what was so amazing about that round: Spieth actually had better chances.

Spieth was an average of 18 feet, 4 inches on his approach shots, best in the field for the first round. Thomas averaged 25 feet, 7 inches, ranking him seventh. Not only was Spieth closer to him most of the round, at times they were on the same line. On one hole, Spieth had to move his mark for Thomas to putt for birdie (he made), and then Spieth had the same putt from a shorter distance (he missed).

”I was like a stroke-and-half or something better tee-to-green than he was that round, I..

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club has reached an extension to remain the host site of the ShopRite LPGA Classic through 2023.

The agreement was announced Wednesday by Tim Erensen, the tournament’s executive director, and Dr. Harvey Kesselman, the president of Stockton University.

Stockton Seaview has hosted the annual LPGA stop since 1998. The event has been contested in the Atlantic City area since 1986. The course also hosted the 1942 PGA Championship.

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”The Bay Course is one of the LPGA players’ favorite annual stops and Reeds Bay provides one of the most scenic backdrops in all of professional golf,” Erensen said.

Before the start of last year’s event, the LPGA, Wakefern Food Corp, the title sponsor since 1992, and the Eiger Marketing Group, which owns and operates the tournament, announced a five-year sponsorship extension.

In-Kyung Kim held off two-time defending champion Anna Nordqvist to win the event last year..

The Zalay family has a special tradition. It's not a vacation or a restaurant or a movie or a catchphrase (O'DOYLE RULES!). No, no. It's a little bit more involved than that. Since the 1970s, the Zalays, at least to hear Jono Zalay tell it on Twitter, have long enjoyed trolling the DMV—itself a sentient trolljob—in a harmless, albeit hilarious, way: By masquerading as a different, absurd American caricature on each new driver's license photo.
FacebookPinterestAs you probably guessed, that's Jono, whose disguise, no matter the mutton chops or mullet, usually adheres to the Russian-spy-infiltrating-Arkansas-trailer-park mold. For his latest ID shoot, however, Jono wanted to branch out, so he turned to CBGB circa '75 for inspiration.
FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestIn the end, Jono emerged with the most accurate embodiment of his systematic (but mostly aesthetic) undermining of authority he could possibly f..

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Forget about quitting her day job to become a great poker player, Maria Konnikova used her day job to do it. The New Yorker writer and best-selling author is in the midst of writing a book about trying to learn the game at the high-stakes level, but to say she's picked up poker quickly would be putting it mildly.
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On Tuesday, Konnikova won the PCA National Championship in the Bahamas. And this wasn't just some weekly poker game with some friends. The $1,650 buy-in event paid Konnikova a first-place prize of $84,600.
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“I’m thrilled that it happened, and also kind of surprised,” Konnikova says in this video shared by Pokerstars:
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Of course, Konnikova, who has earned more than $116,000 on the tables since announcing her book deal last March, didn't do it all by herself. The book's premise ..

HONOLULU (AP) Jonathan Byrd resisted the urge to pout about his predicament.

A five-time winner on the PGA Tour, he spent 14 years competing against the best on venerable courses while driving courtesy cars from nice hotels in big cities. And then he found himself on the Web.com Tour, the equivalent of golf’s minor leagues, with players he knew nothing about except for their raw talent and extreme power.

They were the future. He was hanging onto the past.

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”I did not want to be a grumpy old tour player who’s saying the whole time, `It’s not like this on the big tour,”’ said Byrd, who turns 40 at the end of the month. ”Because if you go down that road, it’s endless. There’s so many reminders every week that this is not where you want to be. And that’s the internal struggle. I’m not where I want to be. But am I going to embrace the challenge or let it take me down?”

He chose the former, and he believes that attitude allowed him to get back to where he ..

Coffee and trick shots are very important to us here at The Loop. The former shocks us back into coherence just long enough to write about the latter which keeps the proverbial lights on and round and round we go until sweet hot brown energy water goes extinct and/or the internet decides they're no longer interested in unlikely feats of accuracy. So what happens when the two combine into a single triumphant reaffirmation of everything that gets us out of bed in the morning? Well, we lose our damn minds, that's what. Hold the milk, taste the glory, America:
We don't how many tries this took. We don't know if Keurig coffee has magnetic properties. We don't know if this hero brewed himself a steaming cup o' joe in celebration. All we know is that he is A. not invited to cornhole competitions anymore and B. about to become patient zero of an online Keurig-shot pandemic that will threaten to collapse server (and Arabica) farms across the globe. Now, if you&#039..

Baby gender reveal videos have become a big thing. Just in golf last year, we saw creative ones from Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky and Keegan and Jillian Bradley. But Pat Perez's wife, Ashley, took things to the next level on Tuesday night with a pregnancy reveal video. And the results were great.
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With the couple out to a nice dinner in Hawaii (Pat Perez had one of his best T-shirts on for the occasion, an ode to Alec Baldwin's iconic “Coffee's for closers” line), Ashley surprised her husband with a note written on his dessert plate in chocolate. (Side note: Whatever that dessert was, I want three of them.) Here's how it unfolded:
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And Ashley shared these photos of the couple's exciting night:
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Congrats to the couple on their great news. And considering major championship season ends in August, that's pretty great timing as well.
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