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Aspiring professional golfers frequently turn to GoFundMe to help finance their quests, and those who do usually just throw out a number they’re looking to raise.
In the case of Shasta Averyhardt, a former LPGA player seeking to finance her return to the tour, she has itemized her expected expenses for the second stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament Oct. 19-22 at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, Fla.
The bottom line: It isn’t cheap.
LPGA Q-School Stage Two Entry Fee: $3,000
Caddie Fee: $2,000
Practice Rounds: $45 x 2 golf courses $90
Yardage Book: 2 Courses X $30 $60
Hotel: $85 average per night X 7 nights $595
Gofundme 8% Transaction Rate: $460
The total is $6,205 (though she listed $6,210 and is hoping to raise $6,200). As of this writing, she had raised $3,000. Her GoFundMe page can be found here.
“Golf is so damn expensive and trying to do it without outside help is impossible,..

Presidents Cup 2017: Live updates — The latest news, scores and highlights from this week's Presidents Cup at Liberty National Golf Club

Rory McIlroy had plenty to say when asked to comment about Tiger Woods' saying he could see himself never playing competitive golf again

Ever wonder what golf would be like if heckling was allowed? We're not talking about the weak kind of heckling from fans that occurred at last year's Ryder Cup, but from golfers themselves. Well anyway, now we have an idea.
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The European Tour's latest fun video centers around four players — Andy Sullivan, Nicolas Colsaerts, Thorbjorn Olesen and Paul Waring — heckling each other as they try to hit shots. And they try out everything from your garden variety heckling of yelling in someone's backswing to blowing an air horn to even soaking each other with water guns and playing badminton while someone lines up a putt. Yeah, things escalated pretty quickly. Have a watch:
Of course, we don't expect these types of shenanigans to be added to any actual tournaments anytime soon. But in the meantime, for these four players, it should make hitting a golf shot in complete silence and stillness seems..

Icon SportswireUnless you’ve been sleeping in a cave under a rock at the bottom of the ocean with noise-cancelling ear plugs and no Wi-Fi for the past year, you no doubt know that Bill Murray is a die-hard, goat-fearing, daffy-duck spitting Chicago Cubs super-mega-uber-fan.
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That’s why it makes all the sense in the world that Murray, a likeable, graying icon whose whole shtick is acting less than half his age, has, according to Deadline, been tapped to play Cubs' manager Joe Maddon—a likeable, graying icon whose whole shtick is acting less than half his age—in an upcoming film adaptation of the Cubbies incredible curse-busting World Series. Some things in this world just make too much sense NOT to happen. This is one of those things.
Titled Teammate, the Shane Abbess-directed film has yet to confirm casting, however, so even though Maddon seems predictably psyched about watching Bill Murray essentially ju..

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) Canadian Brooke Henderson and Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to share the lead in the New Zealand Women’s Open, leaving home star Lydia Ko five strokes back after the first round.

The playing partners led by one stroke over Amy Boulden of Wales and Belen Mozo of Spain, with American Brittany Lincicome, Beatriz Recari of Spain and South Korea’s Na Yeon Choi another stroke back after 67s.

The New Zealand Open is on the LPGA Tour for the first time this year.

Henderson and Ewart Shadoff took advantage of easier morning conditions before the winds picked up on the newly-established Windross Farm course east of Auckland.

”Going out there I knew I had to take advantage of the good conditions,” Ewart Shadoff said. ”I putted well today. I think the greens are great … they are running really true.”

The Yorkshire-born golfer has yet to win on the LPGA Tour, after joining in 2011, but picked up her best paycheck in early August when ..

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) Canadian Brooke Henderson and Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England shot 7-under 65 on Thursday to share the lead in the LPGA Tour’s New Zealand Women’s Open, leaving home star Lydia Ko five strokes back.

The pair led by one stroke over Amy Boulden of Wales and Belen Mozo of Spain, with American Brittany Lincicome and Beatriz Recari of Spain another stroke back after 67s.

Henderson and Ewart Shadoff both took advantage of easier morning conditions before the winds picked up on the newly-established Windross Farm course east of Auckland.

Ewart Shadoff said ”going out there I knew I had to take advantage of the good conditions. I putted well today. I think the greens are great … they are running really true.”

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Phil Mickelson is the voice of experience in team competition, and there’s no comparison.

He was on the putting green Wednesday morning at the Presidents Cup, explaining to some of the six rookies on the American team why the teams might change for the final day of practice, the schedule after the team photo, just about anything short of how to tie their shoes.

Mickelson has played in the Presidents Cup every year since it began in 1994. He has played in every Ryder Cup since 1995. Add them up and this will be his 23rd consecutive time playing in a team event.

For someone like PGA champion Justin Thomas, playing in his first one, that can be hard to fathom.

”I can’t, especially because I was 1 when he playing in his first one, which is really crazy to think,” Thomas said. ”I would love to see what kind of person he was then. I’m sure he was still the same kind of guy. But it’s crazy. To be that good for that long and to have the reputation that he does, b..

There is no doubt that the United States has history on its side as it prepares to defend its streak of six consecutive wins at the 12th Presidents Cup this week at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J.

However, it will take more than the swagger from past successes for the Americans to beat the International team when play begins Thursday.

The International side had arguably its best collection of players since it forged a tie with the U.S. squad in 2003 in South Africa after just missing a victory in 2015, when it lost 15 1/2-14 1/2 in Inchon, South Korea.

Of the 11 matches played since this competition began in 1994, the U.S. team has won nine times, the International team has won once, and one match was a tie, ending famously in the dusk at Fancourt in South Africa as Tiger Woods and Ernie Els of South Africa could not finish after three halved playoff holes.

For the Presidents Cup, the International team is made up of players not from Europe, and in this case, th..

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Phil Mickelson is the voice of experience in team competition, and there’s no comparison.

He was on the putting green Wednesday morning at the Presidents Cup, explaining to some of the six rookies on the American team why the teams might change for the final day of practice, the schedule after the team photo, just about anything short of how to tie their shoes.

Mickelson has played in the Presidents Cup every year since it began in 1994. He has played in every Ryder Cup since 1995. Add them up and this will be his 23rd consecutive time playing in a team event.

For someone like PGA champion Justin Thomas, playing in his first one, that can be hard to fathom.

”I can’t, especially because I was 1 when he playing in his first one, which is really crazy to think,” Thomas said. ”I would love to see what kind of person he was then. I’m sure he was still the same kind of guy. But it’s crazy. To be that good for that long and to have the reputation that he does, b..