Morgan, Creamer tied for lead in LPGA Tour team event

Pressel, Creamer tied for lead in LPGA Tour team event

British Notes: Holmes memories of Royal Portrush, the wild weather and a big debut from a Scottish rookie

Thanks to some very obviously juiced baseballs, Brett Gardner is on pace to eclipse his career-high home run total of 21 with relative ease. He's already at 15 with 69 games (nice) to go, 31 of which are at Yankee Stadium, where he'll almost certainly hit four or five more over the short porch in left. If he keeps it up, he'll likely have a career-high in RBIs too, meaning he'd have one of his best seasons ever as a 35-year-old who the entire Yankee fanbase wrote off before May. What I'm saying is, Gardy has nothing to be mad about.
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But the little lefty is one of the more fiery competitors in the sport, one that treats every at-bat like a life or death situation in which the only way to survive in his mind is to get on base. That's why, when he gets shafted by an umpire with a poor strike zone, Gardner almost always loses his sh-t. On Th..

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The usual crowd support saw an unusual score for Woods

Key hole in first round of British Open

The first two rounds of the Open Championship are the longest days on the golf calendar. But we decided to keep things short in an effort to cover all the important storylines from Royal Portrush on Thursday. So without further ado, here's what happened on Day 1 in nine (or so) sentences.
1.) Rory McIlroy hit his opening tee shot out of bounds . . . and it got worse from there.
FacebookPinterestRamsey CardyA closing triple plus that stunning opening quad equals the closing of his Open chances. So much for that storybook homecoming.
2.) Tiger Woods grimaced on his opening tee shot—his fans grimaced the rest of the day.
FacebookPinterestFrancois NelAt least he (78) nipped Rory (79).
3.) Brooks Koepka did Brooks Koepka things.
FacebookPinterestMike EhrmannAn opening 68 has him in the mix yet again at a major. Shocker.
4.) Adam Scott did un-Adam Scott things.
FacebookPinterestGLYN KIRKA popular pre-tournament pick and bet (sigh) thanks to recent major success and British Open history,..

In golf, it rarely works out where the player with the most at stake has the best week.

Duval takes a 14 on the seventh hole at Royal Portrush, 2nd-highest score on a hole in British Open history