Bryan BedderIt's been said that Michael Phelps was born with the perfect swimmer's body. A large wingspan and a long torso provide him extra reach, and giant feet act like flippers as he churns through the water. But spend a few minutes next to him on the driving range and it quickly becomes apparent that he's also built for speed with a golf club.
Phelps can absolutely annihilate a golf ball — now it's just about figuring everything else out for the quickly improving 12-handicap. But after retiring from swimming following the 2016 Olympics, Phelps, a golf nut who recently turned 32, has plenty of time to work on his game and extra motivation thanks to a bet with a friend that he can get that handicap down to a 5 in a year. It seems like a daunting task, but would you put anything by a man who made our collective jaw drop countless times on his way to winning an Olympic-record 23 gold medals? Didn't think so.
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Minas Panagiotakis(Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)Dustin Johnson opened 2017 by taking a flamethrower to the competition, placing inside the top 6 in seven of eight events (including wins in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Austin). Since his freak back injury on Masters eve, it's been a different tale for the World No. 1, with zero top 10s in his last five appearances.
Speaking with the media at this week's RBC Canadian Open, Johnson admitted he's not fully healthy from the staircase incident.
“I’m still feeling the effects of it,” Johnson said on Wednesday. “No pain or anything like that. But it’s still a little tight. I’m having to get worked on a good bit just to try to loosen up those muscles and those tendons where it got injured.”
While Johnson finished runner-up at the Wells Fargo Championship in his return from injury, he's struggled as of late, missing the weekend at the Memorial and U.S. Open. And though he showed signs of life at Royal Birkdale, he..

One of the most highly anticipated golf-course openings in 2017 is Streamsong Resort’s Black course, which is set to open Sept. 29. Gil Hanse and his design team, one of the most sought-after among course-architecture firms, completed the design, which joins Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw's Red course and Tom Doak's Blue course, both among Golf Digest’s Second 100 Greatest, as the next course at the Florida resort.
So what should we expect from Streamsong Black? The rolling scale of the property, which will play to a par 73, is certainly unique among big-time designs (only two courses in Golf Digest's 100 Greatest and Second 100 Greatest are par 73s: Garden City Golf Club, No. 46 on our last 100 Greatest ranking and Kapalua's Plantation course, No. 112).
And most notably is the way in which Hanse, his design partner Jim Wagner and the rest of his team were inspired by the look and feel of Australian Sand Belt courses and their bunkering to incorporate similar looks in ..