Paul Lakatos/Asian TourBANGKOK, THAILAND – MAY 20: Terry Pilkadaris of Australia during round three of the 2017 Thailand Open at the Thai Country Club on May 20, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour/Asian Tour via Getty Images)When it comes to mistakes in golf, it's often the Indian, not the arrow. Nevertheless, as philosopher and PGA champion Jeff Sluman once remarked, “Sometimes a club just has to die.” A belief on full display at the Panasonic Open.
Terry Pilkadaris had just recorded consecutive bogeys in his first round of the Asian Tour event, but had a chance to get one back with a birdie try at Delhi Golf Club's par-3 17th. Unfortunately for the 44-year-old out of Australia, he failed to convert. A miss that lead Pilkadaris to decide it was time to part ways with his putter, literally and figuratively, chucking the flat stick into the woods. Luckily for us, the cameras were rolling, captured by the Golf Channel:
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ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) Joost Luiten, Haydn Porteous and Nicolas Colsaerts all shot 7-under 64s Thursday to tie for the lead after the first round of the Turkish Airlines Open.

Colsaerts was 8 under through 15 holes, including an eagle on the 12th, but bogeyed the 16th. Porteous brought himself into contention with five birdies on the back nine.

Padraig Harrington (65) was a shot off the lead with his lowest score of the year, tied for fourth with Andres Romero. Harrington said he was motivated by the prospect of increasing his chances of making next year’s Ryder Cup.

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”It would kind of be in your hands if you got a good start like that,” Harrington said. ”The last half dozen years I’ve been thinking it’s really tough to make this team, especially when you’re playing this mixed schedule here and over in the States.”

Ian Poulter (66) was tied for sixth, with Lee Westwood (67) a further stroke behind.

Race to Dubai leader Tommy Fleetwood shot 71. That l..

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) Joost Luiten, Haydn Porteous and Nicolas Colsaerts all shot 7-under 64s Thursday to tie for the lead after the first round of the Turkish Airlines Open.

Padraig Harrington (65) was a shot off the lead with his lowest score of the year, with Ian Poulter (66) and Lee Westwood (67) close behind.

Race to Dubai leader Tommy Fleetwood shot 71.

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The forgotten golf architect: Roger Packard 1947-2017

Meet Corey Bellemore. Corey is a professional runner and humble beer lover from the great nation of Canada. None of these things seem like they have much to do with each other, but they do.
You see, Corey just so happens to be the beer mile’s version of Usain Bolt.
If you’re new to the concept of a beer mile (i.e. didn’t go to state school), it’s pretty simple: Four quarter-mile track laps, each preceded by the chugging of a beer. The clock never stops and puking is met with a penalty lap. In case you’re new to the concept of competition, the fastest man (or woman) wins.
Corey Bellemore always wins.
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This past weekend at the Beer Mile World Classic, hosted during halftime at a semi-pro San Francisco soccer game because obviously, Corey smashed his own beer..

Andrew D. BernsteinCopyright 2014 NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)Turns out, even NBA coaches are like us. At least when it comes to Tiger Woods and Augusta National.
Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers, whose GHIN shows he's currently a 9.9 Handicap Index playing out of historic Bel-Air Country Club, talked about his love of golf on Wednesday, telling a story about trying to get ejected when Tiger was making a run at the Masters during his tenure with the Boston Celtics.
Rivers says he received a text message from his general manager Danny Ainge, another golf fanatic, telling Doc to get himself kicked out of the game so he could come watch Woods with him.
You need to hear Rivers tell the story to fully appreciate it:
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This isn't the first time we've gotten a glimpse into Rivers' passion for golf. The 56-year-old head coach, who also played in the league for 15 seasons, once desc..

If you're avid Jeopardy! viewers like us, you live for nights like Wednesday, when a strictly Golf category made an appearance in the game show's opening round. Sure, you may pull a few random answers out of your ass throughout the course of the week in the categories that require actual knowledge, but unless you're a nerd, chances are you'd be in red figures if you were a contestant on the show, and red figures aren't good on Jeopardy! Little golf humor for you.
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Naturally, the contestants saved the well-beneath-them golf category for last on Wednesday, and Jenny, leading at the time with a cool $7,000, went for the top, $200 clue, and boy did things get really dark, really quickly:
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Good lord, Trebek, how about a warning next time? We knew the Canadian host had a dark sense of humor, but not this dark.
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Eight of the top 10 players in the world, including top-ranked So Yeon Ryu of South Korea and No. 3 Lexi Thompson of the United States, will be among the select field this week at the LPGA Tour’s Toto Japan Classic.

The tournament is a three-day, 54-hole, no-cut event that begins competition on Friday at Taiheyo Club’s Minori Course in Ibaraki, Japan.

The Toto Japan Classic, in its 44th year, is one of just three tournaments remaining in the LPGA Tour’s 2017 schedule and the penultimate stop in the Tour’s six-week run in Asia. This event marks the 31st tournament of the LPGA season, which has seen two first-time winners among its 22 different event champions.

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The roster of 78 players, 43 of which compete regularly on the LPGA Tour and 35 from the LPGA-J (Japan) circuit (including 2015 champion Sun-Ju A), will try to tame the par-72, 6,646-yard course. The golfers are vying for a total purse of $1.5 million, with $225,000 and 500 crucial Race to The Gl..

The PGA Tour returns to the United States this week for the fifth event in its Fall Series schedule with the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which begins play on Thursday at TPC Summerlin in the northwest suburbs of Las Vegas.

Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, headlines a field of 144 players that includes eight players inside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings. It also includes three — Kevin Chappell, Anirban Lahiri of India and Las Vegas resident Charley Hoffman — who recently competed in the Presidents Cup.

The roster of players will compete for 72 holes on the par-71, 7,255-yard course and vie for the total purse of $6.8 million, $1.224 million of which will go to the winner along with 500 FedExCup points.

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Seven other major winners — Ernie Els and Retief Goosen of South Africa, Fiji’s Vijay Singh, Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, Geoff Ogilvy of Australia and Americans Webb Simpson and Jimmy Wa..

Ronald C. Modra/Sports ImageryAs the calendar shifts from October to November, so goes the facial hair of men across America. Each November clean-shaven dudes and bearded bros meet in the middle for #Movember, an annual, month-long celebration of the mustache designed to raise awareness for a variety of men's health issues, from prostate cancer to depression. In order to show our down-ness with that cause, we here at The Loop decided to take a look back at the greatest group of mustachioed men in sports history: The 1986 World-Champion New York Mets. From Hernandez to HoJo, no upper lip went undusted at Shea in the mid-80s, and even though there was no hashtag to justify it, the Mets mustache remains one of New York sports' most iconic trademarks.
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