#George T. Mickelson

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South Dakota Governor DILFs

Dennis Daugaard, Nils Boe, Richard F. Kneip, Walter Dale Miller, Leslie Jensen, Bill Janklow, Archie M. Gubbrud, George T. Mickelson, George S. Mickelson, Frank Farrar, Harlan J. Bushfield, Mike Rounds, William H. McMaster, Ralph Herseth, Carl Gunderson, Merrell Q. Sharpe, Joe Foss, Sigurd Anderson

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Merry New Year!

I listen to a fucking ton of podcasts. Here are a few I don’t miss. Grouped but not ranked. Tried to include a favorite or representative episode for each. I don’t know what platform you listen to things on so I went with firm specific or top google results for each.

Finance: the bulk of my listening goes to my favorite topic

RopesTalk: Ropes and Gray does a great job of providing concise insight on legal issues primarily in finance and IP.  Quick hit on CDS

Conversations with Tyler: I didn’t know where to put this one but Tyler Cowen is a great economist and has surprisingly good questions no matter the topic. Matt Levine is good one to start with 

HBR Idea Cast: Long running pod from the Harvard Business Review. Here is this year’s econ Nobel winner Esther Duflo

Invest Like the Best: Patrick O'Shaughnessy of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management talks to investors of all stripes. Here is a great ep with @modestproposal

Macro Musings: David Beckworth of Mercatus Center at George Mason University talks econ and markets in depth. A good one with Chris Crowe from Capula

Macro Voices: the host Erik Townsend is not particularly impressive but he gets some fine guests. Chris Cole the CIO of Artemis has done two strong episodes both linked within

Exchanges at Goldman Sachs: amazing guest and interviewers across the board. Can’t go wrong with this one.  The parting spot from Gary Cohn is very good

Morgan Stanley Ideas: discussions from the research team at MS. My favorite is when they examine “cypto currencies” through the lens of other pretend money like western Massachusetts’s BerkShares

Quantcast: from Risk.net if you really want to get into the weeds there are few better. Mats Kjaer, one of the most talented risk quants out there, formerly of Barclays now at Bloomberg shares his latest on capital valuation adjustment   

Reorg: a go to for distressed, BK, liquidations, and debt litigation. A good example of what to expect is their latest on new issuance covenant trends

Top Traders Unplugged: a back and forth with more quant focused, CTA, and trend following traders. Not sure how they swung this one but they bagged the founders of a visionary shop AHL. Michael Adam, David Harding, founder and CEO of Winton Group, and Martin Lueck, co-founder and president of Aspect Capital

Debtwire: broad based coverage on levered finance throughout that side of the capital stack. Proskauer Rose’s private credit restructuring group is a good one

Blackstone: crab claws, you know the drill. Former partner and GSO founder Dwight Scott is a standout 

Activist Insight: a look at all that happens in the primarily domestic side of activist investing. One to get you caught up is The top 10 wildest campaigns of 2019  

Alpha Exchange: New but shows promise. The first episode hooked me Louis-Vincent Gave, CEO and Founding Partner, Gavekal  

JP Morgan Eye on the Market: Michael Cemblast is razor sharp. It is rather topical and quick, just subscribe.

Capital Allocators: Ted Seides formerly one of the more influential names in early stage fund of funds talks with some of the biggest names in alternatives and more. Whitebox Advisors’s Andy Redleaf is amazing

Inside the Ice House: from ICE / NYSE very broad but worth a listen. John Arnold is the best one I have heard 

Odd Lots: as often as I question some choices of guests Tracy Alloway is fantastic. Bill Janeway on the unicorn bubble 

CFTC Talks: a bit dry but they bring in some hitters and do not mind deep diving at all. A good idea of what to expect is George Saravelos Deutsche Bank, Global Co-head FX Research 

Barstool: not for everyone but I am a Stoolie since year one, a bunch of my friends work there, and they put out some of the funniest stuff on the internet.  I had brutal year and couldn’t have handled it without their levity.

Pardon My Take: Number one podcast for a reason.  Football guys guys. Produced by Scituate’s finest Handsome Hank. If you are one of the few not listening the best of 2019 is a fine dropping off point

Spittin Chiclets: hockey from the standpoint of both fans and former pros. Hosted by my summer neighbor and the originator of gassin’ beers and chuckin’ knucks Ryan Whitney.  Doing another best of cop out

Fore Play: I don’t even play golf (rage and lack of patience) but this pod is so funny and they treat the game with an irreverence that is exactly what it needs. Jake Owens’s story about Phil Mickelson is perfection

Micks Tape: basketball focused but plenty of discussion of sports at large, stand-up comedy, and the only place I find out about new rap.  It is a weird episode but I fell off a treadmill laughing to ‘All Star Draft and Wild Hypotheticals With YP’

Light Camera: where I go for movie reviews and some of the goofiest skits I have ever heard.  I found their second interview with Jesse Eisenberg fascinating

The Corp: a look at entrepreneurs from Alex Rodriguez and Big Cat. Pulls some of the biggest names out there.  Martha Stewart is a personal favorite 

Gambling: it is derivative market making but for sports 

Bet the Process: Rufus Peabody is one of the best football and golf handicappers on the planet. Jeff Ma former captain of the MIT blackjack team is as good at cross discipline analytics as it gets.  Former head of market making at Pinnacle Ted Knutson bridges the finance / gambling bridge well

Pinnacle: gambling through the lens of the most quantitatively advanced sports book out there. In this ep Joe Peta discusses his overlapping careers in hedge funds and gambling

Gamble On: this pod from US Bets focuses on offshore and online gaming. Not a ton of shelf life on these so the latest on Draft Kings going public is worth a listen 

Gaming Today: more of an old school discussion from the standpoint of Vegas bookmakers.  They remind me of floor traders. Listen to the latest and try to find some edge 

Misc.

Daves of Thunder: Feeney and Shek are two tremendously talented comedy writers and they make me laugh ever episode.  I would start pre-hiatus from the top because the jokes get very inside baseball 

Hodinkee: if you have any interest in vintage watches this is really the only place to go.  Ben Clymer’s backstory is what watch collecting is all about

David Chang: insights on the food industry and running a business from a real pro in both regards. Joe Beef is one of my favorite places on earth so that is a good one to check 

Brattlecast: books old and or rare. Ken Gloss owns my favorite shop in Boston and has decades of stories about it.  Finds of a Lifetime is the goal 

Bon Appétit: recipes and trends from the food world in a relaxed and approachable format. Just a delight. They made a perfect Thanksgiving, I stole two recipes and I barely cook

Beyond Yacht Rock: I have learned more about music from this show than in my years of formal training and symphony involvement.  I would take it from the top  but if you need a good cry, JD’s songs from his late wife is a touching tribute

Comedy Bang Bang: if you are in need of a good laugh instead this inside look at comedy is second to none.  I relisten to Paul F. Tompkins as Werner Herzog and every time it kills me

All the Smoke: the newest addition gives a player perspective on the NBA from Stephen Jackson and Matty Barnes.  It made me like Dwayne Wade which as a Celtics fan is tough

If there is anything you think I might enjoy based on these I would be pleased as punch to hear from you.

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Who Is Kaia Gerber & Who Are Her Friends? · Betches

Ask any normie who runs Instagram, and they’ll tell you the Kar-Jenners. And you know what? They’re totally right, but they also need to know about the newest clan taking over the ‘gram. Anyone with their finger on the pulse and on the right follow button knows that Kaia Gerber and her squad are taking over Instagram. We all know who Kaia Gerber is: she’s an up-and-coming model whose mother is supermodel Cindy Crawford and whose father made Casamigos with George Clooney (and apparently he does boring high-end business sh*t too, but let’s not pretend like I know how any of that works). She’s 16 years old and has way more going for her than any of us: perfect genetics, an endless supply of tequila, and more than two friends. But who is this friend group, exactly? Sure, they keep Shadow Hill and I.AM.GIA in business, but what else are they up to?

Presley Gerber

Presley is Kaia’s equally good-looking brother, of course! He’s an up-and-comer in the industry, just like his little sis, having modeled for big time brands such as Burberry and Calvin Klein. This mainstay at fashion week and the pages of Vogue has even been in a Pepsi commercial with mama Cindy, who was in her own iconic Pepsi commercial decades ago. It was cool and all (and much less controversial than Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad), but still will never be as great as Britney’s Pepsi commercials. Not much else is known about Presley, because when you’re that good-looking, you really aren’t obligated to be interesting.

