Golf Digest Podcast: George Gankas, Matthew Wolff's swing coach, discusses his prized pupil's first PGA Tour win and more.

Welcome to another edition of The Grind where we haven’t seen that much drama in Minnesota since Fargo came out. What a wild finish in the Twin Cities (PGA Tour) sandwiched in between torrid finishes in Ireland (European Tour) and Green Bay (LPGA Tour). It’s a good thing Megan Rapinoe (congrats, by the way) doesn’t play golf, because she wouldn’t approve of so much action happening on one day in one sport! But jam-packed Sundays are what golf fans live for, and what the Grind counts on. Will we be able to get to it all? You’re darn tooting’ we will.
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Matthew Wolff: That didn’t take long, huh? Less than three weeks after hitting his first tee shot as a pro, Wolff won his first PGA Tour title at the 3M Open. And he did it in spectacular fashion with a back-nine 31 capped by a walk-off eagle on No. 18:
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I’m not sure what was better. The eagle itself or the fact Wolff didn’t even watch the ball go into the hole before s..

After missing a decent chunk of time due to a wrist injury following the Masters, Justin Thomas didn't exactly ease back into things, instead playing four straight weeks beginning with the Memorial Tournament. While he's yet to finish top 10, he did manage a T-20 at the RBC Canadian Open and a T-36 at the Travelers, a clear sign he's closer to being his 100-percent self.
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Thomas is hoping to get back to his major-winning ways at the Open Championship, which will take place next week at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. To prepare for the venerable links, which has hosted only one previous Open in 1951, Thomas chose to go overseas this week to play in the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick. On Tuesday, the 2017 PGA champion posted a video from his practice round, and judging by the shot he attempted, his wrist must be back at full health:
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Alex TrautwigWe are entering an unprecedented age of athlete bargaining power. Sub-.500 career quarterback Kirk Cousins is chilling on a $84-million-dollar contract. NBA superstars handpick their chosen teams like cliquey mean girls. Hell, even Jeopardy! James cleared over two mil this year. Everywhere you look, trade requests are being handed in and healthy players are being scratched from the Meineke Car Care Bowl. In other words, it's a pretty good time to be a professional athlete…unless, of course, you're a recently promoted MLB prospect currently tearing the big leagues a new outfield gap. Then you're screwed.
Due to MLB control rules, which stipulate that a player must play six years before scoring their first free agent contract, many up-and-coming MLB stars find themselves playing for well below market value for much of their prime. Aaron Judge is one example. After smashing his way onto the scene in 2017, winning the Home Run Derby, and becoming the biggest n..

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Andrew D. BernsteinBill Walton is a true citizen of the earth. He's revered as equally in the Pacific Northwest as he is in New England. He celebrates every aspect of life, consumes every remaining fiber of tie-dye, and trots the globe shouting about basketball with his sitcom-approved opposite Dave Pasch. He even partakes in the, um, healing properties of the planet from time to time (or so we're told). He's not a man of the people. He's a man—nay, being—of EVERYTHING, as evidenced perhaps by the most Bill Walton video yet, which captures the former NBA-big-man-turned-positivity-junkie helping to sort glass and plastics while attending a Dead & Company show at Folsom Field on Sunday evening.
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Now for those of you who maybe don't know (or maybe just forgot), Dead & Company is essentially Grateful Dead 2.0, combining original Dead Heads Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann with the new-age tao of John ..