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at St Francis Links

29 Feb - 3 MArch 2024

A Sunshine Tour event co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour. $1,5 million purse | 156 Players (half Sunshine Tour & half DP World Tour). 18-hole live broadcast over all 4 days in over 54 countries on Supersport.

The Sunshine Tour & DP World Tour

The Sunshine Tour and the DP World Tour will co-host six events that will form part of their official schedule for 2024. The DP World Tour will represent a truly global tour through an international schedule, that will feature a minimum of 44 tournaments in 24 different countries.

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The SDC Championship is part of the DP World Tour. In 2024 all players will be competing for a total prize money of USD 1,500,000.

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  SunshineTour,    25/03/2024

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  SunshineTour,    24/03/2024

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  SunshineTour,    23/03/2024

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'This is kind of my hometown event': Millbury's Gary Young will be chief referee for the PGA Tour at Travelers Championship

TPC River Highlands, site of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut, has undergone several enhancements the last few years, and two PGA Tour officials from the Worcester area played key roles in making them happen.

Gary Young , PGA Tour senior vice president of rules and competitions, is a member of the Tour’s enhancements competitions committee which decides which improvements are needed at courses which host PGA Tour events, and Milan Moore , PGA Tour director of golf course design and construction, has overseen many course upgrades on Tour, including those at TPC River Highlands.

Young grew up in Northbridge and lives in Millbury. Moore grew up in Shrewsbury. When Young was the head pro at Pleasant Valley CC in Sutton before joining the PGA Tour as a rules official in August of 2007, he gave lessons to Moore when she was a young girl.

“It’s kind of crazy,” Young said. “To see her grow into what she’s doing now and have the role with the PGA Tour she has, it’s quite impressive. There’s not many females in that role, and she’s just ideally suited for it.”

Moore, a 2004 graduate of Tufts University, has worked in design for the PGA Tour for 21 years. Her father, the late Dr. Roger Moore, was one of the original members at PV.

The PGA Tour looks at the data after every event to see how each course holds up to the modern player and then makes competitive enhancements.

At TPC River Highlands over the last five years, the Tour has refined the course, upgraded the practice facilities and built a bigger clubhouse with financial assistance from Travelers, the title sponsor. Since Keegan Bradley set a tournament record by shooting 23-under 257 to win the Travelers last year, the Tour has tweaked six holes, but Young said the changes already were scheduled before he set the record.

Young said the PGA Tour focuses more on the excitement of the competition than the score. If it doesn’t rain during the Travelers June 20-23 and the conditions are firm and fast, he expects the winning score to be about 14 or 15 under par. But when the course is wet and soft, the scores are usually lower.

Young will work the Travelers for the 17th consecutive year, his longest association with any PGA Tour event.

“Now that it’s the last remaining event in New England and the Northeast, this is kind of my hometown event,” said Young, who was at TPC River Highlands for the Travelers media day last Monday.

It takes him a little more than an hour to make the 68-mile drive from his home in Millbury to TPC River Highlands, but he stays near the course during the week of the tournament.

For the fourth consecutive year, he will serve as the chief referee at the Travelers. He sometimes appears on the television broadcast to explain a weather delay or a rule infraction.

“We’re definitely not TV stars,” Young said of him and his fellow rules officials. “We are background players in a sport. That’s the way it should be.”

Young likes to tell people that if they see him on television during a golf event, something bad must have happened. He has become what he calls a “pseudo weather expert” by hanging around with the on-site meteorologist, and he said it drives his wife, Lauri, crazy. Sometimes when he’s on the road, he calls her to warn her about a storm heading her way.

“She’ll say, ‘Gary, I’ve got this handled. We have meteorologists back here,’ ” he said.

Young used to serve as the advance official at the Travelers, marking the course for out of bounds and other things, tracking the player field with the Tour competitions department, working with the local superintendent and Tour agronomist to determine greens speed and height of the tees, fairways and rough, and overseeing the construction of grandstands and luxury boxes to make sure they don’t affect the competition.