Huhhhhh

A post shared by Presley (@presleygerber) on Jul 5, 2018 at 11:36am PDT

Charlotte Lawrence

Charlotte is Kaia’s equally leggy, equally barely legal ride-or-die. Her dad is producer Bill Lawrence and her mom is actress Christa Miller. Her dad was a bigwig on Scrubs and Cougartown—those shows that you kiiiinda  forgot about up until now—both of which her mom starred in. That means that Charlotte has clocked in a lot of time growing up around actors like Zach Braff and Courteney Cox, that actors you kiiiinda forgot up about up until now. Charlotte is pursuing the music career route, and has performed at venues such as Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn and Bowery Ballroom. She’s actually pretty great and has a promising career ahead of her.

film cameras & mom hats

A post shared by Charlotte Lawrence (@charlotteslawrence) on Jul 16, 2018 at 5:21pm PDT

Charlotte D’Alessio

Charlotte D’Alessio (no relation to Amber, who made out with a hot dog) is Kaia’s other bestie, because Kaia seems to love being affiliated with girls who are as lithe and brunette as she is. She is also dating Presley Gerber exclusively, which totally doesn’t sound awkward for Kaia at all. This Canadian beauty was discovered at the age of 16 at Coachella. That festival is a sh*t show of Bachelor franchise starlets and Instagram models, so the fact that she stuck out enough to get discovered as a model is a feat in and of itself.

Charlotte has a few bikini campaigns under her belt, as well as having modeled for brands like TopShop and starring as a femme fatale in some really confusing music video for some European band we’ve never heard of. (Can some film major put their worthless degree to use for once and please explain to me why there was an evil octopus in that vid?) When she’s not modeling or having good-looking sex with Presley Gerber, you can usually find her making Boomerangs where she’s slightly tilting her head and sticking out her tongue, or hosting Instagram lives, where she repeatedly answers the same questions over and over again about whether or not she got a nose job (which she denies getting because “I just know how to work my angles!” Sure, Jan) and what her workouts are like (which she claims to not even do. Again, sure, Jan).

pleasseeee

A post shared by Charlotte D'Alessio (@charlottedalessio) on Aug 6, 2018 at 12:41pm PDT

Chiara

Chiara is the token edgy, crazy chick of the group that they need to have. Otherwise, their clique would look more Wonderbread than an Abercrombie & Fitch ad, and that’s just not exciting. Chiara is, of course, a model, and her mom was a model as well. Her Instagram reeks of the kind of pictures that would be reblogged along with Lana del Rey quotes and Sarah Bah Bah art.

Resting face

A post shared by Chiara (@chiara) on Jul 29, 2018 at 8:58pm PDT

Madison Beer

Madison Beer was *discovered* by Justin Bieber when she was a tween for covering Etta James’ “At Last” on YouTube. She moved from Long Island to L.A. to make music, but is more known for her knockout good looks and incredible street style on Instagram. She actually only released a few singles, yet garnered over 10 million followers on Instagram with little to no legit music career. She finally released her first EP this year, As She Pleases, and it’s actually really, really good. Like, I don’t know about you, but I was expecting a girl that’s more Instagram famous than famous for, ya know, talent to drop a stinker of an EP, but “Home With You” and “Say It To My Face” are legit bops. She recently completed an American tour as well, so things are definitely starting to ramp up for Madison Beer.

dat fendi fendi

A post shared by Madison (@madisonbeer) on Jul 10, 2018 at 12:11pm PDT

Zack Bia

I don’t even get what this kid’s deal is. Even before writing this article, I have Googled Zack Bia repeatedly to figure out what he does or what famous parents he has, and I got nothing. It honestly keeps me up at night wondering how this hypebeast twerp hangs with this crew and has accumulated the following he has. He’s dating Madison Beer, so maybe that’s where a lot of my disdain for this kid comes from, because I can’t decide if I want to be Madison Beer or date Madison Beer. Signs show he may have gone to USC at one point, but that honestly means nothing because you barely attend USC unless you’re in Greek life or are an athlete. I really don’t have anything else to say about this kid because, like I said, I don’t know what the f*ck he does. So I just hate-scroll through his douchey Instagram instead.

beverly hills high alum

A post shared by ZACK BIA (@zackbia) on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:19pm PST

Isabella Jones

Isabella Jones is actually @bananablue17 on Instagram, because she didn’t get the memo that you don’t have to use your AIM screenname from 6th grade as your Instagram handle. Isabella is—wait for it—a model. She’s also currently dating a SoundCloud rapper whose tattoos look like a sleepover prank that you’d doodle on people while they’re asleep. He goes by Teddy. Just Teddy. A match made in heaven, really.

happy 4th🇺🇸

A post shared by Isabella Jones (@bananablue17) on Jul 5, 2018 at 2:36pm PDT

Emma Delury

Emma Delury is basically the girl next door’s little sister who hasn’t been corrupted yet, but the older quarterback of the football team plans on making a move on her once it’s no longer creepy to hook up with her. So it makes total sense that she’s modeled for the likes of Pink by Victoria’s Secret, PacSun, and Brandy Melville. No word on if she’s dating anyone, but Isabella leaves comments on every single picture of hers within 10 minutes of posting them saying how beautiful she is and how in love with her she is. These girls are well on their way to being so famous that they have BS rumors about them dating like Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift do, right?

❤️💙

A post shared by Emma DeLury (@emmadelury) on Jul 5, 2018 at 4:13pm PDT

Kevin Malone from “The Office”

I am Kevin Malone and you all are the Instagram models pic.twitter.com/fIVMj4yfyn

— Millie (@milliebeemoore) July 17, 2018

No, seriously. How the f*ck did this happen?

Whoever This Leech Is

Madison Beer did an interview a couple months back and was asked about her famous crew, and she took the opportunity to throw some shade—even though no one even asked! Ugh, this kind of drama is the only thing that make petty 18-year-olds tolerable. Anyways, she said some toxic chick keeps trying to swindle her way into their group to get followers and ever since, I’ve been wanting to know who it is. My money’s on Meredith Mickelson, because everyone in this group follows her except for Madison, and I don’t really know what Meredith does with her time besides take selfies while driving, take Boomerangs of herself sticking her tongue out, and taking videos of herself fake laughing.

dinner🍝

A post shared by MEREDITH MICKELSON (@meredithmickelson) on Jul 30, 2018 at 12:39pm PDT

Images: @presleygerber , @charlotteslawrence, @charlottedalessio , @chiara, @madisonbeer, @zackbia, @bananablue17, @emmadelury,@meredithmickelson / Instagram; @milliebeemoore / Twitter

Source: http://allofbeer.com/who-is-kaia-gerber-who-are-her-friends-%c2%b7-betches/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/who-is-kaia-gerber-who-are-her-friends-%c2%b7-betches/

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Who Is Kaia Gerber & Who Are Her Friends? · Betches

Ask any normie who runs Instagram, and they’ll tell you the Kar-Jenners. And you know what? They’re totally right, but they also need to know about the newest clan taking over the ‘gram. Anyone with their finger on the pulse and on the right follow button knows that Kaia Gerber and her squad are taking over Instagram. We all know who Kaia Gerber is: she’s an up-and-coming model whose mother is supermodel Cindy Crawford and whose father made Casamigos with George Clooney (and apparently he does boring high-end business sh*t too, but let’s not pretend like I know how any of that works). She’s 16 years old and has way more going for her than any of us: perfect genetics, an endless supply of tequila, and more than two friends. But who is this friend group, exactly? Sure, they keep Shadow Hill and I.AM.GIA in business, but what else are they up to?

Presley Gerber

Presley is Kaia’s equally good-looking brother, of course! He’s an up-and-comer in the industry, just like his little sis, having modeled for big time brands such as Burberry and Calvin Klein. This mainstay at fashion week and the pages of Vogue has even been in a Pepsi commercial with mama Cindy, who was in her own iconic Pepsi commercial decades ago. It was cool and all (and much less controversial than Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad), but still will never be as great as Britney’s Pepsi commercials. Not much else is known about Presley, because when you’re that good-looking, you really aren’t obligated to be interesting.

Huhhhhh

A post shared by Presley (@presleygerber) on Jul 5, 2018 at 11:36am PDT

Charlotte Lawrence

Charlotte is Kaia’s equally leggy, equally barely legal ride-or-die. Her dad is producer Bill Lawrence and her mom is actress Christa Miller. Her dad was a bigwig on Scrubs and Cougartown—those shows that you kiiiinda  forgot about up until now—both of which her mom starred in. That means that Charlotte has clocked in a lot of time growing up around actors like Zach Braff and Courteney Cox, that actors you kiiiinda forgot up about up until now. Charlotte is pursuing the music career route, and has performed at venues such as Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn and Bowery Ballroom. She’s actually pretty great and has a promising career ahead of her.

film cameras & mom hats

A post shared by Charlotte Lawrence (@charlotteslawrence) on Jul 16, 2018 at 5:21pm PDT

Charlotte D’Alessio

Charlotte D’Alessio (no relation to Amber, who made out with a hot dog) is Kaia’s other bestie, because Kaia seems to love being affiliated with girls who are as lithe and brunette as she is. She is also dating Presley Gerber exclusively, which totally doesn’t sound awkward for Kaia at all. This Canadian beauty was discovered at the age of 16 at Coachella. That festival is a sh*t show of Bachelor franchise starlets and Instagram models, so the fact that she stuck out enough to get discovered as a model is a feat in and of itself.

