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    Shane Bacon is the editor of Devil Ball Golf and Busted Racquet. A writer all his life, Shane has caddied at St. Andrews, played mini tour golf (to little success) and had the opportunity to write sports for both AOL and CBS. You can find Shane on a golf course or tennis court in Scottsdale, Arizona

    • If 2013 doesn't go down as the year Mother Nature won the FedEx Cup, it might just be the year of the weird drops.

      That continued at the Volvo World Match Play Championship, when Nicolas Colsaerts found himself in a situation that you probably won't ever see again no matter how much golf you watch over the next few decades.

      Colsaerts was playing Graeme McDowell when his tee shot on par-4 10th hole flew well out of play in the hazard. A rules official came over and determined that the nearest point of relief was where most golfers go to take relief; in a nearby bathroom.

      The ball was dropped inside the toilet, Colsaerts then was able to take relief from that spot, hitting his approach shot on the green and rolling in the putt for par.

      It was enjoyable watching Colsaerts and the rules official having a chuckle about the whole situation, and even cooler that he still made par despite the penalty stroke, but his hopes of winning the match were, ahem, flushed by McDowell who won 2 & 1.

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    • I have absolutely no idea who at Golf Monthly convinced Miguel Angel Jimenez to give us a demonstration of how he does his pre-range stretching, but the person deserves a raise.

      Jimenez, a man who made golf stretching famous at the 2011 British Open, gives you an idea of how he gets loose at the golf course and there is just too much to like about this video.

      I mean, the guy starts the video off by stretching WHILE HOLDING A CIGAR which is just incredible on so many levels. I love that he calls what he does with his knees "the little dancing move" and who knows, maybe stretching like this is the way to go for all us golfers and Jimenez has just been on it for years, laughing at us fools who simply go to the range and start banging balls.

      Thank you Golf Monthly, thank you Miguel and thank you Internet for making this all possible.

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    • If there is one constant joke about Jason Dufner it's that his mild-mannered attitude leaves golf fans wondering if the guy ever gets excited for anything.

      We've seen Dufnering take off at an incredible rate, and we've seen him make big putts to win golf tournaments, but most of the time it's just a 36-year-old man walking a green pasture with something tucked under his lip and few worries in the world.

      On Thursday at the Byron Nelson, Dufner made the turn at 2-over after a birdie on his ninth hole and was faced with an approach shot on No. 1 from 129 yards.

      The shot ended up perfect, dropping for an eagle just a week after he did the same thing at the Players Championship. His reaction at Sawgrass was subdued, but Dufner actually got into this one a little, doing what looked like a mix between the double fist pump from Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open and that old D-Generation X move from the WWE.

      Dufner shot a round of even-par 70 on Thursday, leaving him 10 shots back of Keegan

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    • One of the best things about the "Feherty" show on Golf Channel is just how easy it is for David Feherty to get these professional golfers to open up about stuff you've never heard before.

      Feherty has that unique ability to interview pros not just as famous athletes but as people, and the latest episode with Rocco Mediate did just that.

      Mediate was asked about that incredible 2008 U.S. Open when he battled Tiger Woods down the stretch, into a playoff and nearly beat the 14-time major winner at Torrey Pines, a golf course Woods has dominated over the years.

      The story turned to what happened after it was all over, and Mediate mentioned an envelope he left in Tiger's locker at the '09 Players Championship. The envelope included a photograph and a pin sheet from their battle at Torrey with a note asking for an autograph and a quote about what happened so he could frame it and put it on his wall.

      Tiger simply autographed the picture, with no inscription, and left it for Mediate. What did

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    • Most people waste time at work. They check websites or take smoke breaks or spend a few extra minutes in the bathroom to pass the time until that clock hits 5.

      At one of the biggest golf companies in the world, wasting time means something totally different. The man you see above is Logan Fondren, the custom club manager at Callaway Golf taking some time at the Callaway office to attempt a putt that looked just about impossible.

      According to a friend at Callaway, Fondren only needed eight takes to hit this putt that went down the stairs, against the boards, back down another set of stairs and in the back of a glass of water for one of the best office golf shots in the history of the work.

      I know it wasn't a full golf shot but I hope Logan went out of his way to buy the guys a round after draining that one.

