Trivia question

The Warriors’ Klay Thompson holds the NBA record for made 3-pointers in a game with 14. What’s the record for missed 3-pointers in a game, and who holds it?

Simpson carries 5.5 iron

Webb Simpson was between clubs on the par-3 17th at the Hero World Challenge, which is not unusual for any player. What was unusual is going from a 7-iron to a 5-iron.

Then again, Simpson doesn’t carry a 6-iron, writes Doug Ferguson of AP.

That was the idea of his caddie, Paul Tesori, and they decided to remove the 6-iron in the first week of August.

“I kept having these awkward numbers with my wedges. I just had too big of gaps from the wedges,” Simpson said.

Tesori’s solution was for Simpson to bend the 7-iron to make it stronger and weaken the 5-iron (he had Titleist stamp 5.5 on the club). Removing the 6-iron allowed him to put an additional wedge in the bag, and Simpson is loving it.

It’s worth noting the 5.5-iron is the longest club without a head cover. Simpson carries a driver, 3-wood and 5-wood, and hybrids for his 3-iron and 4-iron. That’s quite the bouquet of head covers, and yes, he hears about it.

“Maybe everybody on tour says something,” he said.

He said it

“Tiger Woods, really, is the best player that ever lived, but it won’t go down in the record book as such because Jack Nicklaus’ record is better. You can only go by the record book.” — Gary Player.

Trivia answer

The record is 16 and two players have done it. The Blazers’ Damon Stoudamire did it first, against the Warriors in 2005. The next six times it was done were all by the Rockets’ James Harden.