Trinity Forest Golf Club promises to be the PGA Tour's most unique venue when it takes over as the home course for the AT&T Byron Nelson in 2018

Doug Ford, who won 19 times on the PGA Tour, including the 1955 PGA and 1957 Masters, died on Monday at age 95

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Jay Monahan might have been overly ambitious when he said he hoped to have next year’s PGA Tour schedule ready to announce at The Players Championship. The commissioner is not in a big rush, and there remain a few moving parts.

And it goes beyond finding a title sponsor for the Houston Open.

The Houston Open currently is slotted for the week before the U.S. Open next year, and tour officials remain confident it will be on the schedule. The final piece of the puzzle is the section between the U.S. Open and the British Open.

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The John Deere Classic has been held the week before the British Open since 2004, except for in 2016 because of the Olympics.

”Our hope is to keep our traditional date,” tournament director Clair Peterson said.

The PGA Tour wants to wrap up the FedEx Cup playoffs before football season, and not just the start of the NFL. The plan is for the season to end before college football gets started, which means f..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Doug Ford, the oldest surviving Masters champion and a former PGA player of the year, has died. He was 95.

The PGA Tour announced Ford’s death, saying Ford’s family informed the tour that he died Monday night. Details of his death were not immediately available.

Ford was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. He won the 1955 PGA Championship, and then two years later won the Masters when he shot 66 in the final round to rally from a three-shot deficit to Sam Snead.

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Ford was the PGA player of the year that season. He collected the first of his 19 tour victories in 1952, and his last win was in 1963.

He played on the Senior Tour when it began in 1980, and he twice won a division for older players at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover is facing a domestic violence charge stemming from an altercation with Glover and his mother after he missed the 54-hole cut at The Players Championship.

Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and taken to the St. John’s County Jail. She was released the next day after posting $2,500 in bonds.

She faces a May 31 court date on misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery and resisting arrest without violence.

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According to the offense report, Glover and his wife were having an altercation after the third round of The Players Championship, where Glover shot 78. The report said that when his mother, Hershey Glover, tried to intervene, Krista Glover began attacking her.

The arresting officer noticed cuts and blood on the arms and clothing of Glover’s mother. Hershey Glover also told the deputy she had been hit in the chest.

Glover confirmed on Twitter there was an alterca..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover is facing a domestic violence charge stemming from an altercation with Glover and his mother after he missed the 54-hole cut at The Players Championship.

Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and taken to the St. John’s County Jail. She was released the next day after posting $2,500 in bonds.

She faces a May 31 court date on misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery and resisting arrest without violence.

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According to the offense report, Glover and his wife were having an altercation after the third round of The Players Championship, where Glover shot 78. The report said that when his mother, Hershey Glover, tried to intervene, Krista Glover began attacking her.

The arresting officer noticed cuts and blood on the arms and clothing of Glover’s mother. Hershey Glover also told the deputy she had been hit in the chest.

Glover confirmed on Twitter there was an alterca..

As the calendar turns to May, differentiating extended slumps from skill deterioration becomes an integral part of fantasy baseball.

In daily fantasy, price tags often move with performance. Players off to difficult starts will see their prices decline steadily and public interest wane as frustration mounts.

This creates a unique combination of value in both projection and ownership if you can identify those players most likely to rebound.

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One method to identify hitters likely to rebound is to look beyond their base statistics. Low batting averages can be the product of too many strikeouts, lots of weak contact, or both. They can also be the result of poor luck.

The first place to investigate extended slumps for hitters is looking at their ”BABIP,” which stands for Batting Average On Balls In Play. Typically around 30 percent of balls in play fall for hits. Players who deviate substantially from a range of .280-.320 on balls in play are likely to move t..

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Webb Simpson popped the cork on a champagne bottle to celebrate his victory in The Players Championship.

Though not by design, the moment also could have signaled the close of an era.

The Players Championship, which has all the trappings of a major except public recognition as one, ended its 12-year run being played in May. Simpson set or tied four records, one of which drained the former swamp of drama the TPC Sawgrass can deliver in any month.

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He had a seven-shot lead going into the last day, the largest in the tournament’s 45-year history. No one got closer than four shots Sunday. The only other time that happened at The Players was in 1994 when Greg Norman didn’t make a bogey until the 13th hole of the final round and set the scoring record at 24-under 264.

The idea behind moving to May was to give golf a big event every month starting with the Masters in April, to have better weather and more daylight, and to present a ..

National Golf Foundation sees signs of encouragement in latest annual Golf Industry Report, which show modest gains in the overall number of golfers

Maddie MeyerEarlier this season, immediately following the NBA All-Star break, I made a well-informed declaration that LeBron James and the Cavs were the lock of the century as a 5.5-point favorite against the Washington Wizards. The statistics backed it up, and it was a trend that couldn't be ignored. Naturally, the Cavs lost by seven at home, causing me to look like the idiot I am and receive well-deserved jabs on twitter despite a follower count under 300.
Rather than learn from my mistakes, I'm deciding to go down this road once again, because the statistics, and my memory tell me that there is not a chance in hell LeBron is losing in Boston on Tuesday night after that awful showing in game one on Sunday. First, a look at James' numbers following a loss in the postseason courtesy of extremely underrated ESPN play-by-play man Adam Amin:
https://twitter.com/adamamin/status/996401240367075330
I'm not going to get hung up on James' statistics in these games, be..