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Hall of Fame inductees describe their Hall of Fame shots

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Two putts, a 6-iron and an 11-wood.

Those are among the memorable shots in the Hall of Fame careers of Davis Love III, Meg Mallon, Lorena Ochoa and Ian Woosnam. They spoke about them Tuesday ahead of their inductions in a New York ceremony.

The putts belonged to Love and Woosnam, and they were predictable.

Woosnam had just gone to No. 1 in the world when he won the Masters by making a 7-foot par putt on the 18th hole, crouching to deliver an upper cut in celebration for an unforgettable pose.

”I would say that’s my best performance and my best shot,” Woosnam said.

Love’s only major was the 1997 PGA Championship, but he went back four years earlier to making a 6-foot putt on the 18th hole at The Belfry that clinched a Ryder Cup victory for the Americans.

”It meant a lot at the moment, but in my career going forward, it set me up in Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, to have just an unbelievable experience of being on teams, playing on teams, captaining team..

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Hall of Fame inductees describe their Hall of Fame shots

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Two putts, a 6-iron and an 11-wood.

Those are among the memorable shots in the Hall of Fame careers of Davis Love III, Meg Mallon, Lorena Ochoa and Ian Woosnam. They spoke about them Tuesday ahead of their inductions in a New York ceremony.

The putts belonged to Love and Woosnam, and they were predictable.

Woosnam had just gone to No. 1 in the world when he won the Masters by making a 7-foot par putt on the 18th hole, crouching to deliver an upper cut in celebration for an unforgettable pose.

”I would say that’s my best performance and my best shot,” Woosnam said.

Love’s only major was the 1997 PGA Championship, but he went back four years earlier to making a 6-foot putt on the 18th hole at The Belfry that clinched a Ryder Cup victory for the Americans.

”It meant a lot at the moment, but in my career going forward, it set me up in Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, to have just an unbelievable experience of being on teams, playing on teams, captaining team..

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Dentist splices himself into ‘Star Wars’ footage for hilarious root canal promo

I’ll level with you guys: I am, in the immortal words of Cosmo Kramer, a raging anti-dentite. That’s what three invasive dental surgeries and regular Hostel-inspired brace torture between the ages of 16 and 18 will do to the fragile human psyche. Today, however, is a new day—a bright day—because today is the day I met JS Abernathy (actual name) of JS Abernathy Dental (obviously).
At first glance, JS seems like most dentists—a Hawaiian shirt-clad, flip-flop flapping med-school flame-out gone loopy from years of casual nitrous abuse—but unlike most dentists, JS has an honest-to-goodness sense of humor and, most notably, some editing chops. How in the name of Gingivitis do those traits help a dentist not producing SNL digital shorts in his spare time, you ask? Because they allow said dentist to randomly splice himself into a variety of third-act scenes from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in order to promote a new laser-based root canal procedure that may yet free rebel enamel forces f..

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Stricker says US golf team to stand during national anthem

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) On that rare occasion the national anthem is played in golf, U.S. captain Steve Stricker says his team will stand together at the Presidents Cup.

Stricker said he met with his four assistant captains, and then talked it over with his 12 players on a bus ride to New York on Tuesday for some television appearances. He said there was a quick consensus.

”I just wanted to know what they wanted to do and how we wanted to proceed as a team,” he said. ”So we were going to do what we always do, and that’s take off our hat and put our hands across our chest and over our heart and respect the flag. So that’s what we’re planning on doing.”

His discussions followed a widespread demonstration during NFL games in response to President Donald Trump’s comments that players should stand for the national anthem or be fired. More than 200 NFL players and owners found ways to show dissent by either kneeling, locking arms in solidarity or staying in the locker room while the nat..

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LPGA Tour heads to New Zealand for the first time (Sep 26, 2017)

The LPGA Tour heads below the equator and then some to the southwestern Pacific island nation of New Zealand for the first time this week for the inaugural McKayson New Zealand Women’s Open.

The tournament begins Thursday at Windross Farm Golf Course in Auckland.

Hometown favorite and former world No. 1 Lydia Ko headlines a field of golfers from 25 different countries who will compete for a purse of $1.3 million at the last of the four new events added to the 2017 LPGA schedule.

Ko has won this event three times and finished runner-up in 2014. Until this season, The New Zealand Women’s Open was formerly part of the Ladies European Tour and the Australian LPGA Tour.

Also in the field is Brittany Lincicome, who won the season opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic when she defeated fellow American Lexi Thompson in a playoff. The world No. 47 has just one other top 10 finish in 2017.

Australian veteran Katherine Kirk, who won the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic in July for her fir..

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Capsules of players being inducted into golf’s Hall of Fame

A capsule look at the four players being inducted Tuesday into the World Golf Hall of Fame:

DAVIS LOVE III

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 23.

Majors: 1997 PGA Championship.

First victory: 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic.

Last victory: 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Signature moment: The rainbow coming out at Winged Foot as he birdied the final hole of the 1997 PGA Championship.

Notable: The son of a respected club pro who died in a plane crash in 1988, he achieved lifetime status on the PGA Tour with his 20th victory in 2008 at Disney, and then added another victory at the Wyndham Championship when he was 51. He played six times apiece in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup and holed the clinching putt in his Ryder Cup debut in 1993. He was a two-time Ryder Cup captain.

MEG MALLON

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 18.

Majors: 1991 LPGA Championship, 1991 U.S. Women’s Open, 2000 du Maurier Classic, 2004 U.S. Women’s Open.

First victory: 199..

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Stricker says US team to stand during national anthem

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) On that rare occasion the national anthem is played in golf, U.S. captain Steve Stricker says his team will stand together at the Presidents Cup.

Stricker says the players talked about what to do on a bus ride into New York on Tuesday for some television appearances. He says they all agreed to handle it the way they always have by standing at attention with their hands over their hearts.

The national anthem typically is played during the opening ceremony, which is Thursday at Liberty National Golf Club. Anthems also are played from the country of each player on the International team.

Stricker’s comments follow a widespread demonstration during NFL games that ranged from kneeling, locking arms in solidarity or remaining in the locker room during the national anthem.

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Capsules of players being inducted into golf’s Hall of Fame

A capsule look at the four players being inducted Tuesday into the World Golf Hall of Fame:

DAVIS LOVE III

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 23.

Majors: 1997 PGA Championship.

First victory: 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic.

Last victory: 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Signature moment: The rainbow coming out at Winged Foot as he birdied the final hole of the 1997 PGA Championship.

Notable: The son of a respected club pro who died in a plane crash in 1988, he achieved lifetime status on the PGA Tour with his 20th victory in 2008 at Disney, and then added another victory at the Wyndham Championship when he was 51. He played six times apiece in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup and holed the clinching putt in his Ryder Cup debut in 1993. He was a two-time Ryder Cup captain.

MEG MALLON

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 18.

Majors: 1991 LPGA Championship, 1991 U.S. Women’s Open, 2000 du Maurier Classic, 2004 U.S. Women’s Open.

First victory: 199..

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