JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) On that rare occasion the national anthem is played in golf, U.S. captain Steve Stricker says his team will stand together at the Presidents Cup.

Stricker said he met with his four assistant captains, and then talked it over with his 12 players on a bus ride to New York on Tuesday for some television appearances. He said there was a quick consensus.

”I just wanted to know what they wanted to do and how we wanted to proceed as a team,” he said. ”So we were going to do what we always do, and that’s take off our hat and put our hands across our chest and over our heart and respect the flag. So that’s what we’re planning on doing.”

His discussions followed a widespread demonstration during NFL games in response to President Donald Trump’s comments that players should stand for the national anthem or be fired. More than 200 NFL players and owners found ways to show dissent by either kneeling, locking arms in solidarity or staying in the locker room while the nat..

The LPGA Tour heads below the equator and then some to the southwestern Pacific island nation of New Zealand for the first time this week for the inaugural McKayson New Zealand Women’s Open.

The tournament begins Thursday at Windross Farm Golf Course in Auckland.

Hometown favorite and former world No. 1 Lydia Ko headlines a field of golfers from 25 different countries who will compete for a purse of $1.3 million at the last of the four new events added to the 2017 LPGA schedule.

Ko has won this event three times and finished runner-up in 2014. Until this season, The New Zealand Women’s Open was formerly part of the Ladies European Tour and the Australian LPGA Tour.

Also in the field is Brittany Lincicome, who won the season opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic when she defeated fellow American Lexi Thompson in a playoff. The world No. 47 has just one other top 10 finish in 2017.

Australian veteran Katherine Kirk, who won the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic in July for her fir..

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A capsule look at the four players being inducted Tuesday into the World Golf Hall of Fame:

DAVIS LOVE III

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 23.

Majors: 1997 PGA Championship.

First victory: 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic.

Last victory: 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Signature moment: The rainbow coming out at Winged Foot as he birdied the final hole of the 1997 PGA Championship.

Notable: The son of a respected club pro who died in a plane crash in 1988, he achieved lifetime status on the PGA Tour with his 20th victory in 2008 at Disney, and then added another victory at the Wyndham Championship when he was 51. He played six times apiece in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup and holed the clinching putt in his Ryder Cup debut in 1993. He was a two-time Ryder Cup captain.

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MEG MALLON

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 18.

Majors: 1991 LPGA Championship, 1991 U.S. Women’s Open, 2000 du Maurier Classic, 2004 U.S. Women’s Open.

First victory: 199..

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) On that rare occasion the national anthem is played in golf, U.S. captain Steve Stricker says his team will stand together at the Presidents Cup.

Stricker says the players talked about what to do on a bus ride into New York on Tuesday for some television appearances. He says they all agreed to handle it the way they always have by standing at attention with their hands over their hearts.

The national anthem typically is played during the opening ceremony, which is Thursday at Liberty National Golf Club. Anthems also are played from the country of each player on the International team.

Stricker’s comments follow a widespread demonstration during NFL games that ranged from kneeling, locking arms in solidarity or remaining in the locker room during the national anthem.

A capsule look at the four players being inducted Tuesday into the World Golf Hall of Fame:

DAVIS LOVE III

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 23.

Majors: 1997 PGA Championship.

First victory: 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic.

Last victory: 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Signature moment: The rainbow coming out at Winged Foot as he birdied the final hole of the 1997 PGA Championship.

Notable: The son of a respected club pro who died in a plane crash in 1988, he achieved lifetime status on the PGA Tour with his 20th victory in 2008 at Disney, and then added another victory at the Wyndham Championship when he was 51. He played six times apiece in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup and holed the clinching putt in his Ryder Cup debut in 1993. He was a two-time Ryder Cup captain.

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MEG MALLON

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 18.

Majors: 1991 LPGA Championship, 1991 U.S. Women’s Open, 2000 du Maurier Classic, 2004 U.S. Women’s Open.

First victory: 199..

A capsule look at the four players being inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame:

DAVIS LOVE III

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 23.

Majors: 1997 PGA Championship.

First victory: 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic.

Last victory: 2015 Wyndham Championship.

Signature moment: The rainbow coming out at Winged Foot as he birdied the final hole of the 1997 PGA Championship.

Notable: The son of a respected club pro who died in a plane crash in 1988, he achieved lifetime status on the PGA Tour with his 20th victory in 2008 at Disney, and then added another victory at the Wyndham Championship when he was 51. He played six times apiece in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup and holed the clinching putt in his Ryder Cup debut in 1993. He was a two-time Ryder Cup captain.

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MEG MALLON

Country: United States.

Worldwide victories: 18.

Majors: 1991 LPGA Championship, 1991 U.S. Women’s Open, 2000 du Maurier Classic, 2004 U.S. Women’s Open.

First victory: 1991 Oldsmo..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we were glad to learn that Justin Thomas also jots down golf goals on his phone. They’re juuuuust a little different than mine:
FacebookPinterestAnd while Thomas’ FedEx Cup title netted him a cool $10 MILLION bonus, the $10 Nassau I lost over the weekend still stings. . . Moving on, there’s an important lesson here for the kids: Jot down your goals. Sure, it might help you achieve them (Other than me making a first hole-in-one, of course). But more importantly, if you ever actually accomplish what you set out to do, then you can really impress people by sharing your prescient list. Anyway, here's what else stood out in the world of golf last week.
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Justin Thomas: JT didn’t win at East Lake, but his runner-up was enough to capture the FedEx Cup and one of the biggest paydays in sports. He also capped a downright historic campaign as he became just the fourth player to win five times and a major in a season before turni..

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If you’re not already familiar with the art of Ken Block, don’t worry, it’s pretty simple: Speeding tickets are his muse, tarmac is his canvas, and smoking rubber is his paint, cast in long, arching smears across Dubai, Hollywood, San Francisco, and, now, Pikes Peak—perhaps the most infamous mountain road on earth.
Boasting 14,115-feet of vertigo-inducing drops and barf bag-bulging hairpins, Pikes Peak is best known for its annual Pikes Peak Hillclimb, which brings some of the most batshit wheelmen on earth to the Colorado cloud-scraper each year, all vying to set the fastest time up the 12.42-mile ascent while hopefully not doing this…
For Block, however, who became a household name (just ask your 18-year-old) thanks to his eight-year, ten-part, 384-MILLION-VIEW Gymkhana stunt-driving series, that’s not crazy enough. Actually it’s not even close. So for the 11th installment of his ongoing viral death wish—appropriately dubbed “Climbkhana”—Block grabbed the shell of an old Mustang, stu..