A select group of the world’s top golfers, including Justin Thomas, Adam Scott and Jason Day, are among 29 of the top 50 players from last season’s final FedExCup standings in the field this week at the inaugural CJ Cup, the PGA Tour’s first-ever event in South Korea.

A roster of just 78 players will compete beginning Thursday at the Nine Bridges Golf Club on Jeju Island, South Korea, for a total purse of $9.25 million, with $1.6 million and 500 FedExCup points going to the winner of this no-cut event.

The CJ Cup is a 72-hole stroke play event made up predominantly of PGA Tour players (there were 60 allowed in the field), with additional competitors coming from a variety of Korea PGA and Asian Tour exemptions. PGA Tour members will earn official FedExCup points as part of the 2017-2018 season.

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This tournament is the third event of the 2017-18 PGA Tour season and is part of eight competitions during the fall of 2017 and the second of three consecutive ..

A rare visit to where the Kennedys tee it up.

We haven't heard much from K.J. Choi on the course in recent years, but boy, do we wish we could hear more of him off it. You see, not only is the eight-time PGA Tour winner a great golfer, but he's also got a tremendous set of pipes. And on Wednesday, we got a small taste of his silky-smooth voice that has some people (us) dubbing him the Frank Sinatra of South Korea. Have a listen:
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Strong stuff. And we like how he uses a golf tee as a microphone. Of course, we have no clue what Choi is crooning about, but he sounds fantastic. And we know he's in a great mood with the PGA Tour playing its first official tournament in Choi's native South Korea this week, the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges.
Choi's singing first caught our attention in 2015 when Danny Lee shared this video of him singing at what looked to be some sort of swanky event:
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What a gift. Is there a “South Korea's Got Talent” ..

As if whipping 600-horsepower supercars around 20-turn road courses wasn’t dangerous enough already (and as if modern life didn’t already feel enough like a video game), Nissan decided to take their flagship GT-R and add one slight modification:
A Playstation controller.
Yep, that’s right. To celebrate the release of Gran Turismo Sport, the latest installment in Sony’s long-running racing sim, Nissan designed a real-life vehicle that can be controlled in exactly the same manner as its digital counterpart, utilizing analog sticks for steering and shoulder triggers for acceleration and braking. If the smile on professional driver Jann Mardenborough’s face when he revs this thing via R2 for the first time doesn’t properly compute how cool this is, perhaps the rest of the video will:
After getting a feel for the, err, controls, Mardenborough then takes the giant RC car for a test drive, piloting it from a helicopter high above the track. Miraculously, he manages to not put it into the wall..

Chris CondonVALDOSTA, GA – APRIL 28: Former Atlanta Braves pitcher, and Major League Baseball All-Star John Smoltz warms up on the range during the first round of the South Georgia Classic Presented by First State Bank and Trust Company at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club on April 28, 2011 in Valdosta, Georgia. (Photo by Chris Condon/PGA TOUR)If you're tuned into this MLB postseason (how could you not be!? Yankees baby!), chances are you've heard the voice of John Smoltz sitting alongside Joe Buck as they call the ALCS on Fox and FS1. October has always been a busy time for the Hall-Of-Famer, whether he was making deep playoff runs with the Atlanta Braves or broadcasting games during his “retirement.” Unfortunately for him, this leaves little time for golf, something he's almost as good at as he was at striking out batters.
On Tuesday, the eight-time all star hopped on New York's WFAN 101.9 FM to preview game four of the Yankees and Astros with Mike Francesa, who is known..

Hell hath no fury like a baseball god scorned, but on Tuesday night some Seattle-area joker/jackass decided to tempt fate anyway, sawing off the bat on Ken Griffey Jr.’s sacrosanct statue outside of Safeco Field. Behold the mind-numbing idiocy:
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I assume the perpetrator of this heinous baseball crime is now lying face down in a ditch with the ghost of Ty Cobb using his spine as a spike sharpener, but it begs the question: What the hell would one do with a sawed-off bronze bat stolen from the tribute to one of your city’s most indelible sports heroes anyway? Use it as a potato masher? Bust up your ex’s car with it? Throw it in the Puget when those 12 Rainiers wear off and you’re left staring the depth of your own stupidity right in its bottomless maw?
Whatever the answer, Statue League Griffey will still be fine, of course. He’ll just choke up on it a bit and wait for that inside fastball. Mariners fans could use a little talkin..

It turns out that the New England Patriots' come-from-behind win against the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI will not go down as the most improbable victory of 2017. That honor now belongs to Manny Abbell, a Naval officer, who won Tuesday night's episode of Jeopardy! with $1. That's right, ONE DOLLAR.
Abbell entered Final Jeopardy with only $1,000, which put his quest to win for a third consecutive night in serious, um, jeopardy. And things got even worse when he got the answer/question wrong and dropped to $1 after risking $999. Yikes.
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According to ESPN, the Patriots only had a 1.1-percent chance of winning the Super Bowl when they trailed 28-3 in the third quarter. But there's no way that Manny didn't have less of a chance of winning at this point. He needed both of his opponents to also whiff on the final question. And he needed both of them to do something really dumb: risk all thei..

Gregory ShamusCLEVELAND, OH – OCTOBER 17: LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks to get around Kyrie Irving #11 of the Boston Celtics during the second half at Quicken Loans Arena on October 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland won the game 102-99. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)The NBA season is back, and with it, a rash of questions. But not of the “Is this LeBron James' last year in Cleveland?” or “Can anyone stop the Warriors?” variety (which, for posterity's sake, “yes” and “get out”). We're talking about the real issues at hand, ones you raise with your friends at the bar and argue about with random eggs on Twitter. And by “real,” we mean, you know, nonsense. Here are the nine (not so) burning questions for the new NBA season.
Which franchise legend will Jame..

Gregory ShamusCLEVELAND, OH – OCTOBER 17: Gordon Hayward #20 of the Boston Celtics is sits on the floor after being injured while playing the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena on October 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)Less than six minutes into the NBA season, Gordon Hayward, the Boston Celtics' prized free agent signing over the summer, suffered one of the more gruesome injuries you'll ever see on a basketball court. And nearly just as quickly, Boston's odds of winning the NBA championship this season were officially adjusted. Vegas never sleeps.
About 20 minutes after Hayward had dislocated his ankle and fractured his tibia on Tuesday night, Westgate Las Vegas Superbook Manager Jeff Sherman tweeted out the following adjustment regarding t..

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