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Spain's Azahara Munoz carded a two-under-par 69 on Saturday to take the lead into Sunday's final day.

Here’s a lede from the Akron Beacon-Journal’s Marla Ridenour I wouldn’t have seen coming a few years ago:

Reacquainting himself with Pilates and focused on losing weight during the coronavirus lockdown, Colin Montgomerie admitted he gave up his favorite foods.

Anyhow, if you haven’t seen of the Senior Players, Monty is one off the 36 hole lead and preaching about his impressive transformation. Bryson’s diet, it is not. The goals are also different:

Montgomerie said he chose Pilates because he believes it will extend his career.

“Flexibility is going to stop us,” he said. “It’s what stopped Nick Faldo, it’s what stopped Seve [Ballesteros] in his later years. It stopped Ian Woosnam, really. It stopped Sandy [Lyle] many times. There’s only one of that top five that’s kept going, and it’s Bernhard [Langer]. And I don’t know what all he does.

“But flexibility will stop us playing the game. I’m very lucky, I’m very flexible, but I’ve got to keep it.”

If you aren’t familiar with the National Links Trust and their efforts to resurrect rundown muni’s of architectural merit, you can read about them here. They are currently auctioning off some sensational golf for those with the means to overpay to play a classic or with an influencer.

You can see the full list of rounds donated for the latest auction here.

For those with the opportunity, three that still looked like good deals to me: Ridgewood, Somerset and Wannamoisett.

Oklahoma State's Aman Gupta will face Matthew Sharpstene, who is transferring to Charlotte, in a U.S. Amateur semifinal at Baron Dunes on Saturday, with Georgia Tech's Tyler Strafaci and SMU's Charles Osborne meeting in the other semifinal.

Tom Hoge maintained a share of the lead Friday at the Wyndham Championship alongside Si Woo Kim, Talor Gooch and Billy Horschel.

A little more than 60% of sports fans agree that they are "happy to have some sports to watch as an escape," but they're not sure how long it will last amid the coronavirus pandemic according to a survey of 837 adults conducted by TideWatch for ESPN.

Jerry Kelly "turned an 80 into a 70" at Firestone and is the only player under par at the midway point of the Senior Players Championship, leading by 3 strokes.

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Segundo Oliva Pinto said caddie Brant Brewer "was in tears, heartbroken" after the caddie made a mistake on the 18th hole that would cost the golfer his U.S. Amateur match. Said Pinto: "I told him that if I can forgive him, everyone can forgive him."

American golfer Stacy Lewis shot a 5-under 66 for the lowest round of the week at the Ladies Scottish Open to take a share of the lead with Azahara Munoz after the second round on Friday.

Sam Horsfield kept up his excellent form since the resumption of the European Tour by shooting 7-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Celtic Classic on Friday.

Tiger Woods has entered the Northern Trust, but he will need a strong showing at TPC Boston to advance to the second tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

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We hear it from golfers all the time.

They want to try CBD but aren’t sure which companies to trust.

And that’s not surprising when up to 70 percent of the products on the market are contaminated.

So we did some research to help clear things up.

This brand checked all the boxes.

Maybe he was channeling his inner Danny Noonan working for Judge Smails, who knows, but Oliva Pinto’s U.S. Amateur run ended when his local looper tested the bunker surface and cost a loss of hole.

Brentley Romine with all of the details of the bizarre scene at Bandon Dunes for GolfChannel.com.

David Shefter sets up the quarterfinals here with two former U.S. Junior Amateur winners in the group hoping to match Tiger Woods as the only winner of a Junior and Amateur.

Video of the infraction:

It all came down to the 18th hole.

And then this happened.

The outcome? A 1 up win for Tyler Strafaci. #USAmateur pic.twitter.com/JFJcoSKfFQ

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) August 14, 2020

While ESPN and Fox led the annual Sports Emmy Award winners for 2019, CBS took home three awards and Golf Channel one. This Golf Digest item sums it all up.

For CBS at Augusta, two noteworthy Emmys of the technical front:

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL TEAM REMOTE
The Masters (CBS/CBS Sports Network)

THE GEORGE WENSEL TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Masters — Every Shot, Every Hole  (CBS)

And then the equivalent of Best Picture, Album of The Year and TV Series Drama…

OUTSTANDING LIVE SPORTS SPECIAL
The Masters  (CBS)

Segundo Oliva Pinto's caddie inexplicably brushed the sand in a greenside bunker with his hand, costing the player the 18th hole -- and the match -- at the U.S. Amateur on Thursday in Oregon.

Thanks to reader Steve for watching Hard Knocks so I don’t have to hear how Sean McVay has to tell his team where go No. 1 vs. No. 2, but also for the uplifting news that the PGA Tour’s return and some golfer’s misfortune prompted Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn to get tested. Who knows how many were spared after Lynn tested positive and quarantined, but no one can say the PGA Tour’s return was not also helpful in educating many, including well-paid coaches on how the symptoms go.

Jeff Miller of the LA Times reports.

He said he was watching a golf tournament during which one participant withdrew after testing positive. He said the golfer mentioned suffering from symptoms similar to the ones he felt.

“If I hadn’t been watching the golf event and saw that golfer complaining about back aches and soreness, I never even would have gotten tested,” Lynn said on the show. “I never even would have known it and probably got [other] people infected.”

I’m taking a wild guess here, but Denny McCarthy in July was the player most likely to have been the one given that he shared more symptons details.

Either way, as we learn more how to deal with this whole modern pandemic thing, it turns out the PGA Tour’s transparency, while painful for the guys who have tested positive, is actually a positive in ways you we can’t always imagine.

Steve Stricker birdied the final hole to shoot 2-under 68 and pull into a five-way tie for the lead after the first round of the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship.

Danielle Kang started her bid for a third straight win on the LPGA Tour with an even-par 71 in the first round of the Ladies Scottish Open on Thursday, leaving the American four shots off the clubhouse lead held by Nicole Broch Larsen.