It’s never a good feeling when your shots are unpredictable and all over the place. You feel like your swing mechanics are there but have no idea what direction your ball will go or what’s causing these misses.
We have all faced the decision of whether to putt or chip.
Your ball may have been near the green with a notable amount of distance to the actual hole, or perhaps the lie looked suspect or there wasn’t too much grass around the ball.
This week, Golfweek’s fitness guru and long driver Averee Dovsek demonstrates how to settle the debate on when to putt or chip when you can’t decide.
A bad putt is always better than a bad chip.
When in doubt, putt it out.
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For The Win spoke with 2-time World Cup champion Tobin Heath about the USWNT in the 2023 tournament.
During the 2023 World Cup, Tobin Heath is doing something a little different.
For the first time in more than a decade, she’ll be watching the competition from afar after winning World Cup titles with Team USA in 2015 and 2019. Heath hasn’t played in a game since undergoing knee surgery in September.
So instead, she and Christen Press — a fellow two-time World Cup champ recovering from a knee injury — will break it down on their new digital series, The RE—CAP Show, which is produced by the lifestyle brand RE—INC, founded by Heath, Press, Megan Rapinoe and Meghan Klingenberg in 2019. Through the content arm of RE—INC, Heath hopes to provide the kind of analysis she’d want to see and “reimagine the way women are seen and experienced in sports.” The first episode dropped Thursday.
“We say we live at the intersection of sports progress and equity,” 35-year-old Heath said. “It’s always kind of cool to see how with just a single platform — which essentially was the legacy of the founders and all of our fights both on and off the field — how we’ve used that to create a vehicle that could far outlast any of our own individual playing careers.”
Ahead of the USWNT’s first game in the 2023 World Cup — its matchup against Vietnam is set for 9 p.m. ET on Friday on FOX — For The Win spoke with Heath about her expectations for the team, its biggest competition, equity in women’s soccer and the upcoming retirement of star Megan Rapinoe.
This week, Golfweek‘s fitness guru and long driver Averee Dovsek demonstrates a tip to implement in your swing to get a bit more club head speed when you think you’ve peaked.
It’s important to practice this tip on the driving range before the course, as it can feel a bit more aggressive than your traditional swing.
If you are searching for that extra couple of yards, lifting the heel is a must-try.
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A reminder that Indianapolis Motor Speedway is enormous.
This story was originally published in 2020 and has been updated.
As the host to the Indianapolis 500, one of the biggest motor sports events in the world, Indianapolis Motor Speedway is absolutely massive with a capacity that can hold at least 350,000 people between the grandstands and the infield.
In fact, the infield of the iconic 2.5-mile track is so ridiculously gigantic that, at 253 acres, it’s large enough to simultaneously hold several other sports venues and international landmarks — if that were an actual thing that could happen, of course.
So, with the 107th Indy 500 on Sunday, we thought this would be a good time to remind everyone just how enormous Indianapolis Motor Speedway is. The IMS infield could hold eight major landmarks inside of it simultaneously: Churchill Downs, Yankee Stadium, Rose Bowl Stadium, Vatican City, the Taj Mahal, the White House, Liberty Island and the Roman Colosseum.
In the image below, Yankee Stadium, Liberty Island, the White House and the Colosseum are on top of the golf course inside the track.
As Snopes previously noted about this astounding fact, we’re only talking about the Indy track’s infield and not the total property acreage, so that is the standard applied here to exclude the landmarks’ surrounding areas. More via Snopes:
Adding up the footprints of Churchill Downs (80 acres), Yankee Stadium (15 acres), the Rose Bowl (10 acres), the Roman Colosseum (6 acres), Vatican City (110 acres), the White House (18 acres), Taj Mahal (less than 1 acre), and Liberty Island (12 acres), produces an overall area (252 acres) that is smaller than the size of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (253 acres). (We’re ignoring the issue of whether the shapes of these landmarks would allow them to be placed within the IMS without any overlap or stacking.)
So yeah, Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a monster sports venue that could hold several major attractions if that were actually possible.
The 107th running of the Indy 500 is Sunday, May 29 with coverage beginning at 11 a.m. ET on NBC. The green flag is set for 12:45 p.m. ET.
A look at some of the photos and videos to emerge from Week 1 of #Chiefs OTAs.