Charlotte has a few bikini campaigns under her belt, as well as having modeled for brands like TopShop and starring as a femme fatale in some really confusing music video for some European band we’ve never heard of. (Can some film major put their worthless degree to use for once and please explain to me why there was an evil octopus in that vid?) When she’s not modeling or having good-looking sex with Presley Gerber, you can usually find her making Boomerangs where she’s slightly tilting her head and sticking out her tongue, or hosting Instagram lives, where she repeatedly answers the same questions over and over again about whether or not she got a nose job (which she denies getting because “I just know how to work my angles!” Sure, Jan) and what her workouts are like (which she claims to not even do. Again, sure, Jan).

pleasseeee

A post shared by Charlotte D'Alessio (@charlottedalessio) on Aug 6, 2018 at 12:41pm PDT

Chiara

Chiara is the token edgy, crazy chick of the group that they need to have. Otherwise, their clique would look more Wonderbread than an Abercrombie & Fitch ad, and that’s just not exciting. Chiara is, of course, a model, and her mom was a model as well. Her Instagram reeks of the kind of pictures that would be reblogged along with Lana del Rey quotes and Sarah Bah Bah art.

Resting face

A post shared by Chiara (@chiara) on Jul 29, 2018 at 8:58pm PDT

Madison Beer

Madison Beer was *discovered* by Justin Bieber when she was a tween for covering Etta James’ “At Last” on YouTube. She moved from Long Island to L.A. to make music, but is more known for her knockout good looks and incredible street style on Instagram. She actually only released a few singles, yet garnered over 10 million followers on Instagram with little to no legit music career. She finally released her first EP this year, As She Pleases, and it’s actually really, really good. Like, I don’t know about you, but I was expecting a girl that’s more Instagram famous than famous for, ya know, talent to drop a stinker of an EP, but “Home With You” and “Say It To My Face” are legit bops. She recently completed an American tour as well, so things are definitely starting to ramp up for Madison Beer.

dat fendi fendi

A post shared by Madison (@madisonbeer) on Jul 10, 2018 at 12:11pm PDT

Zack Bia

I don’t even get what this kid’s deal is. Even before writing this article, I have Googled Zack Bia repeatedly to figure out what he does or what famous parents he has, and I got nothing. It honestly keeps me up at night wondering how this hypebeast twerp hangs with this crew and has accumulated the following he has. He’s dating Madison Beer, so maybe that’s where a lot of my disdain for this kid comes from, because I can’t decide if I want to be Madison Beer or date Madison Beer. Signs show he may have gone to USC at one point, but that honestly means nothing because you barely attend USC unless you’re in Greek life or are an athlete. I really don’t have anything else to say about this kid because, like I said, I don’t know what the f*ck he does. So I just hate-scroll through his douchey Instagram instead.

beverly hills high alum

A post shared by ZACK BIA (@zackbia) on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:19pm PST

Isabella Jones

Isabella Jones is actually @bananablue17 on Instagram, because she didn’t get the memo that you don’t have to use your AIM screenname from 6th grade as your Instagram handle. Isabella is—wait for it—a model. She’s also currently dating a SoundCloud rapper whose tattoos look like a sleepover prank that you’d doodle on people while they’re asleep. He goes by Teddy. Just Teddy. A match made in heaven, really.

happy 4th🇺🇸

A post shared by Isabella Jones (@bananablue17) on Jul 5, 2018 at 2:36pm PDT

Emma Delury

Emma Delury is basically the girl next door’s little sister who hasn’t been corrupted yet, but the older quarterback of the football team plans on making a move on her once it’s no longer creepy to hook up with her. So it makes total sense that she’s modeled for the likes of Pink by Victoria’s Secret, PacSun, and Brandy Melville. No word on if she’s dating anyone, but Isabella leaves comments on every single picture of hers within 10 minutes of posting them saying how beautiful she is and how in love with her she is. These girls are well on their way to being so famous that they have BS rumors about them dating like Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift do, right?

❤️💙

A post shared by Emma DeLury (@emmadelury) on Jul 5, 2018 at 4:13pm PDT

Kevin Malone from “The Office”

I am Kevin Malone and you all are the Instagram models pic.twitter.com/fIVMj4yfyn

— Millie (@milliebeemoore) July 17, 2018

No, seriously. How the f*ck did this happen?

Whoever This Leech Is

Madison Beer did an interview a couple months back and was asked about her famous crew, and she took the opportunity to throw some shade—even though no one even asked! Ugh, this kind of drama is the only thing that make petty 18-year-olds tolerable. Anyways, she said some toxic chick keeps trying to swindle her way into their group to get followers and ever since, I’ve been wanting to know who it is. My money’s on Meredith Mickelson, because everyone in this group follows her except for Madison, and I don’t really know what Meredith does with her time besides take selfies while driving, take Boomerangs of herself sticking her tongue out, and taking videos of herself fake laughing.

dinner🍝

A post shared by MEREDITH MICKELSON (@meredithmickelson) on Jul 30, 2018 at 12:39pm PDT

Images: @presleygerber , @charlotteslawrence, @charlottedalessio , @chiara, @madisonbeer, @zackbia, @bananablue17, @emmadelury,@meredithmickelson / Instagram; @milliebeemoore / Twitter

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/who-is-kaia-gerber-who-are-her-friends-%c2%b7-betches/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/182756223262

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Who Is Kaia Gerber & Who Are Her Friends? · Betches

Ask any normie who runs Instagram, and they’ll tell you the Kar-Jenners. And you know what? They’re totally right, but they also need to know about the newest clan taking over the ‘gram. Anyone with their finger on the pulse and on the right follow button knows that Kaia Gerber and her squad are taking over Instagram. We all know who Kaia Gerber is: she’s an up-and-coming model whose mother is supermodel Cindy Crawford and whose father made Casamigos with George Clooney (and apparently he does boring high-end business sh*t too, but let’s not pretend like I know how any of that works). She’s 16 years old and has way more going for her than any of us: perfect genetics, an endless supply of tequila, and more than two friends. But who is this friend group, exactly? Sure, they keep Shadow Hill and I.AM.GIA in business, but what else are they up to?

Presley Gerber

Presley is Kaia’s equally good-looking brother, of course! He’s an up-and-comer in the industry, just like his little sis, having modeled for big time brands such as Burberry and Calvin Klein. This mainstay at fashion week and the pages of Vogue has even been in a Pepsi commercial with mama Cindy, who was in her own iconic Pepsi commercial decades ago. It was cool and all (and much less controversial than Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad), but still will never be as great as Britney’s Pepsi commercials. Not much else is known about Presley, because when you’re that good-looking, you really aren’t obligated to be interesting.

Huhhhhh

A post shared by Presley (@presleygerber) on Jul 5, 2018 at 11:36am PDT

Charlotte Lawrence

Charlotte is Kaia’s equally leggy, equally barely legal ride-or-die. Her dad is producer Bill Lawrence and her mom is actress Christa Miller. Her dad was a bigwig on Scrubs and Cougartown—those shows that you kiiiinda  forgot about up until now—both of which her mom starred in. That means that Charlotte has clocked in a lot of time growing up around actors like Zach Braff and Courteney Cox, that actors you kiiiinda forgot up about up until now. Charlotte is pursuing the music career route, and has performed at venues such as Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn and Bowery Ballroom. She’s actually pretty great and has a promising career ahead of her.

film cameras & mom hats

A post shared by Charlotte Lawrence (@charlotteslawrence) on Jul 16, 2018 at 5:21pm PDT

Charlotte D’Alessio

Charlotte D’Alessio (no relation to Amber, who made out with a hot dog) is Kaia’s other bestie, because Kaia seems to love being affiliated with girls who are as lithe and brunette as she is. She is also dating Presley Gerber exclusively, which totally doesn’t sound awkward for Kaia at all. This Canadian beauty was discovered at the age of 16 at Coachella. That festival is a sh*t show of Bachelor franchise starlets and Instagram models, so the fact that she stuck out enough to get discovered as a model is a feat in and of itself.

Charlotte has a few bikini campaigns under her belt, as well as having modeled for brands like TopShop and starring as a femme fatale in some really confusing music video for some European band we’ve never heard of. (Can some film major put their worthless degree to use for once and please explain to me why there was an evil octopus in that vid?) When she’s not modeling or having good-looking sex with Presley Gerber, you can usually find her making Boomerangs where she’s slightly tilting her head and sticking out her tongue, or hosting Instagram lives, where she repeatedly answers the same questions over and over again about whether or not she got a nose job (which she denies getting because “I just know how to work my angles!” Sure, Jan) and what her workouts are like (which she claims to not even do. Again, sure, Jan).

pleasseeee

A post shared by Charlotte D'Alessio (@charlottedalessio) on Aug 6, 2018 at 12:41pm PDT

Chiara

Chiara is the token edgy, crazy chick of the group that they need to have. Otherwise, their clique would look more Wonderbread than an Abercrombie & Fitch ad, and that’s just not exciting. Chiara is, of course, a model, and her mom was a model as well. Her Instagram reeks of the kind of pictures that would be reblogged along with Lana del Rey quotes and Sarah Bah Bah art.

