COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Adam Scott and Russell Knox were among those who made it through 36 holes of U.S. Open qualifying. The next order of business was to call the FedEx St. Jude classic and express their regrets.

Perhaps no alternate list is more volatile than the PGA Tour event the week of U.S. Open qualifying.

Scott’s decision was easy. He had played five consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour before his qualifier. To play in Memphis, Tennessee, ahead of the U.S. Open would have meant seven straight weeks.

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That’s one reason Scott opted for a qualifier instead of trying to crack the top 60 after this week.

Ten players have withdrawn from Memphis, four of whom made it through qualifying – Scott, Knox, Patrick Rodgers and Ollie Schniederjans.

In turn, that has had an effect on the overall strength of field, which is likely to reduce the world ranking points to 36 for the winner. Only the AT&T Byron Nelson has offered fewer ranking points to the winner this ye..

We all have inanimate objects we've assigned way too much meaning and/or importance. Maybe it's that lucky putter, the '91 Corolla you lost your virginity in, or the guitar you first learned to play “Wonderwall” on. But for Dave Svorking, fellow emotional investor in material goods, it's a drone. Dave likes piloting his drone, Dave likes shooting videos on his drone, and, on warm summer evenings, Dave even likes splitting a nice bottle of California red with his drone. Thus, when Dave's drone battery began to die while shooting over a lake, Dave did what any totally irrational man-child would do to save his favorite irrational man-child toy: He sprinted past an onlooking family, leaped into the water fully clothed, and swam like Phelps…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Two players began U.S. Open qualifying by posting a 1-over 73, greatly increasing their odds of seeing Shinnecock Hills only on TV. They were tied for 61st in a sectional qualifier that offered only 14 spots.

Vijay Singh decided to call it a day.

He didn’t show up for the second round, perhaps because he didn’t have his game or the energy. Singh is 55, a three-time major champion and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. He played his first U.S. Open a month before Jordan Spieth was born. He played his last one in 2012, when Spieth was the low amateur.

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Michael Putnam thought about joining Singh.

”Horrible,” he said about his opening round Monday.

Putnam has played enough qualifiers to know that anything worse than 2 under at Brookside usually doesn’t get it done. The 35-year-old from Tacoma, Washington, thought about getting an early start on the road to Chicago for this week’s Web.com Tour event. Instead, he drove 20 minutes to Th..

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Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we have a couple great ideas for a Sci-Fi movie. The first involves the best golfer of all time being broken down and put back together, returning to near top form, but then suddenly having his greatest skill taken away. Actually, that’s really a more of a horror film. . . Prefer something a bit more uplifting? Well, there’s also the one about a budding scientist building a golf swing — and special golf clubs — in a lab and then becoming one of the best players in the world. Sounds pretty cool, right? Yeah, let’s go with that storyline. And for some reason, we're feeling like a young Chris O’Donnell would be perfect to cast in the lead role. . .
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Lachlan CunninghamIf you like rebounds and headshots, boy do we have good news for you. According to Collider, the Clippers' 7', 3″Serbian center Boban Marjanović has officially been cast in John Wick: Chapter 3, because apparently living in LA will turn anyone into a star. The third installment in Keanu Reeves's gleefully graphic shoot-em-up about a hitman with a heart of gold who gets dragged back into the life he left behind when the guy who plays Reek on Game of Thrones kills his really adorable puppy, John Wick: Chapter 3 also stars Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Common, and Halle Berry, none of whom, despite their collective 9,000 years of acting experience, look as much as like Jaws as Boban.
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