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Scott McCarron had a one-hop ace on the par-3 14th and closed with a birdie to successfully defend his Shaw Charity Classic title

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesEvery round Tyrrell Hatton plays is an emotional roller coaster, the spirited 26-year-old Englishman unable to hold back his feelings in real time.
You really do wonder if one day the guy’s head is going to literally explode on a golf course, he runs so hot at times. The latest case in point: Sunday’s third round at the Dell Technologies Championship, when we saw plenty more of Hatton’s pyrotechnics on display.
The crazy part of Sunday at TPC Boston was that Hatton shot a two-under 69, which sounds so pedestrian. However, it was hardly uneventful. Consider this front-nine scorecard:
FacebookPinterestThe magic of Hatton’s recently purchased putter from Golf Galaxy continued when he rolled in a 13-footer for birdie on the first and a 17-footer on the fourth, with a tap in birdie after hitting the par-5 second in two. And while he three-putted from 75 feet on the fifth hole, he still made the turn in two under.
On the 10th hole, Hatton had to start to think the g..

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With his stellar second-half play in the national championship game, Tua Tagovailoa ignited a full-blown quarterback controversy at the University of Alabama. Some even believed he showed enough to take the starting job from Jalen Hurts, who had gone 26-2 as the starter prior to being replaced against Georgia. A small part of Hurts must have believed it as well, because rumors began to swirl he was considering transferring.
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The Hurts-Tagovailoa saga became the biggest story of the off season, bleeding well into fall camp, which even caused Hurts to express disappointment in how it was being handled. Head coach Nick Saban did him no favors by stringing him along and continuing to make it known that both he and Tua were competing for the job and that they'd both play in the opener against Louisville, presumably so that Hurts wouldn't transfer.
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