PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — If you've ever attended a golf tournament, you'll quickly realize it can turn into a full day of exercising. Hoofing from hole to hole can become quite the chore, especially when it's hot and every hole is roped off, forcing you to take an even longer route. Next time you're at a tournament and think to complain, put yourself in the shoes of the Leibig brothers, who have attended the last 42 Players Championships. They don't park it in the stands at the 17th. They walk, walk and walk some more.
“We come all four rounds every year, we’ve not missed a round,” said George, 70. “We get here, we see the first tee shot probably, I would say 90-percent of the time the last 20 years.”
George and Joe, who said he was 29 but his brother corrected him and upped that to 61, were born in Somerville, NJ. George came to Florida in 1972 for his job at Prudential and has been here ever since, while Joe moved back to West Milford, NJ after living in Jac..

Follow along with the Golf Digest crew as Tiger Woods plays his first round at the 2018 Players Championship.

Remember when Phil Mickelson showed up to a Masters practice round rocking a checkered, button-down dress shirt? Well, apparently, it wasn't because Phil's polos had gotten lost in transit. On Thursday, menswear brand Mizzen+Main announced a partnership with the five-time major champ that will have Mickelson looking more formal at future tournaments.
“I was waiting to find the perfect apparel partner that allowed me to move from the board room to the golf course,” Mickelson says in a press release. Of course you were, Phil. Of course you were.
As part of the deal, Mickelson now owns a stake in the company. He will begin wearing Mizzen+Main at this week's Players Championship, and we're guessing Mizzen+Main are pretty pumped about their guy's Thursday-Friday pairing with Tiger Woods.
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“A big part of why I’m so thrilled to partner with them is I know all my endorsement partners and the thousands of professionals t..

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) The LPGA Tour has an official team event for the first time in its 69-year history.

The Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational starts next year, a 72-hole event at Midland Country Club in Michigan that will feature foursomes and fourballs. Still to be determined are how the two-player teams are formed.

It will be held July 17-20 in 2019 and offer a $2 million purse. The sponsorship deal with The Dow Chemical Company is five years.

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The format is similar to the Zurich Classic in New Orleans on the PGA Tour. LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan says ”players and fans have consistently asked about a team event.”

The LPGA Tour, founded in 1950, has had several unofficial team events, starting with the Hot Springs 4-Ball Invitational in the late 1950s.

Milan Hejduk scored 375 goals and won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche, which is apparently good enough to live slightly above the poverty line. Here's the house he is selling for $5.2 million in the Denver suburbs.
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FacebookPinterestIt has all the standard trappings of the modern mansion — six bedrooms, walk-in closets, blah, blah . . .wait, did we mention the ice rink? It's in their house! Like, if you couldn't sleep, you could just go downstairs and wheel around on the ice for a few hours. Then again, if you scored 375 goals in the NHL and now have an ice rink at your house, you probably sleep fine because life seems to be working out pretty well.
FacebookPinterestAccording to the Denver Post, Hejduk is selling the house because his twin 14-year-old sons are likely to be leaving home soon to play junior hockey, and because the home rink for their current team, the Colorado Thunderbirds, is a bit of a schlep. “It's..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Ian Poulter has his eye on a cup in September, and it’s the one that doesn’t pay a dime.

Poulter certainly cares about the FedEx Cup, which starts with getting to the Tour Championship for a shot at the $10 million bonus. But he’ll be spending most of his summer at home in England playing on the European Tour, which will cost him in the FedEx Cup.

What matters is playing in the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2014. The Ryder Cup is the last week of September in France.

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”There’s an event late September which means a lot to me, and obviously I’m going to want to put myself in that position,” Poulter said. ”I’m going to base myself in Europe for the summer. I’ll come back and play U.S. Open, and I want to stay in that top 30, and I want to move up. But I’m not looking at it that I have to do it. I’ve put too much emphasis on that in the past trying to make push-and-runs to get in.”

It’s easy for Poulter to say it’s not impor..

Almost two months to the day after an overturned truck spilling 60,000 pounds of Busch beer on a Florida highway, Poland had its own odd massive mess when a tanker carrying 12 tons of liquid chocolate toppled over. Yep, that's 12 TONS of liquid chocolate. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
But those stuck in this glorious brown goo weren't thrilled. All four lanes of a major road connecting Warsaw and Poznan were closed, causing major delays. But boy, the entire area must have smelled fantastic.
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“We have to remove the truck from the highway first,” Marlena Kukawka, a media officer for the police in the small town of Slupca, told the New York Times. “It will take a few hours or more.”
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And they also had to remove the chocolate. Kukawka said firefighters sprayed hot water to melt away this liquid gold. Tragic. A bulldozer was also us..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Rory McIlroy didn’t break par until his fourth time at The Players Championship.

The next step is having a chance on Sunday.

The four-time major champion has learned to love the TPC Sawgrass – ”learned to like,” he quickly clarified with a smile – and he has taken small steps toward contention. The Stadium Course has a history of not favoring any one style of play, and the list of winners at the PGA Tour’s premier event illustrates that, going from Greg Norman to Lee Janzen, from Tiger Woods to Craig Perks, from Henrik Stenson to Tim Clark.

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”I felt like it handcuffed me,” McIlroy said. ”I felt like I was just being stubborn, trying to hit driver where there’s no point in hitting drive. So I’ve learned to take it for what it is – a very positional golf course.”

Attitude is everything in golf, especially on this Pete Dye-designed course created on land that used to be a swamp.

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Mike EhrmannPONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL – MAY 09: Joe LaCava, caddie for Tiger Woods of the United States (not pictured), plays a shot during practice rounds prior to THE PLAYERS Championship on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on May 9, 2018 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Spend some time watching pros hit in to the par-3 17th at TPC Sawgrass during a Wednesday practice round and you won’t see anything that exciting, save for an ace. We get it, it’s an island green, there’s water around it, big deal. For the world’s best, it’s a little pitching wedge, maybe a 9-iron if it’s windy. Rory McIlroy was practically shaking in his boots over it during his press conference.
“I've always said, you put a bunch of grass around that hole and it's the easiest par-3 in the world,” said McIlroy. “You just have to make sure you get the wind right.”
Not exactly the 280-yard par-3 eighth at Oakmont we’re talking about here. Take your 3 ..

Michael Hickey(Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)Remember when the New York Mets were the best team in baseball, starting out 11-1 this spring? They had a renewed energy in the clubhouse, a formidable lineup, arms were finally healthy…so much for that. The Mets have gone 7-15 since that hot start, with the bats coming back to earth, the arms now ice cold and injured, and Matt Harvey, the former face of the franchise, no longer on the team.
But if you think the club has hit rock bottom, then clearly you're not a Mets fan. Because being a Mets fan is resigning yourself to a fate of unending sadness, knowing that whatever woes encountered today will be topped by tomorrow's embarrassment. Such as this snafu in Cincinnati, where the Mets—an alleged professional baseball team—batted out of order.
In the FIRST INNING.
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After opening with back-to-back outs, Asdrubal Cabrera recorded a double, giving Jay Bruce a chance to put the..