Stuart FranklinJordan Spieth celebrates an eagle on the 15th hole during the final round of the 146th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.Jordan Spieth's win at Royal Birkdale not only provided the Open Championship one of its most compelling finishes, it also injected new life into the season's final major, the PGA Championship at Charlotte, N.C.'s Quail Hollow Club.
Now Spieth has a chance to capture the career Grand Slam, something only five men — Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods — have done before. When a 24-year-old Woods won the last leg of his Slam, the 2000 Open Championship at St. Andrews, he became the youngest player to do so. Spieth's win would actually come even earlier, having turned 24 just last week, but it still doesn't settle the question of which feat would be more impressive. On one hand, Spieth would be earlier in his career, and in the age of excessive social media attention and arguably more competiti..

FacebookPinterestMatthew LewisI.K. Kim of South Korea hits her second shot on the fourth hole during the second round of the Ricoh Women's British Open at Kingsbarns Golf Links. (Photo by Matthew Lewis/Getty Images)

Performing something akin to miracles in at-times biblical downpours, I.K. Kim leads the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns. The 29-year old South Korean – twice a winner on the LPGA since the start of June – added a second 68 to her opening 65 to reach 11-under par, two-shots clear of world No. 2 Lexi Thompson and England’s Georgia Hall.
Trudging through the worst of the conditions towards the end of a day even the hardiest of Scots might mistake for winter rather than summer, Kim played some beautifully steady golf. Only once did she drop a shot, three birdies and an eagle at the 538-yard par-5 11th more than compensating.
“The eagle was very unexpected,” she said while sipping on what had to have been a welcome hot coffee. “I think this was kind of as bad as ..

FacebookPinterestDavid CannonLexi Thompson hits her second shot on the 16th hole during the second round of the Ricoh Women's British Open at Kingsbarns Golf Links. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)

For Lexi Thompson, the second round of the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns was, in Scottish football (soccer) terminology, “a game of two halves.” Out in a disappointing two-over par 38, the world-number two raced home in 30 blows to reach nine-under par for 36-holes and is tied for second at the half-way mark, two behind leader I.K. Kim of South Korea.
The long-hitting Floridian also found time to introduce a new phrase to golf’s already over-flowing lexicon. In response to a question regarding the extent of her pleasure at her challenging position, Thompson claimed to have “ball-striked it out there.” Grammatically questionable Thompson may be, but there was no doubting the veracity of her obvious meaning. Even on her less then satisfactory front-nine, she put on somethi..