Blades Brown, an 18-year-old professional golfer from Nashville, is tied atop The American Express leaderboard with Scottie Scheffler at 17-under through two rounds at PGA West in La Quinta, California.

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LA QUINTA, California, EE.UU. (AP) — Una semana caótica para Blades Brown, de 18 años, estuvo a un par de centímetros de derivar en un momento espectacular el viernes, cuando falló por poco un putt de seis pies para birdie que le hubiera redituado un 59.

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You can’t win The American Express on Thursday or Friday, but you can absolutely put yourself on the wrong side of the sportsbook if you ignore the context.

Shares of Goldman Sachs and American Express are trading lower Friday morning, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. The Dow was most recently trading 287 points, or 0.6%,