Moore oversaw work on the aforementioned six holes at the Travelers from September through early December.

The first fairway was narrowed closer to the green to provide the same width in the landing area for the longer hitters as it does for the shorter hitters.

Mounds with fescue were added to the par-5 sixth and 13th holes to give the longer hitters something to think about while they try to reach the green in two shots.

The ninth and 11th greens were shrunk in size and surrounded by grassy hollows with deep rough.

“Rather than adding yardage, which seems to be everyone’s answer nowadays,” Young said, “we take a look at the way the course is designed. It’s always been a second shot golf course, which requires precision iron play and a good short game. We wanted to keep that.”

Data revealed that the longer hitters drove beyond the bunkers on the par-4 12th hole, so the fairway was ended at 300 yards by growing primary rough on the downslope. The longest hitters will probably hit 3-wood instead of a driver to avoid the rough.

The Tour wants to improve the fan experience by widening walking areas throughout the course to improve the flow of the galleries and by installing interactive venues.

Tournament sites also need room for the increased number of semi-trucks and trailers for player fitness vehicles and television equipment.

“It’s a bigger show now than it used to be 10, 20 years ago on the PGA Tour,” Young said. “It grows every year, and the property needs to reflect that.”

The PGA Tour doesn’t fully own every TPC course, but it is the sole owner of TPC River Highlands. On the other hand, the Tour is a minority owner of TPC Boston in Norton. TPC Boston hosted 17 PGA Tour events from 2003-2020 and will be the home of the LPGA Tour’s FM Global Championship Aug. 29-Sept. 1.

TPC River Highlands currently has the only PGA Tour event in New England, but Young believes the PGA Tour will return to TPC Boston someday, possibly as part of a rotation with other sites. So after the LPGA Tour event finishes, the PGA Tour will work with Gil Hanse on upgrades at TPC Boston, including building new greens complexes on the fifth and seventh holes.

TPC Boston opened in 2002 as an Arnold Palmer design and was redesigned by Hanse and Brad Faxon in 2007.

Young is considering regaining his amateur status, but he hasn’t gotten around to it yet. He no longer plays a lot of golf, but last year he did get to play at Newport Country Club for the first time, and he fell in love with it. Newport will host the U.S. Senior Open June 27-30, the week after the Travelers.

Young said due to the advanced equipment and the improved player conditioning, the seniors may find Newport to be on the shorter side.

“But whatever that golf course may lack in distance,” he said, “with the character of the golf course and the difficulty of the greens, it will be a good challenge.”

Young is an honorary member at PV, where he worked for 22 years and which hosted 32 PGA Tour events and 13 LPGA Tour events from the early 1960s through 1999. He hasn’t played PV since August, but last Wednesday co-owner Jay Kunkel invited him to give his opinions on work being done on the course.

“The place looks great, it came through the winter very well,” Young said. “I would expect by the time we get to Memorial Day, the place is going to be in fantastic condition.”

Brusco at National Club Pro Championship

Worcester Country Club teaching pro Bob Brusco tied for 58th in the PGA Professional Championship last Sunday through Wednesday at the PGA Frisco Fields Ranch East and West Courses in Frisco, Texas.

The Grafton resident shot 77-70-78-76 for a total of 13-over 301 in the tournament, which is also known as the National Club Pro Championship. He earned $4,100 as the top NEPGA golfer in the event.

Bruso was the Central Mass. Division 2 medalist his senior year at Auburn High and a third-team All-American as a senior at Worcester State.

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Raul Pereda makes first career ace from 236 yards in Round 1 of THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson

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PGA TOUR rookie Raul Pereda made his first hole-in-one in TOUR competition on Thursday morning, acing the 236-yard par-3 seventh hole at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson.

Pereda launched a long iron that landed just a few paces onto the green and trundled to the back-left hole location. Pereda celebrated with a fist pump and high fives with his playing partners, Zecheng Dou and Chris Gotterup. The ace moved Pereda into red figures, 2-under through seven holes at TPC Craig Ranch.

