SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- The Olympics has thrown another wrinkle into the golf schedule, this one affecting the American team for the Ryder Cup.The PGA Championship typically is the final event to earn one of the eight automatic qualifying spots, and then Davis Love III would have four captains picks leading up to the Ryder Cup matches that start Sept. 30 at Hazeltine.Because the PGA has been moved to the end of July ahead of the Olympics, qualifying for the Americans wont end until Aug. 28 after The Barclays.Love is looking beyond standings because of the Olympics.For example, Rickie Fowler has slipped to No. 10 in the standings. He is going to Rio de Janeiro, taking him out of at least two tournaments (Travelers Championship and John Deere Classic) that others behind him in the standings might not play.Bubba Watson (No. 7 in the standings) is playing next week at the Travelers Championship as the defending champion. However, Matt Kuchar (No. 8) and Patrick Reed (No. 11) will be in Rio for the Olympics.I think the assistant captains and I are going to be challenged, because we have so many factors like the Olympics that we havent really dealt with before, Love said. Rickie just told me hes going to be down there for 11 days. You have to factor in that theres two weeks he could have played here.Its more than just the Olympics.Brooks Koepka was at No. 3 until an ankle injury knocked him out of a lucrative World Golf Championship and the British Open, where money counts double toward the Ryder Cup standings. Koepka now is at No. 9, and his ankle is not at full strength.Daniel Berger, who won in Memphis a week before the U.S. Open, withdrew from the WGC event at Firestone and The Open with a shoulder injury. He is at No. 16.Love said he is keeping an unofficial points list in his head among those who are playing well, but either dont have enough tournaments because of injury (Jim Furyk, for example) or might be missing events because of the Olympics.We know who is playing well and who is not playing well, Love said. And we know who our team wants as their teammates or their partners. We have a longer list maybe than you would think.Love could get a little more clarity this week, anyway. The PGA Championship also is worth double points.---NO SMOKING: A week into making good on a bet, the caddie of Henrik Stenson was starting to struggle.Gareth Lord had a friend in Florida who told him he should quit smoking, and the conversation led to a bet: If Stenson wins a major, Lord stops smoking.And then Stenson won the British Open, closing with a 63 for a three-shot victory at Royal Troon.Stenson could tell his caddie was struggling when Lord jokingly told him on more than one occasion, I wish Phil had shot 59.Tuesday morning on the range as the story was going around, someone did some quick math and realized Lord should be on his ninth day of no smoking, not seventh day.I had so much to drink, the first two days didnt count, Lord replied.---LONG DRIVE: Rory McIlroy thought he had his first victory of the week before the PGA Championship even started.For the third straight year, the PGA of America staged its Long Drive Championship, this time on the first hole at Baltusrol. Jordan Spieth was the early leader at 314 yards, but that was before McIlroy hammered one 345 yards.I hit one out there pretty good this morning, McIlroy said Tuesday. Not going to lie to you, Ive been checking the board since to see if anyones got up close to me. I saw Gary Woodland on the putting green just as he was going out, and I said, `Thats one of the guys Im worried about. I thought he could maybe get it out there by me. But thankfully, he missed the fairway.I dont know if Im still on top, but I hope so by the end of the day.By the end of his news conference, he received the bad news -- Byeong Hun An ripped one 347 yards, and that was the winner.An received a gold money clip, while McIlroy had to settle for the silver and Nicolas Colsaerts (341 yards) received a bronze clip.---RUN OF THE LINKS: The Irish Open is moving to July next year, making it three straight weeks of links golf through the British Open.The European Tour said Tuesday that the Irish Open will be played at Portstewart Golf Club on July 6-9. Thats the week before the Scottish Open at Dundonald Links on the Ayrshire coast, followed by The Open at Royal Birkdale.It will be the first time Portstewart, which dates to 1894, hosts a European Tour event.To get that date right before the Scottish is huge, said Rory McIlroy, the tournament host. To play a round of links golf leading into the Open, hopefully we can attract some marquee names to come over and play. With it being at the start of July, hopefully -- fingers crossed -- we can get some decent weather.---DINNER PRANK: The late Sam Snead was famous for being tight with his money, as former PGA champion Bobby Nichols once discovered.The PGA Championship has been hosting a champions dinner since 1965, and Nichols was the first host as the defending champion. Nichols wanted to know who was picking up the tab, and he was told it would be taken care of by the PGA of America.And that allows Nichols to play a prank.At the end of the meal, I said that we needed to collect from each champion beginning in 1942 to help pay the tab, Nichols told the PGAs website. Before I could say the year, Sam Snead ... was headed for the door. We had to all call Sam back, letting him know that we were just teasing.Snead won the first of his three PGAs in 1942.