Kaymer wins PGA Championship
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08/15/2010 - Kohler, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Martin Kaymer defeated Bubba Watson in a playoff Sunday to earn his first major title at the 92nd PGA Championship.
Kaymer won by a stroke at even-par in the three-hole playoff despite a bogey at the closing hole.
The German did collect his first major and first PGA Tour win, but the interesting story happened before the three-hole aggregate playoff.
Dustin Johnson was given a two-stroke penalty after his round and that knocked him out of a playoff at Whistling Straits.
"I don't know if I can describe it," Johnson told CBS' David Feherty Sunday. "Walking up there, seeing the shot, never once did it cross my mind it was a sand trap."
Johnson held a one-stroke lead on the 18th tee Sunday and pushed his drive into the gallery on the right. His ball landed in a small sandy patch and he grounded his club before pulling his shot well left of the green.
He pitched to seven feet and if he would have made it, he thought that would've been for the title. Johnson missed and thought he was headed to a playoff with Watson and Kaymer.
"The only worse thing that could've happened is if I would have made that putt," Johnson said.
When Johnson walked off the green, he was greeted by a PGA official. Johnson and playing partner Nick Watney sat in the scorer's tent for several minutes before it was determined that Johnson was getting a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club.
"If it was up to me, I wouldn't have thought I was in a bunker, but it's not up to me," Johnson said.
"That was an area that was designed and built as a bunker," PGA official Mark Wilson said in a television interview.
Johnson ended up with a one-over 73 and missed the playoff by two strokes.
Watson (68) and Kaymer (70) finished regulation at 11-under 277.
Zach Johnson (70) and Rory McIlroy (72) tied for third at 10-under 278.
Dustin Johnson was joined in a tie for fifth by 1995 PGA Champion Steve Elkington and Jason Dufner, who both had rounds of one-under 71 on Sunday.
Tiger Woods had a one-over 73 and tied for 28th at minus-two, while Phil Mickelson carded a five-under 67 to vault into a tie for 12th at six-under 282.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
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