Resting face

A post shared by Chiara (@chiara) on Jul 29, 2018 at 8:58pm PDT

Madison Beer

Madison Beer was *discovered* by Justin Bieber when she was a tween for covering Etta James’ “At Last” on YouTube. She moved from Long Island to L.A. to make music, but is more known for her knockout good looks and incredible street style on Instagram. She actually only released a few singles, yet garnered over 10 million followers on Instagram with little to no legit music career. She finally released her first EP this year, As She Pleases, and it’s actually really, really good. Like, I don’t know about you, but I was expecting a girl that’s more Instagram famous than famous for, ya know, talent to drop a stinker of an EP, but “Home With You” and “Say It To My Face” are legit bops. She recently completed an American tour as well, so things are definitely starting to ramp up for Madison Beer.

dat fendi fendi

A post shared by Madison (@madisonbeer) on Jul 10, 2018 at 12:11pm PDT

Zack Bia

I don’t even get what this kid’s deal is. Even before writing this article, I have Googled Zack Bia repeatedly to figure out what he does or what famous parents he has, and I got nothing. It honestly keeps me up at night wondering how this hypebeast twerp hangs with this crew and has accumulated the following he has. He’s dating Madison Beer, so maybe that’s where a lot of my disdain for this kid comes from, because I can’t decide if I want to be Madison Beer or date Madison Beer. Signs show he may have gone to USC at one point, but that honestly means nothing because you barely attend USC unless you’re in Greek life or are an athlete. I really don’t have anything else to say about this kid because, like I said, I don’t know what the f*ck he does. So I just hate-scroll through his douchey Instagram instead.

beverly hills high alum

A post shared by ZACK BIA (@zackbia) on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:19pm PST

Isabella Jones

Isabella Jones is actually @bananablue17 on Instagram, because she didn’t get the memo that you don’t have to use your AIM screenname from 6th grade as your Instagram handle. Isabella is—wait for it—a model. She’s also currently dating a SoundCloud rapper whose tattoos look like a sleepover prank that you’d doodle on people while they’re asleep. He goes by Teddy. Just Teddy. A match made in heaven, really.

happy 4th🇺🇸

A post shared by Isabella Jones (@bananablue17) on Jul 5, 2018 at 2:36pm PDT

Emma Delury

Emma Delury is basically the girl next door’s little sister who hasn’t been corrupted yet, but the older quarterback of the football team plans on making a move on her once it’s no longer creepy to hook up with her. So it makes total sense that she’s modeled for the likes of Pink by Victoria’s Secret, PacSun, and Brandy Melville. No word on if she’s dating anyone, but Isabella leaves comments on every single picture of hers within 10 minutes of posting them saying how beautiful she is and how in love with her she is. These girls are well on their way to being so famous that they have BS rumors about them dating like Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift do, right?

❤️💙

A post shared by Emma DeLury (@emmadelury) on Jul 5, 2018 at 4:13pm PDT

Kevin Malone from “The Office”

I am Kevin Malone and you all are the Instagram models pic.twitter.com/fIVMj4yfyn

— Millie (@milliebeemoore) July 17, 2018

No, seriously. How the f*ck did this happen?

Whoever This Leech Is

Madison Beer did an interview a couple months back and was asked about her famous crew, and she took the opportunity to throw some shade—even though no one even asked! Ugh, this kind of drama is the only thing that make petty 18-year-olds tolerable. Anyways, she said some toxic chick keeps trying to swindle her way into their group to get followers and ever since, I’ve been wanting to know who it is. My money’s on Meredith Mickelson, because everyone in this group follows her except for Madison, and I don’t really know what Meredith does with her time besides take selfies while driving, take Boomerangs of herself sticking her tongue out, and taking videos of herself fake laughing.

dinner🍝

A post shared by MEREDITH MICKELSON (@meredithmickelson) on Jul 30, 2018 at 12:39pm PDT

Images: @presleygerber , @charlotteslawrence, @charlottedalessio , @chiara, @madisonbeer, @zackbia, @bananablue17, @emmadelury,@meredithmickelson / Instagram; @milliebeemoore / Twitter

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/who-is-kaia-gerber-who-are-her-friends-%c2%b7-betches/

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Who Is Kaia Gerber & Who Are Her Friends? Betches

Ask any normie who runs Instagram, and they’ll tell you the Kar-Jenners. And you know what? They’re totally right, but they too need to know about the newest clan taking over the’ gram. Anyone with their thumb on the pulse and on the right follow button knows that Kaia Gerber and her crew are taking over Instagram. We all know who Kaia Gerber is: she’s an up-and-coming mannequin whose mom is supermodel Cindy Crawford and whose father impelled Casamigos with George Clooney( and apparently he does carrying high-end business sh* t extremely, but let’s not impersonate like I know how any of that works ). She’s 16 years old and has practice more going for her than any of us: perfect genetics, an endless supply of tequila, and more than two friends. But who is this friend group, accurately? Sure, they obstruct Shadow Hill and I.AM.GIA in business, but what else are they up to? Presley Gerber Presley is Kaia’s equally good-looking friend, of course! He’s an up-and-comer in service industries, just like his little sis, having modeled for big time brands such as Burberry and Calvin Klein. This mainstay at pattern week and the sheets of Vogue has even been in a Pepsi business with mama Cindy, who was in her own iconic Pepsi commercial-grade decades ago. It was chilled and all( and much less contentious than Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad ), but still will never be as great as Britney’s Pepsi commercials. Not much else know anything about Presley, because when you’re that good-looking, you really aren’t obligated to be interesting. Huhhhhh A post shared by Presley (@ presleygerber) on Jul 5, 2018 at 11:36 am PDT Charlotte Lawrence Charlotte is Kaia’s equally leggy, evenly just law ride-or-die. Her pa is farmer Bill Lawrence and her mommy is actress Christa Miller. Her dad was a bigwig on Scrubs and Cougartown — em> those shows that you kiiiinda forgot about up until now–both of which her mom performed in. That means that Charlotte has clocked in a lot of time growing up around performers like Zach Braff and Courteney Cox, that actors you kiiiinda forgot up about up til now. Charlotte is pursuing the music job superhighway, and has performed at venues such as Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn and Bowery Ballroom. She’s actually pretty great and has a promising occupation ahead of her. film cameras& mama hats A post shared by Charlotte Lawrence (@ charlotteslawrence) on Jul 16, 2018 at 5:21 pm PDT Charlotte D’Alessio Charlotte D’Alessio( no relation to Amber, who made out with a hot dog) is Kaia’s other bestie, because Kaia seems to love being affiliated with girls who are as lithe and brunette as she is. She is also dating Presley Gerber exclusively, which wholly doesn’t sound ungainly for Kaia at all. This Canadian attractivenes was discovered at persons below the age of 16 at Coachella. That festival is a sh* t display of Bachelor dealership starlets and Instagram simulates, so the facts of the case that she poked out sufficient to come discovered as a mannequin is a feat in and of itself. Charlotte has a few bikini expeditions under her region, as well as having modeled for symbols like TopShop and starring as a femme fatale in some really muddling music video for some European strip we’ve never heard of.( Can some cinema major applied their worthless stage to be applied for once and please explain to me why there was an misery octopus in that vid ?) When she’s not modeling or having good-looking sex with Presley Gerber, you can usually find her offsetting Boomerangs where she’s slightly tilting her ability and sticking out her tongue, or hosting Instagram lives, where she repeatedly asks the same questions over and over again about whether or not she got a nose job( which she denies coming because “I just know how to work my directions! ” Sure, Jan) and what her workouts are like( which she claims to not even do. Again, sure, Jan ). pleasseeee A post shared by Charlotte D’Alessio (@ charlottedalessio) on Aug 6, 2018 at 12:41 pm PDT Chiara Chiara is the token edgy, crazy chick for the working group that they need to have. Otherwise, their clique would look more Wonderbread than an Abercrombie& Fitch ad, and that’s merely not eliciting. Chiara is, of course, a pattern, and her mama was a representation as well. Her Instagram reeks of the kind of portrait that would be reblogged along with Lana del Rey quotes and Sarah Bah Bah art. Resting face A post shared by Chiara (@ chiara) on Jul 29, 2018 at 8: 58 pm PDT Madison Beer Madison Beer was* discovered* by Justin Bieber when she was a tween for dealing Etta James’ “At Last” on YouTube. She moved from Long Island to L.A. to determine music, but is more known for her knockout good looks and staggering street vogue on Instagram. She actually merely liberated a few singles, yet garnered over 10 million admirers on Instagram with little to no legit music vocation. She ultimately exhausted her first EP this year, As She Pleases , and it’s actually really, really good. Like, I don’t is familiar with you, but I was expecting a girl that’s more Instagram famed than acclaimed for, ya know, endowment to fell a skunk of an EP, but” Home With You” and” Say It To My Face” are legit bops. She recently completed an American tour as well, so things are definitely had begun to ramp up for Madison Beer. dat fendi fendi A post shared by Madison (@ madisonbeer) on Jul 10, 2018 at 12:11 pm PDT Zack Bia I don’t even get what this kid’s spate is. Even before writing this article, I have Googled Zack Bia repeatedly to figure out what he does or what famous parents he has, and I got nothing. It frankly obstructs me up at night doubting how this hypebeast twerp hangs with this gang and has accumulated the following he has. He’s dating Madison Beer, so maybe that’s where a great deal of my disdain for this minor comes from, because I can’t decide if I want to be Madison Beer or appointment Madison Beer. Signs show he may have gone to USC at one point, but that frankly means nothing because you just attend USC unless you’re in Greek life or are an athlete. I certainly don’t have anything else to say about this kid because, like I said, I don’t know what the f* ck he does. So I only hate-scroll through his douchey Instagram instead. beverly slopes high alum A post shared by ZACK BIA (@ zackbia) on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:19 pm PST Isabella Jones Isabella Jones is actually @bananablue17 on Instagram, because she didn’t get the memo that you don’t have to use your AIM screenname from 6th gradation as your Instagram handle. Isabella is–wait for it–a model. She’s also currently dating a SoundCloud rapper whose tattoos look like a sleepover prank that you’d doodle on people while they’re asleep. He goes by Teddy. Just Teddy. A coincide manufactured in heaven, really. happy 4th A post shared by Isabella Jones (@ bananablue1 7) on Jul 5, 2018 at 2:36 pm PDT Emma Delury Emma Delury is mostly the girl next door’s little sister who hasn’t been tainted more, but the older quarterback of the football squad plans on making a move on her once it’s no longer sinister to hook up with her. So it originates total sense that she’s modeled for the likes of Pink by Victoria’s Secret, PacSun, and Brandy Melville. No word on if she’s dating anyone, but Isabella leaves statements on every single picture of hers within 10 hours of affixing them saying how beautiful she is and how in love with her she is. These girlfriends are well on their acces to being so notorious that they have BS rumors about them dating like Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift do, right? [?] A post shared by Emma DeLury (@ emmadelury) on Jul 5, 2018 at 4:13 pm PDT Kevin Malone from “The Office” I am Kevin Malone and you all are the Instagram patterns pic.twitter.com/ fIVMj4yfyn — Millie (@ milliebeemoore) July 17, 2018 No, severely. How the f* ck did this happen? Whoever This Leech Is Madison Beer did an interview a couple months away and was asked about her famous crew, and she took chances to propel some shade–even though no one even asked! Ugh, these types of theatre is the only thing that offset inessential 18 -year-olds satisfactory. Regardless, she said some toxic chick maintenances trying to defrauded her highway into their group to come adherents and ever since, I’ve been wanting to know who it is. My money’s on Meredith Mickelson, because everyone in this group follows her except for Madison, and I don’t truly know what Meredith does with her age besides take selfies while driving, take Boomerangs of herself putting her tongue out, and making videos of herself forgery laughing. dinner A post shared by MEREDITH MICKELSON (@ meredithmickelson) on Jul 30, 2018 at 12:39 pm PDT Epitomes: @presleygerber, @charlotteslawrence, @charlottedalessio, @chiara, @madisonbeer, @zackbia, @bananablue17, @emmadelury ,@ meredithmickelson/ Instagram; @milliebeemoore/ Twitter Read more: https :// betches.com/? p= 33731 http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/09/16/who-is-kaia-gerber-who-are-her-friends-betches/

