Jason Dufner already had an uphill battle in order to win the FedEx Cup, but it got even harder for the 2013 PGA champion late in his round Friday at the Tour Championship.
After posting a first-round two-under 68 at East Lake, Dufner had it rolling again in his second round, playing his first 15 holes in four under. But as he got near the finish, the Golf Channel broadcast picked up on Dufner no longer retrieving his ball from the hole when it would go into the cup. The first assumption was that it must have been an injury, potentially derailing not only his round but his chances of finishing the weekend. This was not the case.
The cameras finally provided a glimpse of what was really wrong… Dufner had ripped his pants. WARNING – GRAPHIC:
https://twitter.com/TODDALBO/status/911338629103894529
Just a little wardrobe malfunction for Duf, who actually attempted a nice little curtsy prior to forgoing reaching down for the ball altogether.
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Editor's Note: The opponent is different, but the role will be the same for Tiger Woods in the Presidents Cup at Liberty National. What does it mean to be an assistant captain? We explored last year before the Ryder Cup.
There's been a fair amount of discussion about what exactly Tiger Woods' role will be as an assistant captain to Davis Love III in the upcoming Ryder Cup. To be clear, a Ryder Cup captain nor his assistants will hit any shots during the matches — the last playing captain was Arnold Palmer in 1963 — so fans will be deprived of seeing Woods do the one thing he's known for
best.
Even then, Love expects Woods to be more of a spectacle than guys competing.
“I can’t imagine what it is going to be like to have Tiger Woods on a golf cart watching a group of guys play golf,” Love told SiriusXM radio on Tuesday. “Half the fans are going to be watching Tiger watch golf, they’re not going to be watching the golf.”
Still, the question remains: what will Tiger&..

VILAMOURA, Portugal (AP) Nino Bertasio led the Portugal Masters after shooting a second consecutive round of 6-under-par 65 on Friday.

The Italian golfer will enter the third round with a one-shot lead over Marc Warren of Scotland (64) and Lucas Bjerregaard of Denmark (65).

Bertasio hit six birdies on a blemish-free day at Victoria Golf Course.

”I’m feeling good,” Bertasio said. ”I had a bogey-free round and it was very easy golf. I just missed one green and I chipped it to one foot so I never really struggled to make pars.”

Joost Luiten (68), who had a share of the lead after the first round, and Jason Scrivener (67) were two strokes behind.

VILAMOURA, Portugal (AP) Nino Bertasio led the Portugal Masters after shooting a second consecutive round of 6-under-par 65 on Friday.

The Italian golfer will enter the third round with a one-shot lead over Marc Warren of Scotland (64) and Lucas Bjerregaard of Denmark (65).

Bertasio hit six birdies on a blemish-free day at Victoria Golf Course.

”I’m feeling good,” Bertasio said. ”I had a bogey-free round and it was very easy golf. I just missed one green and I chipped it to one foot so I never really struggled to make pars.”

Joost Luiten (68), who had a share of the lead after the first round, and Jason Scrivener (67) were two strokes behind.

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Twix spread. VALHALLAAAAAA!
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Ask any Lithuanian Orthodox-worshipping Seinfeld apostle what continues to draw them back to apartment 5A every evening between the prime syndication hours of 7 and 8pm, and you’re likely to get similar versions of the same answer: It is the truest approximation of society never canceled by a major broadcast network. Sure, Kramer becoming the prime suspect in a serial killer investigation and George dating Marisa Tomei don’t exactly ring true, but it’s what they say about humanity—about our crucifixion of eccentricity and blasé superficiality—that continue to resonate even now, nearly 20 years after we left Jerry to heckle hecklers in a State Pen cafeteria.
As technology has taken hold and civilization has slowly morphed into little more than a rotating array of tangentially-related buzzwords, however, our definition of (and grip on) reality has become increasingly nebulous. With our culture randomizing and splintering by the second, the question thus becomes: Is it even be possible fo..

Golf Digest's Guy Yocom has a rare and compelling conversation with Mickey Wright, the greatest female golfer of all time

BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) Nicholas Lindheim and Matt Atkins each shot 6-under 64 to share the first-round lead at the DAP Championship, the third of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals.

Lindheim began his round by holing his second shot on the short par-4 10th hole at Canterbury Golf Club. He shot 6-under 29 on his first nine before coming home in even par.

The event is the third of four tournaments that determine 25 PGA Tour cards. The series features the top 75 players from the Web.com regular-season money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and non-members with enough money to place in the top 200 in the FedEx Cup had they been eligible. Lindheim, a PGA Tour rookie this season, finished 197th in the FedEx Cup.

Atkins has already earned a PGA Tour card by finishing in the top 25 on the regular-season Web.com money list. Those players are competing for tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals.

Andrew Putnam and Brent Stegmaier wer..

ATLANTA (AP) Kyle Stanley and Jordan Spieth got off to strong starts in the Tour Championship with entirely different goals in mind.

Stanley ran off four straight birdies on the front nine, one of them from 40 feet, and then added two more late in his round on a steamy Thursday afternoon at East Lake for a 6-under 64. In his Tour Championship debut, he had a two-shot lead over a group that included U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka.

Spieth had a 67, and while it was a grind, he had no gripes about that.

He is the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup, and no one from the top five had a lower score. That kept Spieth on track in his bid to join Tiger Woods as the only two-time winners of the $10 million bonus since the FedEx Cup began in 2007.

The top five seeds only have to win the Tour Championship to claim the FedEx Cup, though there have been three occasions where someone else won at East Lake and walked away with golf’s biggest payoff when the leading players faltered.

That explains ..

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Former world No. 1 Lydia Ko says her confidence is rising as she prepares to play in the New Zealand Open next week in front of her home gallery, near the end of a lackluster year.

Ko says she has taken faith from her third-place finish last week at the Evian Championship, the season’s final major. Ko bogeyed the final hole to miss a place in a playoff as she chased her first tournament victory in 14 months.

Despite having nine top-10 finishes in 20 starts, Ko has had a difficult 2017 after making changes to her swing and changing her clubs, coach, and caddie.

But Ko believes she is coming into form in time for her national open, which will be a U.S. LPGA Tour event for the first time.

She said in Auckland on Thursday that her apparent loss of form had been over-stated because expectations had been set too high after her long reign as world No. 1.

”I’ve been very fortunate about the things that have happened in my career so far, it’s almost like t..