Golf Spelled Backwards

No, these short video clips that Lydia Ko Instagrammed aren't from a club, they are from the gym. And Lydia busts a move or two while warming up or cooling down with her fitness coach: Never a dull moment with @ta2claps 😂 #BetterEveryDay A video posted by Lydia Ko (@lydsko) on Jul 2, 2015 at 6:36pm PDT Another crazy session with @ta2claps 😁! #BetterEveryDay A video posted by Lydia Ko (@lydsko) on Jul 2, 2015 at 6:23pm PDT Hahahah we are so serious @ta2claps 🙈😂 A video posted by Lydia Ko (@lydsko) on Jun 19, 2015 at 8:36am PDT Lydia Ko is adorable!

Do you have an idea for how to build a better driver, an idea for the next breakthrough driver technology in golf? Wilson Golf wants to hear from you. And if your idea is worth testing, you might get on a new Golf Channel television series - you might even win $500,000 and have your driver produced and marketed by Wilson. The television series is called Driver vs. Driver and is slated to air on Golf Channel in Fall 2016. The television series ... "... will follow the trials and tribulations faced by contestants as their ideas and concepts are evaluated and critiqued by an elite team while going through the grueling process to become a viable driver within the Wilson Golf line of products. A set number of contestant concepts will go through prototyping and vigorous testing within Wilson Labs and the individuals and/or teams will work alongside the Company’s engineers and designers to refine the concept until a winner is determined." And if your concept is the best? Yo...

Sang-Moon Bae is a 2-time winner on the PGA Tour, including this year's season-opener. From Korea, he is - make that was - a lock to make Team International for the 2015 Presidents Cup, played in ... Korea. But not anymore. Now, Bae will be doing duty in the South Korean military: He's leaving the PGA Tour for a 2-year hitch in the army. Reluctantly, and not without a fight. South Korea and North Korea are technically still in a state of war - the Korean War ended with an armistice agreement, not a peace treaty. Therefore, all South Korean males are required to serve two years of military service. There are some instances when that service can be delayed or even denied, if a Korean citizen becomes a permanent resident of another country or in a few other circumstances. Bae, 29, had received extensions in the past, allowing him to remain in the U.S. to play golf. But he missed a deadline to extend his last deferral, at which point Korea's military administration orde...

It's been a great day for great putts. The kind of putts you have to see to believe. Like, this one, for example, by Bubba Watson: Putting & reading the greens well so far!! Good read @jtedscott !! #USOpenChambersBay pic.twitter.com/9Iobm55qUS — bubba watson (@bubbawatson) June 12, 2015 That was Bubba playing and practicing on the Chambers Bay greens that await U.S. Open participants next week. But you know what? That was only the second-best putt of the day. This putt by Jodi Ewart is even better: 30 feet of break on 7. @Jodi_Ewart . @LPGA #KPMGWomensPGA Westchester Country Club #SCTopTen @SportsCenter pic.twitter.com/QWY1OX9XJC — Adam Shadoff (@AdamShadoff) June 12, 2015 Ewart's putt beats Watson's because Ewart's happened in competition. And in a major, no less: the Women's PGA Championship.

Once upon a time, Tiger Woods dominated golf like no golfer before. Crazy to think there are actually golf fans alive today who don't remember Woods' incredible streak from 1999 through 2000. They've heard about the "Tiger Slam," but didn't witness it. And today, Woods is struggling and probably will never be "Tiger" again. He's coming off an 85 at The Memorial as I write this. But once upon a time ... Here's a brand new example of just how dominating Woods was in those days: Golf Magazine columnist and stats guru Mark Broadie has examined PGA Tour rounds since 1983 and discovered that Woods holds a hitherto unrecognized record - most consecutive rounds beating the field. "Beating the field" means scoring better than the average of the field in a golf tournament for each given round of that tournament. From August 1999 to November of 2000, Tiger beat the field in 89 consecutive rounds. How astounding is that? Tiger's s...

Yes, those are Brussels sprouts you see flying in the screengrab above - poor, innocent Brussels sprouts. Oh, sure, they are among the most-hated vegetables by people who, well, hate vegetables. But is that any reason to destroy a bag of them with a golf ball and a driver? It is if you are PGA professionals Peter Finch and Rick Shiels. These two are YouTube pros in addition to being golf teaching pros, and a compilation of their trick shots is in the video below. It also includes the destruction of a bottle of champagne. Proving just how dangerous drinking and driving really is.

Who is Rory McIlroy dating these days? A PGA of America employee named Erica Stoll. Rumors of a McIlroy-Stoll romance first cropped up in early 2015, but something that just happened is pretty much the confirmation that they are dating. And what was that? McIlroy ventured to Rochester, New York, for a date with Stoll, who is from the area. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper reported : The top-ranked golfer in the world was seen Saturday night having dinner at 2Vine in downtown Rochester and then stopped in at Magpie Pub in the trendy Park Avenue neighborhood. ... "As they were leaving, everybody in the restaurant was shouting, 'Oh my God, that's Rory McIlroy! That's Rory McIlroy!' " 2Vine hostess Jordan Cannan said. The dinner reservation for four was in Stoll's name, said another hostess, Dakotah Schickling. Stoll is 29 years old, three years older than McIlroy, and is the manager of championship volunteer operations for the...

Now this is how you git-r-done in golf: LPGA rookie Sei Young Kim - already a winner once in 2015 - trailed Inbee Park by one shot on the last green at the 2015 LOTTE Championship. Kim was off the green chipping, and had to hole it to force a playoff. So she holed it. And, on the first playoff hole, she holed it again - only the second time from over 150 yards for a tournament winning eagle. If this had happened at a major, it would live forever in golf history and legend. As it is, Kim deserves a standing ovation for that incredible finish.

A few years back I was chatting with a teaching professional who was interested in writing a golf instructional book. Those books are a dime a dozen, I reminded him, and unless you have some kind of great hook for one, it's unlikely yet another instructional book will make any money. Oh, I have a hook, he said: green reading. Green reading? Yes, the teaching pro replied: think about it - green reading is one of the most important facets of golf, yet it's never really taught. New golfers are just expected to pick it up as they go. Oh, they might hear very broad advice about methods of visualizing break, but nothing really specific, nothing really in-depth. I did think about it. And I had to admit, that was a good hook. Unfortunately for my friend, he never got around to writing a book explaining in-depth how to read greens. And somebody else beat him to it - probably, let's be honest, with a much better system anyway. What system? The one that has professional golfers ...

You know how the game called Hole In One works on The Price Is Right , right? You sink a putt, you win the big prize. Today on the game show, and 84-year-old woman named Margaret sank a putt (actually her second try) and won herself a $16,000 car. But it's more the way she sank the putt that caught my eye: Yep, that's right, dear ol' Margaret went face-on for her putt attempts. Face-on putting is actually picking up some adherents around the golf world these days. Gary McCord is probably the best-known, and McCord swears by face-on. His buddy Peter Kostis - who learned face-on from Sam Snead back in the day (it was usually called sidesaddle back then) is also a fan. And 84-year-old Margaret is definitely a fan. Related: Paula Creamer on 'The Price is Right' Follow GSB* on Twitter - Like GSB* on Facebook