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August 10, 2026 | Edition #391

👋 {{readername | Hey golf fans}},

Good evening. Imagine being so famous that your fans became the problem in your work. Yeah, you or we probably can't because we don’t enjoy the cult following that a certain 50-something golfer does. And yet that fame got him kicked out of a tournament. No kidding, as you will see in our top story today. In other news, a Justin Thomas moment popped up on our radar, and a fish swallowed a golfer’s ball (read it again). Preposterous, we know, but it happened.

Onward…


It was the first time in his career that this happened, and he took full ownership of the mistake. But the reason for his DQ will remind you of another incident from just a few months back.

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