Professional golf is a game of anger, which sometimes isn't that bad a thing

Roxana Gonzalez / EyeEmFive blends of weed that certain staff members would like to sample.
Kikuyu Kush
This thick-rooted cross-strain keeps you motivated during mundane tasks, like practicing bump-and-run chips.
Myrtle Haze
A member of the sativa family, it opens a balloon of creativity inside your head. rescue shots once regarded as impossible will feel destined.
Royal Stinger
The genomes of this purple-haired prince can be traced to merry England. Great relief for seizures, muscle spasms and swing changes.
Stimpanzee
Brimming with THC, this hybrid offers blissful and uplifting effects. It’s known to compromise coordination, so don’t be shocked when you putt like a monkey.
Cypress Joint
This highly palatable indica is famous for buds that resemble the namesake tree. Reduces anxiety in unfamiliar foursomes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Inbee Park’s flirtation with retirement is in the rear-view mirror.

Backed by a large contingent of South Korean fans, Park shot a 5-under 66 for a one-shot lead Thursday in the opening round of the HUGEL-JTBC LA Open in the LPGA Tour’s return to Los Angeles after a 13-year absence.

Showers ended shortly before Park’s threesome, including second-ranked Lexi Thompson, teed off at windy Wilshire Country Club just south of Hollywood.

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Using a new putter, Park birdied four consecutive holes on the back nine before a bogey on the par-4 17th. She quickly recovered and rolled in birdie putts on the second and fifth holes to finish off her round.

”I never played a tournament outside Korea having this much Korean supporters out,” Park said. ”I almost feel like I’m playing back home. It’s almost like a little Korea.”

That applies to the food, too, with nearby Koreatown’s restaurants beckoning.

”Too many,” Park said.

The third-ranked Park banish..

SAN ANTONIO (AP) Grayson Murray fixed a flaw in his swing and hit the ball well enough that blustery conditions weren’t an issue for him Thursday in the Valero Texas Open.

Coming off a missed cut at Hilton Head last week, Murray made seven birdies for a 5-under 67 and a one-shot lead. His only mistake was a double bogey from a greenside bunker on the par-3 seventh hole.

”Just the fact I did give myself enough opportunities today for birdie, it took a lot of pressure off,” Murray said.

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Of the five players at 68, only Chesson Hadley played in the morning side of the draw, and he called it among his best rounds of the year because of gusts. The wind died in the afternoon and scoring improved slightly on the AT&T Oaks Course at the TPC San Antonio. Keegan Bradley, Ryan Moore, Billy Horschel and Matt Atkins each posted 68. Horschel and Moore played bogey-free.

”Struck the ball really well, something that we’ve been working hard on,” Horschel said. ”Could hav..

RIDGEDALE, Mo. (AP) Jeff Maggert and Jesper Parnevik shot an 8-under 63 in better-ball play Thursday to take the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ chilly Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf.

”It was very relaxing for me because I felt like terrible,” Parnevik said. ”I was so stiff this morning. It was freezing cold. I thought if I can just try to make some pars in case he ever makes a bogey, but I didn’t even have to do that.”

Playing together for the first time in the team event, Maggert and Parnevik eagled the par-5 eighth and had six birdies in the cool and breezy conditions on Big Cedar Lodge’s Buffalo Ridge course.

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”We play well together,” Maggert said. ”We both contributed a lot. Jesper had a lot of birdies and an eagle on our final nine. It was so cold this morning, I just was going to come out and just try to hit fairways and greens. Really I wasn’t thinking about making birdies, I was just trying to play steady and give myself an opportunit..

RABAT, Morocco (AP) Bradley Dredge reeled off three birdies in his last five holes to share the lead with Alvaro Quiros after the opening round of the European Tour’s Trophee Hassan II event Thursday.

Quiros finished with two straight birdies as the big-hitting Spaniard joined Welshman Dredge on 5-under-par 67.

Dredge, who made seven birdies in all, has won twice before but his last triumph came in 2006. Quiros, who has claimed seven victories, last won at the Rocco Forte Open in Sicily last year.

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The joint leaders have a one-shot advantage over Oliver Fisher, Joakim Lagergren, Erik Van Rooyen and Lorenzo Gagli at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam course.

Former U.S. Masters champion Danny Willett, without a win since his victory at Augusta two years ago, opened with a 1-over 73.

FacebookPinterestBettmannJerry Barber holing a putt during the 1961 PGA Championship that he won at Olympia Fields Country Club. (Getty Images)

Course records aren’t necessarily important, but they can provide amusement, to wit Phil Mickelson reliably resorting to gamesmanship to keep brother Tim from breaking one of his course records.
Or Tiger Woods, who still holds four course records in Southern California, one of which will never be broken. He shot a 63 at Cypress Golf Club, a public course in Los Alamitos that no longer is there. He also has course records at Big Canyon Country Club in Newport Beach (a 61), Hacienda Golf Club in La Habra Heights (a 62) and Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, a 62.
This brings us to Wilshire Country Club, site of the new LPGA event, the HUGEL-JTBC LA Open, this week. Its course record of 61 has stood for more than 50 years.
Bu what’s interesting about it is less its endurance than the two men who share it, one of them a member of the Internat..

Changes to the Old Course at St. Andrews that started in the last two decades have become more glaring in recent years, raising questions about the Home of Golf

Jim McIsaac(Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)Got to give it up for the New York Knicks. The playoffs are only two games deep, but somehow they've already ruined next season.
How else can you synthesize the following items that have stumbled out of their unfulfillable bag of sadness this week?
— Franchise cornerstone Kristaps Porzingis—the first homegrown, under-25 superstar the team's had in three decades—may miss all of next year. Owner and adult-only jazz club aficionado James Dolan said Wednesday the forward might not return in 2018-19 as he rehabs from tearing his ACL in February.
— The Knicks fired Jeff Hornacek last Thursday night at 2:00 a.m. in a Westchester County Airport conference room. Hornacek won only 60 games in his two seasons at the Knicks helm, but not sure Red Auerbach could have broken .500 with this roster. He was the 11th coach in the last 16 seasons for the Knicks.
— The team also fired Kurt Rambis. Frankly, we're okay with this. If he wasn&#03..

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Weed Balls and Tees
FacebookPinterestOK, so we should clarify these aren’t tees or balls made from weed, but rather for indulging in it. Stash your supply in the Puffingtons 2 tour ball and then smoke it from the covert tee pipe. Meanwhile, ignore the binocular gaze o..