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Grant Forrest Wins Spanish Open, Other Golfers Get a Good Laugh
You ever stop and think about golf? This game, right? One minute you're stroking the ball like a poet, the next you're flinging it with the elegance of a squirrel trying to escape a particularly enthusiastic dog.
Read the originalNiemann Eyes the Exit as LIV Golf Tries to Find Its Pants
Professional golf has become a bizarre theatrical production where the leading players keep peeking at the emergency exits. Joaquin Niemann, a guy who’s somehow managed to snag nine trophies in this whole chaotic circus, is apparently thinking about bailing.
Read the originalJudge Drops a 400-Tree Bomb on Trump's Golf Course Renos
Alright, so someone's bright idea for a golf course facelift has apparently gone wildly off the fairway and straight into a thicket of legal trouble. A judge recently went on a verbal tear, the kind that makes a golfer’s shanked 8-iron look like a perfectly executed chip shot, at the Trump administration for yeeting over 400 trees at East Potomac Golf Links in D.C.
Read the originalLemieux's Boy Swings for the Fences, Lands a PGA Tour Spot
You know, the whole "sporting lineage" thing can be a bit of a head-scratcher. It's like a weird echo chamber where Dad's legendary status casts a shadow so long it could be a hazard on its own.
Read the originalEllie Hartung Swipes Ohio Golf Crown, Leaves Competitors in Her Dust
Well, it finally happened. After two agonizingly close calls, Madeira's Ellie Hartung has ditched the bridesmaid dress and grabbed the whole damn wedding. Forget those sappy Disney movies; this was pure, unadulterated grit, forged in the fires of practice and culminating in a jaw-dropping victory at the OHSAA Division II state championship held at the notoriously tricky Firestone Country Club.
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