Golf notes: Plenty at stake in final regular-season event on PGA Tour, Lexi Thompson's rough start in Europe

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but Joey Chestnut ain't no house pet. On Monday the reigning Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champ and alpha wolf of ridiculous food consumption traded in his mystery meat tubes for totally new prey. In honor of National Chicken Wing Day, Chestnut posted up at a fine Hooters family restaurant in the Mall of Georgia for 12 hours. His mission? As you've probably already guessed, to eat as many damn chicken wings as he could possibly stomach. Mission status? Accomplished.
Over the course day on Monday, Chestnut gnawed his way through a whopping 413—yes, FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN—chicken wings, smashing expectations and records alike all while plunging central Georgia into a crippling poultry shortage. Here's the blow-by-blow, in which Chestnut can be found hamming it up for the cameras around wing 200, before slowly receding into the shattered husk of a man as the day wears on and the bones pile up.
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Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we are particularly happy the PGA Championship moved to May this year. As a result, my annual golf trip, the 2019 HGGA Championship, will get the proper spotlight it deserves this week as the true final men’s major of the season. GLORY’S LAST SHOT will be waged at Turning Stone Resort & Casino and since everyone participating is a native New Yorker, fans are guaranteed to see a popular “homecoming” victory. So get your pen ready, Jimmy Roberts, because you are going to be able to craft quite the touching closing essay for this one. But first, there was a lot happening around the rest of the golf world. Let’s discuss.
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Brooks Koepka: If there was any doubt who the world’s best golfer was (there shouldn’t have been), Brooks put an end to that with a final-round drubbing of Rory McIlroy to win his first World Golf Championship to go along with those four majors. He also claimed the season-long Wyndham Rewards Points race and ..

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Lexi Thompson had a tumultuous experience at the Evian Championship. She's off to an inauspicious start at the Women's British Open.

Lei Ye outlasted Jillian Bourdage on the final day of the 71st U.S. Girls' Junior Championship.

Sunday night was a strange one in Mets lands. Then again, aren't they all these days? Moments after hanging on to beat the Pirates 8-7 in a game they led 6-0 after the first inning, news broke that longtime Toronto Blue Jay Marcus Stroman was heading to Flushing to join the Metropolitans rotation. Ordinarily this wouldn't be cause for too much alarm. The Mets didn't give up any top-100 prospects to get him, unlike those included in the now-disastrous Cano-Diaz swap this winter, and Stroman is a solid, if unspectacular, starter with a career 13.2 WAR. So what's the big deal? Why did the internet strike a collective thinky-face emoji pose as soon as the trade became official? Well, because only the Mets could manage to make a move this mundane make this little sense.
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World Golf Championship to fill space between final 2 majors in busy PGA Tour schedule

You probably don't care about the swimming world championships, even though it's the second-biggest competition in the entire sport. And I'll tell you something: I don't either. But if you're like me, you absolutely care about the biggest event, the Olympic games, and are riveted for the entire week and deeply sad when swimming gives way to (vastly overrated) track and field.
So let me be (maybe) the first to tell you: Learn the name Caeleb Dressel. Learn the somewhat annoying spelling of the first name. Learn what he looks like. Learn it all. Because Caeleb Dressel just did what has to be one of the most impossible feats in this or any other sport: He broke Michael Phelps' record.
FacebookPinterestMaddie MeyerIn this case, it was the record of seven medals at the world championships, which Dressel broke this past week in South Korea. He won six golds in Gwangju, including three in one night, along with two silvers (both in relays). And unlike Phelps, he r..

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