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How Sergio Garcia got us back to thinking he will win his elusive major (and why you should think it, too)

By: Jaime Diaz

It has taken a lot—even more than going wire-to-wire at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his 12th career European Tour victory—but I’m finally back to believing that Sergio Garcia will someday win a major championship.

I’ve been in the “never will” camp for about a decade, a subscriber to a litany of criticisms that start with the mechanical (can’t putt) but quickly escalate to the personal (immature, excuse-making, sulking, lacking heart). They all added up to the feeling that Garcia couldn’t make the big shot, would make the mistake, would somehow manage to do just enough to come up short.

Of course, Garcia, now 37, with 12 top-five finishes in 73 career majors (including three seconds), is the kind of talent who never stops getting punished for not fulfilling huge early expectations. Having seen how good he was as a teenager (he won the Irish Open at 19), not being able to handle Sunday Grand Slam heat seemed like a sin against nature that required appropriate outrage. Worse, the Spaniard in the past several years seemed to be getting more fragile under pressure.

Garcia first showed his brittleness at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he fought a case of compulsive re-gripping before ultimately getting a final-twosome tutorial in mental strength from his nemesis, Tiger Woods.

“I love playing golf. Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.” —Sergio Garcia

More close calls and failures ensued, until Garcia went darkly fatalistic after losing the 2007 Open Championship in a playoff to Padraig Harrington. “I’m playing a lot of guys out there, more than the field,” he whined, seeming to suggest he was being singled out by the golf gods. The woe-is-me got worse in 2008, when after seeming to achieve a breakthrough by winning the Players Championship, he was again nipped at the wire by Harrington in a mano-a-mano clash during the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.

After a bad weekend at the 2012 Masters, Garcia melted down, telling the Spanish media, “I’m not good enough. ... I don’t have the thing I need to have.” Asked what he was missing, he said “everything,” adding that “I need to play for second or third place.” Did he mean merely at the Masters? His reply was chilling: “In any major.”

Garcia would win later that year at the Wyndham Championship, but it didn’t put him on a new path. For the next three years on the PGA Tour, Garcia was almost certain to play poorly with the lead on the final day, shooting over par from that position five consecutive times. Last February at Riviera, Garcia came to the 17th hole with the lead, only to snap hook his last two tee shots to lose. The next week at the Honda Classic, he was locked in battle with Adam Scott until two poor 8-irons led to killing bogeys.

“Let’s face it,” said Johnny Miller. “The pressure got to Sergio.” By this time, it was as if the golf public was embodied by George C. Scott’s Bert Gordon character in “The Hustler,” who tells Minnesota Fats in his match with Fast Eddie Felson, “Stay with this kid. He’s a loser.”

But since then, to his great credit, Garcia has indeed shown heart. He finally came through to get his ninth PGA Tour victory last May at the AT&T Byron Nelson, defeating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Quietly, Garcia followed with two top-fives in majors (at Oakmont and Troon), the first time he had done so since 2006.

At the Ryder Cup, which has often provided a sanctuary for Garcia, he engaged with Phil Mickelson in one of the all-time singles matches. The two produced 19 birdies between them, and the match was a gritty affair all about pride, Team USA’s inevitable victory beside the point. When Mickelson holed a 15-footer on the 18th hole, the nine-footer that Garcia needed to salvage a halve was just the kind of putt in a big spot it seemed he’d always missed. This time, he made it.

Garcia seemed rejuvenated in Dubai, his first event of 2017, and he put on a clinic of controlled power golf. He looked solid, capable and calm, playing within himself and making only one bogey in 72 holes at Emirates Golf Club. Employing the claw grip, his putting stroke looked smooth rather than jumpy. He took a three-stroke lead into the final day and faced down Henrik Stenson. When the Swede, after two straight birdies cut Garcia’s lead to two, hit over the green on the par-3 15th, Garcia stiffed a perfect 6-iron to close the door.

Suddenly, even after 26 official worldwide victories, it was as if El Niño had finally learned the right way to win. And it was the reminder of a couple of truths. It’s prodigies who take the longest to grow up and mature. And, it’s a long journey in golf. It’s why I’m still not ready to write off Tiger Woods. And it’s why we might still see the best of El Niño.

Long popular among his playing peers, Garcia has also grown more personable with the world at large. A key might be his impending marriage to Angela Akins, a former University of Texas golfer (above). When Woods signed with TaylorMade, Garcia took the high road, putting aside their longtime differences to welcome him to the playing staff. Garcia even responded in the lighthearted affirmative to an Englishman who begged his favorite golfer—through more than 200 Twitter requests over several months—to let him caddie for him in a tournament. Garcia has agreed to let Mark K. Johnson carry his bag during the pro-am of the British Masters in September.

The cumulative effect is that Garcia is freer than ever to take full advantage of his greatest strength: ball-striking. Among insiders, Garcia is renowned for the way he can compress a golf ball, especially with his irons. It’s a product of the extraordinary lag Garcia achieves on his downswing, a move that was criticized as too extreme, especially as he failed to fulfill his early promise. But with time, Garcia has become a model for the wisdom of staying with a natural swing over chasing textbook perfection.

Renowned instructor Pete Cowen, who has worked with Garcia, recently told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom, “Sergio lays the shaft down on the downswing far more than anyone, myself included, would recommend. But the way he delivers the club into the ball through the movement of his shoulders is fantastic. Billy Foster, who has caddied for Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve Ballesteros, Sergio and even Tiger, will tell you that Sergio is the best striker of the lot.”

Garcia led in greens in regulation in Dubai, was second in driving accuracy and third in driving distance. “I've been fortunate to have some really good ball-striking tournaments,” he said. “This definitely was one of them.”