"When it came off the face it was just very solid and landed about halfway or middle of the green and it was tracking," said Pereda, who hit 4-iron. "I just didn't think it had enough speed, so I picked up the tee, and when I turned around I still see the ball, and all of a sudden I heard some people screaming and yelling. JP my caddie was like, I thought it had a chance and all off sudden it disappeared."

"I think I'm going to have a good dinner with my team out here. Media center for sure has some beers out there already, so, guys, go enjoy some," Pereda said.

It was a much-welcomed boost for Pereda, who has struggled in his maiden season on the PGA TOUR. The Mexico native, who earned his TOUR card through PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, has missed seven cuts in nine starts. His best finish is a tie for 42nd at the Puerto Rico Open. Pereda said he's struggled particularly with his spin. Ahead of the season, he was seeing concerningly low spin rates, which led him to change into a higher-spinning ball and adjust nearly every club in the bag. The change turned out to be short-lived. Pereda was unable to control the additional spin he produced and went back to a lower-spinning ball and bag setup ahead of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

"I's been an improvement this week," Pereda said. "There is a lot of shots where I didn't feel like I was going to lose control of the ball. Everything was just a little starting left, starting a little bit right. I was able to do whatever I wanted to the ball, fade it, draw it."

Those changes led to the ace. Maybe it will help flip his season's fortunes, too.

Ahead of the launch there was a festival-like atmosphere on the beach, where vendors offered space paraphernalia and groups of children sold Chinese flags for 3 yuan (about 40 cents) each. Families sprawled on picnic blankets playing cards, while others strung up hammocks between palm trees so they could wait in the limited shade.

Yiuwah Ng, a 28-year-old real estate office worker from the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, traveled six hours by car and another three hours by ferry to stake out the best spot along the shore, where he had been camping for three days with friends and his dog. 

“I want to witness this historic moment,” he said of the launch, his fourth. “It’s an important first step for China’s lunar exploration.”

Max Zhang, a self-described “rocket chaser” from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has been photographing launches at Wenchang from the beach since 2011. 

“I’m addicted to the shock of seeing the launches, especially the sound of the rocket flame,” he said. “It shakes my heart.”

‘ A force to be reckoned with’

If successful, the Chang’e mission will be a crucial step in realizing the country’s goals of landing Chinese astronauts on the moon by 2030 and eventually building a base on the lunar surface.

The outcome of the mission will also have implications far beyond China’s borders. A slew of spacefaring nations — including Russia, India, Japan and the U.S. — also have their sights set on the moon, creating what some experts have likened to a new kind of space race.

“China is trying to prove that it’s a force to be reckoned with, and so it’s always that China is competing against everyone in space,” said Clayton Swope, deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

A successful Chang’e 6 mission would demonstrate how sophisticated China’s lunar exploration program has become in a relatively short time.

“Twenty-five years ago, they had very rudimentary space capabilities,” said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank based in Washington. “Going from that to where they are today — I think they’ve clearly exceeded Russia, and their space capabilities are really only second to the United States.”

China achieved its first moon landing in 2013 with the Chang’e 3 mission, which set a lander and rover on the lunar surface to study the moon’s terrain. Before that, only the U.S. and the former Soviet Union had successfully landed spacecraft on the moon.

In 2019, China notched another historic milestone with its Chang’e 4 flight, becoming the first country to land a probe on the far side of the moon , the part that permanently faces away from Earth.

The following year, in 2020, China returned to the moon’s near side, which always faces Earth, landing the Chang’e 5 spacecraft on a volcanic plain known as Oceanus Procellarum. The probe retrieved samples there and brought them back to Earth, representing a big technological leap forward. 

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has invited scientists from the U.S., Europe and Asia to apply to borrow the lunar samples for their own research, holding a pitch meeting last week in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Researchers funded by NASA received rare approval from Congress to submit proposals, raising the possibility of high-level U.S.-China space cooperation that is otherwise prohibited by U.S. law.

