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Welcome to another edition of The Grind where we doubt this year’s Thanksgiving dinner will live up to the continuous feast we enjoyed down South this past week while covering the RSM Classic. My mouth is still watering (and my arteries are still clogging) just thinking about this spread:
FacebookPinterestEven the media center fried chicken was finger-licking good. But while my stay on St. Simons Island was fun—and filling—I wasn’t quite able to deliver more golf history like the last time I was in Georgia. Unless, you count a guy who hadn’t won a four-day golf tournament since the 2011 Indiana Amateur winning a PGA Tour event. Admittedly, I did not see that coming. But again, I may have been too distracted by all the southern food. Anyway, grab a plate and sit down while we serve up a big helping of everything happening in the golf world.
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Jon Rahm: How on fire is this guy? He took six weeks off, in part to earn some brownie points with fiancée Kelley Cahill, and stil..

This going to sound really odd, but I promise you it's true: Some people really, REALLY hate Bill Walton. They hate his babbling. They hate his rambling. They hate that he's happier than they are and they hate that he almost exclusively doesn't stick to sports. These people are wrong. These people are idiots. How do we know this? Because Bill Walton was on the call for ESPN's coverage of the Maui Invitational on Monday night, and the Maui Wowie-fueled results were pure, uncut entertainment. From shouting about drinking children's blood…
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…to comparing Kansas basketball to the many splendors of the natural world…
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…Walton brought his absolute Walton A-game, including shouting “SILVIO!” seemingly at random throughout the contest.
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He and beleaguered broadcast partner Dave Pasch's us..

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Tyler Duncan dishes on his Titleist equipment, including the Scotty Cameron putter he used at the RSM Classic.

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Sam Greenwood (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)Anthony Kim has become golf's version of Bigfoot, his legend growing by the year as tales of unsubstantiated sightings mount. However, this story involving Kim and an in-need waitress is too good not to be true.
In a promo for Golf Channel's “Swing Expedition,” Adam Schriber, Kim's former swing coach, relayed a tale when he and Kim visited a pizza joint in Palm Desert, Calif., in 2008.
According to Schriber, the two were served by a pregnant waitress. Kim congratulated the woman, and remarked that her husband “must be so excited,” Schriber recalled.
A comment that struck a nerve with the waitress, as she broke down in tears. She told Kim that her boyfriend has left her, and admitted she was scared to have the baby on her own.
“My goodness, I didn't see that coming,” Kim told Schriber.
Months later, Kim and Schriber returned to the restaurant, where they saw the aforementioned waitress. Schriber said that the woman g..

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