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Six stats from Day One at the Players

Six notable first-round Players Championship stats from Golf World  contributing writer Brett Avery, who compiles the Rank and File statistical sections for the magazine's coverage of the major championships and other significant events.1. Ian Poulter, whose seven-under-par 65 shared the lead with Martin Laird, ranked in the top 10 following an opening round for the first time in his last 24 PGA Tour starts. Poulter's last top-10 standing after opening-day play came off a five-under 66 at Cog Hill that put him solo third in the 2010 BMW Championship. That week Poulter followed with 72-69-75 and tied for 13th. If Poulter mirrors his recent form during today's second round at TPC Sawgrass' Stadium Course, he will remain in contention in the Players Championship. The last four times Poulter stood in the top 10 after a tour event's first day, he managed to remain in the top 10 in the second round. That includes the 2010 Masters, where Poulter began 68-68 and went from a tie for seventh to the lead.2. Adams, making his 75th career tour start, also enters the second round in rarified air. He has not ranked this high following 18 holes since he was leader in consecutive starts in 2010, at Colonial (wound up tied for 27th) and the Byron Nelson (second). Although Adams ranks 104th on tour this year in scoring average before the cut (71.27), he's logged a 70.14 average in second rounds. Adams, who made eight birdies in the first round, has broken par in the second round 11 of 14 tries this season. Only three players have made more starts on tour this year: J.J. Killeen (16), Matt Bettencourt (15) and Sung Kang (15). Adams missed the cut last year in his Players debut (72-76).

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Women's regionals: Day 2 questions

Can South Carolina keep up its stellar play from the first round at Penn State?The Gamecocks had just two top-five finishes in nine starts this season, giving little reason to believe that they would be...

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Fitness Friday: Keep your body in balance and avoid injury

Every week my colleague Ron Kaspriske, Golf Digest Fitness Editor, presents Fitness Friday on the Instruction Blog. This week he finishes his 20-in-20 workout series. This program will get your golf muscles in shape...

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The Players: Second Round Birdies and Bogeys

Who were the winners and losers on Friday at TPC Sawgrass? It's time to take a closer look with another edition of birdies and bogeys.

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It's another 'one of those days' for Tiger

(Photo Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Sport)PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- If body language could be censored, we wouldn't have heard much from Tiger Woods in Thursday's first round of The Players at TPC Sawgrass. His posture was percolating with profanities as he shrugged, sagged, grimaced and sighed his way to a 74 that was as ordinary of an effort as a great player can turn in. There weren't any kicked clubs, only a couple of F-bombs and one reprimand to a fan wielding a smart phone camera, but it was also not a day at the beach for Woods. He bogeyed his first hole and never got into red numbers on a day when a lot of guys went low, finishing well in the second half of the field. In fact, the entire marquee threesome of Woods, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan handed in ho-hum performances that disappointed, and at times, befuddled the large galleries traipsing around behind them. Mahan also shot 74 with Fowler only slightly better at 72. If great play feeds off great play, this was a case of a trio that inspired each other to be less than their best. In fact, Woods, Mahan and Fowler had a better-ball sore of 64, only one stroke better than leader Ian Poulter managed to do by himself.

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Blake Adams is a fortunate, if unfamiliar, name upon the Players leaderboard

