1) With more than 1,000 bunkers, the US PGA at Whistling Straits offers a unique test. Fortunately, the one that almost certainly cost Dustin Johnson the championship in 2010 on the final round has been covered by a viewing area this year, but Graeme McDowell is taking no chances, having already been practicing some inventive strokes. The challenge they and the remarkable course presents is beautifully illustrated in this drone’s view, while Hiroyuki Fujita managed to “shoot the rock” a sort of offshore hole in one back in 2010. Finally some tuition: on the bunkers; the dunes and the swirling winds.
2) The best intro Barry Hawkins will ever get to the baize, courtesy of the Riga Open’s colourful MC.
3) “76 seconds” – former Premier League referee Uriah Rennie gets caught in the headlights on ITV gameshow Freeze Out.
4) Some fantastic skill on display in this peach of a hurling goal.
5) Absolute crackers here: the top 10 goals from this year’s Copa Libertadores.
6) Goal of the week, Bradley Bubb from Oxford City and what with Werder Bremen fans baffling the locals at Upton Park with their rendition of Wonderwall, some more top pop picks: Birmingham City love the ELO; Sunderland Can’t Help Falling In Love; Gillingham dance The Last Waltz; and some nice moves from Spurs fans doing Barry Manilow’s Can’t Smile Without You.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Move along now, nothing to see here: only man surfs huge wave. While on fire.
2) Ow. Even Billy Burns’s team-mates wince as one hard ball meets two softer ones.
3) Goalkeeper compounds fail upon fail upon fail. To excellent comic effect.
4) Accurate but unlucky: 10 PGA Tour pin strikes that didn’t quite come off.
5) Last year’s dunk contest winner Zach LaVine makes dunks look extremely easy at the Seattle Basketball Pro-Am.
6) The Canadian Football League pulls off a four-kick play.
Spotters’ badges: BlackCaeser, chestnut52, TheCedarRoom, whobroughtoranges, GrahamClayton.
