Wednesday several of the Preakness horses and Black-Eyed Susan fillies were on the track to get a feel for the surface. Photos of all 9 of the Preakness horses and 9 of the Black-Eyed Susan fillies, including Armagnac, Creative Minister, and Simplification.
Bills players, coaches, front office members and other staff members visited the scene of Saturday’s mass shooting on Wednesday and dished out food and handed out groceries to show their support for the community.
Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper, who sat out his third straight game Wednesday as he recovers from a platelet-rich plasma injection in his injured right elbow, cannot throw for at least six weeks, says manager Joe Girardi.
Our annual analysis of the contenders to see who best matches the profile of a Preakness winner. Only three Derby horses are making the trip to Baltimore along with the Oaks winner, but it is one of them that gets top pick.
Bryson DeChambeau has withdrawn from this week’s PGA Championship due to his hand injury. DeChambeau traveled to Southern Hills on Monday afternoon, in hopes of making his first start since undergoing hand surgery after missing the cut at the Masters. The eight-time TOUR winner cited fatigue in his surgically repaired left hand, according to Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis. “I’m close, but it’s just not there yet,” DeChambeau said, according to GOLF.com. “I need to make the decision to protect my health in the long term.” DeChambeau spent time at Southern Hills on Tuesday and Wednesday, including range sessions. He hugged Tiger Woods behind No. 9 green, showing Woods the scar from his surgery. DeChambeau said was proud of making the trip to Southern Hills, as he worked through a rehabilitation process from his April 14 surgery to repair a broken hook of hamate bone in his left hand. At the time, he expressed the goal of returning within two months; a PGA appearance would have marked a timetable ahead of schedule. “Being out of the game is not fun,” DeChambeau told Golf Channel on Tuesday. “It’s not a fun thing for me.” DeChambeau was scheduled to commence the PGA Championship at 8:49 a.m. CT Thursday off No. 10, alongside Max Homa and Tyrrell Hatton. He will be replaced by Denny McCarthy. DeChambeau also has been dealing with a torn labrum in his left hip. The injuries forced him to miss both the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, where he was the defending champion, and THE PLAYERS. Against his doctors’ orders, he played the two events preceding the Masters before teeing it up in the year’s first major. DeChambeau said he first felt a “pop” in his hand last November and that he aggravated the injury when he slipped and fell while playing table tennis earlier this year. He has played just six times in 2022, either missing the cut or withdrawing in four of those events. He also finished T58 in the 64-man World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play and T25 in the 38-man Sentry Tournament of Champions. He has fallen from fifth to 22nd in the Official World Golf Ranking and his position in both the TOUR Championship and Presidents Cup are both in peril. DeChambeau, who has qualified for East Lake in each of the last four seasons, currently ranks 219th in the FedExCup standings. He is 24th in the U.S. Presidents Cup standings after playing on the last three U.S. international teams, including the United States’ record-setting roster last year. DeChambeau started chipping April 30 while stitches were still in his left hand and posted a video Saturday that showed him hitting balls into a net with a launch monitor showing 192 mph ball speed.
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With as much as a PGA TOUR player faces week in and out – from practices and performances, to travel arrangements and lodging – any load they can lighten is a good thing. When that load has ties to charity, that becomes a great thing. At last week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, rather than family and friends hitting players up for tickets, they were directed to an online friends and family portal. There, donations of any amount for each ticket benefitted the Birdies for Mental Health Initiative and the Momentous Institute of Dallas. Well over $20,000 was raised for the tournament charity. AT&T Byron Nelson tournament partner Chisum Sports presented the idea, “Pros For A Purpose,” following conversations with Dallas-based players who regularly field a large number of ticket requests during a home tournament week. Many of the requests of players for tickets come at the last minute. They were often requests that players’ wives or managers would coordinate through the tournament office. A QR code was given to players linking to a self-service site. This allowed tickets to be ordered by player name, which was followed by a donation request. “The idea of offering an online ticket request page started out as a convenience for players, friends, family and the tournament staff,” said Julie Chisum with Chisum Sports, “but then players and player wives really got behind the donations to support the tournament charity.” “The tournament office noticed early in the week that we weren’t fielding the numerous calls, texts and email requests we normally get from players and wives trying to get tickets for their family,” said Jon Drago, AT&T Byron Nelson Tournament Director. “I love this,” said Kourtney Schenk, PGA TOUR Wives Association Board Member and wife of TOUR member, Adam Schenk. “During tournaments, the wives often have group texts to figure out who has extra tickets. It’s a lot to coordinate, especially during a home week when you have so many people who want to come watch. This ticket program makes it easy and allows the local charity to benefit because even small donations for each ticket add up.” “Pros For A Purpose,” a 501(c)(3), has donated more than $500,000 to various tournament charities and player foundations through player and celebrity-hosted events. “The impact of the golf community coming together is what makes this game and the PGA TOUR so special.” said Chisum. “When the AT&T Byron Nelson announced the Mental Health Initiative with May being Mental Health Month, the players and TOUR community really got behind the effort. Besides making lots of birdies, the ticket program was another way for players to do so.” “I think this is a great idea for other tournaments,” said TOUR member and Texas native Ryan Palmer. “I hear the Charles Schwab Challenge is already looking at doing something similar, and I hope they do. This week, my wife, Jen, and I were able to know our people had access to tickets and we didn’t have to be in the middle of all the requests.” Palmer heard right. When Charles Schwab Challenge Tournament Director Michael Tothe learned of the initiative and its success, he implemented the program to be utilized next week at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth.
