2 In The Top 25 Isn't Too Shabby

The World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses

The dominant theme of our new ranking of the World's 100 Greatest Golf Courses is proximity to the sea.

4 Cypress Point Club

• Pebble Beach, Calif., U.S.A. / 6,524 yards, Par 72
• Alister MacKenzie's masterpiece, woven through cypress, sand dunes and jagged coastline. In the 2000s, member Sandy Tatum, a former USGA president who christened Cypress Point as the Sistine Chapel of golf, convinced the club not to combat technology by adding new back tees, but instead make a statement by celebrating its original architecture. So Cypress remains timeless, if short, its charm helped in part by re-establishment of MacKenzie's fancy bunkering.

12 Pebble Beach G. Links

• Pebble Beach, Calf. / 6,828 yards, Par 72
• Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, too, with nine holes perched immediately above the crashing Pacific surf – the fourth through 10th plus the 17th and 18th. Pebble's sixth through eighth are golf's real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over a ocean cove on eight from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Pebble will host another U.S. Amateur in 2018, and its sixth U.S. Open in 2019.

Complete list (GolfDigest.com)

Man & Machine Work In Beautiful Harmony Here

What the Bentley Mulsanne and Acura NSX Have in Common – Technologue

Low ’n’ Slow: Tech Helps Build Low-Volume Cars Precisely, Profitably 

[T]he Bentley Mulsanne line in Crewe, England, and the Acura NSX Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio.

Each is geared to build roughly 2,000 very special cars per year for customers who demand perfection. Sure, their sticker prices could pay for an army of technicians to build the cars entirely by hand, but fallible human hands are not ideally suited for all tasks, and the business case won’t support a level of automation approaching that of the Accord factory next door to the PMC. So both Bentley and Acura employ an intriguing mix of man and machine assembly. The robots in use by each are impressive multitaskers.

(MotorTrend.com)

It's Not New, It's A Tradition (?)

No mobsters, no bar-room brawls ... you call this a Jets QB drama?

Quarterback drama is part of the franchise's DNA, from Joe Namath's diva days to Geno Smith's broken jaw. The current situation? It's hardly unique for the Jets. Yes, Ryan Fitzpatrick's prolonged contract standoff and the suddenly crowded quarterback room are making headlines across the country, but nobody is talking about mobsters or bar-room brawls -- two storylines from previous quarterback soap operas. Uncertainty at the game's most important position has clouded many an offseason and preseason.

In the summer of 1969, a few months after the Jets' one and only Super Bowl victory, Namath tearfully announced his retirement at a news conference inside a Manhattan nightclub called Bachelors III. He was a part owner of the popular Upper East Side hangout, which attracted organized-crime figures. That concerned the NFL, so commissioner Pete Rozelle told Namath he'd be banned from playing unless he sold his interest in the club.

Rather than submit to Rozelle's demand, Namath, only 26 and rebellious, quit football. He was the biggest name in the sport, so you could imagine the fallout. It would be akin to Stephen Curry saying goodbye to basketball after the playoffs.

After weeks of intense speculation, Namath returned to the Jets, agreeing to surrender his stake in Bachelors III. As it turned out, he threatened retirement in 1970 and 1971 as well, with many speculating he simply wanted to save his famously bad knees from the grind of training camp. Contract squabbles may have been a factor too, along with his fledgling career in Hollywood. Let's see: A love scene with Ann-Margret or two-a-day practices? Not a tough decision.

(ESPN.com)

The Tampa Bay Lightning Win At Intermission Entertainment

The Lightning Projected Mario Kart On The Ice Between Periods

I’m on record as a big fan of those on-court and on-ice projection systems proliferating throughout our nation’s arenas, but Tampa might have achieved apotheosis. 

I present to you: intermission Mario Kart.

(DeadSpin.com)

My Answer May Suprise You

Question of the Day: Greatest 4-cylinder engine of all time? 

The four-cylinder engine goes back 120+ years. Which one is best?

(AutoBlog.com)

Editor's choice:

D16Z6 by Honda

• Found in 1992 - 1995 Honda Civics
• Power: 125 bhp (92 kW, 125 PS) at 6,600 rpm
• Torque: 106 lb·ft (14.7 kg/m, 144 Nm) at 5,200 rpm

With a DC Header and RS Akimoto intake, I was able to get 40mpg on the highway. My Civic coupe was a 5 spd also.

How Does This Help Sell Cars?

Cadillac's Opening A Pop-Up Coffee Shop
 

“Our issue is not the quality of the product,” Cadillac’s brand director Melody Lee told 

Bloomberg. “Our challenge is relevance.”

That’s Cadillac’s rationale for opening up a coffee shop on the ground floor of their office building just above TriBeCa in that weird office park zone before you get to the Holland Tunnel. Hudson Square? Whatever.

The space will open to the public on June 2nd and will have Joe Coffee, Timo Weiland clothes, art exhibits curated by Visionaire, and a custom fragrance by 12.29.

(Jalopnik.com)

A Thought To Ponder

(CavemanCircus.com)

A Record Setting Weekend In F1

4 Records Max Verstappen Smashed With His Incredible Spanish GP Win

Despite being just 18 years old, Max Verstappen can now say he is an F1 race winner after claiming victory at the Spanish Grand Prix in extraordinary style for Red Bull

Here are all the records Verstappen has broken:

3. Youngest ever F1 race winner

• What a performance and what an achievement. He’s 18, in his second F1 season and has only just passed his driving test. And now he is a winner in the biggest motorsport series in the world. 

Complete list (CarThrottle.com)