Here’s the question going forward: Is Garcia poised for something special in 2017? At Dubai, he sounded like it.

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker. “Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.”

So, it would seem, are necessary portions of experience, urgency and perspective. “I’m excited to keep improving, keep giving myself chances at winning tournaments, winning majors,” he said. “Sometimes you feel a bit more comfortable, you're a little bit more relaxed, and you're a little bit freer, and you play better. And sometimes you’re a little bit tighter. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying as hard, but it’s just not that easy. You know, golf is tough. Golf is really tough.”

The road is smoother, Garcia has learned, with as little baggage as possible. “I mean, it’s simple,” he said. “When I get to Augusta, U.S. Open, the British Open, PGA, I just want to do the best I can. Just like I try any other week.”

Easier said than done. But if Garcia can try the way he did at Dubai, he’s finally going to win one.

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How Sergio Garcia got us back to thinking he will win his elusive major (and why you should think it, too)

By: Jaime Diaz

It has taken a lot—even more than going wire-to-wire at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his 12th career European Tour victory—but I’m finally back to believing that Sergio Garcia will someday win a major championship.

I’ve been in the “never will” camp for about a decade, a subscriber to a litany of criticisms that start with the mechanical (can’t putt) but quickly escalate to the personal (immature, excuse-making, sulking, lacking heart). They all added up to the feeling that Garcia couldn’t make the big shot, would make the mistake, would somehow manage to do just enough to come up short.

Of course, Garcia, now 37, with 12 top-five finishes in 73 career majors (including three seconds), is the kind of talent who never stops getting punished for not fulfilling huge early expectations. Having seen how good he was as a teenager (he won the Irish Open at 19), not being able to handle Sunday Grand Slam heat seemed like a sin against nature that required appropriate outrage. Worse, the Spaniard in the past several years seemed to be getting more fragile under pressure.

Garcia first showed his brittleness at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he fought a case of compulsive re-gripping before ultimately getting a final-twosome tutorial in mental strength from his nemesis, Tiger Woods.

“I love playing golf. Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.” —Sergio Garcia

More close calls and failures ensued, until Garcia went darkly fatalistic after losing the 2007 Open Championship in a playoff to Padraig Harrington. “I’m playing a lot of guys out there, more than the field,” he whined, seeming to suggest he was being singled out by the golf gods. The woe-is-me got worse in 2008, when after seeming to achieve a breakthrough by winning the Players Championship, he was again nipped at the wire by Harrington in a mano-a-mano clash during the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.

After a bad weekend at the 2012 Masters, Garcia melted down, telling the Spanish media, “I’m not good enough. ... I don’t have the thing I need to have.” Asked what he was missing, he said “everything,” adding that “I need to play for second or third place.” Did he mean merely at the Masters? His reply was chilling: “In any major.”

Garcia would win later that year at the Wyndham Championship, but it didn’t put him on a new path. For the next three years on the PGA Tour, Garcia was almost certain to play poorly with the lead on the final day, shooting over par from that position five consecutive times. Last February at Riviera, Garcia came to the 17th hole with the lead, only to snap hook his last two tee shots to lose. The next week at the Honda Classic, he was locked in battle with Adam Scott until two poor 8-irons led to killing bogeys.

“Let’s face it,” said Johnny Miller. “The pressure got to Sergio.” By this time, it was as if the golf public was embodied by George C. Scott’s Bert Gordon character in “The Hustler,” who tells Minnesota Fats in his match with Fast Eddie Felson, “Stay with this kid. He’s a loser.”

But since then, to his great credit, Garcia has indeed shown heart. He finally came through to get his ninth PGA Tour victory last May at the AT&T Byron Nelson, defeating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Quietly, Garcia followed with two top-fives in majors (at Oakmont and Troon), the first time he had done so since 2006.

At the Ryder Cup, which has often provided a sanctuary for Garcia, he engaged with Phil Mickelson in one of the all-time singles matches. The two produced 19 birdies between them, and the match was a gritty affair all about pride, Team USA’s inevitable victory beside the point. When Mickelson holed a 15-footer on the 18th hole, the nine-footer that Garcia needed to salvage a halve was just the kind of putt in a big spot it seemed he’d always missed. This time, he made it.

Garcia seemed rejuvenated in Dubai, his first event of 2017, and he put on a clinic of controlled power golf. He looked solid, capable and calm, playing within himself and making only one bogey in 72 holes at Emirates Golf Club. Employing the claw grip, his putting stroke looked smooth rather than jumpy. He took a three-stroke lead into the final day and faced down Henrik Stenson. When the Swede, after two straight birdies cut Garcia’s lead to two, hit over the green on the par-3 15th, Garcia stiffed a perfect 6-iron to close the door.

Suddenly, even after 26 official worldwide victories, it was as if El Niño had finally learned the right way to win. And it was the reminder of a couple of truths. It’s prodigies who take the longest to grow up and mature. And, it’s a long journey in golf. It’s why I’m still not ready to write off Tiger Woods. And it’s why we might still see the best of El Niño.

Long popular among his playing peers, Garcia has also grown more personable with the world at large. A key might be his impending marriage to Angela Akins, a former University of Texas golfer (above). When Woods signed with TaylorMade, Garcia took the high road, putting aside their longtime differences to welcome him to the playing staff. Garcia even responded in the lighthearted affirmative to an Englishman who begged his favorite golfer—through more than 200 Twitter requests over several months—to let him caddie for him in a tournament. Garcia has agreed to let Mark K. Johnson carry his bag during the pro-am of the British Masters in September.

The cumulative effect is that Garcia is freer than ever to take full advantage of his greatest strength: ball-striking. Among insiders, Garcia is renowned for the way he can compress a golf ball, especially with his irons. It’s a product of the extraordinary lag Garcia achieves on his downswing, a move that was criticized as too extreme, especially as he failed to fulfill his early promise. But with time, Garcia has become a model for the wisdom of staying with a natural swing over chasing textbook perfection.

Renowned instructor Pete Cowen, who has worked with Garcia, recently told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom, “Sergio lays the shaft down on the downswing far more than anyone, myself included, would recommend. But the way he delivers the club into the ball through the movement of his shoulders is fantastic. Billy Foster, who has caddied for Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve Ballesteros, Sergio and even Tiger, will tell you that Sergio is the best striker of the lot.”

Garcia led in greens in regulation in Dubai, was second in driving accuracy and third in driving distance. “I've been fortunate to have some really good ball-striking tournaments,” he said. “This definitely was one of them.”

Here’s the question going forward: Is Garcia poised for something special in 2017? At Dubai, he sounded like it.

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker. “Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.”

So, it would seem, are necessary portions of experience, urgency and perspective. “I’m excited to keep improving, keep giving myself chances at winning tournaments, winning majors,” he said. “Sometimes you feel a bit more comfortable, you're a little bit more relaxed, and you're a little bit freer, and you play better. And sometimes you’re a little bit tighter. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying as hard, but it’s just not that easy. You know, golf is tough. Golf is really tough.”

The road is smoother, Garcia has learned, with as little baggage as possible. “I mean, it’s simple,” he said. “When I get to Augusta, U.S. Open, the British Open, PGA, I just want to do the best I can. Just like I try any other week.”

Easier said than done. But if Garcia can try the way he did at Dubai, he’s finally going to win one.

Brought to you by:Lowville Golf Club

[synergygolfsolutions]

How Sergio Garcia got us back to thinking he will win his elusive major (and why you should think it, too)

By: Jaime Diaz

It has taken a lot—even more than going wire-to-wire at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his 12th career European Tour victory—but I’m finally back to believing that Sergio Garcia will someday win a major championship.

I’ve been in the “never will” camp for about a decade, a subscriber to a litany of criticisms that start with the mechanical (can’t putt) but quickly escalate to the personal (immature, excuse-making, sulking, lacking heart). They all added up to the feeling that Garcia couldn’t make the big shot, would make the mistake, would somehow manage to do just enough to come up short.

Of course, Garcia, now 37, with 12 top-five finishes in 73 career majors (including three seconds), is the kind of talent who never stops getting punished for not fulfilling huge early expectations. Having seen how good he was as a teenager (he won the Irish Open at 19), not being able to handle Sunday Grand Slam heat seemed like a sin against nature that required appropriate outrage. Worse, the Spaniard in the past several years seemed to be getting more fragile under pressure.

Garcia first showed his brittleness at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he fought a case of compulsive re-gripping before ultimately getting a final-twosome tutorial in mental strength from his nemesis, Tiger Woods.

“I love playing golf. Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.” —Sergio Garcia

More close calls and failures ensued, until Garcia went darkly fatalistic after losing the 2007 Open Championship in a playoff to Padraig Harrington. “I’m playing a lot of guys out there, more than the field,” he whined, seeming to suggest he was being singled out by the golf gods. The woe-is-me got worse in 2008, when after seeming to achieve a breakthrough by winning the Players Championship, he was again nipped at the wire by Harrington in a mano-a-mano clash during the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.

