Koepka out until the Masters with wrist injury

DALLAS (AP) U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka has a wrist injury that will keep him out until the Masters.

Koepka is not sure how he injured his left wrist. He was coming off a nine-shot victory at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan when he noticed discomfort at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas the first week of December. A month of rest didn’t help. Koepka said at Kapalua it was still bothering him, and he says he probably shouldn’t have played.

Doctors discovered a partial tear in the tendon. The recovery is expected to be eight to 12 weeks of rest and therapy. The injury means Koepka will miss Phoenix and Pebble Beach, along with the Honda Classic and two World Golf Championships ahead of the Masters.

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Grayson Murray sliding down the massive 20-foot-high bunker face at PGA West’s Stadium Course will have you cracking up

Grayson Murray had no trouble making headlines in his first full season on the PGA Tour. Though the 24-year-old played some great golf in the opening round of the CareerBuilder Challenge, tying the round of the day on PGA West's Stadium course with a 7-under 65, once again it wasn't his play that grabbed the most attention on Thursday.
You probably remember the gigantic-faced bunker from years past: The 20-foot-high face of this massive hazard that sits to the left of the par-5 16th hole has become a popular spot for players going for the green in two. And when they find Pete Dye's strategically placed landform, it makes for some memorable moments.
Murray's slide down the embankment of the massive bunker at the 16th hole was quite impressive. He described the decision to reporters after the round: “My caddie had told me just to slide down and I was like, 'No way, dude.' And then I didn't want to walk around, so I just slid down, which was kind of fun…

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Sorry, Florida: Hulk Hogan doesn’t want to be your senator

Matt JelonekReaders of a certain age — i.e. mine — may remember that when Jesse “The Body” Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 it was a monster shock that more or less marked the end of the republic. Ventura was the destruction of political reality, the very idea that some former lady-boa-wearing pink-sunglasses-approving mustachioed spandexed cornball could actually run a state, a real live state, with factories and families in it. It was simple insanity. Ventura was suddenly an instant national celebrity outside of the world of sexless male teenagers; he was on the cover of Time. It was hard to process if you watched any wrestling at all (which I did), but most importantly it was EXCEEDINGLY UNUSUAL. Now, not even two lousy decades later, Ventura seems kind of adorable, since we can read headlines that say “Hulk Hogan Announces He’s Not Running for Senate” and fail to register them as anything much more than mildly curious.
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Watch the ‘Super Troopers 2’ trailer right here, right meow

It's been 17 excruciating years since Super Troopers first blessed American males, aged 13-22, with its debauched highway hi-jinx, but the wait is finally over. After what feels like eons of rumors, non-starters, Kickstarters, and hoaxes, Super Troopers 2 is now officially official, dropping its first trailer on Thursday much to delight of a bunch of 30-year-olds who, despite being full-blown adults now, haven't grown much in the whole maturity department since 8th grade. Pull over and check it out:
As you'll see, the gang (Broken Lizard comedy group IRL) makes a full return, with Rabbit, Mac, Jeff, O'Hagen, and, of course, Favra, heading north of the border to reclaim a small Quebec town that actually lies on American soil from a bunch of pissed-off Canadian Mounties. In the process Favra kills a bald eagle with an AK-47, gets in a fight with a bear in a port-a-potty, and, well, I think you pretty much get the picture. So come for the ridiculous slapstick, question..

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Weather again stops Singapore Open

SINGAPORE (AP) Chapchai Nirat birdied his first four holes and then his last two in a 7-under 64 Friday to grab the clubhouse lead in the second round of the weather-interrupted Singapore Open.

The Thai golfer also birdied the 14th hole in a flawless round to jump to the top of the leaderboard at 7-under 135 before the threat of lightning suspended play for the second day in a row with half of the 156-player field still to complete their second rounds.

Masters champion Sergio Garcia was at 8 under with 10 holes to play. The Spaniard was tied for second with Kurt Kitayama, who had 16 holes to play, and Shaun Norris, who managed to beat the weather and sign for a 67.

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The Singapore Open is often delayed by weather problems caused by the stifling humidity and heat of Southeast Asia, and dozens of players had to return to Sentosa Golf Club just after dawn on Friday to complete their first rounds.

Garcia finished his opening round on Thursday and was amon..

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Kelly continues strong play, leads PGA Tour Champions opener (Jan 18, 2018)

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) Fresh off a solid performance on Oahu, Jerry Kelly shot an 8-under 64 on the Big Island on Thursday to share the first-round lead at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship, the season opener on the PGA Tour Champions.

Kelly, 51, who tied for 14th at the PGA Tour’s Sony Open last week in Honolulu, birdied five of his final seven holes to shoot 30 on the back nine at Hualalai. He won twice last season, his first on the over-50 tour.

”Last week helped a lot just to prepare because I took my first two months off since probably 1989 when I turned pro, so I only practiced for one week. I didn’t even play 18 holes a day,” Kelly said. ”So I played really well last week. If I would have putted like I did today, I would have won easy. So I took that into this week. Switched back to my old putter and had a good day on the greens.”

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Gene Sauers also shot 64, going bogey-free amid calm conditions.

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