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UFC 251 pre-fight facts: Yan vs. Aldo

Check out the key facts, figures and footnotes for UFC 251, which is features Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo for the vacant bantamweight title.

Check out the key facts, figures and footnotes for UFC 251, which is features Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo for the vacant bantamweight title.

UFC 251 pre-fight facts: Usman vs. Masvidal

Check out the key facts, figures and footnotes for UFC 251, which is headlined by Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal.

Check out the key facts, figures and footnotes for UFC 251, which is headlined by Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal.

Viktor Hovland gets ‘first professional win’ at a Formula 1 race track

Brooks Koepka was among six golfers who fired golf balls on to a Formula 1 race track in the Middle East on Tuesday.

World No. 1 Brooks Koepka said his left knee still isn’t 100 percent, but it’s good enough to start playing again.

He was among six golfers who participated in a contest where they fired golf balls on to a Formula 1 race track in the Middle East on Tuesday.

Koepka underwent a stem-cell procedure last fall for a partially torn patella tendon in his left knee, which had been bugging him since last March.

He was joined by Louis Oosthuizen, Danny Willett, Bernd Wiesberger, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Viktor Hovland in the Hero Challenge (not to be confused Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge, held in the Bahamas last month).

Tuesday’s event was at the Yas Marina Circuit to promote the European Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the United Arab Emirates. This Hero did not have any waste bunkers (insert Patrick Reed joke here) but did feature some pretty great shot-making:

Each of the golfers fired balls from a mat high up on a platform. It was like they were hitting off a cliff to a target down below that was 100 yards away.

An extra challenge was making sure not to plunk a Formula 1 car parked right in front the target.

Brooks Koepka at the Hero Challenge ahead of the 2020 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Your winner? Viktor Hovland, who called it “My first professional win.”

Hovland faced off against Louis Oosthuizen in the final round. Wearing blue jeans, Hovland won by a score of 190-55 and through three rounds, never missed the target.

Talk about a dialed in wedge game.

The HSBC Championship is the first of three consecutive European Tour events in the Middle East.

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