Eric McCandlessThe Declaration of Independence, Babe Ruth's Cooperstown bust, that mini Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas. That's it. That's the list of national treasures more sacred than Alex Trebrek, who, if you want to get bogged down in technicalities, is actually Canadian. Those pieces of iconography (not to mention the mountain with the presidents' faces on it and your plastic souvenir beer cup from Augusta National) must be protected at all costs, and thankfully the good folks at Sony Pictures Television are doing exactly that for Sir Alex Trebek, becoming the first major domestic sports league to ban live audiences. A source close to Jeopardy! told the Washington Post on Monday…
“Out of an abundance of caution due to the spread of Covid-19, we have
decided to cancel audience attendance for the tapings of ‘Wheel of
Fortune’ and ‘Jeopardy!’ for the time being,” a person close to
“Jeopardy!”
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The Hero Indian Open is the latest European Tour event to be postponed because of the new coronavirus

The Dell Match Play is two weeks away in Austin, Texas, and the PGA Tour expects to be there

No one has ever won back-to-back at The Players Championship since it moved to the TPC Sawgrass in 1982

Such is the clamor around the PGA Tour that Commissioner Jay Monahan spoke for 45 minutes Tuesday before anyone mentioned Tiger Woods

Sam GreenwoodPONTE VEDRA BEACH — If you've been lucky (or unlucky) enough to play a golf course designed by Pete Dye, you know it's an unsettling experience. The late, legendary architect knew how to make golfers uncomfortable, including the best players in the world. Just ask Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut in his first three appearances in the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Dye's most famous design.
Finally, in his fourth start in 2013, McIlroy made the cut and finished in a tie for eighth. But it was a few years earlier that the Northern Irishman believes he came around on Dye's devilish ways.
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“So 2010 Whistling Straits was when I turned a corner. I turned up there, it was the PGA Championship, and I hated it,” said McIlroy when asked if Dye's courses were an acquired taste. “Like I really did not like it. I had to tell myself, look, you just need to like it for..

As perhaps the only person in the Golf Digest office who doesn't watch The Bachelor, I'm probably the last person who should be writing this post. But obviously, I have heard of the hit reality TV show and I know what a bachelor is, so I can present the essential pieces of this: There is a PGA Tour pro who could actually appear on the program.
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Well, at least, there's a chance. In the latest Subpar Podcast, Wyndham Clark didn't deny the possibility of this happening when asked about it by hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. Turns out, Clark, currently the 155th-ranked golfer in the world, is a golf pal of the show's host, Chris Harrison. And the 26-year-old bachelor from Colorado, says the two have discussed him being a contestant. Have a listen:
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From inside the ropes to handing out roses? Imagine? (Yeah, I had to look that up.)
And he wouldn't even..

The Players Championship's overall purse is up to $15 million, with the winner getting $2.7 million. Here's the prize money payout for each golfer

Welcome to another edition of The Grind where we realize we were wrong about the cardigan. I always thought it was an article of clothing reserved for old men, but as I expand my horizons (thanks in part to a GQ shoot in 2018 NBD) and, yes, tick off another birthday, I have come to understand its appeal.
FacebookPinterestSo freaking classy. My apologies to cardigans everywhere. Arnie knew what's up. Anyway, here's what other important (and not-so-important) topics have us talking this week.
WE'RE BUYING
Tyrrell Hatton: In your face, Paul Azinger! At least, that’s what a lot of Europeans were feeling after the Brit won his first PGA Tour title—just a few months removed from wrist surgery (more on that later)—at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. And what a hard-fought victory it was as Hatton became the first player to win a PGA Tour event with two over-par scores on the weekend since Geoff Ogilvy at the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot.
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There is nothing else in professional golf like the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass. It's a crucible crossed with a pressure cooker fused to a cauldron. It makes names and takes them. It rewards the bold and punishes them too. It's the closest the PGA Tour gets to the X Games. You've looked at it a hundred million times from every angle, but have you ever really seen it? Have you ever pried your eyes away from the tee shot that makes grown freeze like they just looked Medusa in the eye and long enough to dissect everything that makes 17 17? Well, now's your chance. Before the roars, the splashes, and the drunken frat boy hordes pull you once more from solemn meditation, we present neither the first nor the last, but perhaps the most unique look at the most wondrously terrifying hole in golf. Grab your big boy pants and join us in the grandstands when you're ready.
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