Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we wish Johnny Miller got to spend one more day in the booth. Can you imagine how much fun he would have had calling that Sunday chokefest at TPC Scottsdale? Talk about the perfect retirement gift. Johnny would certainly have gotten a lot more enjoyment out of that than he will from this scooter:
FacebookPinterestAnyway, even without golf's most famous talking head, there's as much as ever to talk about. Let's (chunk-and-) run through it all.
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Rickie Fowler: First off, congrats to Rickie on (finally) picking up PGA Tour title No. 5, which will move the goalposts on all those “so-and-so has as many wins in the past blank weeks as Fowler does in his career” tweets. It’s also his first victory since getting engaged:
FacebookPinterestBen JaredHowever, there’s limping home and then there’s breaking your own legs and limping home, which is what Fowler did with a series of awful shots, decisions, and one of the mos..
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A Skirt Among Khakis: My struggle to navigate golf’s gender gap
Even an accomplished teaching professional feels marginalized because of her gender.
Tour pro Jonathan Byrd’s absentmindedness winds up getting him a spot in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesJonathan Byrd lives in limboville on the PGA Tour. The 41-year-old former All-American at Clemson no longer has full status, having finished No. 159 on last season’s FedEx Cup points list. But as a five-time tour winner he can still get into several events as a past champion. In the meantime, he plays in Web.com Tour events hoping to stay sharp and ultimately find a way to get back on the PGA Tour full time.
Play in the Web.com Tour’s Panama Championship was what Byrd expected to be doing this week. Until, that is, he realized while en route to the Jacksonville Airport to take his flight down to Central America that he’d broken the No. 1 rule of international travel: He’d forgotten his passport.
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Upset with himself, he turned around and started driving back to his home in South Carolina unsure what to do next. While on the road, though, Byrd learned that his status on the alternate list for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-..
Fowler overcomes strange triple bogey to win Phoenix Open
Ricke Fowler has experienced his share of heartbreak at the Phoenix Open before. But not this year.
TaylorMade’s new FlexTech bags address the needs of a wide range of golfers
TaylorMade's FlexTech bags are lightweight, but the company also realizes not everyone wants the lightest bag possible.
How to determine if the right transition club in your set should be an iron or a wedge
Golf Digest Tested: How to determine if the right transition club in your set should be an iron or a wedge
Behold the worst sequence in the history of organized basketball
Free-flowing, back-and-forth basketball is a beautiful thing. Just ask Mike D'Antoni. That (and James Harden) is the reason he's still coaching the Houston Rocket instead of FGCU. As appealing it may be at full flow, however, the game is just as bad when it breaks down—morphing from poetry-in-motion to a slapstick Madlib in the blink of an eye. This is where we pick up the plot of the Tennessee Lady Vols and Vanderbilt on Sunday, a game notable not for its protagonists nor result, but for featuring what may well be the worst sequence in organized basketball history. Viewer discretion is advised:
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To quote one George Costanza upon witnessing Elain Benes' dancing for the first time: Sweet. Fancy. Moses. This is not just bad, it's so bad it's good. The highlowlight opens with a missed layup off the UNDERSIDE of the rim, and only devolves from there, sweeping viewers up in its wacky tangle of limbs and athl..
Bridgestone ball-fitting returns with expanded process that runs tee to green; adds 8-iron to launch monitor data
Ball-fitting program started in 2006 with driver focus, touched 300,000 golfers, now will include driver and 8-iron shots of alternative balls on launch monitors
This story about Larry David playing Augusta National is exactly what you’d expect from Larry David
We’ve written before about Larry David’s love of golf in spite of his disdain for some of the game’s pretentious elements. And of course we’ve written plenty about Augusta National Golf Club's austere reputation. So what happens when the two intersect?
Pretty much what you’d expect, at least if you’re going by this story shared by former NHLer Ryan Whitney on the popular Spittin’ Chiclets podcast last week (Chiclets is primarily a hockey podcast, but we’ve also written about host Whitney’s own golf obsession). Whitney claims to have gotten his hands on a text the comedian sent a friend following his inaugural round at Augusta National, and it is quintessential David—with details about his round, the course’s surprisingly wide fairways, and the inevitable jabs at the membership’s absent sense of humor. Here’s Whitney:
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Of course it’s fair to ask whether David is hypocritically ripping on a club he clearly wanted to ..
The reason Gary Nicklaus is ready to give pro golf a second chance, this time as a senior
Gary Nicklaus set to launch a second professional career on the PGA Tour Champions this week