Johnny Shannon

can’t bomb a drive at a data center, nerd

Three men; a grandfather, his son, and his grandson, meet up at the golf course for their weekly threesome. They tee off and, after a couple of holes, notice a single playing behind them: a beautiful thirty-five-ish young woman who looks like a decent golfer working on her game. Being courteous, the three men agree to let her play through on the next hole, a short par three over water. She steps up and hits an awful shot that goes straight in the water. The grandson, who can’t keep his eyes off the smoking-hot woman, says she should try again, as she was probably just nervous with them watching. She explains that her new boyfriend loves golf and she wants to get better so they can play together. The dad offers her a simple swing suggestion, and she nails the shot, pin high, maybe 18 inches from the hole. She thanks them, and they decide to play the rest of the round together as a foursome, with the smitten men offering suggestions on nearly every shot. On the 18th green, she has a three-foot putt to break 90 for the first time ever. “You guys have been so awesome. I’m playing the round of my life and will beat my personal best by at least five strokes. I even have a chance to break 90 if I make this putt. So, whoever helps me sink this putt, I’ll give you a little ‘something special’ that you won’t soon forget when the round is over,” she says, licking her lips and giving the men a very suggestive wink. The dad jumps up first, studies the line, and says, “There’s a slight break. I’d suggest aiming about two cups to the left.” The son pushes his dad aside, studies it, and says, “He’s right, there is a slight break, but it comes back just before the cup. I’d go right at the hole, maybe a ball to the left if anything.” Finally, Grandpa shakes his head at his bumbling offspring, studies the ball and hole from every angle, even checks the grain of the grass. He stops, puts his arm around the beautiful young woman, and says, “That’s a gimme!”

What a moment for Marcus Rashford! 😱😱 A stunning free kick to give Barcelona the lead and see them move closer to clinching the title tonight 🔵🔴 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 @sbk | 18+ | 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦

Two women were playing golf. The first woman tees off, ripping a perfect drive right down the center of the fairway. The second woman hits her drive, and it’s an awful shank, a hosel rocket heading directly toward a foursome of men playing on the opposite hole. The woman yells “FORE” and watches in horror as her ball hits one of the men, who immediately clasps his hands over his groin, drops to the ground, and rolls around in agony. She rushes over to the downed man and begins apologizing profusely. “Please allow me to help,” she says. “I’m a physical therapist and I know I can relieve your pain if you’ll let me.” “Oh no, I’m fine. I should be all right in a few minutes,” the man replies. He was still in obvious agony, lying in the fetal position with his hands clasped at his groin. At her insistence, however, he finally allows her to help. She gently takes his hands away and lays them at his sides, then loosens his pants and put her hands inside. She administers a tender massage for several moments before asking, “How does that feel?” He replies, “It feels great, but I still think my thumb is broken.”

Continuing his work off the pitch 🙌 Jack Grealish extends his role as a Special Olympics ambassador for another three years, having played a key role in raising the visibility of athletes with intellectual disabilities since 2022.

The good people of golf (that one guy is going to be mad) Last year I wrote a story with an update on Dayton Price, who survived an accident on 2022 that killed his college coach and six of his teammates. Price suffered severe burns on 44% of his body and has faced countless surgeries since. Yet against all odds has become a very good college player and has realistic dreams of playing pro golf. After I wrote the story the Kia Ecuador Open on the Americas Tour offered him an exemption. This week they followed thru. And the story gets better. A PGA Tour winner reached out and offered to pay for his hotel for the week. Hell yes.

Looking through the wine list knowing full well you're going to order the second cheapest one

“We’ll have done it again for Alice and Elsie.” ❤️ Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe both ran last year's London Marathon separately in memory of their daughters, Alice and Elsie, who were killed in the Southport attack in 2024. This time, they will be running it alongside each other.