Former New York Giants cornerback James Bradberry has agreed to a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, the team announced Wednesday.
Rickie Fowler may still be trying to dig his games out of the depths, but he’s playing in a major championship this week. A T8 finish in last year’s PGA Championship got Fowler into this week’s field. He arrives at Southern Hills ranked 125th in the FedExCup and 146th in the world ranking. New gear is part of Fowler’s process to re-finding the game that led to five PGA TOUR wins, including the 2015 PLAYERS, and made him a top-five player in the world. The Oklahoma State alum arrives at Southern Hills with one top 10 this season, a T3 at the CJ CUP @ SUMMIT in the fall. He’s missed six of 13 cuts this season, but is coming off a solid T21 at the recent Wells Fargo Championship. He made a number of significant equipment changes before that week. Fowler led the PGA TOUR in Strokes Gained: Putting five years ago but has gone through a slew of putter changes in recent years. He recently utilized Cobra’s new 3D printing process to find his latest flatstick. The putter is similar to Cobra’s King Stingray 20 retail putter, but it doesn’t have the same winged shape in the rear of the putter. That change is something Fowler personally requested. “With the Stingray, the one that’s (available at retail) has some wings on it, so we made one without those just to condense it a little bit. … I don’t like having too much weight in the rear,” Fowler told GolfWRX two weeks ago at the Wells Fargo. “A lot of mallets, you get weight in the back, where I feel like I’m kind of dragging a lot of times. If it’s not a face balanced putter, the face will swing open and I feel like it kind of stays there. So that was the reasoning for taking those off. “There is a touch of toe hang on it, just to where there is a little bit of swing. The guys at Cobra were able to make that up. … They’re 3D printed, so that’s what’s nice. … We’re able to make little tweaks instead of having to make a completely new head. They can put that data in and print it up.” Additionally, Fowler switched back into iron shafts that he played for years earlier in his career. Fowler had been using Mitsubishi’s MMT iron shafts over the last two years to help lower spin, but he switched back into his old KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ shafts before the Wells Fargo Championship for a familiar feel and slightly more spin. (With my swing) being back in a better delivery spot, I was almost too low on the spin spectrum,” Fowler told GolfWRX.com. “The C-Tapers help get me back to where I want spin to be at. I can manipulate loft and stuff like that to get spin where I want and all that. … The MMTs did what I wanted originally. As things continued to get better, I was looking to add a little bit of spin.” GolfWRX caught up with Fowler on Monday to take a look at everything he has in his bag this week at Southern Hills. Here’s a closer look. Driver: Cobra LTDx LS (9 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 70X prototype 3-wood: Cobra RadSpeed Big Tour (14.5 degrees, with 12.5 degrees of actual loft) Shaft: Aldila Synergy Blue 75TX 5-wood: Cobra LTDx LS (17.5 degrees, with 16.5 degrees of actual loft) Shaft: Aldila Synergy prototype Irons: Cobra King Forged MB (4-PW) Shafts: KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ Wedges: Cobra King prototype (52 and 56 degrees), Titleist Vokey 2022 WedgeWorks Proto (60 degrees) Shafts: KBS Tour 610 Wedge (52 and 56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (60) Putter: Cobra King Stingray 20 prototype Golf Ball: TaylorMade TP5x Pix
