YORK, Pa. (AP) A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course.

”I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. ”It was a horrific experience.”

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper.

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At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren’t keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue.

On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped t..

Aurelien Meunier(Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)Life ain't easy for European Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn. The 47-year-old is tasked with righting his team's ship after a blowout loss at Hazeltine in 2016. There's also the inherent pressures of the position, not only due to the exhibition's significance in that part of the globe but the stress in trying to preserve the Europeans' home winning streak (their last defeat on union soil came in 1993). And though Bjorn is blessed with abundant talent, the vast amount of roster options bring their own scrutiny regarding his captain's picks.
Which makes the sacrifice of one Stephen Atkinson all the more admirable.
If you've never heard of Atkinson, well, join the crowd. He appears to be an average bloke who loves the game, evidenced in helming the Babalou Golf Society. Alas, his responsibility to his club, along with the decisive revelation that he's not good at golf, has led Atkinson to humbly..

Got to feel for this kid. He woke up thinking he was going to play golf. He left the course as a meme.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) The longest-running PGA Tour event still played at its original site has a new title sponsor, one already deeply involved in golf.

The PGA Tour and Colonial Country Club announced Monday that financial services provider Charles Schwab & Co. will take over as title sponsor starting in 2019. The four-year agreement goes through 2022.

Local companies are backing the event after upscale grocer Dean and Deluca withdrew as title sponsor after only two tournaments of a six-year deal. The companies include American Airlines, AT&T, XTO Energy and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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Charles Schwab is already a major sponsor on the PGA Tour. On the PGA Tour Champions, for players over 50, the Charles Schwab Cup is awarded to the season’s top player.

Next month’s tournament at Colonial, which has hosted since 1946, will be played as the Fort Worth Invitational.

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Inbee Park of South Korea becomes the new No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking, taking over Shanshan Feng of China.

Steve BabineauBOSTON – NOVEMBER 21: Steve Carlson from the movie Slapshot poses for a photo before the Boston Bruins game at the TD Banknorth Garden on November 21, 2008 in Boston , Massachusetts. (Photo by Steve Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)There aren't as many fights in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as there was in the past. Fighting has declined significantly in hockey since the days when teams often would send enforcers or tough guys onto the ice. Heck, in 1987, the Flyers and Canadiens got in a 15-minute brawl before their playoff Game 6 even started.
Such frequent fighting was well displayed in the classic 1977 comedy, Slap Shot,’ perhaps the best and most memorable hockey movie ever made (Miracle about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is the only challenger). Slap Shot starred Paul Newman as the Charlestown Chiefs player/coach who often encouraged fighting. And the team’s three Hanson brothers—Steve, Jeff and Jack, who all wore dark-rimmed glasses and had long hair—brawled co..

If you're a New York Knicks fan, you probably won't find the below video of Joakim Noah hiking in the woods as entertaining and frightening as us. Just as a reminder, the power forward signed a four-year, $72 million contract in the summer of 2016—one of the many failings of the Phil Jackson regime in the Big Apple.
Considering the fact Noah only played a combined 40 minutes of basketball for the Knicks this year, this Earth Day he posted over the weekend won't amuse many Knicks fans. But the rest of us can be entertained by it.
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First of all, Noah's beard is the obvious place to start here. We can't remember the last time we saw somebody with a blonde beard. But some quick Googling around has revealed that this is an apparent trend in the style world. Forgive us for being behind on the times. We're glad Noah is reading his GQ magazines. We s..

In the event that Nic Cage retires from acting or perishes in a freak T. Rex skull accident without first gracing us with the great glowing glory of National Treasure 3, here's the next best thing: Back in 2010, Forrest Fenn, an 87-year-old Vietnam fighter pilot turned art dealer, hid a literal treasure chest packed with 40 pounds of emeralds, rubies, gold coins, and diamonds deep in Rocky Mountains and turned the search over to wanna-be Indiana Joneses across the country.
Eight years and an estimated 350,000 amateur treasure hunters later, the chest remains hidden, but don't worry, Sherlock Internet is on the case. In 2016, Fenn posted the primary clue—a six-stanza poem entitled “The Thrill of the Chase”—on Instagram. Since then, a subreddit, r/FindingFennsGold, has appeared, and Fenn has begun receiving over 100 emails (and a few death threats) a day. America, however, is no closer to discovering the chest than we were back in the halcyon days of not being a Russian puppet ..

Allow us to introduce you to the unluckiest man in the world. His name is Dylan McWilliams, he lives in Colorado, and he's been bitten by a shark, a bear, and a snake within the past four years. In other words, stay away from this dude, because Mother Nature has a Pikes Peak-sized bullseye on him.
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Then again, Dylan has survived all of of these potentially deadly encounters. Which got him thinking. . .
“I don’t know,” McWilliams told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Friday. “I’m either really lucky or really unlucky.”
Hmm. That's a wise observation belying Dylan's (eventful) 20 years on Earth. What a philosophical quandary!
McWilliams completed this unlikely — and unenviable — wildlife trifecta last week in Hawaii when a shark attacked his leg in Hawaii. Previously, a bear mauled him at a Colorado campsite and a rattlesnake bit him in Utah. It's amazing a gator hasn't gotten him yet. He must nev..

Wearing down an opponent's starting pitcher is always sound strategy, but Brandon Belt took that hitting approach to a level never seen before. The San Francisco first baseman batted second in Sunday's game against the Angels and worked a remarkable 21-pitch at-bat against Jaime Barria before lining out. That's right, 21 pitches in one at-bat. I'm getting a dead arm just thinking about it.
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Although Barria technically won this battle, Belt forced the rookie making his second start to match his age in pitches. Again, in one at bat. One LONG at-bat that was clocked at 12 minutes and 45 seconds, or approximately the time a great marathoner would take to run three miles.
Watch the entire 21-pitch at-bat here in under a minute. Because we know some of you have to work:
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Here's a different visual of this epic encounter that included 16 foul balls:
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