COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Adam Scott spent five weeks trying to secure his spot in the world ranking to get into the U.S. Open. The last resort was his first 36-hole sectional qualifier, and the former Masters champion and world No. 1 made it Monday with one stroke to spare.

Scott kept alive his 17-year streak playing in all the majors with a two-putt from 30 feet for par on his final hole at The Lakes Golf and Country Club. And even-par 72 for a 6-under 138 total was just enough for him to avoid a 10-man playoff for the final spot.

”It’s a nice streak to keep going, but it will be better if I win the U.S. Open,” Scott said. ”I am playing all these majors to win them, not just to show up, so I’d like to make the most of this opportunity.”

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The U.S. Open is June 14-17 at Shinnecock Hills.

Scott will be competing in his 68th consecutive major, a streak that began after he missed the 2001 U.S. Open. Scott was scheduled to play a qualifier that year, but decided a..

Hand-outFather's Day is right around the corner, and as always, it's an opportunity to thank your old man for teaching you to shave, driving you to every kind of practice on earth until you found one you actually liked, and helping you through college (and the months after when you couldn't find a job) with a bottle of whatever whiskey he likes best. This year, however, Jim Beam is helping you step your gift game up by offering a full, bourbon-soaked Kentucky vacation for you and your pops for about the price of a bottle of Jim Beam Black. Yes this is crazy and no, there's no catch…well, except that it sold out instantly.
But before you sulk off with that Charlie Brown jingle rattling around inside your head, hear us out. According to Jim Beam, while the first round of The Bonding Over Bourbon Experience may be sold out, there are still a few more on-sale dates to come. In other words, you still have a shot at scoring that dream $25 getaway (for the record, any ge..

La Reunion Golf Resort and Residences is engulfed in ash following Sunday volcano eruption in Guatemala

With critical eyes riveted on a modernized Rules of Golf rolling out in 2019, it's imperative that USGA officials deliver a national championship we'll remember for the right reasons.

Raymond Floyd on winning the 1986 Open at Shinnecock, the art of tipping, and dealing with a cheater on the golf course (plus Bernie Madoff).

Got to feel for minor-league baseball. Its rare appearances on the national radar are usually for the absurd (cough cough Keep Tom Brady Suspended Night cough cough), rather than anything of merit that happened on the field. This does not deviate from that trend.
Two of the more unusual put-outs you'll ever see went down on Sunday night in a Triple-A game featuring the Salt Lake City Bees and Tacoma Rainiers. First there was the Bees' David Fletcher over-running home plate, creating a showdown between Fletcher and Rainiers catcher Mike Marjama, which was just as dramatic as the duel in “The Princess Bride” between Inigo Montoya and the Man in Black, only the exact opposite:
However, the Marjama-Fletcher face-off was nothing compared to this clash of “Hey, aren't you too old to be playing minor-league ball?” titans in Eric Young Jr. and Gordon Beckham, with Young backpedaling to home plate after grounding to Beckham:
We're sure this violates one of baseball's in..

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) PGA Tour player Bud Cauley says he’s thankful to be alive after a car accident over the weekend on what he describes as the ”scariest night of my life.”

Cauley, 28, was riding with three other people in a car involved in an accident late Friday following the second round of the Memorial. Cauley posted a message on Instagram saying he had surgery on Sunday.

Even though he missed the cut at the Memorial, Cauley was staying in Ohio for U.S. Open qualifying on Monday. He withdrew from the qualifier, and said in his Instagram post Monday that he had no timetable for returning to the PGA Tour.

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Justin Thomas, the world’s No. 1 player and one of Cauley’s closest friends, says he saw him in the hospital the day after the accident.

”It calmed me a lot after seeing him,” Thomas said Saturday. ”I couldn’t hit a shot, couldn’t play a hole, without thinking about him.”

Both went to Alabama and were roommates on tour.

Cauley has yet to win on the P..

Mike HewittThis morning, I'm one devastated tennis fan. Life is better when there's a grand slam happening, so there should be nothing to complain about on the second Monday of the French Open. And yet, the best match-up of the whole fortnight—Serena Williams vs. Maria Sharapova—has been canceled due to Serena's arm injury.
We needed this. It was going to be a bitter grudge match. It was going to be Sharapova's best chance to beat Serena in 18 matches, and there's an angry part of me that thinks Serena knew this, and hates Sharapova so much that she dodged her. I know that's ridiculous, and wrong, but this is what happens to my brain when a match like this is stolen from me.
Let me explain what we're missing, and why this is so cruel.
It starts with a story that's extremely sad. When Maria Sharapova was 12 years old, she trained at an academy in Florida. One day, the Williams sisters were scheduled to stop by for a practice session. It was a big ..

The memes of an incredulous LeBron James gesturing at J.R. Smith following his NBA Finals fail have become more ubiquitous than Geico commercials. Move over, Crying Jordan, you have been replaced. But as many times as you've seen the boneheaded play at the end of Game 1, this video of what happened after is a must see. Well, maybe not if you're a Cavs fan. Then it's tough to watch.
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Check out the incredible footage of the two-and-a-half minutes following Smith forgetting the score and dribbling out the clock. Let's just say there wasn't a whole lot of talking on that Cavs bench.
https://twitter.com/ballislife/status/1003479077326487552/video/1
About the only thing you can see someone saying is LeBron asking head coach Ty Lue (What took him so long to get there, by the way! You've got to rally your troops!) “Did we have no timeouts?” When Lue tells him they did have a timeout, LeBron look..

NEW YORK (AP) The PGA Tour broadened its international reach Monday in a $2 billion agreement with Discovery Inc., to deliver golf content directly to consumers in 220 markets outside the United States over the next 12 years.

Nine months after the PGA Tour chose not to opt out early of its U.S. network deals, it formed an alliance to turn over its content outside of the U.S. to Discovery, a company that already is reaching audiences around the world through its Eurosport network and other channels.

The tour had been exploring its own network.

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”Discovery is the largest international media company,” Commissioner Jay Monahan said from the tour’s New York office. ”They have content experience, distribution experience, direct-to-consumer experience that, candidly, nobody else has. So they can do for the PGA Tour, and they can do for the game of golf, what no one else can do internationally.

”This puts us in a place that we could never get to on our own,” he ..