DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) Lydia Ko was back on top at Lake Merced.

Ko shot a 4-under 68 on a chilly Thursday morning at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship for a share of the first-round lead. Jessica Korda, Caroline Hedwall, In-Kyung Kim and Su Oh joined Ko atop the leaderboard in the LPGA Tour’s return to Lake Merced after a year away.

”This is a golf course where you need to drive the ball well and putt well,” said Ko, the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic winner at the course in 2014 and 2015.

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Ko eagled the par-5 fifth and had four birdies and a bogey. The New Zealander has 14 LPGA Tour wins, the last in July 2016.

”It’s nice to come back to a place where you feel super-welcomed,” Ko said. ”It just brings back a lot of great memories. … My family and friends are here this week, so I’m hoping that I’m going to continue the solid play.”

She turned 21 on Tuesday.

”I don’t think I feel a huge difference, but I know turning 21 is a huge thing in the U.S.,” Ko said,..

DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) Stacy Lewis is expecting her first child.

The 33-year-old LPGA Tour star and husband Gerrod Chadwell announced the pregnancy and Nov. 3 due date in an interview with Golfweek. She plans to play through the Marathon Classic in July and return for a full season next year.

”Golf has never gotten in the way of anything in my personal life,” said Lewis. ”Family is important to me. It’s more important than any golf tournament I’m going to play in. I thought about it a little bit from the golf side, but on the other hand, it’s like what did we want for our family.”

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Lewis opened play Thursday with a 2-over 74 in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship at chilly Lake Merced. The two-time major champion won the Portland Classic last year for her 12th LPGA Tour title.

Chadwell is the women’s golf coach at the University of Houston.

U.S. Solheim Cup teammate Gerina Piller is expecting her first child in a week, and Suzann Pettersen is away from the t..

AVONDALE, La. (AP) Chez Reavie had quite a few good moments at TPC Louisiana on Thursday. So did teammate Lucas Glover.

In best-ball format, the most important thing was those moments came on different holes.

Reavie and Glover teamed to shoot a 12-under 60 for a share of the Zurich Classic lead with China’s Zhang Xinjun and Dou Zecheng.

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”Chez started well and I picked it up in the middle of the back nine,” Glover said. ”He closed it off and then we both played really well on the front. Just kind of ham and egged it, I guess, as they would say.”

Reavie and Glover each had six birdies in the best-ball format, pushing through soggy weather early in the round before conditions cleared at TPC Louisiana. Six teams are two shots back in a tie for third after shooting 62.

”We were just rolling,” Reavie said. ”I think we’re comfortable. We like to laugh and have a good time when we’re playing golf, and it definitely helps.”

Zhang and Dou birdied four of their ..

AVONDALE, La. (AP) Chez Reavie had quite a few good moments at TPC Louisiana on Thursday. So did teammate Lucas Glover.

In best-ball format, the most important thing was those moments came on different holes.

Reavie and Glover teamed to shoot a 12-under 60 for a share of the Zurich Classic lead with China’s Zhang Xinjun and Dou Zecheng.

Article continues below …

”Chez started well and I picked it up in the middle of the back nine,” Glover said. ”He closed it off and then we both played really well on the front. Just kind of ham and egged it, I guess, as they would say.”

Reavie and Glover each had six birdies in the best-ball format, pushing through soggy weather early in the round before conditions cleared at TPC Louisiana. Six teams are two shots back in a tie for third after shooting 62.

”We were just rolling,” Reavie said. ”I think we’re comfortable. We like to laugh and have a good time when we’re playing golf, and it definitely helps.”

Zhang and Dou birdied four of their ..

DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) Lydia Ko was back on top at Lake Merced.

Ko shot a 4-under 68 on a chilly Thursday morning at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship for a share of the lead halfway through the first round. Jessica Korda, Caroline Hedwall and In-Kyung Kim joined Ko atop the leaderboard in the LPGA Tour’s return to Lake Merced after a year away.

The Swinging Skirts LPGA winner at the course in 2014 and 2015, Ko eagled the par-5 fifth and had four birdies and a bogey. The 21-year-old from New Zealand has 14 LPGA Tour wins, the last in July 2016.

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Korda, playing alongside Kim a group ahead of Ko, also eagled the fifth and had four birdies and a bogey. Korda won in Thailand in February in her return from reconstructive jaw surgery.

