This week's cover of The New Yorker, our corporate cousin a few floors up, features Donald Trump playing golf in a swamp, which appears to say something about the 45th president's time management, if not his driving accuracy. But that was just our initial take, so we reached out to John Cuneo, the cover artist and a regular contributor to Golf Digest, to discuss the genesis of the cover, and what he's learned drawing both Trump and golf—not always at the same time.
So what was the inspiration for the cover?
Unlike most editorial assignments, New Yorker covers are pitched, not assigned. So artists are left to follow instincts and respond to current events. Here I was trying to combine a couple of elements that are associated with the president and make a visual statement that incorporates a point of view with some humor. One tries to avoid being pedantic with this stuff as nothing can kill a joke quicker than somber outrage.
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Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we wound up catching a break by not going to the Players for the first time in eight years. Not that the tournament wasn’t exciting — although Webb Simpson did his best to make it a snoozefest over the weekend — but it kept me from going to Chili’s. And as difficult as it was to see THE STREAK of eating at my favorite Ponte Vedra Beach spot come to an end temporarily halted, at least I’m not affected by the chain’s credit card breach announcement on Monday. No food is worth that kind of financial stress. Well, maybe the cajun chicken pasta. Damn, that's good. . . Anyway, I do feel slightly guilty, though, for convincing/coercing/forcing colleague Chris Powers to go there in my place.
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Better check your bank statements, Chris. And in the meantime, let’s check on everything else that happened at TPC Sawgrass and beyond during a wild week.
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No band in the history of recorded music is screams “SPORTS F—K YEAH” quite like Queen. AC/DC, The White Stripes, and even Neil Diamond deserve their respective nods, but no one—not even the Penny Farthing enthusiasts behind “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”—can lay claim to stadium standards like “We Will Rock You”, “We Are The Champions”, and, umm, “Ogre Fight” (which we're still waiting to break onto UFC playlists across America). Thus it's with ample pyrotechnics and the starting lineups blaring over the PA that we introduce you to Bohemian Rhapsody, the upcoming, Rami Malek-led Freddie Mercury biopic which unveiled its first trailer on Tuesday. DUN, DUN, PSH, DUN, DUN, PSH.
Initial takeaways? Malek, despite looking distractingly like Steven Tyler, seems like a solid choice for the embattled production, which lost both Sacha Baron Cohen and former X-Men director Bryan Singer this fall. While the prospect of watching Borat tackle “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” was certainly ..

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The sports-themed gender reveal is the New Big Thing for prospective pops across Instagram. Golf balls, hockey pucks, alligator watermelons. Doesn't matter. Just stuff those suckers with blue (or pink) chalk and let her (or him) rip. It's fun, it's exciting, it's idiot proof….or at least it was idiot proof. Enter this expecting hoss, who, bedecked in batting gloves, a backwards hat, a fresh pair of Oakley Gascans, and some moisture-wicking urban camo, lined up his dream gender reveal scenario—game 7, bases loaded, 3-2 pitch—took a big, fat, juicy cut, and whiffed so hard he almost came out of his rotator cuffs. CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A GIRL!!!
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But in all seriousness, while this is gut-wrenchingly hilarious to literally everyone else on earth, it is very clearly NOT a joke to this guy. He's been looking forward to this moment for weeks. He found a company that makes gender reveal softballs for like $29.99 a pop and bought one. He t..

CHICAGO (AP) It has been almost a year since Danielle Kang won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, and her life looks pretty much the same.

Kang still has the same friends, everyone from fellow LPGA star Michelle Wie to hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky. She remains active on social media, delighting her Instagram followers with a peek at her life on and off the course. She continues to work on her game.

But there has been one major change for the 25-year-old player since her first LPGA Tour victory.

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”Trying to force a win for the last few years and trying to just get it done, trying to win before my dad passed away, all of that was so hard on me,” Kang said. ”But finally just having that win just gives me this freedom. I can breathe. I feel free from myself. I can just be myself and just play golf like I used to.”

Kang’s father, K.S., died of cancer in 2013. She returned to Chicago on Monday for a promotional event ahead of this summer’s Women’s PGA Ch..

Most of us probably have that buddy who insists on trying to hit a recovery shot when their ball is sitting on the edge of an out-of-bounds line. Most times, it's unsuccessful and usually you scold yourself for not having your phone ready to capture his or her ridiculous attempts. Occasionally we even get to see a tour pro attempt to hit these recovery shots, getting their clothes so dirty where you can barely tell what the real color of their polo is.
Thankfully, Len Mattiace had someone ready to capture video when he decided to hit a bunch of recovery shots from really muddy water on Sunday. We don't get to see tour pros out of their element too often, but in this case, we got to see once actually put himself in the elements, showcasing how to hit an escape shot from the mud.
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