Andrew Kerth 
The lowest final round ever shot at The Open Championship is 63 — done three times, and only once by the winner: Henrik Stenson’s ten-birdie masterpiece at Royal Troon in 2016 that beat Phil Mickelson in the greatest duel in major history. The other two belong to Payne Stewart, whose Sunday 63 at Royal St … Read more
The “ball moved at address” penalty that generations of golfers feared no longer exists. Under the modern Rules of Golf, in force since 2019, there is no automatic penalty when a ball moves after you’ve taken your stance or grounded your club. A one-stroke penalty applies only when it’s “known or virtually certain” — a … Read more
Sam Burns has earned about $40.7 million in official PGA Tour prize money — a total built on five victories, 46 top-10 finishes and remarkable consistency across roughly 197 career starts since turning pro in 2017. And the number is about to jump: Burns leads The Open Championship by two shots entering Sunday at Royal … Read more
Sam Burns’ caddie is Travis Perkins — and with Burns leading The Open Championship by two shots entering Sunday’s final round at Royal Birkdale, the man on the bag is 18 holes from a first major of his own. Perkins has been Burns’ only full-time caddie since he reached the PGA Tour in 2019, a … Read more
The World Cup’s yellow card rules are built around one goal: making sure no star misses the final over an accumulation technicality. FIFA wipes all accumulated yellow cards after the quarterfinals, meaning every booking from the group stage through the quarters was erased before the semis. A single yellow in the semifinal carries no suspension … Read more
No — the World Cup final does not go straight to penalties. If Sunday’s Spain-Argentina final is tied after 90 minutes, the teams first play 30 minutes of extra time, split into two 15-minute halves with stoppage time added. Only if the score is still level after 120 minutes does the final go to a … Read more
If the World Cup final ends in a tie after 90 minutes, the teams play 30 minutes of extra time — two 15-minute periods, with stoppage time added to each and a sixth substitution unlocked. If it’s still level after 120 minutes, the champion is decided by a penalty shootout: best-of-five kicks, then sudden death. … Read more
Spain has reached exactly two World Cup finals in its history: the one it won in 2010, and the one it plays Sunday. The 2010 final in Johannesburg remains one of the tournament’s iconic endings — a brutal, card-strewn 0-0 against the Netherlands broken by Andrés Iniesta’s volley in the 116th minute, delivering La Roja’s … Read more
Lionel Messi’s World Cup finals record entering Sunday: two finals played, one won, one lost, three goals scored. He lost the 2014 final 1-0 to Germany on Mario Götze’s extra-time winner — and won the Golden Ball as the tournament’s best player anyway — then completed his career’s great unfinished business in 2022, scoring twice … Read more
Sunday’s World Cup final is a twenty-year age gap wearing two number 10-caliber talents: Lionel Messi, 39, playing his third final in what may be his last World Cup match, against Lamine Yamal, who turned 19 six days before the final and is playing his first. They were born twenty years and three weeks apart … Read more