Photo and video privileges are limited during OTAs, but the Kansas City Chiefs do provide a look through their own lens. They’ve shared several images and videos on social media, giving a glimpse into the practices that help set the foundation for the upcoming season.
Below you can find some clips and photos from the first week of OTAs:
A series of unfortunate events during his Bellator 294 fight camp nearly cost Tim Johnson more than just missing a fight.
HONOLULU – Bellator heavyweight [autotag]Tim Johnson[/autotag] made it to Hawaii to compete in the co-main event of Bellator 294, but some unfortunate events during fight camp nearly ruined everything.
Johnson (16-9 MMA, 4-5 BMMA) went through a lot in the weeks leading up to his fight against Said Sowma at Neal S. Blaisdell Center. The pressure of needing to snap a three-fight skid to keep his job was one thing, but the unexpected physical hurdles made the entire situation surrounding Johnson’s 25th professional fight so much worse.
“This fight camp has been filled with more adversity than I have in any other fight camp put together,” Johnson told MMA Junkie and other reporters at the post-fight news conference. “I started off with a car accident that I have no idea how I walked away from. I’m going to put photos up on my Instagram that just show basically the chain of events that happened this fight camp.
“I’m gonna put this out: Everyone make sure you wear your seat belts. I was not wearing mine like an idiot, because I took it off moments before. I rear-ended someone going about 70 miles an hour, and I have no idea how I’m awake or alive at all. That’s how I started off my fight camp. My neck was jacked up pretty good for a couple weeks.”
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While Johnson was fortunate to walk away from the car wreck without any serious injuries, his fight camp woes didn’t stop there.
“Then I had some stuff going on with stomach issues,” Johnson explained. “I went to the ER four total times. They couldn’t figure out what was going on. Figured it was gastritis and then an ulcer. Then three weeks ago I was back in the ER, and finally found out what the problem was: I was pregnant. I had some kidney stones and that was the problem of everything. So, this has been one heck of a fight camp.”
Johnson defeated Sowma by unanimous decision, winning two rounds on all three judges’ scorecards. For now, he can exhale a bit before it’s time to prepare for another fight – one that hopefully comes without so many challenges in camp.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for Bellator 294.
Some on the team reportedly called Westbrook a “vampire” and blamed him for the team’s terrible chemistry. It was as if it were completely Westbrook’s fault that the Lakers traded for him in the first place. It was completely ridiculous.
Now, Westbrook got himself a bit of revenge on Wednesday night in a Clippers win over the Lakers that may have derailed the latter’s season a bit.
In the most important Clipper-Laker matchup we’ve ever had, Westbrook dropped 14 points and 4 assists along with 2 made 3-pointers to help push the Clippers to a 125-118 win.
And he trolled the Lakers — and, more specifically, LeBron James — every step of the way.
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That’s why Darvin Ham’s answer for what changed for Anthony Davis in the 2nd half of the Lakers’ game against the Suns is so perfect.
The Lakers big man finished the game with 27 points total, but he only had 7 points on 6 shots in the first half. The second half was a different story. Davis dropped 20 points on 12 shots the rest of the way.
Clearly, something was different for the big man, right? You’d think that maybe there was some sort of halftime speech or maybe Davis just came out of the locker room with a different mentality.
Nah. None of that. Darvin Ham just started calling plays for his best player.
“Nah his [expletive] coach just started calling his plays more. Calling his numbers more. Nah, but…he and I have talked. And I told him I’m going to force-feed him, man. Just be aggressive going to the rim. And he did that.”
He absolutely did. The Suns had nothing for him at all — especially not in the paint. Only 3 of Davis’ 10 makes came outside of the painted area on the court.
The dude was balling. And it wasn’t because the Lakers were doing something complicated or scheming some galaxy-brained concept up to get him open looks.
Nope. He was just that good. Basketball can be that simple sometimes.
The Jets fortunes are finally turning around. After being just a quarterback away for so long, Aaron Rodgers has announced he’s coming to (hopefully?) save the day in New York.
Nobody was happier to hear the news than Jets fans. Among them was Mike Greenberg. The dude was absolutely pumped to see his favorite team finally getting a quarterback.
We know this because his wife, Stacy, did the fantastic work of not only documenting his reaction but also documenting the moments leading up to his reaction to Rodgers saying he’s coming to New York.
And that reaction, folks, is absolutely priceless. It’s absolutely the same one Jets fans everywhere had.
