A capsule look at the four players being inducted 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.

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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: 1991 Oldsmo..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we were glad to learn that Justin Thomas also jots down golf goals on his phone. They’re juuuuust a little different than mine:
FacebookPinterestAnd while Thomas’ FedEx Cup title netted him a cool $10 MILLION bonus, the $10 Nassau I lost over the weekend still stings. . . Moving on, there’s an important lesson here for the kids: Jot down your goals. Sure, it might help you achieve them (Other than me making a first hole-in-one, of course). But more importantly, if you ever actually accomplish what you set out to do, then you can really impress people by sharing your prescient list. Anyway, here's what else stood out in the world of golf last week.
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Justin Thomas: JT didn’t win at East Lake, but his runner-up was enough to capture the FedEx Cup and one of the biggest paydays in sports. He also capped a downright historic campaign as he became just the fourth player to win five times and a major in a season before turni..

Davis Love III says National Anthem is not the time to protest on Golf Channel's “Morning Drive”

If you’re not already familiar with the art of Ken Block, don’t worry, it’s pretty simple: Speeding tickets are his muse, tarmac is his canvas, and smoking rubber is his paint, cast in long, arching smears across Dubai, Hollywood, San Francisco, and, now, Pikes Peak—perhaps the most infamous mountain road on earth.
Boasting 14,115-feet of vertigo-inducing drops and barf bag-bulging hairpins, Pikes Peak is best known for its annual Pikes Peak Hillclimb, which brings some of the most batshit wheelmen on earth to the Colorado cloud-scraper each year, all vying to set the fastest time up the 12.42-mile ascent while hopefully not doing this…
For Block, however, who became a household name (just ask your 18-year-old) thanks to his eight-year, ten-part, 384-MILLION-VIEW Gymkhana stunt-driving series, that’s not crazy enough. Actually it’s not even close. So for the 11th installment of his ongoing viral death wish—appropriately dubbed “Climbkhana”—Block grabbed the shell of an old Mustang, stu..

Brush up on your facts about Davis Love III, Lorena Ochoa, Ian Woosnam, Meg Mallon and Henry Longhurst, members of the World Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2017

A plan for 36 holes in the heart of Manhattan

ATLANTA (AP) Justin Thomas had an inkling back in January that this season might be something special.

More than winning the Sony Open for a sweep of Hawaii and his third victory in five starts, it was how he won. Thomas opened with a 59 and never let up until he set the PGA Tour’s record for lowest 72-hole score and won by seven shots. Instead of trying to protect a lead, he left everyone in his wake.

”I felt like after that, I learned a lot to where I could kind of ride that momentum out for the year,” Thomas said.

But there was a moment early in the week at Waialae that might have set the tone for a FedEx Cup title that came down to the last hour.

Thomas played with Jordan Spieth when he shot 59, and the statistics would have suggested a different outcome. Spieth led the field that day in proximity to the hole with his approach shots at 18 feet, 4 inches. Thomas was seventh at 25 feet, 7 inches.

Thomas, however, was the one making all the putts.

On more than one occasion..

ATLANTA (AP) Justin Thomas had an inkling back in January that this season might be something special.

More than winning the Sony Open for a sweep of Hawaii and his third victory in five starts, it was how he won. Thomas opened with a 59 and never let up until he set the PGA Tour’s record for lowest 72-hole score and won by seven shots. Instead of trying to protect a lead, he left everyone in his wake.

”I felt like after that, I learned a lot to where I could kind of ride that momentum out for the year,” Thomas said.

But there was a moment early in the week at Waialae that might have set the tone for a FedEx Cup title that came down to the last hour.

Thomas played with Jordan Spieth when he shot 59, and the statistics would have suggested a different outcome. Spieth led the field that day in proximity to the hole with his approach shots at 18 feet, 4 inches. Thomas was seventh at 25 feet, 7 inches.

Thomas, however, was the one making all the putts.

On more than one occasion..

How would you react if a family of bears invaded your backyard? For Canadian Jordan Cote, the answer came naturally last week. Be polite.
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Check out the amusing video of Cote kindly asking the bears to leave: “I need you guys to go, OK? . . . I gotta go to work.” And incredibly, the animals obeying right on cue:
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“Thank you!” Cote says after they turn around and start walking away. “Hope you enjoyed my yard! Have a nice day!” What a swell guy.
Cote originally posted the video to a Facebook page called “Meanwhile in Sooke” (British Columbia) with the caption: “How a Canadian responds to wildlife.” Sounds about right. And CTV News gathered more details on the encounter between the bears and Cote.
“The whole encounter is so casual. I’m like, this is Canada,” Cote told CTV Vancouver. “If you remain calm, the bear remains calm. We all can co-exist.”
During these crazy times, what a ni..

FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (AP) Wally Uihlein, one of the most influential executives in the golf equipment industry, is retiring at the end of the year after 41 years at the parent company of Titleist.

Uihlein, the president and chief executive officer, has told the board at Acushnet Holdings Corp. that he will step down effective Jan. 1.

He joined Acushnet in 1976 as a regional sales representative in its Titleist Golf Division and has been the company’s senior golf executive since 1995. Among the Acushnet brands are Titleist, FootJoy, Vokey Design and Scotty Cameron. The company is best known for Titleist being the top golf ball on professional tours for more than a half-century.

Acushnet says David Maher, the chief operating officer, will succeed Uihlein as president and CEO. It announced the moves Monday.