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Branden Grace, who was tied for second after the second round of the Barracuda Championship, had to withdraw after testing positive for coronavirus, meaning he can't play in the PGA Championship as he'll be in self-isolation for 10 days.

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Kyle Stanley had another eagle in a 14-point round Friday to take the lead into the weekend in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour's lone modified Stableford scoring event.

Danielle Kang played bogey-free at Inverness Club for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead in the LPGA Drive On Championship on Friday.

Tommy Armour III and Billy Andrade each opened with a 6-under 66 to lead the Ally Challenge, where Jim Furyk carded a 68 in his Champions Tour debut.

Rickie Fowler is trying to end his long drought. Brendon Todd is trying to continue his astounding run. And Brooks Koepka is trying to determine if he's found his missing game.

Brendon Todd shot a 5-under 65 Friday and grabbed a two-stroke lead through 36 holes of the FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

Overnight leader Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez of Spain held off a spirited challenge from England's Sam Horsfield to retain a share of the lead at the Hero Open on Friday at the halfway mark of the European Tour's latest stop in England.

Bryson DeChambeau says his goal is to live to 130 or 140. "I really think that's possible now with today's technology," he told GQ.

Some will say you can’t effectively combine the performance of a distance golf club with the sex appeal of a forged player’s club. Wilson Golf and its D7 Forged irons say otherwise.

The Wilson D7 Forged iron was introduced this year and recently took top honors as the Most Wanted Players Distance iron of 2020.

How good is it? What makes it better than the 12 other irons it went up against?

We are looking for five of you to tell the MyGolfSpy community.

Someone at PUMA must love watermelon sour patch kids candy. Once you take a look at the pictures you won’t be able to unsee it.

PUMA is stamping out the traditional preppy golf stigma with their unique styles and color schemes.

Additionally PUMA has donated three Rise Up Collection shoes to charity along with other major OEM’s to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. That’s not to mention they will be signed by PGA Pros after they have worn them at the weeks WGC-St. Jude Invitational. Sounds sweet if you ask me.

Take a peak at these Sour Patch Kids!

There is a lot of cool gear in the golf equipment world that doesn’t always fit neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides. You still want to know how it performs. In our We Tried It series, we put gear to the test and let you know if it works as advertised.

What We Tried

Arccos Caddie Link – the add-on device for the Arccos Caddie shot-tracking system that eliminates the need to keep your phone in your pocket while playing golf.

Your Arccos Caddie Link Tester

Tony Covey – MyGolfSpy editor, writer and long-time Arccos user (I once played Mr. Arccos on an internet talk show) who is all too aware that some of you don’t want to keep your phones in your pocket while playing golf. Some others of you don’t even have pockets.

The Arccos Caddie Link Experience

Curious to see if Arccos Caddie Link was worth the 1.5 years it took to take it from vaporware to tangible product, I charged it, tossed it in my bag and headed off to the course.

As the LPGA season restarts Friday, five rookies share what they learned about themselves and their games during the 166-day coronavirus pandemic shutdown.

This kind of analysis of Davis Love’s brief CBS stint might have made fans more appreciative of the Hall of Famer’s short TV career.

Rex Hoggard talks to Love about the end of his CBS stint.

“Go back to the four West Coast events and I got off to a rough start and it just wasn’t working for me,” Love said. “I found the mechanics hard and being entertaining was hard. It’s kind of like you’re hitting it bad and you start getting worse and worse and worse. I was surprised how nervous I was.”

Ah we never noticed. Well, some of us.

“I found out that it was a lot harder than I thought,” Love said. “We kind of had a perfect storm with [CBS lead producer Lance Barrow] leaving and my situation at home with the fire and coronavirus. Nothing was normal and I’m trying to learn a business when nothing is normal.”

You gotta give the members of @Inverness_Club a huge amount of credit for giving-up their course at short notice during the height of the season for a regular tour event, knowing they’ll do the same next year for #SolheimCup - big gesture of support for womens golf. #DriveOn pic.twitter.com/2iPgfs3BVo

Hardly unexpected but still nice to see: the LPGA’s finest are restarting their season at rejuvenated Inverness. And while the “major championship” conditions presented by veteran ace super John Zimmers could be a tough way to restart after a pandemic-driven break, I couldn’t be happier to see one of America’s great clubs and tournament courses back in fine form.

And let’s be clear: Inverness only fell out of favor because of regulatory malfeasance (as much as I’d love to blame the Fazio’s, it was still great even after their visit.)

The news wasn’t 100% perfect—one player tested positive for COVID-19 on site and another at home—the players sound excited to be back and grateful to be playing Inverness, even if some are going caddieless, as Beth Ann Nichols notes in this Golfweek story.

As for the course, the LPGA.com notes in advance of Friday’s first round include these player remarks about Donald Ross’s design.

With all due respect to Yoda, the spirit of the rules is not strong with this one.

Since the PGA Tour took down the video tweeted by their partners at CBS—paying lavishly for the rights btw—below is a shortened version posted that will inevitably be targeted by Cult Ponte Vedra in a futile attempt to scrub evidence of unsportsmanlike conduct by Bryson Dechambeau. The full version would allow you to see the various avenues he attempts to pursue in search of a better lie, including the spotting of one red ant in hopes of protecting himself form harms way.

This came after his Memorial antics whining about a ruling and mashing down rough, proceeded by his caddy trying to bully a camera operator. The total package should give you an idea of just how dire the situation is in the players-first, rules/golf core values of the game a distant-second-mindset that has overtaken the PGA Tour.

Brian Wacker at GolfDigest.com with the details and DeChambeau’s post-round comments suggesting he’s always going to respect the officials.

Bryson wants a drop because of a red ant

He is the worst pic.twitter.com/lRd2j44xMn

Ryan Moore and Adam Schenk lead the PGA Tour's Barracuda Championship with 14-point rounds under the modified Stableford scoring system.

A pair of past major champions, Francesco Molinari and Padraig Harrington, have withdrawn from the PGA Championship.

Bryson DeChambeau argued with an official at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational to no avail Thursday that his ball landed near a hill of fire ants at the seventh hole and he could take relief. He ended up taking a double-bogey 6 on the hole.

The LPGA Tour's return yielded two positive tests, including Marina Alex, for the coronavirus out of the 466 given to players and caddies before they traveled and when they arrived for the LPGA Drive On Championship.