---DIVOTS: Bubba Watson was home long enough between majors to open a candy store in Pensacola, Florida. Its called Bubbas Sweet Spot, offering up fudge, ice cream and a variety of candy. Who doesnt like candy and fudge and ice cream? Watson said. So Im spending the most money in there. ... Bill Calfee, president of the Web.com Tour the past 10 years, has decided to retire after this year. Calfee played on the PGA Tour from 1976-85 and has worked at the tour in various roles since 1991. ... Jhonattan Vegas at the RBC Canadian Open became the second player this year to make birdie on the final three holes and win. The other was Jordan Spieth at Colonial. ... The PGA Championship said it has sold out of all tickets for competition rounds at Baltusrol. ... Karen Stupples played her first professional tournament at Woburn Golf Club, making the cut as an amateur in the Womens British Open. She returns 20 years later as a Golf Channel analyst.---STAT OF THE WEEK: Sixteen of the past 20 winners at the PGA Championship played in the final group, the most of any major during that span.---FINAL WORD: Any time you enter a tournament with the results in mind, you never play your best. -- Phil Mickelson.Black Friday Shoes Deals . - Connor McDavid scored 53 seconds into overtime as the Erie Otters came from behind to defeat the visiting Guelph Storm 4-3 on Saturday in Ontario Hockey League action. Fake Black Friday Shoes . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. https://www.shoesblackfriday.com/ . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Wholesale Black Friday Shoes . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Black Friday Shoes Sale . A knee to the thigh might have stung him the most, but his sixth straight double-double made up for the brief burst of pain.KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Shanshan Feng birdied four of her final six holes after a long lightning delay Saturday to top the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia leaderboard when darkness suspended play.The 27-year-old Chinese player had a one-stroke lead over fellow major champion Anna Nordqvist of Sweden. Feng was 7 under for the day and 13 under overall on the 18th tee when play was stopped at TPC Kuala Lumpur. Nordqvist was on the par-5 16th.The 18th hole is a tough hole, but its good that the pin location is not the toughest today, Feng said. I think maybe Ill have a full warm-up in the morning. Hopefully, then, after I finish the 18th hole, I can go directly to No. 1 and start my fourth round.Play was delayed for 4 hours, 39 minutes by the lightning and periods of heavy rain, leaving only 90 minutes of light left when the action resumed.I just kept eating, Feng said. They kept updating like every 30 minutes, and like after every update, Im like, Maybe Im going out so I should eat more. I ate like three or four times before I went out. So made sure that Im full of energy.Lightning and rain also suspended play Friday afternoon. Theyre playing TPC Kuala Lumpurs East Course, a week after Justin Thomas successfully defended his title on the West Course in the PGA Tours CIMB Classic.Feng won the 2014 tournament for the last of her four LPGA Tour titles.Coming back here, Ive had so many good memories that Im really relaxed and really enjoying the week, Feng said. Of course, I think that really helps me to bring out my A game.She bogeyed the par-4 11th before the delay, then reeled off birdies on par-5 12th, par-4 14th, par-3 15th and par-5 16th. She made a 20-foot eagle putt on the par-5 sixth in a front-nine 31.Feng was third in the Olympics in August, the start of a string of five top-four finishes -- the best a second behind Ha Na Jang three weeks ago in Taiwan.Nordqvist was 5 under for the round. She has six LPGA Tour victories, successfully defending her ShopRite LPGA Classic title in June in New Jersey. The former Arizona State player lost a playoff to Brittany Lang in the U.S. Womens Open in July at CordeVallle.ddddddddddddAmy Yang was third at 11 under with three holes left.Suzann Pettersen (66) and Candie Kung (three holes left) were 9 under, and top-ranked Lydia Ko (65) and Chella Choi (67) were 8 under.Playing her first tournament since firing caddie Jason Hamilton, Ko rebounded from a bogey-double bogey finish Friday that left her eight strokes back.Ive just got to focus on my game, Ko said. Thats what I tried to do yesterday and today, and thats how I got to this position, so I think I have to do the same thing for tomorrow.Malaysias Sargunan Suntharaj is carrying the 19-year-old New Zealanders clubs. Hamilton shifted to Jang.Pettersen birdied six of the first eight and made another on 12, then returned from the break to hit into the water and make a double bogey on the par-3 15th. She birdied the 18th.Michelle Wie was 7 under with three holes left.Paula Creamer shot a 64 before the storm hit to get to 6 under. The American played the first eight holes in 5 under. She opened with a birdie on 10, bogeyed 11, made four straight birdies, parred the par-5 seventh and birdied the eighth.I started on the back nine, second off today, you get really good greens, Creamer said. But I played great. I hit a lot of really good iron shots. Made a lot of good putts. Just tried to keep the momentum going. I could have shot a lot more under par, but Ill definitely take my 7 under.She closed with a triple bogey Thursday in a 72, and had a double bogey Friday in a 71.If you take those two things away, Id be pretty much right in the mix of things and I know that, Creamer said. Ive been playing well and putting well and my short game is on point. Its just putting them all together and hopefully I can do it tomorrow.Stacy Lewis was 1 under after a 70 in her first event since mid-September.Second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn also shot 70, leaving her even par. She has a tour-high five victories -- one more than Ko -- and leads the money list and the Race to CME Globe and player of the year standings. ' ' '