We were saddened to hear of the latest example of golf course vandalism on Tuesday. But hours later, we were reminded that Mother Nature is capable of doing a lot more damage than any joyriding teen. Just check out these incredible photos taken at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs following a sever hail storm:
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Wow, that's a lot of pitch marks to repair. . . Good luck to the club's greenkeepers.
The Broadmoor has hosted four professional major championships, most recently this year's U.S. Senior Open, which was won by David Toms. Sadly, it doesn't look like it will be hosting golfers of any skill level for a bit. In any event. . .
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Jamie SquireThe world is moving too quickly to figure out exactly where in the zeitgeist of life GIFs of Phil Mickelson’s extraordinary indulgent viral Mizzen + Main circus act dancing ads currently reside. In the interest of time, we’ll just acknowledge they’re a thing. And being a thing, they have been exploited to the point of excessively excessive excess.
However, let’s give credit to Kevin Streelman for finding a new, creative use for one of these GIFs, while also breaking news.
https://twitter.com/Streels54/status/1027223907579953157
The original domino that caused this chain of unusual events was that Thomas Bjorn pulled out of the PGA Championship on Wednesday. Which opened up a spot for Streelman, who has been around this week waiting for just such an occasion. Which caused him to become a social-media producer.
Which leads us to wonder: Has he been sitting on this Tweet, just waiting to unleash it to the world?
Clearly, Streelman is happy he’ll be playing at Bellerive. Unclea..

As a country, Finland hasn't exactly produced a ton of great professional golfers, though the Finnish will be represented this week at the PGA Championship when Mikko Korhonen tees it up. Korhonen, who won the inaugural European Shot Clock Masters back in June, earned a special invitation to Bellerive, and, as far as we know, will be the first Finland-born player to play in a major championship since Mikko Ilonen tied for 54th at the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
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What Finland does produce is great hockey players, the latest of the bunch being rising star Teuvo Teravainen, who just enjoyed a breakout season as a member of the Carolina Hurricanes, posting career highs in both goals (23) and assists (41). Perhaps inspired by Korhonen's presence at Bellerive this week, or maybe a decent golfer himself, Teravainen posted a video of him juggling a golf ball with his hock..

Tommy Fleetwood has been on a hot streak, winning three times on the European Tour and contending in majors, and now has his sights set on winning in the US

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Asked by anybody who the most likely winner of this week’s PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club might be, and you'll find yourself first rattling off the familiar names—Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy—and onto the rest of the list of tournament favorites. However, if you go there, are you really looking in the right spot? Fact is, seven of the past nine PGA Championships have been won by first-time major winners. Sure a few were big names (Jason Day, Thomas). But perhaps we should expect a bit of the unexpected when it comes to a winner this week.
Needless to say there are several marquee players looking for their major breakthrough. You know guys like Rickie Fowler, Jon Rahm and Tommy Fleetwood are likely contenders in search of a career-defining title. But you can dive even deeper into the pool of potential surprise first-time winners and come up with some quality candidates. Here are the nine players less obvious but most poised to make the PGA Championship th..

Patrick McDermottRemember that angry old Atlanta Braves broadcaster? You know, the one who randomly ripped the L.A. Dodgers for their batting practice attire? Of course you remember Joe Simpson, the 66-year-old player-turned-analyst with a career batting average of .242 and a whopping nine home runs. Just to set the mood, let's run that rant back:
https://twitter.com/ChadMoriyama/status/1023386979503751168
Gets better every time. Simpson of course apologized, mainly to Chase Utley, who was wearing a “strike out cancer” t-shirt, which is probably not something he should have been criticized for. Like everything in the 24-hour news cycle, it was quickly forgotten and we all moved on. All Simpson had to do was just go about his business, say nothing controversial and he could slide back into being just another color guy that no one really knows besides the Braves fanbase.
Unfortunately, it took Simpson all of 10 days to thrust himself back into the conversation, this time for questio..