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A promising young golfer, Luke Chisholm (Lucas Black) has a terrible day. His meltdown after contending for the lead in a tournament in Texas drives his father/coach to abandon him and makes television headlines. Heading out onto the back-roads to blow off some steam, Luke instead blows right through the pasture fence of eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Duvall) and finds himself stranded in the tiny town of Utopia.

The PGA Championships, which perennially features the deepest international field of any major championship, starts Thursday at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

The 111th U.S. Open tees off at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland this week. The beauty of this major is that it goes to different golf courses, different venues every year, and many times they’re so different that they lend themselves to different players.

Authors Leonard Shapiro and Ed Sherman get a lot of yardage in this comprehensive and opinionated record of just about anything connected to golf from the best courses to the biggest chokes, best movies and funniest quotes.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of one of the most memorable moments in sports history, ESPN Films looks back at Jack Nicklaus’ win in the 1986 Masters in a one-hour documentary airing Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN.

Authors Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim present an intriguing guide to a wide array of both complex and heretofore seemingly mundane topics that go far beyond the scoreboard to help fans get at the truths of sports

In St Andrews, the march of time and golfers goes hand in hand.

Throughout the year, the starter will call a fresh party of players to the tee every ten minutes – and send them on their way round a links course where the game has been played since the early 1400s.

At the British Open, it pays to stick to the rules – as Ian Woosnam famously learned the hard way in 2001.

Though not too many rounds of golf will ever have erupted into fisticuffs, this most gentlemanly of games needs its rules no less than the most rudely physical of sports.

Golf’s first rules, the Thirteen Articles, were devised in 1745 by the Company of Gentlemen Golfers, now the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Some of the originals have scarcely changed, with particular reference to the 12th Article – “He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first.”

Can Tiger Woods return to golf glory by winning his third consecutive British Open title at St. Andrews? Is Ian Poulter poised to earn his first major title? What about Lee Westwood or Ernie Els earning the crown of the sport’s oldest major championship? Will Tom Watson or Nick Faldo come from yesterday for one more hurrah? These storylines and more begin playing out Thursday when the British Open tees off at the home of golf in Fife, Scotland.

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