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Like me, you won’t need to know who Sugar Rodgers was to find this a moving story.
Rodgers is the leading scorer in the history of Georgetown University and went on to win a WNBA Championship with the Minnesota Lynx in 2013.
But to get there Rodgers had to overcome incredible adversity after growing up in a crack house and no doubt experiences some incredibly hard times.
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After a few years trying to find her swing again, Lydia Ko is well and truly back after a fabulous win at the Lotte Championship a few weeks ago.
And despite a missed cut last week, Ko was back in contention again at this week’s HSBC Champions event in Hong Kong, eventually finishing in a tie for 7th place.
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A fast-finishing Hyu Joo Kim has claimed the HSBC Women’s World Championship by a single stroke over Australia’s Hannah Green.
Korea’s Hyu Joo Kim carded a final-round 8-under 64 to edge out Australia’s Hannah Green by a stroke to win the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Hong Kong.
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The Flop Wall Challenge is a little chaotic with five TaylorMade sponsored golfers mucking around trying to hit a wedge over a wall.
Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Matthew Wolff and Tommy Fleetwood all feature here with plenty of banter going on. Even Dustin Johnson is unusually chirpy in this one.
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Good mates and occasionally mulleted, Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman have combined to win the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
It took an extra hole to separate the Australian duo of Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith, with the South African pairing, Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen.
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Marc Leishman helped out his mate and playing partner Cameron Smith by wearing a mullet of his own.
Despite his girlfriend’s disgust with it, Cameron Smith continues to sport one filthy mullet.
Playing partner and fellow Australian Marc Leishman decided to lend his support to Smith by wearing a not-so-natural mullet himself at the Zurich Classic this weekend.
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The format of Zurich Classic is a nice change to the usual individual strokeplay that has become so common in professional golf.
During today’s foursomes format second round (alternate shot), Graeme McDowell gave his partner the hole off as he made an ace at the par-3 17th.
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Adam Scott has confirmed he will skip the Olympic Games golf event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Adam Scott has previously shown little interest in the Olympic Golf and skipped the 2016 Olympics in Rio citing Zika virus concerns.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Rohith Nair has reported that Scott will use the week to spend more time with his family.
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Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman are back together as team mates for this week’s Zurich Classic but they were in disbelief when they weren’t paired up for the 2019 Presidents Cup.
By Ben Everill, PGATOUR.COM
Cameron Smith was annoyed. Marc Leishman was in disbelief.
The duo had just been told that International Captain Ernie Els did not see them as a likely pair for the 2019 Presidents Cup in their native Australia.
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Bernie McGuire remembers Greg Norman’s days after his 1996 Masters collapse.
Following Hideki Matsuyama’s history-making Masters victory and the PGA Tour’s schedule in Hilton Head this week, Australian golf writer Bernie McGuire has shared his memories of the week after the 1996 Masters Tournament.
Most Australian golf fans don’t need reminding about what went on in the final round of the 1996 Masters but if you’ve really wiped it from your memory, Greg Norman somehow turned a six-stroke lead into a five-stroke loss to England’s Nick Faldo.
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