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Below is this week’s edition of Global Golf Post.

Featured Story: Global Golf Post’s 2016 Players of the Year

Global Gofl Post has named its 2016 Players of the Year. Click here to find out who won.

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TOP OF THE NEWS

• Matsuyama on a Hot Streak

COLUMNISTS

• Green Jr.: Somehow, a Sense of Renewal for Tiger
• Hopkins: Fitzpatrick, Hull Spur England’s Promise

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• News: Brazil Official Denies Olympic Course Demise
• Gear: Ship Sticks Adds to Travel Services
• Gear: KING LTD Black Driver
• No Reservations with Adam Scott
• Travel: Where Golf Meets the Sky

Watch Rory’s toughest interview ever shot at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, where the four-time Major winner met with a young reporter on the eve of his DP World Tour Championship defence.

For some, the Mannequin Challenge may be starting to feel overdone. Everybody from The Rock to the NBA have created their own version of these viral videos, where people pose as mannequins while the hip-hop song Black Beatles plays.

Still, the European Tour joined the viral-video challenge this week and it is one of my favourite versions. Hope you enjoy it, too.

Most student-athletes are concerned about finding the balance between class and sport, or retaining a spot on their collegiate teams. But, Dustin Barr’s worries are much more formidable.

Barr, a promising junior player from Thunder Bay, Ont., is fighting a recurrence of Ewing’s Sarcoma – a rare cancer that first manifested as tumors in his pancreas and hip when he was 17.

Barr originally fought off the cancer with surgery and intensive chemotherapy and resumed his career, moving to Orlando to train at the Core Golf Academy, where fellow Canadian Sean Foley is based.

Barr joined Thomas University’s golf team as a 20-year-old freshman, where he played in several events for the NAIA school in Thomasville, Ga. The cancer returned this year and spread to his lymph nodes, making a similar operation impossible. He is now back home in Canada for treatment and is already planning another return to competitive golf.

Friends and family have started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $50,000 to assemble a team of doctors to formulate a new treatment plan. Please consider helping Barr and his family by making a donation to his cause here.

Orlando, FLA – Despite a close call from Hurricane Matthew, The GenNXT Golf Academy is now in full swing at Henry Brunton Golf at Eagle Creek GC in Orlando, FL.

The first students enrolled in the world-class, high-performance academy designed for aspiring elite junior golf athletes and recent high school graduates, who are focused on developing their skills to the highest levels of golf, have arrived at the gated golf community.

“It’s great to be here as we continue to expand our programming at the Henry Brunton Golf Academy at Eagle Creek with the addition of GenNXT,” says Brunton, who is the Head Coach for the GenNXT Junior Academy. “Since launching the Henry Brunton Golf Academy at Eagle Creek last February, we have received a lot of interest in our programs locally, nationally and internationally and now we’re ready to take the next step.”

GenNXT junior athletes, who stay at the supervised GenNXT Golf House located within the Eagle Creek Golf community, have full access to play and practice at Eagle Creek, receive over 100 hours per month of full-time comprehensive golf coaching and training support including; specialized mental game training from world-renowned sports psychologist and coach Dr. Rick Jensen, who is well-known for working with 50-plus of the game’s best players that have collected 199 PGA/LPGA/Champions Tour wins including, 33 Majors and over $65 million in earnings.

Students can customize their academic pursuits by enrolling in the Everest Academy on-line education program with teacher support or at Windermere Preparatory School in Orlando or consider alternative educational opportunities.

Brunton is a PGA of Canada three-time national award winner – 2014 Coach of the Year, 2009 Junior Leader of the Year, 2013 Professional Development and Education.

Brunton, a PGA Master Professional is the lone Canadian to be a recipient of the 5-Star Professional Award, the PGA of Europe’s highest honor. He is the author of two books—Journey to Excellence: The Young Golfer’s Complete Guide to Achievement and Personal Growth (2009), and High Performance Golf (2012). He was also Golf Canada’s National Amateur Team Coach from 1999 to 2011.

