PGA Tour golfer Zac Blair was disqualified from the Wells Fargo Championship on Friday after hitting himself in the head with his putter -- and then using the bent club to finish out the hole.
Blair smacked the putter against his head after missing a birdie putt on the fifth hole.
He could have finished the round by using a different club to putt, but he was disqualified when he finished the hole by tapping in for a par with the bent putter.
Blair was disqualified by officials for breaking rule 4-3b, which stipulates if "a player's club is damaged other than in the normal course of play rendering it non-conforming or changing its playing characteristics, the club must not subsequently be used or replayed during the round."
Blair said in a statement that he didn't notice the putter was bent until the next hole, at which time he immediately turned himself in by notifying a PGA Tour official of the situation.
Blair said he let his emotions get the best of him.
"Going forward I'm going to do my best to not let my emotions get in the way out on the golf course, and I'm going to learn from this mishap and move on," Blair said in the statement. "My game feels very close, just need to clean up silly mistakes and I'll be right there."
Blair was 7-over par for the tournament when he was disqualified and would have faced an uphill battle to make the cut.
Dessert do-over
The NFL robbed Annie Apple of enjoying chocolates and is doing its best to make up for the mistake.
Annie Apple is the mother of Eli Apple, who went No. 10 overall to the New York Giants in the NFL Draft last week. Prior to the draft, the league invited families of the top football prospects to a dinner, but the meal was lacking a major snack. She explained her complaints in a first-person piece for Sports Illustrated.
"There was a wonderful welcome reception for the family, though whomever planned the event forgot to include desserts," she wrote. "This is what happens when skinny women rule the world: they forget the chocolate. Clearly the commissioner owes me a brownie."
Goodell showed human emotion and listened to Apple. According to ESPN, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote an email to Tim Apple, Annie's husband, saying she'll receive a batch of brownies, courtesy of the commissioner.
"Just a head's up to be on the look out for a delivery of brownies today," McCarthy wrote. "The Commissioner was aware of Annie's disappointment in the lack of desserts at the Draft in Chicago and wanted to make up for it.
"We've enjoyed reading and watching Annie as she becomes a media star. Hope you all have a good Mother's Day Weekend."
Weight-loss coach
Gregg Popovich isn't afraid to take a different approach. Although his reasoning appears illogical at times, there is no denying the results as he owns five NBA Championship rings as the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.
Apparently this season, Popovich has given 6-8, 250-pound power forward Boris Diaw extra minutes on the court when the team is leading so the big man can lose some weight.
"Sometimes we're up 30, and he's like, 'I'm just going to leave you on the court so you can lose some weight,' " Diaw told Sports Illustrated's Andrew Sharp.
Sports on 05/07/2016