After a bad weekend at the 2012 Masters, Garcia melted down, telling the Spanish media, “I’m not good enough. ... I don’t have the thing I need to have.” Asked what he was missing, he said “everything,” adding that “I need to play for second or third place.” Did he mean merely at the Masters? His reply was chilling: “In any major.”

Garcia would win later that year at the Wyndham Championship, but it didn’t put him on a new path. For the next three years on the PGA Tour, Garcia was almost certain to play poorly with the lead on the final day, shooting over par from that position five consecutive times. Last February at Riviera, Garcia came to the 17th hole with the lead, only to snap hook his last two tee shots to lose. The next week at the Honda Classic, he was locked in battle with Adam Scott until two poor 8-irons led to killing bogeys.

“Let’s face it,” said Johnny Miller. “The pressure got to Sergio.” By this time, it was as if the golf public was embodied by George C. Scott’s Bert Gordon character in “The Hustler,” who tells Minnesota Fats in his match with Fast Eddie Felson, “Stay with this kid. He’s a loser.”

But since then, to his great credit, Garcia has indeed shown heart. He finally came through to get his ninth PGA Tour victory last May at the AT&T Byron Nelson, defeating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Quietly, Garcia followed with two top-fives in majors (at Oakmont and Troon), the first time he had done so since 2006.

At the Ryder Cup, which has often provided a sanctuary for Garcia, he engaged with Phil Mickelson in one of the all-time singles matches. The two produced 19 birdies between them, and the match was a gritty affair all about pride, Team USA’s inevitable victory beside the point. When Mickelson holed a 15-footer on the 18th hole, the nine-footer that Garcia needed to salvage a halve was just the kind of putt in a big spot it seemed he’d always missed. This time, he made it.

Garcia seemed rejuvenated in Dubai, his first event of 2017, and he put on a clinic of controlled power golf. He looked solid, capable and calm, playing within himself and making only one bogey in 72 holes at Emirates Golf Club. Employing the claw grip, his putting stroke looked smooth rather than jumpy. He took a three-stroke lead into the final day and faced down Henrik Stenson. When the Swede, after two straight birdies cut Garcia’s lead to two, hit over the green on the par-3 15th, Garcia stiffed a perfect 6-iron to close the door.

Suddenly, even after 26 official worldwide victories, it was as if El Niño had finally learned the right way to win. And it was the reminder of a couple of truths. It’s prodigies who take the longest to grow up and mature. And, it’s a long journey in golf. It’s why I’m still not ready to write off Tiger Woods. And it’s why we might still see the best of El Niño.

Long popular among his playing peers, Garcia has also grown more personable with the world at large. A key might be his impending marriage to Angela Akins, a former University of Texas golfer (above). When Woods signed with TaylorMade, Garcia took the high road, putting aside their longtime differences to welcome him to the playing staff. Garcia even responded in the lighthearted affirmative to an Englishman who begged his favorite golfer—through more than 200 Twitter requests over several months—to let him caddie for him in a tournament. Garcia has agreed to let Mark K. Johnson carry his bag during the pro-am of the British Masters in September.

The cumulative effect is that Garcia is freer than ever to take full advantage of his greatest strength: ball-striking. Among insiders, Garcia is renowned for the way he can compress a golf ball, especially with his irons. It’s a product of the extraordinary lag Garcia achieves on his downswing, a move that was criticized as too extreme, especially as he failed to fulfill his early promise. But with time, Garcia has become a model for the wisdom of staying with a natural swing over chasing textbook perfection.

Renowned instructor Pete Cowen, who has worked with Garcia, recently told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom, “Sergio lays the shaft down on the downswing far more than anyone, myself included, would recommend. But the way he delivers the club into the ball through the movement of his shoulders is fantastic. Billy Foster, who has caddied for Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve Ballesteros, Sergio and even Tiger, will tell you that Sergio is the best striker of the lot.”

Garcia led in greens in regulation in Dubai, was second in driving accuracy and third in driving distance. “I've been fortunate to have some really good ball-striking tournaments,” he said. “This definitely was one of them.”

Here’s the question going forward: Is Garcia poised for something special in 2017? At Dubai, he sounded like it.

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker. “Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.”

So, it would seem, are necessary portions of experience, urgency and perspective. “I’m excited to keep improving, keep giving myself chances at winning tournaments, winning majors,” he said. “Sometimes you feel a bit more comfortable, you're a little bit more relaxed, and you're a little bit freer, and you play better. And sometimes you’re a little bit tighter. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying as hard, but it’s just not that easy. You know, golf is tough. Golf is really tough.”

The road is smoother, Garcia has learned, with as little baggage as possible. “I mean, it’s simple,” he said. “When I get to Augusta, U.S. Open, the British Open, PGA, I just want to do the best I can. Just like I try any other week.”

Easier said than done. But if Garcia can try the way he did at Dubai, he’s finally going to win one.

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How Sergio Garcia got us back to thinking he will win his elusive major (and why you should think it, too)

By: Jaime Diaz

It has taken a lot—even more than going wire-to-wire at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his 12th career European Tour victory—but I’m finally back to believing that Sergio Garcia will someday win a major championship.

I’ve been in the “never will” camp for about a decade, a subscriber to a litany of criticisms that start with the mechanical (can’t putt) but quickly escalate to the personal (immature, excuse-making, sulking, lacking heart). They all added up to the feeling that Garcia couldn’t make the big shot, would make the mistake, would somehow manage to do just enough to come up short.

Of course, Garcia, now 37, with 12 top-five finishes in 73 career majors (including three seconds), is the kind of talent who never stops getting punished for not fulfilling huge early expectations. Having seen how good he was as a teenager (he won the Irish Open at 19), not being able to handle Sunday Grand Slam heat seemed like a sin against nature that required appropriate outrage. Worse, the Spaniard in the past several years seemed to be getting more fragile under pressure.

Garcia first showed his brittleness at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he fought a case of compulsive re-gripping before ultimately getting a final-twosome tutorial in mental strength from his nemesis, Tiger Woods.

“I love playing golf. Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.” —Sergio Garcia

More close calls and failures ensued, until Garcia went darkly fatalistic after losing the 2007 Open Championship in a playoff to Padraig Harrington. “I’m playing a lot of guys out there, more than the field,” he whined, seeming to suggest he was being singled out by the golf gods. The woe-is-me got worse in 2008, when after seeming to achieve a breakthrough by winning the Players Championship, he was again nipped at the wire by Harrington in a mano-a-mano clash during the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.

After a bad weekend at the 2012 Masters, Garcia melted down, telling the Spanish media, “I’m not good enough. ... I don’t have the thing I need to have.” Asked what he was missing, he said “everything,” adding that “I need to play for second or third place.” Did he mean merely at the Masters? His reply was chilling: “In any major.”

Garcia would win later that year at the Wyndham Championship, but it didn’t put him on a new path. For the next three years on the PGA Tour, Garcia was almost certain to play poorly with the lead on the final day, shooting over par from that position five consecutive times. Last February at Riviera, Garcia came to the 17th hole with the lead, only to snap hook his last two tee shots to lose. The next week at the Honda Classic, he was locked in battle with Adam Scott until two poor 8-irons led to killing bogeys.

“Let’s face it,” said Johnny Miller. “The pressure got to Sergio.” By this time, it was as if the golf public was embodied by George C. Scott’s Bert Gordon character in “The Hustler,” who tells Minnesota Fats in his match with Fast Eddie Felson, “Stay with this kid. He’s a loser.”

But since then, to his great credit, Garcia has indeed shown heart. He finally came through to get his ninth PGA Tour victory last May at the AT&T Byron Nelson, defeating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Quietly, Garcia followed with two top-fives in majors (at Oakmont and Troon), the first time he had done so since 2006.

At the Ryder Cup, which has often provided a sanctuary for Garcia, he engaged with Phil Mickelson in one of the all-time singles matches. The two produced 19 birdies between them, and the match was a gritty affair all about pride, Team USA’s inevitable victory beside the point. When Mickelson holed a 15-footer on the 18th hole, the nine-footer that Garcia needed to salvage a halve was just the kind of putt in a big spot it seemed he’d always missed. This time, he made it.

Garcia seemed rejuvenated in Dubai, his first event of 2017, and he put on a clinic of controlled power golf. He looked solid, capable and calm, playing within himself and making only one bogey in 72 holes at Emirates Golf Club. Employing the claw grip, his putting stroke looked smooth rather than jumpy. He took a three-stroke lead into the final day and faced down Henrik Stenson. When the Swede, after two straight birdies cut Garcia’s lead to two, hit over the green on the par-3 15th, Garcia stiffed a perfect 6-iron to close the door.

Suddenly, even after 26 official worldwide victories, it was as if El Niño had finally learned the right way to win. And it was the reminder of a couple of truths. It’s prodigies who take the longest to grow up and mature. And, it’s a long journey in golf. It’s why I’m still not ready to write off Tiger Woods. And it’s why we might still see the best of El Niño.

