Golf Capsules

With his win at the Desert Classic, and the $1.068 million first-place check, PGA Tour rookie Adam Long increased his career tour earnings by 7,927.24 percent

Adam Long made a 14-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the Desert Classic for his first PGA Tour title

Chris Graythen(^^^ Neither of these two are the whistling fan in question. Just a couple of grown-ass adults that wear costumes)
Those expecting a high-scoring, high-flying affair in Sunday's NFC Championship game between the L.A. Rams and the New Orleans Saints have gotten anything but that. It's been a ground-and-pound, grind-it-out, check-it-down to Alvin Kamara slugfest that one team is going to leave quite banged up from, but at least they'll have a week off before the Super Bowl.
That's not to say the game has been boring, but there has been a noticeable lack of big plays. This has led social media to focus on a few other wacky occurrences at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, like this hilarious mic drop from Jimmy Buffett, who sang the National Anthem:
https://twitter.com/GIPHYSports/status/1087094663570309120
The Rams were doomed from the moment this happened, which makes it all the more impressive that they are hanging around in the game. Just when you thought J..

Eun-Hee Ji wins chilly, windy LPGA Tour season opener by 2 shots

Augusta bound: Alvaro Ortiz of Mexico finishes strong to win Latin American Amateur, earn spot in Masters

Jazz Janewattananond shot a final-round 65 to win the Singapore Open and qualify for this year's British Open

Tom Lehman rallied to win the PGA Tour Champions' season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship, taking advantage of David Toms' closing three-putt bogey

Robert LabergeJerry Kelly has gotten some good breaks in his professional golf career. We say that obviously not having seen every shot he's ever hit. But you don’t earn $28.9 million on the PGA Tour and $3.3 million on the PGA Tour Champions without a friendly kick here, or lucky bounce there, or man-I-didn’t-deserve-that-but-I’ll-take-it ricochet every once in a while.
Yet at the risk of setting off the “that just might be the greatest break Jerry Kelly has ever gotten … OF ALL-TIME!!!” hyperbole grenade, well, check out what the 52-year-old did on the seventh hole during Saturday's final round of PGA Tour Champions season-opener, the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.
https://twitter.com/ChampionsTour/status/1086796795219464192
Come on … say it with us.
You know you want to.
We won’t tell anyone you did.
OK, on the count of three.
1 … 2 … 3 …
“That just might be the greatest break Jerry Kelly has ever gotten … OF ALL-TIME!!!”
It's going to be too little, to..

Phil Mickelson made three long birdie putts on the back nine to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Desert Classic