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All it took was one disastrous hole on Sunday for Jordan Spieth to undo all the good work he had put in over the course of nearly four full rounds at the 2016 Masters. Winner of the 2015 tournament at Augusta National Golf Club and atop the leaderboard after the first three rounds of this year’s edition, Spieth would knock two shots into the water on the par-three 12th hole on Sunday and two-putt...
Published: April 11, 2016
Having won Formula One’s new Driver of the Day award in the first two races of 2016, Romain Grosjean could be forgiven for feeling a little smug. Many feared the Frenchman had thrown his career away at the end of last year, when he decided to leave his spiritual home of Lotus—on the verge of being purchased by Renault—for the brand-new Haas team. But after two top-six finishes in...
Published: April 11, 2016
A standout weekend for English rugby saw Leicester Tigers, Wasps and Saracens each advance to the semi-finals of this season’s Champions Cup after defeating Stade Francais, Exeter Chiefs and Northampton Saints, respectively. Elsewhere, Racing 92 collected a 19-16 win over reigning champions Toulon to complete the last four, but the French teams fared far better in the Challenge Cup, where Montpellier...
Published: April 11, 2016
Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club was filled with different types of emotion as a collapse by Jordan Spieth on the back nine allowed Danny Willett to earn his first green jacket at the Masters. Spieth was attempting to become just the fourth golfer to win back-to-back Masters championships while also trying to repeat his previous wire-to-wire win, per ESPN Stats & Info. Yet a five-over back...
Published: April 11, 2016
He was going to stay home in England and blow off the Masters entirely so he wouldn’t miss the birth of his first kid. And then, Zachariah James Willett was born on March 30, so what the heck? Danny Willett decided he might as well come play the Masters after all. Willett grew up in England playing golf in a sheep pasture that looked not one bit like Augusta National. And during Willett’s...
Published: April 11, 2016
With the 2016 Masters in the books and surprise winner Danny Willett cloaked in the green jacket, and because sports fans are impatient creatures, it’s already time to look ahead to the June 16-19 U.S. Open from one of the toughest venues in golf: Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Even the most casual observer of the game could figure out who tops this list of favorites. Positioning...
Published: April 11, 2016
All week long at Augusta National Golf Club, any mention of Jordan Spieth begged for comparisons to the historic accomplishments of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, and the chance to wear the green jacket two years in a row. Then, suddenly and without warning, Spieth’s storyline took a U-turn as he joined Greg Norman and Rory McIlroy as the superstars who have suffered the most epic and inexplicable...
Published: April 11, 2016
The ATP Tour shifts to scenic Monte Carlo as world No.1 Novak Djokovic looks to continue his dominance against a bevy of talented stars. It’s the first big red-clay tournament on the European stretch to the French Open, and it will be a chance for the top players to gain momentum. Against a backdrop of crashing waves and bustling tourism, warriors will battle it out on a slow—even for clay—high-bouncing...
Published: April 11, 2016
There were twists and turns, heartbreak and joy, multiple holes-in-one and the crowning of another first-time major champion. The 2016 Masters did not disappoint…unless of course your name happens to be Jordan Spieth. If this were any other major championship, what we witnessed Sunday afternoon would probably be considered the most exciting final round in that tournament’s history. But...
Published: April 11, 2016
Danny Willett became just the second English-born golfer—and the first since Nick Faldo did so in 1996—to win the Masters in a wild finish on the back nine Sunday. Willett had a masterful performance and, more importantly, a clean one, as he didn’t record a single bogey. With five birdies on the day, he was able to jump from even par after three rounds to a Masters-winning...