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Giant Animatronic T-Rex Forces Australian PGA Championship To Relocate
Australia is a busy, unsettling place. It's not quite Fort Wayne (where else is, you know?), but there's still a lot going on there....
Say Hello To The World's Longest Golf Club
As the USGA pushes for a ban on belly putters, one strange man is taking drivers the same way. This is Michael Furrh, an Arlington (Texas) golf pro, taking a swing with a 14-foot-2.5-inch club. Guinness World Record auditors were on hand, and the ball traveled 146 yards. Perhaps it's not the most ...
Fan Yells Out "Mashed Potatoes" During Graeme McDowell's Shot; McDowell Tells Him To Go Jerk It
Graeme McDowell won for the first time in two years when he closed out the World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Sunday. On McDowell's approach shot on 16, someone in the gallery yelled out "mashed potatoes!"—which will never not be funny....
Baboon Steals TV Cameraman's Lunch At The Nedbank Golf Challenge In South Africa
Many golf courses around the world are known for their treacherous hazards: the Island Green at TPC-Sawgrass, the 18th on the Blue Monster at Doral, the Road Hole at St. Andrews....
Should Golf Be Allowed To Grow Up? The USGA Says No.
Let us, for a moment, discuss the intricacies of golf. Putting is perhaps the most difficult aspect of the game. One inch to the left, you win; one more to the right, you lose. Good putting requires an incredibly smooth stroke. In recent years, some players have started to use long putters—which the...
Michael Jordan Reportedly Banned From Swanky Country Club For Wearing Cargo Pants On The Golf Course
Retirement has not been kind to Michael Jordan's fashion sense, and now Jordan's curious wardrobe choices seem to have gotten him banned from La Gorce Country Club in Miami. The New York Post has the story, in which anonymous sources claim that Jordan arrived at the golf course wearing cargo pants,...
Miguel Angel Jimenez Becomes Oldest Player To Win On European Tour, Remains Coolest Dude In Golf
There are essentially two reasons for this post on the 48-year-old Spaniard. One is the video above. It remains as magnificently hypnotic as ever and should be viewed at least twice a year, as needed. The other is the quote below, following his win at the Hong Kong Open....
Charlie Beljan Checked Out Of The Hospital Saturday Morning And Secured His PGA Tour Card The Next Day
Charlie Beljan is a 28-year-old PGA Tour rookie who suffered what he called an "anxiety or panic attack that kind of spun out of control" this past Friday. He was taken, via ambulance, from the golf course in Disney World to the hospital and admitted after exhibiting symptoms including high blood p...
Huntingdon Golf Coach Dismissed After Profane Rant
Matt Mahanic is no longer the golf coach of the D-III Huntingdon Hawks. Not a day after we posted audio of an f-bomb-filled rant, spurred by his players finishing 11th in a 12-team tournament last month, the Methodist-affiliated school in Montgomery, Ala., removed hm from the team website, naming an...
Profane Rant By D-III Christian College's Golf Coach Is A Thing To Behold
You could forward through the first 1:55 of this clip to get to the yelling and the screaming and the oh-so-many bad words. You could. But you shouldn't, because the buildup is what makes the explosion so great. Calm, helpful strategy gives way to praise for the one player who shot a decent round,...
What It's Like To Play A Round Of Golf At A Maximum Security Prison
This piece was originally published in Tomorrow Magazine, which just published its inaugural issue. Go here to buy a copy, and read more stories here....
In 1938, The Dumbass Hurricane Bros Were Badass Senior Golfers
Hurricane Sandy is the biggest storm to hit the Northeast since the 1938 New England Hurricane ripped through the region, killing hundreds and causing millions in property damage....
"Suck My Fuckin' Dick, You Piece Of Shit": Golfer Mark Wiebe's On-Air Meltdown Would Fit In Well On Your Local Muni
PGA Champions tour golfer Mark Wiebe is in the top ten of the AT&T Championship leaderboard at the moment, but a missed putt during yesterday's second round sent the 55-year-old on a humorously foul tirade—though, as always, we find the apology afterward far more amusing. You know, because viewers...
Live Shark Falls Out Of Sky Onto Golf Course
"Honestly, this is the weirdest thing that's happened here," the course director said, and we very much hope that's true....
Here's An Awkward Tiger Woods Interview On CNBC
Tiger Woods is only on CNBC for this interview with Maria Bartiromo to plug Fuse Science, his new sponsorship. Considering Woods's taciturn personality, the segment should have been a glorified commercial, a break from lots of numbers and stuff. But Bartiromo lets her news instinct take over and tri...
You Can Own A Jar Containing The Ghost Of Bobby Jones For The Low Price Of $1,000
Reader Ben sends us some exciting news. Not only is legendary golfer Bobby Jones currently existing in our world as a benevolent spirit, he is also living comfortably in a glass jar. A glass jar that you can buy on eBay! The starting bid is listed at $500, or the jar can be bought outright for $1,0...
Tiger Woods Apologized For Singlehandedly Losing The Ryder Cup
Despite the hyperbolic headline, Woods has come in for surprisingly little heat after a Ryder Cup the U.S. lost by one point, in which he went 0-3-1. Maybe it's because the outcome was decided before Tiger stepped up to the 18th tee on Sunday, maybe it's because there's plenty of blame to go around,...
Here's Michael Phelps Sinking A 150-Foot Putt At A Scottish Pro-Am
Olympic legend Michael Phelps has picked up golf, taking on Hank Haney as an instructor and managing to register as a 24 handicap. He's playing with Paul Casey at the Dunhill Links Championship pro-am today in Scotland, and he managed to land a putt measured by the Daily Mail as a 50-yarder. The p...
Meet The Illinois Policeman Who Helped Rory McIlroy Make His Ryder Cup Tee Time
Rory McIlroy almost missed his tee time at the Ryder Cup on Sunday because he is bad at understanding time zones, but he might have not made it at all if a local policeman hadn't escorted him to Medinah. Deputy Police Chief Pat Rollins was working security at the players' hotel, and managed to deliv...
Euro Golf Fan At Medinah Celebrates Ryder Cup Win So Hard His Tooth Flies Out On Live TV
Yesterday's Ryder Cup meltdown at Medinah—already the fodder for Taiwanese animation mockery—prompted rowdy European fans to go crazy in their celebration of what the British press is already calling one of the great sports comebacks in history. We don't blame the Euros for getting excited, but we...