Stan BadzStan BadzA chance to see Charles Barkley's swing up-close? An opportunity perhaps equal parts entertaining and horrifying, but nonetheless, how many golfers get to say they teed it up with Sir Charles himself?
That chance is being offered through an auction by Charitybuzz, the site that hosts a bunch of charitable donations, and a campaign called Curates: Golf, presented by Audemars Piquet. Currently, the bid for a round of golf with Barkley is at $23,600, which includes a round of golf at either Druid Hills Golf Club or Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, Ga., or The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale. The winning bid is guaranteed three spots in a foursome with Barkley before May 2019.
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If you're the winner, just remember not to stand anywhere close to Barkley when he's addressing the ball. Who knows where The Round Mound of Rebound's shots will end up ..

DALLAS (AP) Jordan Spieth didn’t try to sell his peers on joining him at a new links-style course for the 50th anniversary of his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson tournament.

The three-time major winner says he was honest when asked over the past year about the undulating layout, with no trees or water hazards, on what used to be a landfill a few miles south of downtown Dallas.

The fields weren’t great the past decade at the TPC Four Seasons resort in suburban Irving, the tournament’s home for 35 years. The return to Dallas at Trinity Forest Golf Club, named for the 6,000 acres of thick trees surrounding the course, didn’t do much to change that, at least for now.

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”The most common question is, `What’s it like?”’ Spieth said. ”Pretty vague question but, you know, I say it’s very different. These are my words: It’s really fun as a member, as a change-of-pace kind of golf club.”

Spieth (No. 3) and ninth-ranked Hideki Matsuyama, making his Nelson debut Thursday, ..

FacebookPinterestMario TamaGoflers continue to play as an ash plume rises in the distance from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday. . (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

It was golf, as usual, more or less, on Wednesday at the Volcano Golf & Country Club, scene of a harrowing photo (above) of golfers playing on while a massive plume of ash from the Kilauea volcano appeared to be adjacent to the course.
The Getty Images photo was taken by Mario Tama on Tuesday and went viral on Twitter on Wednesday morning. A Golf Channel Tweet with the photo noted that, “Golfers, we're crazy.”
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However, the plume of ash posed no threat to the golfers or the interlopers who drove to the course to get a closer look.
“We’re about two miles from the crater itself,” Ken Yoshitomi, who was working in the golf shop, said Wednesday morning. “But as long as the tradewinds are blowing southwest we’re fine. It does look close [in..

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The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover made the first call to 911 and claimed she was attacked by her mother-in-law, according to a tape of the call released Wednesday that provided another bizarre twist in the wife’s arrest on a domestic violence charge.

Glover answered when the St. John’s Sheriff’s Office in Florida called back and said his wife was lying.

”Yeah, hi, I think we got our lines crossed here. This is the husband, the sane one of the bunch,” Glover says in a calm voice. ”My wife has called you. … Now she’s trying to blame it on my mother, which is not the case at all. … My wife has gone crazy.”

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Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and taken to the St. John’s County jail. She was released Sunday on a $2,500 bond and faces misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery and resisting arrest without violence. She has a May 31 court date.

According to the arrest report , Glover told the deputy that his wife yells at him, stat..

Following a grueling, years-long battle with intergalactic warlord Thanos and still mourning the vaporization of exactly half of his closet friends and co-workers, actual historic figure Steve Rogers—AKA Captain America—was in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to watch as his shield was officially welcomed into The National Museum of American History.
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A beacon of hope during the Battle of New York (look it up, kids) and the grisly days following the Sokovia disaster, the shield joins other priceless pieces of Americana—such as Elvis's UFO, Bigfoot's skeleton, and eating utensils carved out of coconuts from what is believed to be Tupac's former private island—in the museum's Division of Culture and the Arts wing. Smithsonian officials note that while the shield is not currently on display, those who would like to pay their respects should begin planning in advance, as hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to descend upon the capital to pay..

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Chris JacksonIn case you haven't heard or have simply, mercifully blacked it out, there's a Royal Wedding happening this week. On Saturday, Suits “star” Meghan Markle will marry Prince Harry while the imaginations of the world's least imaginative people spiral down into the deepest, darkest tabloid wormholes.
It will be only the second time an American (and divorcée) has married into the Royal Family, it will cost somewhere in the realm of $43 million dollars, and the father of the bride—an everyman who celebrated his daughter's engagement by picking up some beer and cigarettes—wasn't invited, but of all the scandalous stories oozing out of Buckingham Palace, our favorite belongs unquestionably to KFC UK. To celebrate the occasion and presumably rebuild some goodwill following a chicken shortage at their chicken restaurant earlier this year, the southern icon put on their Sunday best and launched a special, limited-edition chicken bucket for the hotly anticipat..

Boston GlobeWe here at The Loop/Golf Digest love J.R. Smith. Not only is he arguably the world's most avid celebrity golfer, he might love the game we love more than anyone on this planet. But putting our bias for the Cavaliers' swingman aside, Tuesday night was not Smith's finest hour.
For starters, Smith didn't score a single point in the Cavs' loss to the Celtics in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, missing all seven of his shots. Not good. But even worse, he let his frustration get the best of him late in the game by committing a dirty foul on Celtics star Al Horford in the closing minutes, dangerously shoving the center from behind while he went up for an alley-oop. Here's a look:
Not surprisingly, the Celtics, particularly Marcus Smart, were not pleased. A minor skirmish broke out and Smith was assessed a Flagrant 1, which probably should have been a Flagrant 2 and an ejection. And Horford's sister, Anna, didn't hold back on Twitter:..

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