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This week in problems you can’t relate to: Bernhard Langer has so many trophies he has to stack them on the floor of his mansion

Bernhard Langer has won 114 professional events in his career, dating to the early '80s, when he was a wiry, fit European Tour star, and continuing to last week, when he won his fourth Senior British Open as a wiry, fit dominant force on the PGA Tour Champions. That's a lot of clutch putts, a lot of money, and of course, a lot of hardware: cups, bowls, statuettes, weird crystal vases—and we're not even factoring in two emerald sport coats he can't keep at home.
FacebookPinterestFor those of us who finish runner-up in one B-flight tournament and insist on displaying the bowl prominently in our living-room bookcases to the despair of our wives, this sounds like a good problem to have. But for Langer it is a real problem, as evidenced by this video shared by the PGA Tour Champions.
The video showcases that Langer has been incredibly successful while also placing a priority on family. He keeps pictures of his wife and four children throughout the house but leaves many o..

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Canadian tour pro plans to not use numbers for yardages this week, comes up with genius alternative

Professional golf can be a slog. The same shots, the same yardages, the same two-putt pars, over and over and over again. Sometimes you've got to spice things up, which is just what Canadian tour pro Jared du Toit is doing this week at the 1932byBateman Open on the Mackenzie Tour (no, I didn't make up that name).
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Du Toit, a former Arizona State standout, plans to not use any numbers for his yardages, instead coming up with a genius alternative with caddie Nolan Renwick. Rather than telling du Toit he's got 99 yards left to the pin, Renwick will just say “Gretzky.” But The Great One isn't the only name he'll be dropping. Check out this incredible list the duo will be using this week in Edmonton:
https://twitter.com/Jareddutoit/status/1156740621974958081
For golfers who are also diehard pucks fans, this is “worlds colliding!” but in the best possible way. I'm sure a lot of pe..

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Tiger Woods has savage response to Webb Simpson, who thought he should have jumped higher in the Presidents Cup standings

Jamie SquireEarlier in his career, Webb Simpson appeared destined to be on Ryder and Presidents Cup American teams for years to come. He earned spots on two winning Presidents Cup squads in 2011 and 2013, and two losing Ryder Cup teams in 2012 and 2014. He wasn't aware at the time, but he was about to go through, by his standards, a mini career slump. He still made plenty of money with a ton of top-10 finishes but had no wins from 2014-'17 and failed to make any national teams from 2015-'17.
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Simpson's resurgent 2018 season, which included a victory at the Players Championship, got him back on the American Ryder Cup team, which unfortunately became his third losing appearance. This season, though, Simpson looks to get back to his national team winning ways by making captain Tiger Woods' Presidents Cup squad. Though it's no guarantee Simpson will make it ..

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Cincinnati Reds legend Yasiel Puig traded mid-game, still fights the Pirates for old time’s sake

Andy LyonsYasiel Puig was a Cincinnati Red for 222 days. Yasiel Puig is a Cincinnati Reds legend. Both of these things are absolutely true. On Tuesday night, Puig—who was in Cincinnati for a cup of coffee chili-smothered spaghetti this season—punched his way into Cincy folklore, conking a few Pittsburgh Pirate dome pieces together like congas despite being traded to the Indians midway through the NL Central showdown.
Call him a merc. Call him hired muscle. But whatever you do, just don't call him Shirley.
The heroic display of midwest tribalism kicked off in the seventh when the Pirates' Keone Kela threw some chin music on the jukebox for Derek Dietrich, who has spent much of the season making the Buccos' pitching staff look like noodle-armed toddlers. The thunder grumbled and Joey Votto left the dugout to jaw with Kela, but the storm didn't let loose until the ninth, when Reds reliever Amir Garret charged the Pirates dugout, sparking what was by far the finest benc..

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The best part of the Reds vs. Pirates fight were the fights that didn’t happen amidst all the chaos

By now you've seen the epic brawl between the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, and if you haven't, well, you're probably over the age of 60 and don't know how to Internet (shoutout to my 50-59-year-old crew; I believe in your iPad skills).
Even if you have seen it, it's absolutely worth another watch, at least the beginning, when Reds relief pitcher Amir Garrett loses his shit and attacks the entire Pirates organization. Garrett, a former St. John's University basketball player, has clearly been in a scuffle or two in his life, because he had absolutely zero fear as he ran straight toward a sea of black jerseys that immediately swarmed around him:
https://twitter.com/FOXSportsOH/status/1156392391420469249
Love this tweet by FOX Sports Ohio, by the way: “The benches have cleared.” Oh, gee, is that all that happened? A “bench clearing” is a snooze fest that involves a lot of hold-me-backing and shit-talking from guys who have no intention of actua..

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