People who play golf live longer, a major study has found, as it shows the game helps prevent 40 major chronic diseases such as diabetes, breast and colon cancer.

Researchers reviewed 5,000 studies into golf and wellbeing and found the sport has physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages and can even increase life expectancy by five years.

The findings were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

For more, read this article in the Daily Telegraph.

lan Fox and Kaeden Trainor didn’t play golf a year ago. Last month, the two 11-year-old hockey fanatics from Ontario carded back-to-back aces on the 128-yard fifth hole at Amherstview Golf Club in Loyalist, Ont., while playing in the same group.

How unlikely is that? The odds of two average golfers acing the same hole in the same foursome is 20 million to 1.

GolfDigest has more in this article.

During the 2016 World Junior Girls Championship at Mississaugua Golf and Country Club, participants took part in a “Fastest Hole in Golf” relay competition. Watch the video below to see who won.

Carlsbad, Calif. – TaylorMade announced today the contract extensions of the number one and two players in the Official World Golf Rankings, Jason Day and Dustin Johnson.

Jason Day, who first signed with TaylorMade in August of 2006, made his debut on the PGA TOUR that same year and hasn’t looked back since.

“For so many years, I aspired to play at the highest levels of the sport and become the best player in the world. I chose TaylorMade at the onset of my PGA TOUR career because they made products that performed. They’ve supported me on my quest for world #1 since day one. I’m excited to continue working with the great team at TaylorMade and playing the best performing equipment in the game.”

Dustin Johnson, who first signed with TaylorMade in December of 2007, earned his 2008 PGA TOUR card by way of successfully navigating qualifying school. Johnson’s first victory on the TOUR came at the Turning Stone Resort Championship in October 2008. Just four months later, he captured TOUR victory #2 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He then successfully defended his title the following year for his 3rd PGA TOUR victory. Johnson has had at least one victory in each of the last nine PGA TOUR seasons, the longest such active streak on Tour.

Johnson’s rise to a career-best #2 in the OWGR has been a steady climb since he turned pro, when he was ranked 1,375th. By the beginning of the ’15-’16 season, Johnson found himself at #8, joining stablemate Jason Day as the second TaylorMade Tour staffer in the top 10. A dramatic victory in the 116th U.S. Open Championship at Oakmont, a career milestone for Johnson, lifted the 32-year-old to #3, and he then elevated to #2 two weeks later with his victory at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and then cemented himself atop the FedExCup Playoff Standings entering the Tour Championship with a dominant win at the BMW Championship.

Arguably the longest hitter on Tour, Johnson has been ranked inside the top five on the PGA TOUR in driving distance every year since earning his card, and held the top spot at the conclusion of the 2015 season. Thus far through the ’15-’16 season, Johnson still holds the #1 position with a 314.2 yard average off the tee.

“When I started my professional career, my goal was to be the best and win tournaments. I chose TaylorMade because they made products that outperformed anything else I had ever played. Since day one, I’ve had a great relationship with the TaylorMade team and especially the guys who support me every week out on TOUR. I’m looking forward to continuing our teamwork and playing equipment that I believe in and has helped me to succeed.”

For more information on TaylorMade Golf equipment or Tour staff players, visit TaylorMadeGolf.ca.

Nestled against the Credit River, within shouting distance of Lake Ontario and a mere 17 minutes (without traffic, of course) from downtown Toronto, lays one of the country’s most iconic and celebrated layouts.

And when Mississaugua Golf and Country Club hosts the 2016 World Junior Girls Championship from September 27-30, all eyes will once again be on the Percy Barrett/George Cumming/Donald Ross/Stanley Thompson design.

But, you don’t have to travel all the way to Mississauga to check out the venerable layout. Here’s a bird’s eye view of all 18 holes.

And, here’s a unique look at the historic clubhouse.

For more info on the World Junior Girls Championship, visit www.worldjuniorgirls.com.