Sam GreenwoodTommy Gainey throws his club during the 2016 Sanderson Farms Championship.Earlier in the week, we brought you the story of Jonathan Byrd, whose travel troubles actually wound up benefitting the PGA Tour veteran. Byrd planned on playing in Panama on the Web.com Tour this week until he forgot to bring his passport to the airport, and hours after turning around, a spot had opened up for him at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. But life as a PGA Tour pro—especially one with alternate status—isn't all happy endings. Enter Tommy Gainey.
The golfer best known as “Two Gloves” (Yes, he wears two golf gloves) and for winning Golf Channel's Big Break reality TV show before eventually winning on the PGA Tour also got a late invite this week to Pebble Beach, where there has been a rash of withdrawals. Unfortunately, Tommy never wound up making it there, though, his golf gloves and everything else did.
RELATED: Golf Digest's “My Shot” interview with Tommy Gainey
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Chris CondonLet’s be honest: Darius Rucker loves golf enough that he probably would have kept showing up at PGA Tour events even without being asked to do so on a formal basis.
But with that passion came an opportunity. The award-winning recording artist, first as the frontman for Hootie & the Blowfish and now as a solo country star, has been a mainstay at charity golf tournaments and tour events, including as a participant in this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. And now comes the announcement Wednesday that Rucker will add the official title as the PGA Tour’s formal brand ambassador.
The new role means Rucker will make regular appearances as a commentator on PGA Tour Live, and in-person at tour events. It also means some co-branding with the tour during a Hootie & The Blowfish reunion this summer. Mostly, though, it means Rucker can continue to hang around golf, which he’s been doing for decades anyway.
As the 52-year-old Rucker described as a guest on this week’s Golf Digest Podcast..

In the immortal words of Mugatu, Hansel is so hot right now, and by Hansel we obviously mean Bryson DeChambeau, who has set the simmering world of professional golf ablaze with his pyrotechnic process, Date Mike-approved headwear, and, of course, actual play. To make matters even steamier, on Wednesday Bryson gave us a glimpse behind the curtain, tantalizing the golf masses with this rare photo of his top secret man cave (AKA “where the magic happens”).
FacebookPinterestAnd while Bryson already beat us to the annotation punch (typical Bryson!), we peel ed back the layers of this one-of-a-kind onion anyway, hoping to see what we could learn about the most eligible majors bachelor in golf. As it turns out, we uncovered more than we could even believe (no seriously, don't believe any of this).
It all begins here, in the captain's chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise…
FacebookPinterestafter which we warp drive over to The Win Zone (working title)…
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Warren LittleTed Potter Jr. (L) and Larry Fitzgerald celebrate after winning the 2018 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.Celebrity golfers competing in this week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am got some good news when the tournament pairings came out on Tuesday night. Defending champ Larry Fitzgerald's handicap looks like it got a major adjustment.
RELATED: Larry Fitzgerald made a hole-in-one playing with Barack Obama
After cruising to a win at last year's event with PGA Tour partner Kevin Streelman, some, including us, questioned how many strokes the Arizona Cardinals star was getting. Fitzgerald's handicap index was listed at 10.6, which got bumped up to a 13 course handicap for the tournament. That seemed pretty generous for a guy capable of doing things like this:
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And this year, despite a recent hole-in-one while playing with Barack Obama, Fitzgerald's handicap had actually managed to go up to a 10.8 index. However, hi..

Golf Digest, in association with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, honored Nantz, Love and Rucker for their charitable efforts