ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Ernie Els was always the logical choice to be the International team’s next captain in the Presidents Cup.

Tiger Woods at first thought it might be soon for him.

That changed a couple of months ago when Woods asked PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan about the U.S. captain for next year’s matches in Australia, and the usual suspects were mentioned. Monahan asked if anyone had been left out, and Woods added another name to the short list.

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”Me.”

Woods and Els, who both played eight times in the Presidents Cup and were involved in a high-stakes playoff that ended in a tie, were introduced as captains on Tuesday. The 2019 matches will be Dec. 12-15 at Royal Melbourne, the latest the event has been held.

Woods was an assistant captain when the American won for the seventh straight time, 19-11, last year at Liberty National. In early discussions about the next one, Woods said he was more comfortable serving as an assistant.

”But then after ..

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Tiger Woods spoke with sentiment and respect until a twist at the end.

Woods hit safely onto the green during the opening round of the 2010 HSBC Champions in Shanghai, stepped to the side and looked over at Ernie Els shifting his hips to settle that 6-foot-4 frame over his shot.

”You know, I’ve probably been around this guy longer than anyone on tour,” Woods said that day, perhaps reminiscing about his final major as an amateur, the 1996 British Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, when he sought out Els for advice on whether to turn pro.

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”And after all these years,” Woods said with a hint of a smile, ”you still forget just how (expletive) big he is.”

They both are giants for what they’ve done for their sport. Their final act will be as captains of the Presidents Cup in 2019 at Royal Melbourne.

Els speaks as eloquently about Woods as anyone. He is always honest and usually right.

He just couldn’t keep up with Woods, which was no shame…

Kiradech Aphibarnrat climbed to a career-best No. 31 in the Official World Golf Ranking following his win on the Asian Development Tour over the weekend. But this week, he seems much more excited about being in the presence of a man who spent more weeks at No. 1 than anyone.
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Aphibarnrat, also a recent winner on the European Tour, was both a player and a fan at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Tuesday when he got Tiger Woods to sign his visor. And according to PGATour.com's Sean Martin, the Thai golfer proudly showed off the signature of the 14-time major champ around Bay Hill:
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We're guessing Woods didn't have Aphibarnrat return the favor on his Nike cap.
Tiger is an eight-time winner at Bay Hill, but Aphibarnrat is no slouch himself, finishing T-6 in both of his appearances in the tournament. Maybe the third time will be a charm when it comes ..

OK, so we exaggerated just a tad on the price tag. Tiger Woods' ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, has put her North Palm Beach property on the market for a mere $49.5 million. Excuse us, but whatever sneaky real estate trick that's being employed here isn't working. The spread may as well be listed for $50 million, because we're pretty sure whoever winds up buying it isn't the type of person to quibble over a measly 500Gs.
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Anyway, the Wall Street Journal reported the spectacular listing on Monday. And here are some of the eye-popping numbers associated with it:
25,878: Square footage
200: Feet of “direct ocean frontage”
11: Total acres of property
18: Total number of bathrooms (3 are only “half”)
49.5: Again, the price in millions of dollars
1: Number of guest houses that are way better than your real house
Here are a couple photos of the main residence that was custom-built in 2014, courtesy of Lifestyle Produc..

If you thought Super Bowl fever was finally dying down in the great city of Philadelphia, think again. Neither the Process nor the arrival of Jake Arrieta nor whatever the hell the Flyers are doing have been able to jolt the Philly Phaithful out of their collective dream state, and if you don't believe us, well, just check out Eagles offensive tackle Jason Peters' truly, utterly, completely ridiculous new motorized wooly mammoth truck:
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So sure, it looks like the kind of whip they'd give a B-villain in Fast and Furious 300: Spartan Race and probably gets about the same mpg as an aircraft carrier, but we're not gonna knock Jason too hard for this beast. First of all, he has a Super Bowl ring and we most certainly do not, and second of all, it's still a hell of a lot better than this:
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Michael Breed, Golf Digest's Chief Digital Instructor, demonstrates the one move to hit it solid—and beat those muddy lies.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Rod Pampling has played the Arnold Palmer Invitational every year since his rookie season on the PGA Tour, and none of his five victories worldwide was more rewarding than the one in 2006 at Bay Hill and sharing that handshake with the King.

That’s one reason Pampling regrets not being invited back this year.

”I went to champions’ dinners with Arnold Palmer and he always said if you’re an exempt player, as a past champion you’ll get a spot,” Pampling said. ”It was a great event to win and to have your name on that trophy. It’s disappointing not to play.”

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Pampling is not alone.

Chad Campbell also did not get in. He won at Bay Hill in 2004, and even played the first two rounds with Palmer, opening with 66-68 and then meeting the King on the 18th green when he rallied from a four-shot deficit with 12 holes to play.

Tournament director Marci Doyle says Palmer, who died in September 2016, played a big role in exemptions. She says the Arno..

Andy Lyons1. Which tournament team didn’t win a single game this season until 2018?
That would be Texas Southern, who not only remained winless until Jan. 1, 2018, but also went 0-13 to start the season and beat exactly as many non-conference opponents this year as I did. Happily, the Tigers then lit themselves on fire, rolled through the second half and defeated top-seeded Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the championship game of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. (Coach Mike Davis, you may remember, led Indiana to the final game against Maryland in 2002, and people still hated him because he wasn’t a plump red-sweatered choke machine.) The Tigers face off against North Carolina Central in the play-in game to determine who gets knocked around by Xavier.
2. Which team has the most unnerving old-timey medieval religious mascot?
FacebookPinterestMike StobeAdmittedly, the list is long, but we’re settling on Providence, whose mascot is Friar Dom. Since the 1654 season, the Friar has sp..

Hartford Courant(John Woike/Hartford Courant/MCT via Getty Images)John McEntee, aka “Johnny Mac” was fired and escorted from the White House on Monday amid a Homeland Security investigation into his security clearance. McEntee had been President Donald Trump's personal aide, and now joins a long and distinguished list of nearly 40 people that have resigned or been fired from the administration.
McEntee is reportedly joining Trump's re-election campaign. We usually abstain from politics, but given the, ahem, turbulent nature of the past year—did we mention 40 people have quit or been fired?—that could be a short-term endeavor. Luckily for Jonny Mac, he has a nice fallback: trick-shot artistry:
Seriously, who needs politics when you can saw -off Domino's signs with frozen ropes?
We'll go a step further: even though McEntee was a backup at UConn, there's a 94 percent chance he's a better option than whoever the Cleveland Browns end up drafting. Of course, giv..