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Let Me Play in the U.S. Open, You Cowards
The U.S. Open of golf is right around the corner at the famed Winged Foot Country Club in Westchester, N.Y. As someone who loves golf and New York, it’s the perfect opportunity for me to catch a flight and head out to play in my first major championship....
We’ve Lived with 'The Masters' Name Long Enough
If you haven’t noticed, this country is changing by the day....
Tiger Woods Hates Being Black
The symbol above his words resembles three Ku Klux Klan hoods....
Five Reasons To Watch — And Not Watch — 'The Match 2'
Live sports are coming back....
No Masters? No Problem! Retro Video Game Quarantine Hits The Links With NES Golf
This was supposed to be the weekend of The Masters, but instead it’s the weekend of the fifth installment of the Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club, where nobody gets a green jacket. Maybe just green sweatpants....
Major Golf Events Are Being Cancelled Everywhere, But States As Hard Hit As N.Y. Still Think It's Safe For Courses To Remain Open
Like every other sport realizing its proper place in a society in crisis, the PGA and professional golf around the globe is undergoing major shifts in its schedule. Today, the British Open was canceled for the first time since 1945, while tournaments over on this side of the pond have been shifted t...
With Trust Between Collaborators, Anything Is Possible, Even Golfing Blind
With the aid of his caddy, Sue Carpenter, blind golfer Graham Coulton is able to play....
Down A Hole: The Missing Scenes Of <i>Donald J. Trump's Fabulous World Of Golf</i>
There are currently two cable news networks devoted to celebrating and defending Donald Trump. Both are widely watched by the most distraught elderly people in the United States, including the president himself, and Trump has made a point of involving various personalities from that network—haunted ...
Maddeningly Slow Golfer Says He Has Evidence To Prove He Isn't Slow, But Can't Share It
Bryson DeChambeau has long been considered one of the slowest pros on the PGA Tour. In August, after taking over two minutes to hit a simple eight-foot putt (which he missed, badly) and a 70-foot approach wedge at the Northern Trust, he drew the ire of golf fans and fellow players, including No. 1 B...
Tony Romo's Hobby Won't Interfere With His Job This Week
Tony Romo could have very well skipped out on his Sunday broadcasting gig at Vikings-Bears to play golf in Napa, Calif. on less than 48 hours notice without facing any consequences. It’s not entirely due to the fact that the former quarterback commands such respect that even his bosses at CBS bend t...
Four Members Of One Texas Family Plead Guilty In Lucrative Masters Ticket Resale Scheme
Tickets to The Masters, held annually at Augusta National in Georgia, are notoriously difficult to come by, and prices on the secondary market are generally preposterous. Four members of one Texas family apparently seized on the arbitrage opportunities presented by this situation in order to make qu...
FOX U.S. Open Coverage Takes Time Out To Glorify How Fucked Up Carmel Is
Yesterday Gary Woodland and his MAGA-friendly spikes held off golfing Terminator Brooks Koepka and won the U.S. Open. It was a classic example of a formerly unknown player revealing himself as a bloodless, stress-proof killer over the course and spending four days fending off all comers for a first ...
Runaway Golf Cart At Pebble Beach Crashes Into Crowd, Hospitalizes Two U.S. Open Spectators
A group of spectators close to the 16th hole of Pebble Beach Golf Links were treated to a scary surprise on Friday when a runaway golf cart made its way straight into them. The vehicle became sentient when a box it was carrying fell from a stack in the back and landed directly on the accelerator sho...
Hank Haney Pretends His Casually Racist Take On Korean Golfers Was Informed All Along
Hank Haney, who was formerly Tiger Woods’s swing coach, earned some attention last week when his assessment of the field for the LPGA’s U.S. Women’s Open was essentially Hell, I don’t know any of them, but I think a bunch of them are Korean. Haney, who made the comments on his radio show about golf,...
Tiger Woods's Old Swing Coach Gets Real Shitty About Women's Golf On His Radio Show
Hank Haney is an old golf fogey who is best known for at one point being Tiger Woods’s swing coach. He now hosts his own radio show about golf, and during this morning’s edition of the show he said some pretty gross things about the LPGA....
It's Political
Tiger Woods went to the White House last week to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. As is the case whenever a notable celebrity willingly enters the orbit of our white supremacist president, this raised plenty of questions about Woods’s political leanings. Does he agree wit...
Michael Wilbon Will Not Pardon Golf Reruns Being Interrupted For Tornado Warnings
A system of intense and fast-moving thunderstorms swept across most of the eastern United States on Sunday. In Georgia, the incoming weather forced the fourth and final round of the weekend’s Masters golf tournament to start hours earlier than usual, so that the golfers and spectators could get off ...
Un-Fucking-Real
He was finished. He was disgraced, hobbled, and eaten alive by the ravages of both fame and time. His story was over; it was simply a matter how clumsily it would end and how long it would take for that end to finally arrive....
Donald Trump Is Never More Donald Trump Than When He's Cheating At Golf
“There are so many ways he just throws up all over golf,” Rick Reilly told The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis for a story that was sort of about Reilly’s active retirement and also about Reilly’s new book on President Donald Trump’s life of crime on the golf course. That book is called Commander In Cheat, an...
The Innocent Man Freed From Prison Because Of His Golf Artwork Is Making A Career Out Of It
Valentino Dixon tells a story in front of a packed house for his first solo art show, and the crowd is enraptured. He went to prison in 1992, and after he was released in 2018, his daughter bought him his first smartphone....