Hedwall and Kim each had five birdies and a bogey.

Sei Young Kim, Charley Hull and Celine Herbin shot 69.

Michelle Wie had a 74, and ANA Inspiration winner Pernilla Lindberg shot 79.

Inbee Park, Lexi Thompson, Shanshan Feng, Broo..

DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) Lydia Ko was back on top at Lake Merced.

Ko shot a 4-under 68 on a chilly Thursday morning at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship for a share of the first-round lead. Jessica Korda, Caroline Hedwall, In-Kyung Kim and Su Oh joined Ko atop the leaderboard in the LPGA Tour’s return to Lake Merced after a year away.

”This is a golf course where you need to drive the ball well and putt well,” said Ko, the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic winner at the course in 2014 and 2015.

Article continues below …

Ko eagled the par-5 fifth and had four birdies and a bogey. The New Zealander has 14 LPGA Tour wins, the last in July 2016.

”It’s nice to come back to a place where you feel super-welcomed,” Ko said. ”It just brings back a lot of great memories. … My family and friends are here this week, so I’m hoping that I’m going to continue the solid play.”

She turned 21 on Tuesday.

”I don’t think I feel a huge difference, but I know turning 21 is a huge thing in the U.S.,” Ko said,..

TruliaWidely considered the greatest hockey player of all time, Wayne Gretzky is apparently a savant when it comes to real estate as well. At the height of the housing bubble in 2007, the Great One sold his Thousand Oaks (Calif.) mansion to Lenny Dykstra for $18.5 million. Now more than a decade later, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Gretzky bought back the property for $5 million less. That's a pretty sweet profit on a really sweet pad.
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This latest transaction was made possible in large part by Dykstra's well-documented financial struggles. The former MLB All-Star declared bankruptcy shortly after acquiring the house and wound up losing it to foreclosure. Since then, the property has changed hands a couple times, first being scooped up at an auction in 2010 by an investment group.
But now it once again belongs to Gretzky, who according to the Times sold another house in the same neighborh..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Tiger Woods is returning from his post-Masters break at the Wells Fargo Championship next week.

It will be his first time playing at the Quail Hollow Club since he missed the cut in 2012. Woods won the tournament in 2007.

Woods announced Thursday he will be playing consecutive weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship and The Players Championship. It will be the third time since returning from back surgery that he plays back-to-back weeks.

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Woods tied for 32nd at the Masters, failing to break par until the final round.

Since returning from a fourth back surgery, he has missed only one cut in the six tournaments he has played. Woods was runner-up by one shot at the Valspar Championship.

Good news and bad news this week for Miami and fans of ghoulishly oversized Dad-From-Stranger Things eyewear. The good news: Local hero Pitbull is planning a massive 2019 tour. The bad news: Mr. Global Warming Worldwide How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck Biggity Boy Diggity Dog will have a co-headliner. The confounding news: The co-headliner is Tony Robbins, and the two will be … motivational … speaking? Together? Motivationally? Helping us learn the subtle art of not giving a f**k, and awakening the giant within? Ugh, look this shit was not OK when Andrew WK did it, and we liked one of his records. Happily, we at The Loop, having committed ourselves to the intersection of golf and pop-rap self-help, have obtained a transcript from Pitbull’s performance, which we present to you here in its iggity entirety:
WHAT’S UP LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND DALE (wait for applause)!
Thank you, thank you. I am your host, Pitbull (wait for applause), and I am thrilled to include (name of city) on my ..

Here at The Loop, we see unbelievably bad sports tattoos every day. It's just one of the many crosses we bear in our effort to bring you the most random sports content on the internet. For example…
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FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestThat said, we have never seen anything or anyone quite like Maurício dos Anjos, a 33-year-old fan of Brasileirão soccer club Flamenco, who recently got his team's jersey tattooed across his ENTIRE FREAKING TORSO. But don't worry, at least his nipples don't look weird now or anything (just kidding, they look superrrrr weird):
FacebookPinterestRequiring over 32 sessions and 90 hours—plus the sale of a motorcycle to raise funds, because obviously this dude had a motorcycle—the permanent Flamenco home strip was completed over the course of several months, during which time, according to an interview with Vice, dos Anjos had a falling out with the original tattoo artist for one of pr..