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GALLOWAY, N.J. | Sometimes the game gives you great winners and sometimes you get memorable finishes. In the 2021 ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by A...
Close racing during the Jimmy Starling Trophy at Burnham Sailing Club © Alan Hanna This weekend was the Jimmy Starling from the Burnham Sailing Club. 17 Squibs entered and enjoyed six races over two days. The Jimmy Starling is raced for annually in memory of a young Tucker Brown apprentice shipwright who drowned whilst racing in Burnham Week 1957. As always, the Burnham fleet enjoyed close competitive racing, with the wins being spread out, and every place being hard fought for. In Race 1, Spoof, owned by Mickey Wright led during the first lap, with Malcolm Hutchings in second, a...
Every so often, usually when Erie County is trying to find money for the library system, somebody suggests selling Childe Hassam’s painting, “Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals.” It’s a magnificent painting by the man who is widely considered the father of American Impressionism. I recall a prominent local businessman suggesting that the county hire a painter to duplicate “Summer Afternoon,” and then sell the original, which in 2018 was thought to be worth more than $2 million. During a recent vacation, our family visited the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, Connecticut, and viewed...
2007 U.S. Women’s Open champion to make her 24th consecutive championship start LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (May 10, 2021) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced that 2007 U.S. Women’s Open champion Cristie Kerr has accepted a special exemption into the 76th U.S. Women’s Open Championship, which will be conducted June 3–6 at The Olympic Club (Lake Course) in San Francisco, Calif. Kerr, 43, captured the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C., defeating Lorena Ochoa and Angela Park by two strokes. Kerr, a 20-time winner on the ...
The United States Golf Association today announced that Newport Country Club will host the 44th U.S. Senior Open Championship. The historic venue was originally scheduled to be the host site of the 2020 championship, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the fifth USGA championship to be held at Newport Country Club, which hosted the inaugural U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur championships in 1895. The dates of the U.S. Senior Open are June 27-30, 2024. “Newport Country Club and the USGA have a long, rich history that dates to the club’s beginnings as a founding member ...