Leading up to Monday night's Home Run Derby, fans and media we're piling on the competition for its lack of star power. While arguably the sport's biggest “star,” Bryce Harper, was in it at his home stadium, the other seven contestants left a little bit to be desired for casual baseball fans. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton both opted to skip the event, as did J.D. Martinez and Jose Ramirez, the two MLB leaders in homers. Mike Trout, the best player in the game, never competes in the event.
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Because of these low expectations, the Derby and its semi-new format pleasantly surprised, as Harper smacked 19 homers to defeat Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber in an epic final round. In other words, it was a great night for baseball and two of its star players, but the real star of the show didn't even swing a bat. That's right, Bryce Harper's dad Ron Harper and his gigantic biceps completely st..
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The Latest: Thomas hopeful holding claret jug won’t jinx him
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) The Latest from the British Open (all times local):
5:15 p.m.
Dustin Johnson won another trophy on Tuesday without even hitting a shot.
Johnson was presented the Mark H. McCormack Award for being No. 1 in the world ranking for the most weeks last year. Johnson reached No. 1 with his victory in the Genesis Open at Riviera on Feb. 19 and kept it the rest of the year.
He is in good shape to win it again in 2018. Johnson already has been No. 1 for all but four weeks that Justin Thomas occupied the top spot.
Johnson still has a long way to go to catch Tiger Woods, who won the award 14 times.
Johnson already has won twice this season on the PGA Tour, at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and FedEx St. Jude Classic.
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4:20 p.m.
Bryson DeChambeau has always done things his own way, including playing clubs that are all the same length and using a protractor to help him read greens.
But when DeChambeau and his caddie started measuring a hill on the green with ..
British Open 2018: What kind of player benefits from Carnoustie’s dry conditions?
The Golf Digest Podcast previews the 147th British Open and discusses which players will benefit from Carnoustie's extremely dry conditions.
The Latest: Rose doesn’t understand poor British Open record
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) The Latest from the British Open (all times local):
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1:45 p.m.
Justin Rose’s best finish at a British Open remains his tie for fourth at Royal Birkdale in 1998, when he was an amateur. He doesn’t understand why.
Rose says ”I’m kind of comfortable with how bad my record’s been here … and I don’t feel like there’s a reason for it either.”
The thing is, Rose feels comfortable playing links golf. He won the Scottish Open in 2014 on a links course at Royal Aberdeen and has done well at the Dunhill Links Championship, played at St. Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie every year on the European Tour.
Rose, the Olympic champion and 2013 U.S. Open winner, is ranked No. 3 and can get to No. 1 for the first time if he wins at Carnoustie this week.
He says ”I’ve really said that I want to get to world No. 1 by winning golf tournaments. There could be opportunities in the next six months – I could get there by finishing seventh somewhere because there’s always permu..
The Latest: Rose doesn’t understand poor British Open record
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) The Latest from the British Open (all times local):
5:15 p.m.
Dustin Johnson won another trophy on Tuesday without even hitting a shot.
Johnson was presented the Mark H. McCormack Award for being No. 1 in the world ranking for the most weeks last year. Johnson reached No. 1 with his victory in the Genesis Open at Riviera on Feb. 19 and kept it the rest of the year.
He is in good shape to win it again in 2018. Johnson already has been No. 1 for all but four weeks that Justin Thomas occupied the top spot.
Johnson still has a long way to go to catch Tiger Woods, who won the award 14 times.
Johnson already has won twice this season on the PGA Tour, at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and FedEx St. Jude Classic.
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4:20 p.m.
Bryson DeChambeau has always done things his own way, including playing clubs that are all the same length and using a protractor to help him read greens.
But when DeChambeau and his caddie started measuring a hill on the green with ..
Scotty Cameron’s new Concept X putters look like a blade but play like a mallet. Here’s how he achieved that
Scotty Cameron has a passion for designing putters for the best players in the game as well as the everyday golfer.
Woods says British Open becomes best shot at a major
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) Tiger Woods doesn’t feel as old at the oldest championship in golf.
Woods is back at the British Open for the first time in three years, and he believes his confidence and his chances of winning are getting better as the year goes on. He missed the last two Opens while recovering from multiple back surgeries.
The three-time champion has missed links golf.
Woods says the British Open offers him his best chance to win because it’s the next one on the calendar. Over time, he also believes it’s his best major because links golf requires as much thinking as raw power possessed by players nearly half his age.
He points to Tom Watson and Greg Norman playing in the final group while in their 50s.
Marcia Chambers, whose Golf Digest series on gender and race discrimination in golf hastened change, has died
Marcia Chambers, whose Golf Digest series on gender and race discrimination in golf hastened change, has died
Jim Nantz: My First Column For Golf Digest, And Why 100 Is In The Air
A century of PGAs, with a few more milestones to come.
Premier League team crushes non-Premier League team 22-0 in preseason warm-up
Christopher FurlongThink about all the countless hours of your life you've dumped into FIFA. What was the worst you ever beat a team? When you cranked down the difficulty and pit Barcelona vs. Shaktar Who Knows Where because you needed to exorcise your earthly insecurities in a safe digital space, what was the final score? Was it 22 – freaking nil? Because that's what Everton hung on poor little ATV Irdning during a preseason friendly this weekend. Viewer discretion is advised:
Now, assuming you can find one, any semi-coherent Premier League fan will tell you that Everton are by no means world-beaters. They're a solid, best-of-the-rest team who rarely venture below 10th or above 7th. Wayne Rooney played for them last year. Maybe you remember Wayne Rooney. But while they may not be making a ton of noise in Champions League year-in, year-out, it turns out the Merseyside side are in fact a hell of a lot better than 5th-tier Austrian competition. Go figure.
Apparently restle..