FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) With lingering questions about the status of Colonial’s title sponsorship, the PGA Tour says the historic tournament will be played as scheduled in May.

The PGA Tour said in a statement Wednesday that it is working closely with Colonial Country Club.

”As we look toward the 2018 event and beyond, we will continue to work alongside Colonial Country Club in an effort to ensure the event will be a part of the PGA Tour schedule for many years to come,” the statement read.

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Dean and Deluca notified the PGA Tour and Colonial late last year that it may be unable to meet its financial obligations to remain title sponsor for the tournament, according to a letter from Colonial Country Club president Rob Doby to its members that was obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This 2018 tournament is supposed to be the third year of a six-year deal for the upscale grocer as title sponsor.

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LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) Charlie Reiter is skipping classes at Palm Desert High to play in the CareerBuilder Challenge. He’s still getting schooled, too, by the likes of Jon Rahm.

The 18-year-old Reiter, the first amateur to receive a sponsor exemption in tournament history, recently hooked up with Rahm at nearby Big Horn.

”It was definitely eye-opening,” Reiter said. ”We played like 12 holes together and I think he had, maybe, a one-putt almost every single hole. He made like six straight birdies. It just showed me how good you have to be in certain areas of your game to be on the tour and be a top-level golfer.”

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Rahm, at No. 3 in the world, is the top-ranked player in the event that starts Thursday. He chuckled recalling Reiter’s power off the tee.

”He hits it far and, when I say far, I mean really far, like he can easily get it past me,” Rahm said.

Rahm was second two weeks ago at Kapalua in his first start since winning the European Tour’s seaso..

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Golf Digest's third biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses is truly global, showcasing brilliant layouts everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Vietnam. Among living architects, the two with the most designs on this year's ranking are Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman, both champion golfers long before they transitioned into golf design.

Rob Gronkowski is the gift that keeps on giving. When he's not Gronk-smashing balls into the turf after a big touchdown, he's providing thoughtful public service announcements in the hopes that a bunch of idiots will stop consuming laundry detergent. He's truly a Gronk of all trades.
On Wednesday Gronk was Gronking again when he met with the media ahead of New England's AFC Championship matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars. A reporter asked the Patriots tight end why Gillette Stadium is such a tough place to play, and, like any Gronk answer, it took him a second or two to collect his thoughts. But when he finally did, he delivered, unknowingly creating the most Gronk catchphrase ever when describing the crowd during last year's playoffs, which he sadly missed due to injury:
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Did Gronk mean “going berserk”? Did he pop in a tide pod before the press conference, or possibly a handful of Bazooka gum so it was ..

LOS ANGELES (AP) The LPGA is returning to Los Angeles after a 13-year absence with a $1.5 million tournament in April.

The HUGEL-JTBC Open will be played April 19-22 at Wilshire Country Club, which has hosted previous LPGA, PGA and Champions Tour events.

The 72-hole event announced Wednesday is part of the tour’s California swing that includes the year’s first major, the ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, Kia Classic in Carlsbad and a tournament in San Francisco.

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The LPGA visited Los Angeles from 2001-05 when its Office Depot Championship was played at various courses, including President Donald Trump’s layout in Rancho Palos Verdes. Wilshire hosted the 2001 event won by Annika Sorenstam.

In 2011, the Kia Classic was played in suburban Industry before returning to the San Diego area.

Located in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, Wilshire is a links course founded in 1919.

The tournament is sponsored by HUGEL, a South Korea-based maker of be..

ullstein bildDream jobs are tricky. First of all, good luck finding one. Second of all, good luck landing one over the kid whose dad knows everybody. But even if you are lucky enough to score your ideal career, you'll learn by about week three that Slack is still your keeper, the guy next to you subsists entirely on leftover halibut, and repeating the same task over and over every day until the end of time feels a lot more like a nightmare than the Cindy Crawford Pepsi commercial you had in mind.
Then again, you could be the guy who lands this gig as British supermarket chain B&M's “Chicken Nugget Connoisseur,” in which case ignore everything I just said if you weren't already.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) USA Basketball will begin hosting youth national championship tournaments for boys and girls this summer.

The organization announced Wednesday that the 2018 U.S. Open Basketball Championships will consist of six groups of play: eighth grade boys and girls, 13-and-under boys and girls, and 12-and-under boys and girls.

Teams will qualify for the championships by finishing first or second in existing tournaments that USA Basketball certifies. There will be two divisions in each age category: the Stars division for competitive club teams that regularly compete regionally and/or nationally, and the Stripes division for locally based recreational teams looking for a similar level of competition.

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The championships for the boys teams will be June 30-July 3, and the girls’ will be July 19-22, both at the Pacers Athletic Center at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana.

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For registration information: www.usab.com/usopenbasketball .

Tommy Fleetwood seems like a pretty safe bet to make the European Ryder Cup team for the first time this year after a sensational 2017 that saw him capture the season-long Race to Dubai, seriously contend at the U.S. Open, and climb into the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking. But the funny photo that currently graces his phone won't hurt his chances, either.
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Fellow European Tour star Alex Noren recently snapped a photo of Fleetwood showing off his hilarious phone cover. And in case you don't recognize the person pictured, it's 2018 Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn, who also led Europe to a win in last week's EurAsia Cup:
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Brilliant move, Tommy. And it was even smarter to go with a photo of Bjorn from when he had hair. See you in France this fall.
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Jim DysonJohn Carpenter has spent the better part of his career obsessed with death. From Halloween to The Thing, Carpenter built his legacy on the backs of psycho slashers, killer alien parasites, and expendable Kurt Russell cannon fodder. Despite what Rotten Tomatoes' social media crack squad would have you believe, however, being preoccupied with death doesn't put in you the ground…even if you are about to complete your 70th trip around the sun.
FacebookPinterestNow in Rotten Tomatoes' defense, the poor associate social media editor whose innocuous Tuesday morning oversight just launched into the viral stratosphere like the Challenger Shuttle probably wasn't even born the last time Carpenter made a watchable film. Maybe they even Googled him and saw a graying old man jamming to moody synth rock on stages across America and thought weird, David Lynch is really losing his hair. But whatever the confusion, the fact is John Carpenter is very much alive. Just ask Jo..