Patrick Reed and a number of other players were making changes to their equipment at the Players Championship.

Icon SportswireLast year, I won $500 as the winner of a 200-person March Madness pool, and finished second in Will Leitch's 389-person newsletter pool, missing out by a mere 10 points. This was not a fluke—I'm not going to pretend I win every single year, since March Madness is too chaotic, but I win far more than my fair share, and if you put me in a small pool (20 people or fewer) I'm a terror; I win at least once every two or three years. My bracket is deadly.
Is this because I watch a ton of college basketball and identify myself as an “expert”? Nope! I used to write about the sport, and in those days I watched games almost every night, but my brackets were an unmitigated disaster. I never won, and never really came close. It wasn't until I invented the patented MoneyBrackets system, which identifies underlying patterns that persist from year to year, that I gave myself a real chance to win. Today, I watch almost no college basketball—a handful of Duke games, an..

Jhonattan Vegas and Eddie Pepperell make birdies totaling 120 feet at the island green and added to a frantic finish at The Players Championship

Jim Furyk was one of the last ones in the field and the last one in contention at The Players Championship

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Rory delivers a major performance on back 9 at TPC Sawgrass to win The Players Championship.

Tiger Woods finished well back in the field at The Players Championship but like the state of his game as the Masters approaches

Italian golfer Guido Migliozzi won his first European Tour title with a one-stroke victory at the Kenya Open on Sunday

Tiger Woods had a much more enjoyable experience at the 17th hole in the third round of The Players Championship

Rahm powers his way to a 64 and a 1-shot lead at The Players Championship