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Rory McIlroy says he has a heart ailment that will have to be monitored regularly but is not expected to affect his play.

McIlroy said in an interview with The Telegraph that he has a thickening of the left ventricle. He says doctors told him it was caused by a viral infection he suffered in China 18 months ago.

He says he’ll get an electrocardiogram every six months and an MRI once per year.

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”There’s a bit of scar tissue. For now, I just need to stay on top of it and have to stay fit. Hey, I was planning on doing that anyway,” McIlroy said.

McIlroy says he’s fully recovered from the rib injury he suffered a year ago that contributed to a winless 2017. He finished the year ranked 11th, his worst year-end ranking since his rookie year in 2008.

McIlroy took three months off at the end of 2017 to allow his rib to heal. He will make his 2018 debut next week in Abu Dhabi and plans to play eight events before the Masters, his most ambitious schedule ahe..

HONOLULU (AP) Different islands, vastly different golf courses, same good play from Brian Harman.

One week after Harman shared the 36-hole lead at Kapalua, he ran off three straight birdies and closed with a 15-foot eagle putt for a 7-under 63 and a three-shot lead going into the weekend at the Sony Open.

Harman was at 13-under 127, and no one could catch him on Friday afternoon.

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Chris Kirk, who shared the 18-hole lead with Harman, opened by pitching in from 25 yards for eagle on No. 10. He ended his day by driving into the canal on the easy par-5 ninth and making bogey for a 67.

Kirk was three behind along with Zach Johnson (67), John Peterson (64), Tom Hoge (65) and PGA Tour rookie Talor Gooch.

Except for the tropical warmth, the two golf courses on the Hawaii swing are nothing alike. The Plantation Course at Kapalua was built on the side of the mountain on the west tip of Maui and features fairways that can stretch nearly 90 yards wide and big ..

HONOLULU (AP) Brian Harman’s game stayed with him from one island to the next in Hawaii as he made eagle on his last hole for a 7-under 63 and the early lead in the Sony Open.

Harman played in the final group at Kapalua last week and tied for third in a final round in which no one had much of a chance against Dustin Johnson. On a far different course at Waialae, he had another stretch of three straight birdies in Friday’s second round and closed with a 7-iron to 15 feet for eagle on the par-5 ninth.

Harman was at 13-under 127, three shots ahead of Zach Johnson (67), John Peterson (64) and Tom Hoge (65).

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Defending champion Justin Thomas salvaged an otherwise pedestrian round with a birdie-birdie-eagle finish for a 67. He was seven behind.

LOS ANGELES, CA – DECEMBER 18: Kobe Bryant walks media throughout STAPLES center before his jersey retirement ceremony on December 18, 2017 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)Basketball nerds, rejoice! Kobe Bryant will break down game film in his new ESPN show, Detail.
In a Friday press release, the network announced the NBA legend will write, produce and host the basketball analysis show that will premier in March. Detail will have 15 episodes in its first season, concluding in June with Kobe discussing how the NBA Finals turn out. Although, it doesn't take Bryant's NBA knowledge or street cred to figure out the Golden State Warriors will beat the Cleveland Cavaliers again. . .
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In Detail, viewers will experience unparalleled game observations from Bryant as if he were one of the players featured in an ESPN game played the day before. As on..

In addition to being one of the NBA's all-time greatest perimeter shooters, Ray Allen was always one of the league's best golfers. And not surprisingly, Allen's golf game has stayed formidable now that he's officially retired (Sorry, LeBron) from his day job.
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Allen currently holds a 0.5 handicap index (although, he's been as low as a plus 1.1), and during Friday's first round of the Diamond Resorts Invitational — an event that pairs celebrities with PGA Tour Champions and LPGA players in a modified stableford format — the long-range master knocked in a shot from well beyond three-point range. He certainly impressed playing partner John Daly. Check it out:
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Perhaps even more spectacular was Allen's outfit. How many times has John Daly not had the loudest ensemble in his group? Plaid pants with a neon shirt AND a white belt? Bold.
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This new $70 million, state-of-the-art clubhouse built at Bighorn Golf Club might be the most extravagant clubhouse in golf

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) Chris Paisley and Adrien Saddier opened up a big lead after two rounds of the South African Open on Friday as they moved to 13 under par and four shots clear of their nearest challengers.

England’s Paisley hit a 7-under 65 to move up from second overnight. France’s Saddier had the round of the day at Glendower Golf Club in Johannesburg, a blistering, course record-equaling 63 with an eagle, seven birdies and no bogeys.

Both Paisley and Saddier are seeking a maiden European Tour title.

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Home player Jacques Kruyswijk is alone in second on 9 under, with a group of four players another shot behind him on 8 under and in a tie for fourth.

That group contains overnight leaders Branden Grace and Chase Koepka, Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent, and Retief Goosen, the two-time U.S. Open champion who hasn’t won a professional tournament since 2009.

The 48-year-old Goosen began this week with a promising 69 and then carded six birdies and an eagle for..

Here’s some fantastic news from the world of sentient and sympathetic marine mammals: According to a story that appeared this week in National Geographic, a diver off the coast of Rarotonga — part of the Cook Islands in the Pacific — was pushed away from a nearby tiger shark by a huge and helpful humpback whale, which used its fin to gently push her to safety. More happily, this entire event was all caught on camera. (Well, not entirely happily, because tiger shark attacks do not usually appear near the word “happily,” but it’s lovely to have the footage.)
The diver is biologist Nan Hauser, who is also the president and director for the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation. The POV video shows her swimming with a 25-ton humpback whale, which is one of those things that isn’t dangerous and will never be dangerous yet still strikes me as EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS, because of the part where she was swimming with a 25-ton sea beast, jeez look at the size of this thing. It could be cov..