Golf trip tips, Bubba Watson's Hall of Fame credentials, and Bryson DeChambeau's compass controversy

John Daly let it be known on Twitter that he was not happy when the USGA decided he could not use a cart, as he requested, at this week's U.S. Senior Open

Groom's cakes are awesome. I can still remember the chocolate, golf-themed one my wife got me. I'd give my right pinky toe for a slice of that right now. . . Anyway, one LSU-loving groom recently got exactly the cake that he wanted from his wife — except for one subtle dagger on the mini scoreboard. Check it out:
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Brilliant. Although, with LSU having won the past seven meetings on the gridiron between these two programs, Texas A&M winning — let alone by two touchdowns — was a bit of a stretch. Here's how the wife explained her decision to troll her husband on the biggest day of their lives:
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Hey, be careful what you wish for — especially around a wife who went to a rival school.
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To all beleaguered golfers whose ball inventory can't keep up with their wayward trajectories, RJ Smith is the answer to your prayers.
Smith, a 90-year-old Minnesotan, has been collecting golf balls for 80 years. The “magnificent obsession,” as he calls it, has netted him over 70,000 rocks, which sit in 460 milk crates in his garage. Smith began gathering this ammunition when he was an 11-year-old caddie, and—save for a military stint in World War II—he never stopped. He amasses most of his collection at Northern Hills Golf Course in Rochester, Minn., spending so much time at the property there's a bench in his honor at the third hole.
“My wife always knew where I was at,” Smith told news channel KARE 11. “I wasn't sitting in the bar.”
Smith’s pile includes thousands of logo balls from automakers, colleges and professional sports teams, with the oldest ball from 1917.
And now they could all be yours.
Smith said he was recently diagnosed with cancer, and isn't sure h..

In the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas, put another shrimp on the barbie, because we have yet another batch of kangaroo thunder from Down Under to share with you. Instead of tormenting golf pins and drop kicking cyclists, however, this 'roo took it's unique disruptive abilities to the wild world of Aussie women's soccer, interrupting a match between Canberra FC and Belconnen United to vault a couple fences, play a little goalkeeper, and show off its pace for the scouts. Behold:
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After a delay of about 20 minutes, the kangaroo got bored and took it's skills to greener pastures, like Sochi, where the Socceroos will face off against already eliminated Peru on Tuesday, needing a win (and some help) to advance. If that doesn't sound like a peach of a script for 'Most Valuable Marsupial'—the latest installment in MVP: Most Valuable Primate's proud straight-to-video lineage—then my name isn..

What rule is Bryson DeChambeau breaking by using a compass? An (attempted) explainer into golf's latest controversy.

Nick Kyrgios is the most naturally gifted tennis player on earth right now. Don't @ me:
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Unfortunately for tennis, Nick Kyrgios is also, in the industry parlance, an enormous douche bag. He's a McEnroe manchild with the work ethic of your cat. He breaks rackets just because he's forgotten what it's like to buy them and once told Stan Warwinka that his girlfriend was sleeping with his best friend mid-match. He's obscene and obscenely entertaining, exactly what tennis needs and the worst thing about it, and this weekend he found a creative new way to not really give a shit at the Queen's Club Championship in London:
FacebookPinterestUnsurprisingly, Kyrgios, who would rather self-destruct than actually lose, pulled off this little stunt in the middle of a straight-set loss to Marin Cilic in the semi-final. After a €15,000 fine for the gesture, the full-grown middle-schooler, who can usually be found on the back..

What you know about Ernie Els depends on the circles you travel. You might know him as a four-time major champion and owner of one of the prettiest swings in golf. You could be aware of his remarkable efforts raising money and awareness for autism. Or that he once had a seven-putt at the Masters.
FacebookPinterestBut his penchant for wrestling on airplanes? That's a part of Ernie Els lore that probably won't make his official bio.
For years there's been a story circulating about Els and veteran pro Steve Marino on a flight home from a tournament in Japan in which the two men, both well lubricated, resorted to wrestling in the aisles. The version relayed on a recent Spittin' Chiclets podcast said that Marino accepted the ride on Els' jet unaware of the South African's proclivity for roughing it up after having a few drinks. Then midway through the flight, Els abruptly head-butted him, causing the pilots to intervene, and leaving Marino in a daze the rest of..

Photo by Chris McPhersonROBOGOLFER: Jeffrey Wright at the Oaks Club at Valencia in Southern California. “Westworld,” a show HBO calls a “dark odyssey” about artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, is one of the creepier series on television right now. But actor Jeffrey Wright, who plays the scientist Bernard Lowe, knows reality can be far more sinister than anything you’ll find on stage or screen.
Wright was in the gallery on the 18th hole at Carnoustie Golf Links in 1999, where he witnessed Jean Van de Velde’s epic glitch that cost him the Open Championship. “Golf’s version of the Hindenburg,” Wright calls it. “And then, appropriately, it started to rain. It was just the most miserable, weird, glorious spectacle.”
Wright’s connection to golf’s weird, glorious spectacle runs deep. He started hitting balls at age 4, when his uncle—a scratch golfer—put a cut-down 7-iron in his hands. The club had belonged to Wright’s father, who died when Wright was a year old. As boys, his da..

OK, so maybe there's nothing normal about a four-time MVP, three-time champion, and the greatest NBA player of his generation watching his 13-YEAR-OLD son nearly throw down his first-ever in-game dunk. Most dads only get this excited when their kid gets off the bench and makes a garbage time lay-up in the last game of the season. LeBron James, meanwhile, gets to play proud papa while his kid goes thermo-nuclear on the rim before he's even old enough for a learner's permit. That said, the point—that it's a funny, tender moment between father and son—still stands:
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Twice of the size of his victims opponents while driving to the basket on a fast-break with nothing but hatred for the backboard in his eyes, it's not hard to tell where Bronny's DNA c..