Lori Kavanaugh

Kinda classy. Kinda hood. Former PGA Tour photographer and caddie. Current high school golf coach. Born in the 216, living in the 520. ⚾️⛳️🎾🏀🏈🏓🏎 📷 🐻⬇️ 🎶

[Steve Eubanks @jseubanks]

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@Super70sSports https://t.co/JPz9xUxw3t

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@iJordanMoore Ludicrous!!! 😳🙄

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@BrianRoemmele This is the best thing I’ve seen all year!! “Oh the pain, the pain, William”

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@BhattiLaib9960 Zelda!

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Ben Kern plays golf once a week. He just beat five of the world's top 10 players for 36 holes @PGAChampionship, and the club pro has secured a weekend tee time at Aronimink.

Kern, the general manager at Ohio's Hickory Hills GC, qualified for the PGA Championship as a top-20 finisher at this year's PGA Professional Championship. The Arizona native was recruited to play golf at Kansas State and played mini-tours for a few years before realizing it didn't fit his long-term career aspirations. "I am not one to want to practice all the time, so the week-in, week-out grind doesn't really appeal to me anymore," Kern said Friday.

Kern sets a goal of playing one round of golf per week with the members, and he said Hickory Hills has a great range that "I don't spend enough time on." But his natural talent was on full display Friday at Aronimink, where he carded six birdies en route to a 3-under 67 in cold, windy conditions that tied the second-lowest score of the morning wave.

Kern's 1-over total through 36 holes was better than five of the world's top 10-ranked players who competed in the same wave: Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, J.J. Spaun and Russell Henley.

"It proves to myself that I can hang with these guys when I'm playing solid, and it was really nice," Kern said Friday. "I hung my head high yesterday, and I had a goal today and I surpassed it."

That he did. The only potential caveat: Kern is a plus-6 handicap back home, and he knows this round means he might need to give his members more strokes in future weekly games. It's a price he will heavily pay, though, for a weekend tee time at a major championship.

"I have no idea what the course rating is around this place, but I probably assume it's kind of high. So it's going to absolutely destroy my handicap," Kern quipped. "But that's okay. That's what it's for."

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@ASGCA @joepassov @CBSSPORTSCOM 👏👏👏💪 ⛳️ 🎤 🤩🎉

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@rockstarian @rocknrollofall

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@PhilSledge

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@ThatEricAlper

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@Hot_Pepper76 Excellent list! I would add: Kodachrome /Paul Simon and Whenever I Call You Friend/Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks

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@jimiuorio @Hot_Pepper76 Those may be the very best of the “One Hit Wonders”!!

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@LINKSMagazine @joepassov @SeaPinesResort @BaltusrolGC Fantastic Links article on stories/golf shots/architects! Fascinating read! Bravo! 👏

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@MikeBales

[Ben Verlander @BenVerlander]

SHOHEI OHTANI IS UNREAL!!

6 scoreless innings. 7 strikeouts. Lowers his season ERA to 0.38

The greatest baseball player OF ALL TIME

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@JonathanYarwood Crazy that broadcast never mentioned this! 😳 Scottie’s patience tried all day!

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@donboydeluxe @awfulannouncing Still lame that they never show score for the day - only overall. Why?! 🙄🤨

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@ConservativaPol @BrittanyinTexas WRONG. Cell phones are banned every single day of Masters week.

[Travelin' Joe Passov @joepassov]

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“Move Up, Have More Fun!”

My essay this week in WSJ

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

You may be cool, but you’ll never be “Bob Gibson in a suit leaning on the Corvette Stingray he took home for being named MVP of the 1964 World Series” cool.