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The PGA Tour media guide lists Swainsboro, Ga., as the residence of Blake Adams. But technically, the Eatonton, Ga., and his family lives in a place that makes those two rural places seem like metropolises. "We live in a little town called Nunez, which is 130 people and no red lights," he said. If Adams keeps playing this way, he could have that many people just from the media asking him questions come Sunday evening at TPC Sawgrass. A Thursday 66 at TPC Sawgrass made the 36-year old an unlikely first-round contender at the Players. "Obviously, any time you finish a nine with five straight birdies, it's a good day," Adams said. "I was fortunate to get out early. Had perfect greens; I was the first group out." Fortunate is a word Adams seems to use a lot. The journeyman pro doesn't hold back on how lucky he feels to play golf for a living and the experiences his job brings. "The whole mindset is just crazy, that you can play a game for a living, and get paid doing it, and go to these wonderful places," he said. "You know, basically have family vacations every week all over the country. That's just insane. But that's what we do, just very, very blessed." Of course, Adams loves being at home too, where he's built a driving range and practice green on his 350 acres. He says his location helps him get away from the game and in his spare time he loves fishing and hunting. "All of these guys out here live amongst these gated, fancy golf courses," he said. "And we live among deer and turkeys and dirt roads." "I'm kind of hard to find, where I live, so it's just me and my family and we just hang out and you know, enjoy life." After attending the University of Georgia for three years, Adams transferred and graduated from Georgia Southern, the same school attended by 1990 Players champion Jodie Mudd. But Adams, whose best finish on tour this year was a T-9 at the Puerto Rico Open and who has just seven top 10s in his PGA Tour career, would be an even more surprising winner. A Players champion who lives in a place with no traffic lights? Well, we've already seen a Masters champ, Bubba Watson, who hails from Bagdad, a Florida town more than 10 times the size of Nunez. "We are just simple folks and we just, you know, like the quietness and it's just -- it's us," Adams said of his family. "We don't need the glitz and glamour and all this." Of course, he'd make an exception for a certain crystal trophy. -- Alex Myers Follow @AlexMyers3(Photo by Getty Images)

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Points' late withdrawal causes unusual situation at the Players

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Tiger Woods has made news withdrawing from the Players each of the last two years. Neither time, though, did it cause as much confusion as when D.A. Points pulled out Thursday morning. Points, AKA that "other guy" in last week's playoff between Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy last week at Quail Hollow (left), withdrew due to back problems before teeing off in the opening round. Simple enough, right? Not so fast. You see, Points was already on the first tee with his name having already been called and one of his playing partners had already hit when he informed an official he wouldn't be playing. The literally last-minute decision made it impossible for first alternate Brian Harman to slide into Points' 8:39 tee time. It took a few hours of deliberation, but the PGA Tour Rules Committee ultimately determined that Harman should still get to tee it up. At around noon, it was announced that the PGA Tour rookie would tee off TPC Sawgrass' first hole at 12:20 as a single. Here's part of a statement released by the PGA Tour:!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Finchem's Augusta response takes hypocrisy to new levels

Remember as a child when you'd question your parents' reasoning about a curfew or a bedtime and they'd tell you "Because we said so" in a dismissive tone? Remember the way it left you confused,...

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Smart shopping: A woman's guide to buying new clubs

A golf retail store can be an incredibly intimidating environment for a woman golfer -- so much so that many cite it as the sole reason for why they're still playing with their husband's hand-me-down...

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Backstage with an unlikely golfer, Lewis Black

I don't remember how I learned that comedian Lewis Black -- he of the explosive rants and overly flexible index finger -- is a golfer. But as a fan of his bawdy, boisterous, and badass bits on life in modern America (politics, technology, entertainment, etc.), I couldn't let the opportunity pass. So I called his publicist and proposed sitting down for an interview about his game and whatever else was in his fertile, fantastical mind. And the good folks at Golf Digest have a better sense of humor than I might have suspected: They urged me on, saying that a Q&A would fit in -- somewhere. A date was set to meet in our mutual hometown, New York City. When Lewis isn't on the road -- about a third of the year -- he lives close to the theater district, which makes sense as he began his career as a playwright, including a graduate degree from the Yale Drama School. The comedy came later, partly as a result of hosting revues on a small stage below a restaurant owned by a friend. We met in that same theater, chatting over a small table surrounded by upturned chairs as the photographer set up on the stage for the photo shoot to follow.   Among us we were able to pack an awful lot of work into a few hours: an extensive interview, photography both indoors and on the packed streets near Times Square, and a few minutes of video. Turns out he is not only funny but indefatigable, a good trait for a stand-up.