🚨HOLE-IN-ONE 🚨 @ShaneLowryGolf ACES the 6th and moves to -8 🔥🤯

Aaron Ramsey coup de grâce

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

Darren Woo is a 56-year-old firefighter. He works full-time for the Savannah River Site Fire Department and also volunteers for Columbia County. He's been a caddie at Champions Retreat, about 20 minutes from Augusta National, for six years. He's also a father to five boys. Two weeks ago, Woo looped for three @RazorbackWGolf players during a practice round at Champions – one of them was Maria Jose Marin. When Marin asked Woo if he'd caddie for her at @anwagolf, Woo jumped at the chance. Behind the scenes, Marin's father, Jose, was giving up the bag, telling his daughter, “I love you with all my heart, but you need someone that knows how to handle a tournament of this level.” Woo had zero experience at Augusta National, though his calming presence and positivity earned him the loop for Saturday's final round. Arkansas coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said Woo's southern accent was so calming, that one could "meditate to it." Throughout the final day, Woo encouraged Marin with things such as: Be confident. You’re going to work it out. Give yourself a chance. Keep your head up. Breathe. "He was my greatest support during the whole week and a key to the victory," Marin said. Woo revealed after Marin's win that he worked a 14-hour shift that ended at 7 a.m. Saturday, less than four hours before Marin's tee time. He also shared that he not only has one granddaughter but he has two more grandchildren on the way. “Maybe I’ll be lucky enough and have three granddaughters," Woo said, "and they can all grow up to be like Maria.”

The judge asked a woman what she stole. She replied, “I stole a can of peaches.” The judge then asked, “How many peaches were in the can?” “Six,” replied the woman. . After consideration, the judge decided to sentence her a night in jail for every peach she stole. Six nights total. And just before the judge smacked the mallet down to make it final, her husband entered into the courtroom and yelled, “Your honor, wait!” The judge froze and listened to what the husband wanted to say. “She also stole a can of peas!”

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way. Allow me to explain why. Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots. Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion. He spent two nights in the ICU. There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed. This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close. The full story behind today is insane. In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes. At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world. Then everything slowly fell apart. After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear. Not regular nerves. Actual, debilitating terror. He was afraid he was going to die. Afraid something was going to happen to his kids. Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep. At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour. He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall. His hands were trembling. He had no appetite. Spasms would jolt him awake at night. He was losing focus over putts. Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing. An MRI finally revealed the cause. A lesion was growing on his brain. It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. Think about that. The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation. His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear. In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy. Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye. They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing. He walked out of the hospital two days later. Started putting again two days after that. He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open. But he was nowhere near the same player. In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes. His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open. For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers. And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with. Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD. He kept it hidden for over a year. He described being hypervigilant on the course. A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was. He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry. He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds. He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone. He said he felt like he was living a lie. Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf. On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly. He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything. The PTSD. The crying. The fear. All of it. He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back. Then he showed up at Memorial Park. He opened with a 64. Then a 63. Then a 65. Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out. 259 total. A tournament record. 21-under par. Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard. Wire to wire. Led every single round. His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open. Nearly seven years between victories. Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see. This is a guy who was a basketball player first. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future. He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025. The seventh player to ever receive it. And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days. The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here: itsgame7.com/news/gary-wood… There is a reason this one hits different. Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries. Things you can see. Things that heal on a timeline. Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain. Something that turned his own mind against him. And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical. It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay. Three weeks ago he said the words out loud. Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

What a way for Luke Littler to win the night! Michael van Gerwen's reaction says it all 🤣

On this day in 1998 🗓️ Millwall signed Neil Harris. 👉 Cost just £30,000 👉 431 appearances 👉 138 goals 👉 Millwall’s record goalscorer What a bargain!

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Rodney (after Dave)

@Top100golfquest @TheAddingtonGC @worplesdongolf @HankleyC Have played 3/5 and all absolute treats. Would also say New Zealand and the Berkshire too. The three Ws of Worplesdon, Woking and West Hill supposed to be some trio...

I’m doing a small trip to London in September. Planning on Swinley or Sunningdale ⁦@TheAddingtonGC⁩ ⁦@worplesdongolf⁩ Backup: ⁦⁦@HankleyC⁩

A defining moment for Millwall Football Club.

Sir Lewis Hamilton takes Sir Frank Williams for one last ride, around the Silverstone Circuit, as the F1 paddock celebrates FW's 50th anniversary as the Williams Team Principal. ❤️ #F1