Long popular among his playing peers, Garcia has also grown more personable with the world at large. A key might be his impending marriage to Angela Akins, a former University of Texas golfer (above). When Woods signed with TaylorMade, Garcia took the high road, putting aside their longtime differences to welcome him to the playing staff. Garcia even responded in the lighthearted affirmative to an Englishman who begged his favorite golfer—through more than 200 Twitter requests over several months—to let him caddie for him in a tournament. Garcia has agreed to let Mark K. Johnson carry his bag during the pro-am of the British Masters in September.

The cumulative effect is that Garcia is freer than ever to take full advantage of his greatest strength: ball-striking. Among insiders, Garcia is renowned for the way he can compress a golf ball, especially with his irons. It’s a product of the extraordinary lag Garcia achieves on his downswing, a move that was criticized as too extreme, especially as he failed to fulfill his early promise. But with time, Garcia has become a model for the wisdom of staying with a natural swing over chasing textbook perfection.

Renowned instructor Pete Cowen, who has worked with Garcia, recently told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom, “Sergio lays the shaft down on the downswing far more than anyone, myself included, would recommend. But the way he delivers the club into the ball through the movement of his shoulders is fantastic. Billy Foster, who has caddied for Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve Ballesteros, Sergio and even Tiger, will tell you that Sergio is the best striker of the lot.”

Garcia led in greens in regulation in Dubai, was second in driving accuracy and third in driving distance. “I've been fortunate to have some really good ball-striking tournaments,” he said. “This definitely was one of them.”

Here’s the question going forward: Is Garcia poised for something special in 2017? At Dubai, he sounded like it.

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker. “Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.”

So, it would seem, are necessary portions of experience, urgency and perspective. “I’m excited to keep improving, keep giving myself chances at winning tournaments, winning majors,” he said. “Sometimes you feel a bit more comfortable, you're a little bit more relaxed, and you're a little bit freer, and you play better. And sometimes you’re a little bit tighter. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying as hard, but it’s just not that easy. You know, golf is tough. Golf is really tough.”

The road is smoother, Garcia has learned, with as little baggage as possible. “I mean, it’s simple,” he said. “When I get to Augusta, U.S. Open, the British Open, PGA, I just want to do the best I can. Just like I try any other week.”

Easier said than done. But if Garcia can try the way he did at Dubai, he’s finally going to win one.

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How Sergio got us back to thinking he will win his elusive major (and why you should think it, too)

By: Jaime Diaz

It has taken a lot—even more than going wire-to-wire at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for his 12th career European Tour victory—but I’m finally back to believing that Sergio Garcia will someday win a major championship.

I’ve been in the “never will” camp for about a decade, a subscriber to a litany of criticisms that start with the mechanical (can’t putt) but quickly escalate to the personal (immature, excuse-making, sulking, lacking heart). They all added up to the feeling that Garcia couldn’t make the big shot, would make the mistake, would somehow manage to do just enough to come up short.

Of course, Garcia, now 37, with 12 top-five finishes in 73 career majors (including three seconds), is the kind of talent who never stops getting punished for not fulfilling huge early expectations. Having seen how good he was as a teenager (he won the Irish Open at 19), not being able to handle Sunday Grand Slam heat seemed like a sin against nature that required appropriate outrage. Worse, the Spaniard in the past several years seemed to be getting more fragile under pressure.

Garcia first showed his brittleness at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he fought a case of compulsive re-gripping before ultimately getting a final-twosome tutorial in mental strength from his nemesis, Tiger Woods.

“I love playing golf. Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.” —Sergio Garcia

More close calls and failures ensued, until Garcia went darkly fatalistic after losing the 2007 Open Championship in a playoff to Padraig Harrington. “I’m playing a lot of guys out there, more than the field,” he whined, seeming to suggest he was being singled out by the golf gods. The woe-is-me got worse in 2008, when after seeming to achieve a breakthrough by winning the Players Championship, he was again nipped at the wire by Harrington in a mano-a-mano clash during the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.

After a bad weekend at the 2012 Masters, Garcia melted down, telling the Spanish media, “I’m not good enough. ... I don’t have the thing I need to have.” Asked what he was missing, he said “everything,” adding that “I need to play for second or third place.” Did he mean merely at the Masters? His reply was chilling: “In any major.”

Garcia would win later that year at the Wyndham Championship, but it didn’t put him on a new path. For the next three years on the PGA Tour, Garcia was almost certain to play poorly with the lead on the final day, shooting over par from that position five consecutive times. Last February at Riviera, Garcia came to the 17th hole with the lead, only to snap hook his last two tee shots to lose. The next week at the Honda Classic, he was locked in battle with Adam Scott until two poor 8-irons led to killing bogeys.

“Let’s face it,” said Johnny Miller. “The pressure got to Sergio.” By this time, it was as if the golf public was embodied by George C. Scott’s Bert Gordon character in “The Hustler,” who tells Minnesota Fats in his match with Fast Eddie Felson, “Stay with this kid. He’s a loser.”

But since then, to his great credit, Garcia has indeed shown heart. He finally came through to get his ninth PGA Tour victory last May at the AT&T Byron Nelson, defeating Brooks Koepka in a playoff. Quietly, Garcia followed with two top-fives in majors (at Oakmont and Troon), the first time he had done so since 2006.

At the Ryder Cup, which has often provided a sanctuary for Garcia, he engaged with Phil Mickelson in one of the all-time singles matches. The two produced 19 birdies between them, and the match was a gritty affair all about pride, Team USA’s inevitable victory beside the point. When Mickelson holed a 15-footer on the 18th hole, the nine-footer that Garcia needed to salvage a halve was just the kind of putt in a big spot it seemed he’d always missed. This time, he made it.

Garcia seemed rejuvenated in Dubai, his first event of 2017, and he put on a clinic of controlled power golf. He looked solid, capable and calm, playing within himself and making only one bogey in 72 holes at Emirates Golf Club. Employing the claw grip, his putting stroke looked smooth rather than jumpy. He took a three-stroke lead into the final day and faced down Henrik Stenson. When the Swede, after two straight birdies cut Garcia’s lead to two, hit over the green on the par-3 15th, Garcia stiffed a perfect 6-iron to close the door.

Suddenly, even after 26 official worldwide victories, it was as if El Niño had finally learned the right way to win. And it was the reminder of a couple of truths. It’s prodigies who take the longest to grow up and mature. And, it’s a long journey in golf. It’s why I’m still not ready to write off Tiger Woods. And it’s why we might still see the best of El Niño.

Long popular among his playing peers, Garcia has also grown more personable with the world at large. A key might be his impending marriage to Angela Akins, a former University of Texas golfer (above). When Woods signed with TaylorMade, Garcia took the high road, putting aside their longtime differences to welcome him to the playing staff. Garcia even responded in the lighthearted affirmative to an Englishman who begged his favorite golfer—through more than 200 Twitter requests over several months—to let him caddie for him in a tournament. Garcia has agreed to let Mark K. Johnson carry his bag during the pro-am of the British Masters in September.

The cumulative effect is that Garcia is freer than ever to take full advantage of his greatest strength: ball-striking. Among insiders, Garcia is renowned for the way he can compress a golf ball, especially with his irons. It’s a product of the extraordinary lag Garcia achieves on his downswing, a move that was criticized as too extreme, especially as he failed to fulfill his early promise. But with time, Garcia has become a model for the wisdom of staying with a natural swing over chasing textbook perfection.

Renowned instructor Pete Cowen, who has worked with Garcia, recently told Golf Digest’s Guy Yocom, “Sergio lays the shaft down on the downswing far more than anyone, myself included, would recommend. But the way he delivers the club into the ball through the movement of his shoulders is fantastic. Billy Foster, who has caddied for Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Seve Ballesteros, Sergio and even Tiger, will tell you that Sergio is the best striker of the lot.”

Garcia led in greens in regulation in Dubai, was second in driving accuracy and third in driving distance. “I've been fortunate to have some really good ball-striking tournaments,” he said. “This definitely was one of them.”

Here’s the question going forward: Is Garcia poised for something special in 2017? At Dubai, he sounded like it.

“I love playing golf,” said the former sulker. “Just the possibility of doing it year in, year out for a living, it’s something that is magnificent to start with. The hunger is still there.”

So, it would seem, are necessary portions of experience, urgency and perspective. “I’m excited to keep improving, keep giving myself chances at winning tournaments, winning majors,” he said. “Sometimes you feel a bit more comfortable, you're a little bit more relaxed, and you're a little bit freer, and you play better. And sometimes you’re a little bit tighter. And it doesn’t mean that you’re not trying as hard, but it’s just not that easy. You know, golf is tough. Golf is really tough.”

The road is smoother, Garcia has learned, with as little baggage as possible. “I mean, it’s simple,” he said. “When I get to Augusta, U.S. Open, the British Open, PGA, I just want to do the best I can. Just like I try any other week.”

Easier said than done. But if Garcia can try the way he did at Dubai, he’s finally going to win one.

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