Tiger Woods goes into British Open having played less, with hopes of playing longer

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we have come to the realization that we need more physical activity. According to my iPhone, I walked 8.9 miles on Sunday. Not bad, right?
FacebookPinterestBut consider this: 8.1 of those miles came from carrying my own bag (Grit!) that morning for a 6:20 tee time (More grit!). So I managed to move less than one mile over the next 12 hours! It’s basically impossible. Anyway, golf is literally saving my life, but with a major championship on tap, I’m going to be putting in LONG hours on the couch. Keep me in your thoughts this week, and in the meantime, here’s what else is going on in golf.
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Dylan Frittelli: No longer just “that guy who was teammates with Jordan Spieth at Texas,” Frittelli finally broke through for his first PGA Tour win at the John Deere Classic. OK, so maybe finally is a bit of a stretch for a 29-year-old PGA Tour rookie who has methodically worked his way up the rungs of pro golf with wins on the Europea..

Speaking at Royal Portrush ahead of the 2019 Open Championship, it doesn't sound like Justin Rose is a fan of golf's new schedule.

In three career starts at the Open Championship, Justin Thomas has missed two cuts and finished T-53. But it hasn't dimmed his enthusiasm for links golf

It's a well-known fact that Nike kills it when it comes to the advertising game, for golf in particular (well, not golf clubs). It helps having Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka as the guys starring in the ads, but you still have to execute, and Nike always does. A personal favorite that would seem applicable to this week is “Ripple,” which tells the story of a young Rory growing up and idolizing Tiger. Talk about FEELS:
Still might be Nike's finest work, though the latest ad produced by the Swoosh ahead of the Open Championship may be in the conversation as well. Though it's not an ad as much as it is a mini documentary, one that stars McIlroy, who relives his incredible, course-record 61 at Royal Portrush that he shot as a 16-year-old during the stroke-play qualifying portion of the 2005 North of Ireland Amateur Open. As a native of Northern Ireland, it doesn't get much more special than that, which you can clearly see in the way McIlroy emotionally desc..

Rich SchultzDanielle Kang grew up in Southern California. She's spent most of her life circling the globe playing golf in bucolic warm-weather climes. The gritty, grafty, Cheez-Whizy world of Philadelphia—where the traffic lights are greased with Crisco and the city icon is a giant orange monster who takes no shit from anyone, least of all Santa—might as well be a different planet. But on Monday night, Kang got herself acquainted with the City of Brotherly Love in the best way imaginable: By heading down to Citizens Bank Park on a steamy summer night for some good ol' Phillies baseball. It was a head first dive into the deep end of Philly culture, but Kang acquitted herself like a true local, kicking off the evening with her first-ever cheesesteak…
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…before taking to the mound throw some serious smoke, which even overpowered Philly's other giant creepy monster mascot:
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Column: Jim Furyk, approaching 50 with a Ryder Cup captaincy behind him, still going strong

Brooks Koepka's biggest asset during this year's British Open won't be in his bag, it'll be on his bag

It's the height of summer and love is in the air. Weddings dot the green, rolling hills and new passions bloom on beaches from coast to coast. It's time to be carefree. It's time to take the plunge. And if you're Erik Carboni—a Massachusetts-based chemical engineer/perma-bachelor—it's time to officially tie the knot with a can of Keystone Light. No really, we're not making this up.
FacebookPinterestThis past weekend, Carboni, with the help of a licensed officiant and a full wedding party, wed his longtime love, Keystone Light. An official wedding page helped to guide guests to the intimate backyard venue, including the “bride's” family, who flew in from coolers across America for the joyous occasion.
FacebookPinterestSources close to the groom expressed reservations that perhaps he could do better—that maybe in the long run, a nice dry-hopped IPA would be better for him—but love doesn't play by the rules and the nuptials were eventually sealed wi..

After the Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup last summer, they spent the next several weeks attempting to drink the planet dry. Alexander Ovechkin was the chief binge-ologist, but the whole team did their part, sipping, slurping, slugging, and chugging through perhaps the single most protracted championship celebration in professional sports history. This year, the Caps didn't win the Stanley Cup—that honor went instead to the St. Louis Blues—but that didn't stop T.J. Oshie from keeping the party going at the American Century Championship this weekend, where he put on a beer bong clinic for the gallery's adoring iPhone cameras. Bottoms up, Captain America.
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FacebookPinterestNeedless to say, it's not Oshie first rodeo with a funnel, nor was it his first at the American Century Championship, where we spoke to him last year about his knuckle-puck swing and whether playing in front of a gallery or..