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This prank video involving TPC Sawgrass’ Island Green will get you ready for the Players Championship

Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesImagine going to Paris and discovering the Eiffel Tower is under renovation, or buying your son a Lakers ticket for his birthday only to realize LeBron James is now on a minutes restriction (okay, bad example). Then you can sympathize with the plight of these poor golfers, who were told during their round at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass—a track whose tee time costs half your paycheck—that the famous Island Green was closed for the day.
Or so they thought.
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The video team at Skratch played the following prank on a group of hackers, and their reactions should be captured and hung in the Louvre:
https://twitter.com/Skratch/status/1105136308870045696
Well done, although we're slightly worried about the fate of the actor/faux marshal. The old man who kept repeating “That's not funny” looks like he's dug a few sand graves off U.S. 50 in his day, if you catch our drift.
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NCAA tournament-bound team hosting tryouts, in case you have college eligibility left

Frederick Breedon(Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)To say University of Cincinnati basketball coach and human volcano Mick Cronin has Napoleon complex is a slight to Napoleon. (Which, if Cronin read this, would further infuriate him and possibly cause the first known self-combustion.) College basketball coaches are not a breed known for tranquility, but Cronin's weekly performance of the Lilliputian Hulk is a sight to be seen. He stomps like a kid denied candy at Toys 'R' Us, has a righteous look of indignation after every call that would make Tim Duncan blush, and screams at his players in the vein of a prisoner at a wayward juvenile in a “Scared Straight” program. The guy once missed half a season dealing with an unruptured aneurysm and somehow returned less chill.
But while it's tough to top challenging an opposing player to a fight, Cronin's latest hard-guy act has truly outdone himself.
After his Bearcats lost to the Houston Cougars on Sunday, Croni..

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An anatomy of JJ Watt’s half-naked golf adventure

Golf etiquette is a fickle mistress; a course-to-course, player-to-player gray area with 1 trillion contextual suggestions and like seven actual rules. Like every other public establishment in the western world, one of those is no shoes, no shirt, no service, unless, of course, you're J.J. Watt, who took to the 'Gram on Sunday to rub his preferred golf attire (or lack thereof) in the nose of golf cops across the internet. Remember when we were all debating the moral quandary of high tops?
But how a big a violation is Watt's notably fabric-less postcard and what else might we learn from his idyllic golf getaway? We put the quarterback nightmare's probably very staged candid under the Anatomy Of microscope to find out. When all was said and done, there wasn't much left to the imagination.
Ab-tropolis.
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The Italian broadcast of Francesco Molinari’s winning putt was absolutely electric

Richard HeathcoteIf we're being honest, Sunday's finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational was more boring than last month's Super Bowl. Francesco Molinari posted a fantastic 64 more than two hours before the final group finished and no one ever got closer than two shots after that. But Molinari's final putt to cap his incredible round was undeniably exciting. And the description of the action by GOLFTV's Italian broadcast team might be the most exhilarating call of the golf season.
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As someone who took Italian through the literature level in college (I was forced to), I can understand, well, not a lot. I know “Lunghissima” means very long and “Forza Francesco” translates to let's go, Francesco. But you don't need a dictionary to tell the announcers were happy when the 44-foot birdie putt dropped on Bay Hill's 18th hole. Check it out:
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For a better March Madness, give automatic bids to regular season conference champs

The Washington PostThere's a sad situation in college basketball that many casual fans aren't aware of, and probably never will be. This week, two of the greatest scorers in the sport's long history were knocked out of their respective conference tournaments, and instead of staging their farewell performances in the NCAA tournament, in front of a rapt national audience, they'll be going out in the NIT, watched by approximately no one. Chris Clemons is a senior at Campbell, and he's currently fourth on the all-time Division I scoring list with 3,193 points. His team clinched the regular season title and earned home-court advantage throughout the Big South tournament, but were eliminated by Gardner-Webb on Friday. Mike Daum is a senior at South Dakota State, and sits ninth on that same list with 3,042 points. Like Clemons, his team secured the regular season conference title, and like Clemons, his team was eliminated in the conference tournament on Friday night.
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