Full disclosure: I'm a full-fledged Costco nut. I come up with reasons to go there almost every weekend just so I can get a hot dog, a soda, and two frozen yogurts (one for my lucky wife), all for $4.51. Eating out for that little gives me a rush — and yes, I also love the savings buying in bulk brings. Although, we're running out of space in the basement.
As if I needed another reason to love Costco, I recently found out firsthand about their legendary (Read: Extremely lenient) return policy when I brought back a pair of pants my parents got me awhile back. Mom, if you're reading this, there was nothing wrong with the pants, but I'm not a 32 waist anymore. Although, I probably was at the time you bought me this particular pair. Yet, without a receipt or an explanation, I was simply asked if the pants were a gift and boom! I walked away with a gift card for $18.66 (That's four glorious lunches there!) that I used to buy snacks that will sustain me for at least..

Yeah, yeah, this is one of those posts where we say “Rory McIlroy's sick house can be yours for. . .” and then insert some crazy amount of money that we know you don't have. But it's fun to dream, right?
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McIlroy recently purchased Ernie Els' nearby Jupiter pad, according to Golfweek, and now his “old” Palm Beach Gardens spread is officially on the market. For $12.9 million. Hey, if you ever win the FedEx Cup, you're almost there.
The four-time major champ, who married Erica Stoll last year, bought the Palm Beach property for $9.5 million in 2013. The house is listed at 10,577 square feet and features plenty of amenities from a gym to a pool (Sorry, TWO pools) to a putting green that McIlroy doesn't appear to have used much the past couple seasons on the PGA Tour. Here are some photos of the spectacular property, which includes an adjacent empty lot, on Zillow:
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Golf Digest's third biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses is truly global, showcasing brilliant layouts everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam, but not the United States.

An indispensable guide for the global golfer: the best courses in every country in the world.

HONOLULU (AP) The Sony Open is where Justin Thomas broke the PGA Tour’s scoring record, starting with his 59.

And it was that round when Jordan Spieth got a taste of his own medicine.

Thomas and Spieth were paired together for the opening round at Waialae Country Club, and no one celebrated more than Spieth when he watched his longtime friend make eagle on his 18th hole for a 59 .

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But here’s what was so amazing about that round: Spieth actually had better chances.

Spieth was an average of 18 feet, 4 inches on his approach shots, best in the field for the first round. Thomas averaged 25 feet, 7 inches, ranking him seventh. Not only was Spieth closer to him most of the round, at times they were on the same line. On one hole, Spieth had to move his mark for Thomas to putt for birdie (he made), and then Spieth had the same putt from a shorter distance (he missed).

”I was like a stroke-and-half or something better tee-to-green than he was that round, I..

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club has reached an extension to remain the host site of the ShopRite LPGA Classic through 2023.

The agreement was announced Wednesday by Tim Erensen, the tournament’s executive director, and Dr. Harvey Kesselman, the president of Stockton University.

Stockton Seaview has hosted the annual LPGA stop since 1998. The event has been contested in the Atlantic City area since 1986. The course also hosted the 1942 PGA Championship.

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”The Bay Course is one of the LPGA players’ favorite annual stops and Reeds Bay provides one of the most scenic backdrops in all of professional golf,” Erensen said.

Before the start of last year’s event, the LPGA, Wakefern Food Corp, the title sponsor since 1992, and the Eiger Marketing Group, which owns and operates the tournament, announced a five-year sponsorship extension.

In-Kyung Kim held off two-time defending champion Anna Nordqvist to win the event last year..

The Zalay family has a special tradition. It's not a vacation or a restaurant or a movie or a catchphrase (O'DOYLE RULES!). No, no. It's a little bit more involved than that. Since the 1970s, the Zalays, at least to hear Jono Zalay tell it on Twitter, have long enjoyed trolling the DMV—itself a sentient trolljob—in a harmless, albeit hilarious, way: By masquerading as a different, absurd American caricature on each new driver's license photo.
FacebookPinterestAs you probably guessed, that's Jono, whose disguise, no matter the mutton chops or mullet, usually adheres to the Russian-spy-infiltrating-Arkansas-trailer-park mold. For his latest ID shoot, however, Jono wanted to branch out, so he turned to CBGB circa '75 for inspiration.
FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestIn the end, Jono emerged with the most accurate embodiment of his systematic (but mostly aesthetic) undermining of authority he could possibly f..

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Forget about quitting her day job to become a great poker player, Maria Konnikova used her day job to do it. The New Yorker writer and best-selling author is in the midst of writing a book about trying to learn the game at the high-stakes level, but to say she's picked up poker quickly would be putting it mildly.
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On Tuesday, Konnikova won the PCA National Championship in the Bahamas. And this wasn't just some weekly poker game with some friends. The $1,650 buy-in event paid Konnikova a first-place prize of $84,600.
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“I’m thrilled that it happened, and also kind of surprised,” Konnikova says in this video shared by Pokerstars:
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Of course, Konnikova, who has earned more than $116,000 on the tables since announcing her book deal last March, didn't do it all by herself. The book's premise ..

HONOLULU (AP) Jonathan Byrd resisted the urge to pout about his predicament.

A five-time winner on the PGA Tour, he spent 14 years competing against the best on venerable courses while driving courtesy cars from nice hotels in big cities. And then he found himself on the Web.com Tour, the equivalent of golf’s minor leagues, with players he knew nothing about except for their raw talent and extreme power.

They were the future. He was hanging onto the past.

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”I did not want to be a grumpy old tour player who’s saying the whole time, `It’s not like this on the big tour,”’ said Byrd, who turns 40 at the end of the month. ”Because if you go down that road, it’s endless. There’s so many reminders every week that this is not where you want to be. And that’s the internal struggle. I’m not where I want to be. But am I going to embrace the challenge or let it take me down?”

He chose the former, and he believes that attitude allowed him to get back to where he ..