Marc Leishman's off-season prep? TopGolf, and now he's tied for the lead

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) Marc Leishman played bogey-free and was tied for the lead in the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Just don’t get the idea this is another example of an Australian doing well at Kapalua because he stayed sharp Down Under in December.

Leishman two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th for a 4-under 69, giving him a share of the lead with Brian Harman (68) going into the weekend on the windy Plantation Course with 15 players separated by five shots.

Stuart Appleby once won three straight years at Kapalua. Geoff Ogilvy is the last player to win back-to-back. Both arrived in Maui having competed in either the Australian Masters, Australian Open or Australian PGA. Appleby did all three one year.

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Leishman?

He’s played one time in the last 10 weeks. Well, one tournament, anyway.

”I went to Topgolf a couple of weeks ago,” Leishman said.

It was too cold to practice at his home in Virginia Beach, so he headed to the multi-tiered golf comp..

MangoStar_Studioyou thought the “this isn't an episode of Silicon Valley” meme had peaked, hold on to your Yerba. Or let go of it and reach for a nice cool glass of “raw water.” Tech bros are now literally spending $12 a gallon for the privilege of drinking water that people in third-world countries would spend the same amount to not have to drink.
There's a new incomprehensibly stupid health trend trend taking off in the Bay Area, marketed as the “raw water” movement. “Raw water” is described by one leading brand as “untreated, unfiltered, and unsterilized spring water.” That brand, Live Water, has 2.5-gallon ornamental jugs going for over $60 in some San Francisco stores. And, according to a recent New York Times article, they're selling out.
On the plus side, it seems raw water is free of the “bad” chemicals the evil government puts in your tap water, such as chlorine and fluoride. On the minus side it can theoretically kill you.
The trend, spearheaded by this walking..

A jockey recently fell off his horse at the finish line to cost one gambler more than half a million dollars. Yes, this is a true story. Yes, you need to see it to believe it. Yes, you probably still won't believe it.
RELATED: This bad beat is so bad it could stop you from ever betting again
The horse race in question happened at Florida's Gulfstream Park on Dec. 29. The unnamed gambler had hit on five consecutive races and needed to pick the winner in the final race of the day to win a Pick-6 prize that had grown to $571,744. And it looked like he had pulled it off when his play, Cryogenic at 8-to-1 odds, pulled away down the stretch. But then the unthinkable happened as jockey Emisael Jaramillo inexplicably fell from the horse just lengths away from the finishing pole.
Fortunately for Jaramillo, he avoided serious injury from the other horses running by him on the ground. Unfortunately for the gambler, he still suffered one of the worst betting beats you'll ever see. C..

Brian Harman is using some new equipment and they are the golf clubs he used in his college days. Well, kind of.

Thanks to his eponymous television program, Jerry Seinfeld is worth, oh, a billion dollars. (No, seriously.) Given the moolah he continues to rake in from syndication, no one would blame the 63-year-old if he retired to a life of Mets games and curating his world famous car collection.
And yet, he remains active on the standup scene, routinely working weekends in theaters and clubs. Moreover, he's managed to cobble together some of his passions — automobiles, coffee, and talking comedy — into a web show, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. One that's arguably the best damn show on the Internet.
If your only conduit to Seinfeld is Seinfeld, you may be in for a surprise, as the program's not built in a sitcom, joke-a-second framework. Rather, it's a free-flowing, half-baked discussion between Seinfeld and his guest, most of whom are comedians but occasionally are actors, media types and even President Obama. But, unlike a talk-show format where the audience is seated ..

Want to see the best t-shirt in the history of time, space, and probably some other concept we haven't even invented a word for yet? Well, you're in luck, fellow dude with a Leaning Tower of Pisa of ridiculous graphic tees currently teetering in the closet, because this week Big Sean checked in from a little Hawaii getaway and The Loop's style police immediately picked up on his A++++ choice of tropical attire:
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Now, our fashion GPS is still recalculating after seeing Rickie going full Magnum PI at Kapalua on Thursday, but if our unworthy eyeholes are functioning properly, this appears to be the GOAT of GOAT shirts—a perfect, Windows 98-inspired tribute to the man, the myth, the Tiger. Where can you cop it? We're still working on that, but if Sean Don is anything like us, you're going to have to pry it off his cold, dead body.
P.S. Sean, if you ever want to flip that thing on eBay, give us a ring. We know some co-workers customers who mi..

Alex Trebek has been filling our heads with trivia as the host of Jeopardy! for more than three decades. But over the holiday break, Trebek had to attend to his own noggin, undergoing surgery to remove blood clots in his brain.
The good news is that Trebek, 77, is expected to make a full recovery. And yes, the show will go on.
RELATED: Watch a Naval officer win an episode of Jeopardy! with $1
According to Deadline, filming is on hiatus for now, but fans won't be able to notice because episodes are taped months in advance (Side note: Keeping it secret that you've won on Jeopardy! has to be one of the hardest things in the world) and Trebek, who underwent his successful operation on Dec. 16, is expected to be back in studio by the end of January. So to all the vultures out there, don't bother sending in your resume. Trebek, thankfully, isn't going anywhere just yet.
The show's Facebook page shared this video message from Trebek on Thursday in which he revealed hi..

Basketball's “He broke his ankles!” might be the most loosely thrown around sports term out there, but it actually almost happened on Thursday night. Like, for real. A series of filthy Chris Paul moves shook David West so badly that he had to leave the game moments later with an injured ankle. Check it out:
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Wow, that's nasty. And embarrassing. And as the captain of the Chris Paul fan club, I demand that we see it again!
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Of course, to perfectly pull off such a devastating play, two things have to happen after you make your defender completely lose his balance:
Make the shot. (Check)Stare him down after it goes in. (Check)RELATED: Chris Paul has proof Barack Obama enjoys trash-talking
As embarrassed as West was, the 37-year-old vet has to take some solace in the fact that Paul had already done this to Golden State rookie and ballyhooed defender Jordan Bell earlier in the game:
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KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) Marc Leishman picked the wrong bar and wound up with the right girl.

He was a young Australian trying to make his way in American golf. That meant spending most of 2007 driving from one city to the next for Monday qualifiers on the PGA Tour’s developmental circuit. He rolled into Williamsburg, Virginia, one weekend and decided to go for a beer.

”There weren’t many people in the bar,” he said, smiling at the memory. ”It wasn’t a great bar.”

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But he saw a young woman across the way, walked over to her and asked her where the best places were in town. They hit it off. And when Leishman missed out on qualifying for the tournament, he chose to stay in town because of Audrey Hills, a student at William & Mary.

”I lived out of hotels,” he said. ”I’d be in a Motel 6 or a Super 8. You spend as little as possible. If you miss the qualifier, if it was a good town you’d stay there. If it was not a great town, you’d go to the next one and loo..