Sports quirks in 2019: Golf balls, oddballs, watches, pants

This year’s venue for the Senior PGA Championship has made news for reasons that have nothing to do with the tournament or the champion it might produce. The world’s best 50-and-over golfers are competing for the first time at a course owned by a sitting president: Trump National Golf Club, on the Potomac River about 25 miles northwest of Washington. President Donald Trump has already visited the club four times since taking office. The course has been targeted by vandals and widely mocked for including a plaque commemorating a Civil War battle that never happened. Law enforcement officials on site are anticipating protests along the river, which is the only way to access the property without

CROMWELL, Conn. – Three weeks ago at the FedEx St. Jude Classic Daniel Berger began the final round three strokes off the lead but rallied with a closing 66 to win his second PGA Tour title. Given that history, when he teed off on Sunday at the Travelers Championship three shots behind Jordan Spieth, the irony wasn’t lost on him. Despite a rough start that included a bogey at his first hole and an even-par opening loop, Berger pulled into a tie for the lead with a 5-footer for birdie at the 15th hole and kept pace with Spieth with a 7-footer for birdie two holes later to finish tied for the lead at 12 under par. “I made a ton of pars early on,� Berger said. “It was looking like I was completely