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Tiger Woods Avoids Disqualification From The Masters For Cheating, Is Penalized Two Strokes Instead
Tiger Woods will begin Round 3 of the Masters five strokes behind the leader after tournament officials elected to punish him with a two stroke penalty for taking an illegal drop at 15 Friday after this disastrous turn of bad luck....
Tiger's Third Stroke At 15 Bounces Off Flagstick, Almost Goes Into Hole, Bounces Into Water Instead
Tiger Woods's career is full of miraculous shots (16th at the Memorial, anyone?) but his seemingly perfect third stroke at Augusta National's 15th ended in disaster....
Your Primer On 14-Year-Old Tianlang Guan's Prodigious 1-Over Day At Augusta National
Winning after the first round at Augusta National is the boy tied for 46th place: Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old who as the youngest competitor in a major since 1865 sits just on the cut line at 1-over....
Tiger Woods Drops His First F-Bomb Of The Masters
Tiger Woods wasn't exactly angry at the result of his approach shot on the eleventh hole of his opening round at the Masters—I'd say he was more bemused—but that didn't stop him from dropping a big ol' f-bomb in range of NBC's CBS's microphones. Looks like he's having a good time out there, though!...
How Does Arnold Palmer Order An Arnold Palmer?
"He leaned over and said, 'I'll have a Mr. Palmer.' Then he winked." [Star-Ledger] ...
Bubba Watson Has A Hovercraft Golf Cart
Bubba Watson continues to be the most made-for-the-internet golfer in America. He's taken some time off from dropping hip hop tracks to help develop the world's first golf cart that is also a hovercraft. We are glad that he has done this, because this hovercraft is awesome. ...
Here Is A Professional Golfer Hitting A Chip Shot While Pants-Less
Andreas Hartø is a Danish golfer with three wins (one, his first, as an amateur) on the European Challenge Tour, which is a lower-tier golf tour run by the PGA Europe Tour....
Roundup: Your Best Sad Jason Dufner Photoshop Contest Submissions
The Sad Jason Dufner Photoshop contest did not disappoint. It was almost impossible to pick a winner, so be sure to check out all of the submissions here. On to the roundup:...
Dufnering Is Now A Thing, Thanks To A Gaggle Of Silly Pro Golfers
Yesterday we posted a photo of golfer Jason Dufner visiting a community center and looking supremely downtrodden. Today, golfers all across the land are razzing Dufner, who's been chipper enough about the whole thing, by mimicking his pose. Dufnering! It's a thing! Bubba Watson, who Dufnered in the ...
Photoshop Contest: Sad Jason Dufner
Sad Jason Dufner being sad in a classroom full of children is our favorite thing about today. We can't stop staring at his mopey face and giggling to ourselves. Naturally, we decided that this picture calls for another Photoshop contest. Here's your cut-out:...
Sergio Garcia Just Climbed Into A Tree Like A Monkey And Hit A One-Handed, Backwards, No-Look Shot, And That Shit Really Worked
When Sergio's Garcia errant shot got caught in a big ass tree today at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he was basically screwed. The only thing he could've done was climb up that big ass tree after it, because you have to play the ball as it lies. So that's what he did, and it was spectacular and ki...
Roundup: Your Best Tiger Woods-Lindsey Vonn Photoshop Contest Submissions
This contest elicited plenty of predictably great submissions. Let's run through the best of the bunch....
Golfer Falls Down 18-Foot Sinkhole On Fairway
When one of Mark Mihal's playing partners called the clubhouse at a course in Waterloo, Ill., on Friday, he had to give an assurance that he was not making a prank call. But, uh, out on the 14th fairway, he wanted the clubhouse to know, they were going to need a ladder and a rope. Oh, and call an am...
World Number One Rory McIlroy Walked Off The Course Because He Was Having A Mental Breakdown His Teeth Hurt
Yesterday, reigning PGA champ Rory McIlroy walked off the course at the Honda Classic in Florida after a day of subpar golf, eight holes into a second round for which he was already seven strokes over par. As reporters trailed him on his way out, he said he was in a "bad place mentally," which doesn...
Two Golf Channel Analysts Staged A Snowball Fight Today
The W.G.C.-Accenture match play tournament in Marana, Ariz., was suspended today because a snowstorm made its way to the Sonoran Desert. What to do if you're Roger Maltbie and Steve Sands, who were in the trenches on the empty winter wonderland and had to talk about something? Snowball fight! Or s...
Nine Guys Putt Into A Single Hole And It's Sort Of Impressive In A Useless Way
Things we did not know: Campbell University, in North Carolina, has a PGA-accredited golf management program. It "allows students to acquire the specialized knowledge and skills necessary for success in the golf industry." One of those skills is trick shots. Each month, the program has a competiti...
Tiger Woods And President Obama Play Golf Together, Constitute Nightmare Scenario For Old White Dudes
On the list of Old White Dudes' nightmares, the President of the United States and arguably the best golf player ever both being black, spending too much time on vacation and leisurely playing a round of golf at an exclusive club, betrayed by one of their own, has got to just be the worst, right?...