Sonia Canada(Photo by Sonia Canada/Getty Images)Deandre Ayton thinks he should go No. 1 to the Phoenix Suns in next month's NBA Draft, and with good reason. The 19-year-old big man is considered the top prospect by most evaluation outlets, would be a nice down-low complement to guard Devin Booker, and serves as the sought-after hometown narrative, as Ayton played his college ball down the road for the Arizona Wildcats. Unfortunately for Ayton, the Suns seem to be sending strong signals they're going in another direction.
For one, the Suns pegged Igor Kokoskov as the team's new head coach. Though he has been an assistant on six different NBA teams—including a five-year stint on the Phoenix bench from 2008 to 2013—he also served as the Slovenia national head coach. Important, given the No. 2 rated prospect in the draft, Luka Dončić, played for the Slovenian club the past two years. And Kokoskov is not short on praise for the point guard.
“We call him wunderkind,” Kokoskov ..

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Bernhard Langer is trying to do something even Jack Nicklaus couldn’t quite pull off.

Langer enters the Regions Tradition starting Thursday at Greystone Golf & Country Club aiming to become the first to win the PGA Tour Champions major three years in a row since the event began in 1989.

”I love this golf course,” he said. ”It’s very challenging and demanding at times, and then there’s a couple of holes that are gettable. But there’s some shots you really have to pull it off. You’ve got to be totally committed and hit really solid, proper golf shots. Otherwise you end up in the water or even other places. It will show up on your scorecard.

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”So for some reason I’ve done well here the last couple years and hopefully that will continue.”

Nicklaus came awfully close to a three-peat. He twice won the Tradition consecutive years at Desert Mountain in Arizona, but Lee Trevino edged him by one shot in 1992 the first time he tried to make it..

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Stan BadzStan BadzA chance to see Charles Barkley's swing up-close? An opportunity perhaps equal parts entertaining and horrifying, but nonetheless, how many golfers get to say they teed it up with Sir Charles himself?
That chance is being offered through an auction by Charitybuzz, the site that hosts a bunch of charitable donations, and a campaign called Curates: Golf, presented by Audemars Piquet. Currently, the bid for a round of golf with Barkley is at $23,600, which includes a round of golf at either Druid Hills Golf Club or Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, Ga., or The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale. The winning bid is guaranteed three spots in a foursome with Barkley before May 2019.
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If you're the winner, just remember not to stand anywhere close to Barkley when he's addressing the ball. Who knows where The Round Mound of Rebound's shots will end up ..

DALLAS (AP) Jordan Spieth didn’t try to sell his peers on joining him at a new links-style course for the 50th anniversary of his hometown AT&T Byron Nelson tournament.

The three-time major winner says he was honest when asked over the past year about the undulating layout, with no trees or water hazards, on what used to be a landfill a few miles south of downtown Dallas.

The fields weren’t great the past decade at the TPC Four Seasons resort in suburban Irving, the tournament’s home for 35 years. The return to Dallas at Trinity Forest Golf Club, named for the 6,000 acres of thick trees surrounding the course, didn’t do much to change that, at least for now.

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”The most common question is, `What’s it like?”’ Spieth said. ”Pretty vague question but, you know, I say it’s very different. These are my words: It’s really fun as a member, as a change-of-pace kind of golf club.”

Spieth (No. 3) and ninth-ranked Hideki Matsuyama, making his Nelson debut Thursday, ..

FacebookPinterestMario TamaGoflers continue to play as an ash plume rises in the distance from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday. . (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

It was golf, as usual, more or less, on Wednesday at the Volcano Golf & Country Club, scene of a harrowing photo (above) of golfers playing on while a massive plume of ash from the Kilauea volcano appeared to be adjacent to the course.
The Getty Images photo was taken by Mario Tama on Tuesday and went viral on Twitter on Wednesday morning. A Golf Channel Tweet with the photo noted that, “Golfers, we're crazy.”
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However, the plume of ash posed no threat to the golfers or the interlopers who drove to the course to get a closer look.
“We’re about two miles from the crater itself,” Ken Yoshitomi, who was working in the golf shop, said Wednesday morning. “But as long as the tradewinds are blowing southwest we’re fine. It does look close [in..

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The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover made the first call to 911 and claimed she was attacked by her mother-in-law, according to a tape of the call released Wednesday that provided another bizarre twist in the wife’s arrest on a domestic violence charge.

Glover answered when the St. John’s Sheriff’s Office in Florida called back and said his wife was lying.

”Yeah, hi, I think we got our lines crossed here. This is the husband, the sane one of the bunch,” Glover says in a calm voice. ”My wife has called you. … Now she’s trying to blame it on my mother, which is not the case at all. … My wife has gone crazy.”

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Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and taken to the St. John’s County jail. She was released Sunday on a $2,500 bond and faces misdemeanor charges of domestic violence battery and resisting arrest without violence. She has a May 31 court date.

According to the arrest report , Glover told the deputy that his wife yells at him, stat..