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Jessica Isner, a featured columnsist for BleacherReport.com, put together a nice primer to get you prepared for the start of the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation, which starts today in La Quinta, Calif.

Isner offers up some players to watch, highlights some notable tee times and predicts the winner.

Check out Isner's round up here.

The PGA Tour stop this week is the Humana Challenge, which is being hosted by PGA West and La Quinta Resort & Club, a pair of exclusive golf complexes that dominate the eastern half of the Coachella Valley.

College football season might be over, but its spirit lives on at Callaway Golf.

The folks at Callaway were inspired by the helmet stickers that some teams award players who make big plays – the most famous have to be those buckeyes that seem to overwhelm the headgear of every Ohio State player from the star quarterback down to the third-string left guard. So they've adapted the idea for golf – and have created special "bomb" patches that they’re adding to the bags of their staff players.

People who enjoy golf are often asked, "Who would make up your dream foursome?"

Among that foursome, you're bound to find at least one well-known, or even legendary professional golfer. But, if you take a closer look, you might just see that a particular, high-profile professional might actually be the last person you want to be paired with.

Why?

Easy. It's the intimidation factor.

It was golf's worst kept secret but today it's official - Rory McIlroy has signed with Nike Golf.  And to herald the partnership, Nike has unveiled one of the coolest golf ads we've seen in a long time.  

You can see it here.

Ben Alberstadt, a featured columnist on BleacherReport.com, has an interesting piece that focuses in on why it is that the distance the golf ball travels is ruining golf.

Alberstadt writes:

The European Tour’s powerful Tournament Committee meets Tuesday evening at the HSBC Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, and could select the 2014 European Ryder Cup captain at that get-together. With that possibility looming, the world of European golf was overflowing with Ryder Cup chatter.

It’s not clear how much input that Rory McIlroy has, but he capped off the weekend by voicing his opinion in favor of Paul McGinley.

So what did you do on Sunday? 2011 U.S. Amateur champion Kelly Kraft stacked this tower of golf balls.

Seems pretty cool to me, but someone wasn’t too impressed.

After Kraft tweeted out the photo of his dimpled skyscraper, he got a reply from Kevin Tway, the son of former PGA Champion Bob Tway and quite a golfer in his own right.

"u must be real bored haha," tweeted Tway.

"No big deal," responded Kraft, who clearly doesn't know a big deal when he sees one.

The temperature is dropping like a rock across much of the country this weekend, so I thought it was the perfect time to tell you about a new golf course being built on the north coast of Iceland.

What looked to be a two-man race between Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley for the 2014 European Ryder Cup team captaincy position, may now still be a two-man race -- but with a different challenger for McGinley.