Brett Cyrgalis

Brett Cyrgalis

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Babe Ruth’s baseball swing helped spark teaching revoluti💎on in golf

🌄 Brett Cyrgalis’ new book, “Golf’s Holy War: The Battle for💜 the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science” (Simon & Schuster) is set to be released Tuesday. It... 

Ex-Ranger's tragic journey: From 1980 Olympic hero to a mental facility 40 years later

Barry Beck had a dream. The former Ranger🥃s captain woke up one morning in the spring of 2019 in Hong Kong, where he had ꦛbeen coaching hockey for almost 13...

Ran▨gers star seems poised to make big return once this ends

The past few weeks have been good for Chris Kreider — physically, at least. As the NHL has spent just over a month 🌠in a “pause” due to the coronavirus...

New Yorkﷺ golf courses can🗹 reopen with coronavirus restrictions 

💃 Golf courses have been in a gray area since New York State shut down non-essential businesses last month. At first, some were open and bustling on nice days, finding ways...

Isles' ill-fated Barclays Center tenure had big silver lining

It was an ill-conceived, half-baked, stopgap of an idea. Characters came and went, to varying degrees of integrity and motivation. The future of a on💖ce-proud pro sports team hung in... 

💛 Islanders are getting their own stud Russian goalie

It’s looking like the Battle of New York will soon get a Russian twist. It seems the Island🔥ers will be getting long-awaited netminder Ilya Sorokin for the start of the...

Why Tiger Woods' 1997 win was greatest Masters ever

Jack Nicklaus' improbable win in the 1986 Masters topped The Post’s poll of greꦍatest 🀅Masters ever, but Tigers Woods' 1997 victory was a close second and got the nod as... 

Foℱrmer Rangers and Kings coach dies at age 71

A hockey lifer has passed on, as fo⛄rmer Rangers coach Tom Webster died Frid🌼ay at the age of 71. Webster, known as “Hawkeye,” was hired as the Rangers’ coach in...

Why Islanders star isn't focused on contract situation

The way Mathew Barzal looks at it, tꦆhe coronavirus pandemic that has paused the NHL season has not ended it. So the Isla𝕴nders’ 22-year-old star center isn’t worried about the...

How Augusta ꦚNational will play differently in November  🦄

The Masters do🙈es not happen without Augusta National Golf Club having as much control over the event as po🅘ssible. That would have been true if the event went off as...

🎐  The best 18 golf holes on public courses in t꧅he NY metro area

🅘 The demands have been heard, and The Post has responded! After such terrific feedback from our fla🔯wless list of “The Best 18 Holes in the metro area” from this past...

The 18 bes✃t golf holes in metro area

 Every ranking is subjective, especially with something as arbitrary as the quality of a golf hole. Beauty, it is said, lies in the eye of t📖he beholder. Well, not here....

Doling out the hardware in lieu of delayed NHL awards 𓃲

The NHL Awards in Las Vegas have been postponed — and could eventually be entirely canceled — but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our🌟 own voting right here, right?!?...

♑ What NHL playꦐers are doing during coronavirus pause 

As much as the fans want to see the NHL come out of this “pa🦋use” due to the coronavirus✱ pandemic, the players are even more eager. Instead, they sit at...

The NHL's coronavirus outlook sounds ominous

The NHL timeline keeps getting pushed f𒉰urther and further back, all in the name of safety. With the NHL in a “pause” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the league held... ღ

 Forgotten Stꦰ🙈anley Cup mayhem resurfaces with coronavirus

Sarah Hall has heard the🌠 stories about her great-grandfather, more and more as the years have gone on. She understands the rising interest in Joe Hall — sometimes dubbed “Bad”...

 NHL must make this painful coro𝔍navirus decision

We willꩲ get to hockey in a minute. Promise. But first, let us go over a famous thought experiment in moral philosophy called the trolley problem. (Don’t worry, some lighter...

NHL's ideal coronavirus plan: Open training camp in 45 days

At least n꧑💧ow there is some sort of timeline, even if it’s subject to drastic change. The NHL released a memo Monday morning stating the CDC had given the league...

Coronavirus break may push new Ranger's debut to next season

The pause in the NHL schedule has a ripple effect on every aspect of the sport, and it could mean the Rangers won’t get to glimpse defensive p൩rospect K’Andre Mill🐻er...

How N🐎HL is handling its coronavirus pause

This is the message, until it’s not. As the NHL a🔯nd the Players’ Association tried to figure out the details for what this “pause” in the season might look like...