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• Mark Hubbard goes from getting stabbed in foot to leading Sanderson

  01-10-2022 22:26
  
  Beware the injured golfer.Before taking the 54-hole lead Saturday at the Sanderson Farms Championship, Mark Hubbard didn’t exactly have the best preparation for Country Club of Jackson. He was nursing a foot injury – but not just any injury.“My daughter got me sick, and then accidentally knocked off a kitchen knife off the counter and stabbed me in the foot,” Hubbard said, “so I had a hole in my foot this whole week, and I didn't get to practice at all last week, so
  
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• After five straight birdies, Mark Hubbard eyes first Tour win at Sanderson Farms

  01-10-2022 21:24
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Mark Hubbard ran off five straight birdies on the back nine and ended with a superb shot to 4 feet, giving him a 7-under 65 and a one-shot lead Saturday in the Sanderson Farms Championship as he goes for his first PGA Tour victory.Hubbard has gone 163 starts over six years without winning, and this would be as good a chance as any. It's his first time to hold a 54-hole lead on tour.Mackenzie Hughes of Canada showed how much can change in so little time at the Country Club
  
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• Rory McIlroy shoots 66 alongside father in first round at St. Andrews since The Open

  01-10-2022 15:15
  
  Rory McIlroy teed it up at St. Andrews Saturday for the first time since the final round of The Open, when he had to watch Cameron Smith hoist the claret jug after McIlroy could only manage a final-round 2-under 70 at the famed links course.The world No. 2 fared a little better in the third round of the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, shooting a third-round 66 after nasty weather Friday morning saw McIlroy shoot a 3-over 75 at Kingsbarns.Full-field scores from the Alfred
  
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