MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 88.

Thomson had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for more than four years and died at his Melbourne home surrounded by family members on Wednesday morning.

Born on Aug, 23, 1929, Thomson was two months short of his 89th birthday.

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The first Australian to win the British Open, Thomson went on to secure the title five times between 1954 and 1965, a record equaled only by American Tom Watson.

On the American senior circuit he won nine times in 1985.

Thomson also served as president of the Australian PGA for 32 years, designing and building courses in Australia and around the world, helping establish the Asian Tour and working behind the scenes for the Odyssey House drug rehabilitation organization where he was chairman for five years.

He also wrote for newspapers and magazines for more than 60 years and was patron of the Australian Go..

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Golf Australia says five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson has died at the age of 88.

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It's been a pretty great World Cup so far, with wonder goals, surprising upsets, and just enough controversy keeping things interesting game after game after game after game (after game after game after game…). The true stars of the tournament have emerged off the pitch, however, first with the unofficial abuela of Mexico and now with Polish Mullet Kid, who rolled up to Poland's Group H showdown with Senegal on Tuesday rocking some flow for the ages:
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Soon after the unveiling of that all-night party in-the-back, Senegal's coach Aliou Cissé logged his own submission for “Viral World Cup Moment of the Day” with this incredible interpretation of a fist pump, but while the Lions of Teranga topped Poland 2-1 on the field, Cissé's celebration was only good enough for a draw here in the Twitterverse:
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Mike PontThe last time we heard from Paige Spiranac, the social media star was gracing the pages of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit edition, cobra stretching her way into the hearts of subscribers everywhere. Last week, she may have earned an even more coveted spot in the magazine industry, as she was selected to be on the Maxim Hot 100 List.
Admittedly, I have no clue if that's true, but it sounds like a pretty big deal. It really sounds like a big deal when you see how the list is broken down into categories, and which women are in each one. Paige was placed in the “Power Players” category, one that features women that “aren't just entertaining us, they're power players in business and government, pro sports and even newly-crowned royalty.” Spiranac was one of eight in this group that included both Melania and Ivanka Trump, Kim Kardashian, and the newly married Meghan Markle, who now goes by the Duchess of Sussex apparently.
However you feel about any of those names..

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) If the aim of the U.S. Open is to identify the best player, then the last three got it right.

The problem is a tendency to remember what went wrong.

The lasting image from Shinnecock Hills was Phil Mickelson, now 0 for 27 in the U.S. Open, hitting his putt too hard on the 13th hole Saturday. He moved as swiftly as his 48-year-old legs would allow and swatted the ball back toward the hole while it was still rolling. It was a shocking scene to everyone but Mickelson, who said he meant no disrespect to the game by intentionally violating a rule to either save shots or save a long walk to wherever his ball might have stopped.

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Brooks Koepka, meanwhile, delivered a classic U.S. Open performance with discipline, grit and clutch putting. He effectively won by getting up-and-down three times in a four-hole stretch, one of them for bogey, the last one a par on the 14th hole when he first had to get his ball back in play from thick, shin-high..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we’re impressed with Brooks Koepka’s ability to stay focused on his job, even under the utmost pressure. And amazed by his knack for finding the just right moment to make a statement. And that’s just his product placement game:
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So smooth. Oh yeah, Brooks' golf game is pretty good, too, as evidenced by him picking up a second major title. And as we pick up a Michelob Ultra in Brooks’ honor (This is an Ultra-good sponsorship opportunity, guys!), let’s discuss an extra-wild U.S. Open week.
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Brooks Koepka: Jeez, this guy's career has taken off after witnessing this shot by me last year, huh?
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Brooks made it back-to-back national titles at Shinnecock and answered any silly questions about whether he has the game to win a “true” U.S. Open because he suffered and gritted his way to a win at one over this year. And it was nice for his girlfriend, J..

Patrick SmithLast week, a bombshell report from the Ottawa Citizen revealed that Melinda Karlsson, wife of Senators star defenseman Erik Karlsson, had filed an order of protection against the fiancee of one of Karlsson's teammates, forward Mike Hoffman. The allegations were that Hoffman's fiancee Monika Caryk had been cyberbullying the Karlsson's for an entire year, including posting over 1,000 negative and derogatory statements toward the Karlsson's.
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According to Karlsson's allegations, some of those statements included “wishing my unborn child dead,” and that Caryk also wished Melinda were dead and “someone should 'take out' my husband's legs to 'end his career.'” The Karlssons' first child, a son named Axel, was was stillborn on March 19, 2018.
Hoffman and Caryk immediately denied the allegatons, saying “there's a 150-percent chance” that..

Chuck, Shaq, Kenny, and Ernie are one just about the only redeemable thing happening on sports TV at the moment. As ESPN continues to slash on-air jobs like Ghostface on a bender and Fox imbues their 360-degree coverage of the World Cup with all the enthusiasm of a eulogy for someone they can't pronounce the name of, TNT's NBA Tonight crew has managed to keep their brand of irreverent hi-jinx refreshing, even if it does usually just devolve into Shaq and Chuck threatening physical harm upon each other's bloated carcasses (their words, not our's). Thus when we saw the quartet on a recent episode of another TV institution, Family Feud, we knew we were in for a truly batshit treat.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Curtis Strange has some advice for Brooks Koepka ahead of next year’s U.S. Open: Study up on Willie Anderson.

Koepka’s one-shot victory at Shinnecock Hills made him the first back-to-back U.S. Open champion in 29 years, dating to Strange winning his second in a row in 1989. Strange was the first player in 38 years to win consecutive U.S. Opens since Ben Hogan in 1951.

”Nobody wrote about it,” Strange said about his title defense going into Oak Hill. ”I didn’t think about repeating. I never went to a tournament thinking I was going to win. I went to a tournament thinking I was going to play well. When you’re not Tiger Woods-caliber, it’s presumptuous to stand on the first tee thinking about winning.”

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But when he arrived at Medinah in 1990 with a shot at three in a row, Strange couldn’t escape the attention.

”I wasn’t confident or cocky or arrogant, but I believed I might have a chance,” Strange said. ”You can’t help but think becau..

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has been doing a bang-up job on the viral marketing front. First, Chris Pratt went and got single, then Jeff Goldblum announced a sultry lounge jazz odyssey, and now Dr. Jack Horner, the celebrated paleontologist who has served as the scientific consultant on all four Jurassic Park films, has claimed that human beings could be reviving actual dinosaurs in as little as five years if the species is indeed dumb enough (which we almost certainly are).
FacebookPinterestHorner, who was also the basis for Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III's Dr. Alan Grant, says that while it's not as simple as extracting that ol' dino DNA from mosquitos, his new hypothesis isn't exactly complicated: Reverse engineer birds—the modern descendant of dinosaurs, of course—to redevelop their originally physiology, including snouts for eating, long legs for hunting, and claws that'll open up your abdomen like it's a Jell-O mold. If that's not terrif..