Steve DykesKaylin Yost initially caught our attention in March when she Monday qualifying into the LPGA Bank of Hope Founders Cup, then shot an opening-round 67, an impressive feat for the on-again, off-again Symetra Tour pro who also suffers from 90 percent hearing loss. The 24-year-old American impressed again this week by becoming the first gold medal winner in golf at the Deaflympic, an Olympics-style international competition for hearing-impaired athletes.
Competing at Turkey’s Samsun Golf Course, Yost defeated India’s Diksha Dagar in the championship match, rallying from a 3-down deficit after six holes to take the title on the 19th hole.
“To win the gold at the inaugural Deaflympics for golf is special,” Yost told the Symetra Tour after her victory. “I’m thrilled to win gold, but even more happy with the way I fought.”
When Yost was 2, her parents discovered her hearing issue, which was among several obstacles she had to overcome as a child. She was born with two dislocated hips..

Rob CarrBernhard Langer putts to the ninth hole during the final round of the Senior PGA Championship at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C.Bernhard Langer is enjoying another dominant season on the Champions Tour, winning three times with nine top-10 finishes in 12 events. Alas, 2017 has bestowed its share of issues as well, as Langer's putting stroke — one that many believe is in violation of golf's anchoring ban — has begat a wave of cheating accusations.
While the USGA has come to Langer's defense, many prominent voices continue to cast aspersions on Langer (and to a lesser extent, Scott McCarron). Speaking at Royal Porthcawl ahead of this week's Senior Open Championship, the two-time Masters champ sounds fed up with the matter.
“I personally don't understand it because I'm a man of integrity and the last thing I want to do is break rules and be known as cheating or something,” Langer said. “I mean, that's the very last thing I wan..

Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty ImagesTransformational eras have been rare in golf, and magical ones rarer still. Perhaps none was more consequential than the early 1960s, when the charisma of Arnold Palmer conjoined with television to send the game's popularity soaring.
Though purely speculative, it can be argued that more recent history might have proved more momentous had events occurred differently after the 2008 U.S. Open. Tiger Woods had just earned his 14th professional major championship with a playoff victory over Rocco Mediate—despite competing on an ACL so severely compromised that he underwent reconstructive knee surgery days later. The victory capped a Hogan-like stretch of six wins and 11 top-three finishes in 14 majors.
Tiger was 32 years old.
A golfer's career sweet spot. And he seemed unstoppable. Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 pro majors, perhaps the most iconic in sports, appeared easily within reach. After all, Nicklaus won seven major titles after 32. Phil Mickel..