    • Keegan Bradley — Getty ImagesThere are few times as a professional golfer when saying the words "I did something that Sam Snead pulled off" is a bad thing.

      On Thursday at the Byron Nelson, Keegan Bradley was able to utter that sentiment after he posted an insane round of 10-under 60 that tied the tournament record held by Snead and Arron Oberholser (both those players did it on a different golf course so Bradley's 60 is a course record at TPC Four Seasons).

      When you hear about Bradley's number you're immediately impressed, but the way he did it might be the best part of the whole day. Bradley started on the back nine and was 5-under through seven holes, but a couple of bogeys in a row seemed to throw the potential for a ridiculously low round out the window.

      That turned out not to be the case when Bradley really heated up, playing his final eight holes 7-under including a closing eagle-birdie-birdie run to get him to 10-under.

      Bradley's round matches Phil Mickelson's 60 from earlier this year at the Waste

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    • Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods — Getty ImagesIt didn't take long for Tiger Woods to regain his dominance over the financial golf world once he started winning golf tournaments again.

      Sports Illustrated, who publishes a list of the 50 highest paid athletes of the previous year, announced this week that Tiger jumped Phil Mickelson as the number five highest paid athlete in all of sports, with Phil coming in just behind him at No. 6.

      Tiger, who had been No. 1 on the list since SI started publishing them in 2004, dropped down the list last year as Floyd Mayweather reigned supreme, but the PGA Tour star with four wins already in 2013 and seven over the last 13 months is the highest paid golfer in the game once again.

      Tiger earned $7.8 million on the course last year and $33 million off it, landing his total at $40.8 million. Phil Mickelson trumped Tiger in endorsement money, earning $36 million, but couldn't keep up with him on the golf course, finishing with $39.5 million for the year.

      Mayweather earned all of his $90 million inside

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    • Two marshals on the grounds at Players said Tiger Woods did not lie

      Tiger Woods — Getty ImagesIt's the story that will not die, and a new wrinkle has emerged in what has become a big battle between what Tiger Woods said during the third round of the Players Championship and what really happened.

      On Saturday at TPC Sawgrass, Tiger was paired with Sergio Garcia and on the second hole, a par-5, Garcia was going for the green in two while Woods was left in the trees trying to figure out his best chance of getting his ball back in play.

      Garcia was about to hit his shot when Woods pulled a club out of his bag, a fairway wood, and the crowd erupted just as Sergio was swinging. During a weather delay, Garcia blamed the bad shot and eventual bogey on the hole on Tiger, saying he pulled the club knowing that Garcia had yet to hit.

      "I wouldn't say (Tiger) didn't see that I was ready, but you do have a feel when the other guy is going to hit. Right as I was on top of the backswing, he pulled a 5-wood or 3-wood out of the rough and, obviously, everybody started screaming, so that didn't

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    • Tiger Woods hits his second shot on No. 2 on Saturday at TPC Sawgrass — Getty ImagesWe have a new wrinkle in the Tiger Woods-Sergio Garcia drama from the third round at the Players Championship and it comes from neither of the players caught up in the war of words at TPC Sawgrass.

      Garcia, who went out of his way to blame Tiger for a bad shot he hit early in his third round, might be justified for going after the eventual winner according to the marshals at Sawgrass.

      Sergio said on Saturday that, "I wouldn't say (Tiger) didn't see that I was ready, but you do have a feel when the other guy is going to hit. Right as I was on top of the backswing, he pulled a 5-wood or 3-wood out of the rough and, obviously, everybody started screaming, so that didn't help very much."

      [Related: Woods' win, Garcia's collapse at TPC should surprise nobody]

      Tiger responded, "The marshals, they told me he already hit, so I pulled a club and was getting ready to play my shot, and then I hear his comments afterward and it’s not real surprising that he’s complaining about something."

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    • You know one tradition on the PGA Tour that doesn't make a lot of sense? The fact that players are forced to wear pants no matter the weather outside. It could be a smoldering summer in Tulsa or a strangling humidity in Florida and the guys are out there, walking 18 holes without so much as an ankle exposed, and Ashworth is sick of it.

      The latest ad, which you can see above, takes on the PGA Tour in a petition like forum, and face it, these guys are just good at golf but a few of them are pretty incredible actors.

      Watch it, enjoy it, and if you feel the need, go sign the petition for more leg.

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