Planning a trip to South Africa in the near future? Here's a tip for you: Don't leave your food unattended on the golf course. Seriously, just don't. As you can see from the footage taken during the Nedbank Challenge at Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa, leaving your food unattended doesn't attract the occasional bird.

Nope, it attracts giant baboons that are hellbent on pilfering your afternoon spread. Normally I'd recommend shooing the animal away and going about your business, but after watching this clip, I'd highly recommend running the other way and letting the big guy take the entire meal.

Well that didn't take long. Less than a year after Deion Sanders opened Prime Prep (Texas) Academy, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth, with aspirations of winning UIL state titles against the best Class 3A had to offer, the academy announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing from the UIL competition, effectively immediately.

Deion Sanders' Prime Prep Academy won't take part in UIL sanctioned events next season. — AP

According to the Dallas Morning News' Corbett Smith and Matt Wixon, Prime Prep decided it was time to leave the UIL after the association looked into the eligibility of senior basketball star Jordan Mickey, who transferred to Prime Prep Academy from Grace Prep along with former Grace Prep players Emmanuel Mudiay and Karviar Shepherd.

Four players made the move after former Grace Prep coach Ray Forsett left the school to coach Prime Prep. Transfer may be legal in some situations, but the decision to follow Forsett set off alarm bells at UIL headquarters.

Per Wixon's report, Sanders and Prime Prep co-founder D.L. Wallace believed all along that the players could transfer so long as they had a Previous Athletic Participation Form. Of course, transferring from one school to another for athletic purposes isn't permitted by the UIL.

No matter how much Prime Prep wanted to succeed on the court, the mass exodus at Grace Prep ended up putting the academy in the UIL's crosshairs. And when Sanders and Wallace figured out that they wouldn't be able to build a basketball powerhouse overnight, they decided it was in the best interest of the school to pull out of the UIL.

"We were doing a horrible disservice to our young men and women at our school to stay in the UIL and conduct our business with the 11-3A," Wallace told the Dallas Morning News. "Our board felt that it was better for us and the mission of our charter to do this, because it was pretty clear that we weren't going to get a fair shake from the UIL."

Michael Jordan wearing cargo shorts, though not the pair in question. (Getty Images)Michael Jordan's good at a lot of things: basketball, building apparel empires, smoking cigars. But if there's one thing he absolutely needs to work on in the future, it's the way he dresses on the golf course.

A couple months after Jordan wore an awful getup to the Ryder Cup that caused a minor stir, the greatest player to ever lace up a pair of high-tops is back in the news again for, you guessed it, the way he was dressed on the course.

According to the New York Post, Jordan showed up at La Gorce Country Club — a high-class course in Miami Beach, Fla. — wearing a pair of cargo pants for a round of golf.

No big deal, right? On most occasions, wearing a pair of cargo shorts for a round at your local muni track is acceptable, but when you're playing at a swanky club in Miami, you're expected to wear a pair of khakis that don't have baggy pockets. Apparently Jordan didn't get the memo and showed up to the course sporting cargos anyway. Well that didn't sit well with La Gorce's

Infographic on what is or isn't allowed — USGA

On Wednesday morning, the USGA and R&A announced proposed changes to the anchored putting stroke that will take effect in 2016. We could throw out a couple posts on what will be prohibited and banned in the future, but the USGA did us a solid and gave us a handy infographic that should (hopefully) clear things up.

If you're looking for a larger version, click here.

Girls volleyball coach Jeremy BasSie may win a PSAL Class A title with Bronx (N.Y.) High School of Science this season, but it'll likely be the only one he wins at the school, after he made a shocking announcement on Twitter that he was stepping down following the game.

Bronx Science coach Jeremy Bassie -- News12.com

The reason for stepping down? According to the New York Daily News, BasSie was frustrated with the PSAL's decision to postpone the title game until after the Thanksgiving holiday, after the league booked a gym that's currently being used as a storm shelter. At the moment, the PSAL has yet to schedule a makeup date, or site, for the game against New York (N.Y.) Susan E. Wagner High on Staten Island.

Fed up with the PSAL's lack of foresight, BasSie decided the best way to protest the league's decision was to just walk away.

"I'm trying to raise awareness that it's not acceptable to just neglect the sport when every other sports gets some improvements," BasSie told the New York Daily News.

I can understand protesting the decision or calling out the PSAL in the press, but the decision to walk away from the girls on the team because the league failed to find another site seems a bit harsh. Hurricane Sandy obviously forced everyone in the area to make decisions on the fly, and the PSAL clearly didn't have a backup plan.

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Rory McIlroy's impending switch to Nike Golf isn't official just yet, but based on recent reports and the hints he dropped following his fifth win of the season at the DP World Tour Championship, it's safe to say he'll likely be playing clubs with a Swoosh on them next year.

Switching to a new set of sticks can be a daunting proposition, especially when you're the top-ranked player in the world and have been playing the same brand of clubs (Titleist) since you were 14. McIlroy would be crazy to turn down the money -- it's rumored to be upwards of $250 million over 10 years -- however, there's no question he's taking a big risk, especially after the dream season he just produced.

While some may see the switch as a risky decision, McIlroy's coach Michael Bannon believes his student is up to the task, telling the Guardian's Ewan Murray that the new equipment shouldn't be a problem whatsoever.

"He'll have no problems at all with new equipment," Bannon said. "If you look at the clubs he is

Justin Rose failed to pick up his second win of 2012 on Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Sitting six shots back of Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald at the start of the final round, Rose put together an impressive display with eight birdies and an eagle en route to an eye-popping 10-under 62.

If it wasn't for five straight birdies from McIlroy to close out his round, we'd likely be talking about Rose pulling off one of the best come-from-behind wins of the season. But let's not discount Rose's second-place finish; it was still one of 2012's best, and a round that should give the Englishman plenty of momentum heading into next season.

We could show plenty of shots from Rose's final round, but his best effort of the day was actually a putt that didn't drop. After finding the back of the green on the par-5 18th, Rose knew he needed to get his lengthy eagle putt close for a two-putt birdie.

Not only did he get the tricky putt close -- just check out

Rory McIlroy picked up his fifth win of the season in Dubai. — Getty Images

To be honest, there never really was a doubt who the best player in the world was coming into the European Tour's season-ending Race to Dubai event. Rory McIlroy had four wins, more than $9 million in season earnings, a record-setting victory at the PGA Championship, the PGA Tour and European Tour money titles, and the PGA Tour Player of the Year award on his résumé.

Without a doubt, the 23-year-old's résumé, and No. 1 ranking, proved he was the best player in the world. But on Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, McIlroy reminded the golf world that the gap between the twentysomething phenom and the rest of the pack is starting to widen, after he held off a hard-charging Justin Rose, and closed with 66, including five straight birdies to finish the round, to win by two shots.

"I couldn't have wished for the season to end any better," McIlroy said after his round.

"Coming here with the [European Tour's] Race to Dubai wrapped up I wanted to win the tournament trophy too