Operative phrase: "a chance." Unfortunately, instead of one of the greatest shots ever seen at the 2026 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on Thursday, Fifa Laopakdee walked away the victim of one of the greatest robberies instead.

Brutal stuff for the 2025 winner and current Arizona State Sun Devil, but its hard to complain too much when you find yourself deep in the dunes with an iron in your hand and still wind up with a kick-in birdie. The Thai amateur is currently three clear at the top of the leaderboard following an opening-round 63.

Such will be the case on December 9 in South Africa ahead of the Icons Cup, an event featuring athletes from a variety sports captained by Ernie Els and Jose Maria Olazabal. On the Wednesday before the event starts, 40 golfers will get a crack at the par-3 17th hole at Montagu Course in the $10M Swing. A hole-in-one will trigger a $10 million prize that will be split between the player, a charity and a fan. So the best part is you can get rich by just watching. Here's more on the contest. 

Last night's World Series clinching Game 5 for the Milwuakee Brewers in Tampa, as well as the game before that and the game before that, was absolutely packed with Brewers fans. An invasion, if you will. A classic case of one club having rabid fans who travel en masse and one club having fans who can't even be bothered to come to their team's home games. Not only did the Brew Crew show up, they showed out, too. Check out this Green Bay Packers-style cheesehead from a Brewer fan, which has a very slight, golf-y adjustment:

I want to hate it, but I'm afraid I love it. Innovation that excites. On a crisp Wisconsin day, this thing could play on the golf course. On a hot and sunny one, though, not so much. Still, what an accessory. We our tipping our visors to this man in spirit. 

The two-time U.S. Open champ is teeing it up at the VidantaWorld Mexico Open, where he'll be without his regular caddie who is at a wedding. But Clark is more focused on another upcoming wedding: his brother's. And with his younger brother Brendan filling in on his bag, it's a chance for Big Bro to do him a solid. "I would love for my brother with his wedding coming up a great week so I can give him a nice check to help pay for the wedding and honeymoon," Clark told reporters on Wednesday. And considering Clark is the clear favorite to win the PGA Tour fall event, there's a good chance Brendan walks away with a nice payday as well. In any event, here are Golf Digest's expert picks for this week's tournament.

The 15-time major champ has accomplished just about everything possible in golf, but USGA Chief Championships Officer John Bodenhamer expects him to try to add at least one more notch on his resume. That would be the U.S. Senior Open, which would break Woods from a tie with Bobby Jones for the most USGA championships won with nine. As Bodenhamer explains, it would also join Woods with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer as the only golfers to win the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open—and that it would make Woods the only player to have won those three titles plus the U.S. Junior Amateur. "It's important to Tiger, and I would expect him to be here at Crooked Stick in 2028," Bodenhamer says in an interview with WISH-TV News in Indiana. Of course, the 50-year-old Woods could also make his U.S. Senior Open debut next summer at Oak Tree National. 

In one of the more memorable breaks that we’ve ever seen, Campbell hit a terrible drive slice that was headed into no man’s land on the second hole of his playoff with Aldrich Potgeiter in the VidantaWorld Mexico Open. But the ball kicked off a tree and into the middle of the fairway. From there, the previously winless pro hit his approach to four feet, and his birdie earned him the $1.26 million first prize.

“Something I'll never forget,” Campbell said this week as he prepared to defend his title outside of Puerto Vallarta. “And then hitting a wedge shot tight and hearing the crowd go crazy there, two memories. And then being taken back to the scene of the crime and toasting the tree was definitely a memory."

The Mexico win last year came in February, while this year’s event was switched to the Fall Series. Campbell, 33, went on in 2025 to also win the John Deere Classic and make the playoffs for the first time. But he’s also fortunate to be able to defend in Mexico after having surgery in August to remove a cyst in his shoulder that bothered him most of the season. He’s only made nine cuts this season and missed the weekend in two of his last nine starts.

Whatever happens this week will hardly matter in big picture of life: Campbell is getting married soon after he gets home.