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Major champion, two-time Players winner and former Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton joins this week's Golf Digest Podcast to discuss a variety of topics.

If you've ever had the chance to play an iconic, bucket-list course, you know that first-tee feeling. “Just put it in play,” you tell yourself. “Nice easy swing,” you plead. In reality, the nerves make a “nice easy swing” highly unlikely, and as you're telling yourself to “put it in play” you're simultaneously thinking about the out-of-bounds down the left side and the parking lot full of expensive cars in shank territory down the right side. The pit-in-your-stomach feeling makes just taking the club back difficult.
But at the Old Course, it's literally impossible to NOT put it in play. The massive fairway is every hacker's dream, one that invites shot shapes of all sizes. Duck hooks, banana slices, chunks, thin-to-wins, pop-ups and tops are all welcome.
But one shot that's never welcome at any course on earth is the cold, hard shank. One poor soul found this out the hard way at St Andrews, and to make matters worse his buddy shared a video of the shank on..

Viktor Hovland provided one of the highlights of the early year in golf by draining a 30-footer on the final hole to win his first PGA Tour title. The call in his native country made it even better.
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To say the Norwegian announcers doing the broadcast on Eurosport got excited when Hovland's putt rammed in the back of the hole, would be an understatement. No, they freaked out. Or, to put it in more scientific terms, they absolutely lost their shit. Watch and listen:
https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1231978844426358784
What a putt! What a moment! What a time to be alive! We have absolutely no idea what they're saying, but the beauty of sports is that you don't have to.
Hovland's dramatic birdie not only gave him his maiden win as a pro, but it gave all of Norway its first PGA Tour title. Congrats to him—and to these announcers. You truly never forget your first.
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It was wild weekend in the world of hardcourt halftime entertainment. Out in Montana, MSU student Joe Thompson sunk a full-court shot to win $11,111, celebrating with a fitting Kobe tribute while the gym went wild. Sources say it was the most exciting thing to happen in Montana history. Then, down in Oxford, Mississippi, an 84-year-old nana named Mary Ann Wakefield lined up this 94-foot bomb during a break in the hot Ole Miss basketball action and absolutely pured it. If you thought Patrick Reed winning the WGC Mexico was the feel-good golf story of the weekend (lol lmao rofl), then you clearly haven't seen this:
https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1231611598655098885
Here's the alternate angle. Really drink this in.
https://twitter.com/nixonmckenna/status/1231667234692587521
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For her efforts, Wakefield won a shiny new Nissan Altima, but anyone who can drain a 90+ ..

We spent a week at the Puerto Rico Open, an alternate event on the PGA Tour that has its own unique atmosphere, and came away impressed

All referees in every major sport suck, but the refs in college and pro basketball are particularly putrid. Maybe it just feels that way because we are in the middle of basketball season, but it also feels like their presence is most felt on the hardwood. They bog down the game with all the foul calls, they take forever to review plays (because they usually get them wrong the first time) and they all secretly love the TV time that comes with calling a charge. Their actions can make a man go mad.
Enter NBA G League coach Chase Buford, who did, in fact, go mad on Sunday afternoon after his Wisconsin Herd (the Milwaukee Bucks' affiliate team) blew a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter against the Grand Rapids Drive (the Detroit Pistons' affiliate team). Buford did not hide from the fact that his team completely collapsed down the stretch, but he first made sure to take the referees to task, going on an epic rant all while looking like he just woke up from a quick power nap. Seri..

Michael ReavesCheating is terrible, but what pisses people off even more than cheating is when there are no consequences, or when the consequences don't match the crime. Following the Houston Astros scandal, in which the front office, management, and several (all?) players colluded to blatantly cheat their way to one World Series title and one pennant in the last three years, Major League Baseball proved fundamentally incapable of punishing them. The manager and GM took a year-long suspension, but the players came out unscathed and, most egregiously, the Astros get to keep their ill-gotten World Series title. It's the kind of thing that alienates fans who, now that their belief in a clean game has been thoroughly demolished, at least want to believe in the possibility of justice. But commissioner Rob Manfred stole that from them too.
So what happens with all that anger and frustration from the rabble? They take it out on the team!
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Patrick Reed was in the news even before he hit a shot in the Mexico Championship