This time, the Chang’e 6 spacecraft is aiming to land and retrieve samples from the South Pole-Aitken basin, an ancient and sprawling impact crater on the far side of the moon.

Conducting a sample return mission from the side of the moon that always faces away from Earth is challenging because mission controllers on the ground have no way of directly contacting a spacecraft in that region. Instead, signals need to be relayed through a satellite now orbiting the moon that China launched from the same site in Hainan last month.

While difficult, the effort could have enormous payoffs. Studies suggest that the moon’s near side was more volcanically active than the far side, which means all of the lunar samples obtained thus far may be telling only part of the story of the moon’s origin and evolution.

Collecting lunar samples from different geological eras and regions “is of great value and significant for all mankind to have a more comprehensive understanding of the moon and even the origin of the solar system,” Ge Ping, a mission leader from CNSA’s Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, told reporters in Hainan on Thursday.

Beyond its scientific objectives, the Chang’e 6 mission carries with it geopolitical considerations. The flight is a precursor to a pair of Chinese robotic missions to the moon’s south pole to scout locations to build a moon base. Last year, the Chinese and Russian space agencies agreed to jointly build a research station on the lunar surface.

NASA and its commercial partners also aim to establish a permanent presence at the lunar south pole, though the agency’s Artemis moon missions have faced numerous delays and budget overruns . The current timeline has American astronauts returning to the lunar surface in 2026 at the earliest.

With China and Russia forming a rival coalition, there is some pressure for the U.S. to keep its foot on the accelerator, Harrison said.

“It does matter who gets there first, and it matters how you get there and what kind of coalition you’re bringing with you,” he said.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has on multiple occasions warned that the U.S. runs the risk of falling behind China’s lunar ambitions. In an interview this week with Yahoo Finance , Nelson outlined what’s at stake in the new space race.

“I think it’s not beyond the pale that China would suddenly say, ‘We are here. You stay out,’” he said.

Asked Thursday about international competition in space, Ge said, “All countries in the world should explore, develop and use outer space peacefully.” 

“There is no need to worry too much,” he added. “Space programs are for all humans.”

As more countries around the world build up space capabilities, NASA has pushed for more global cooperation, establishing the Artemis Accords in 2020 to promote peaceful, responsible and sustainable practices. U.S. law prevents China from joining the 39 other nations that have signed the accords, which both China and Russia have criticized as a tool to promote U.S. dominance in space.

Many Western space policy experts have in turn raised concerns about China’s and Russia’s intentions. The full scope of China’s ambitions in space is not known, for instance, because its space agency does not operate with the same level of transparency as NASA. The country’s space program is also more closely tied to the military than in the U.S.

“We cannot ever say that China’s investment in civilian space technologies are only civilian and not to be used for military purposes,” said Namrata Goswami, a professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and co-author of the 2020 book “Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space.”

While it may feel as if China’s spaceflight objectives have accelerated in recent years, they are part of a decadeslong strategy, Goswami said.

“Many of the leaders of China’s space program announced these goals and timelines 20 years ago,” she said. “What is astounding to me is that they are achieving almost all their milestones on time, and for them, that has a strategic advantage in the global narrative of who’s doing it better.”

As much as the moon and its resources can provoke competition among nations, space exploration can also be unifying, Swope said.

“We are literally a speck in the universe, and when we go to the moon or explore space, we as humankind have that shared human trait where we want to understand the unknown and we want to discover,” he said. “That does transcend politics.”

Janis Mackey Frayer reported from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China, and Denise Chow reported from New York.

Janis Mackey Frayer is a Beijing-based correspondent for NBC News.

Denise Chow is a reporter for NBC News Science focused on general science and climate change.

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Submission:  July 31, 2014 Registration: July 31, 2014 Language:  English or Russian Location:  Moscow, Russia Prizes:  2 Prizes of (RUB 3.500.000) ($102.000) each.  and a total of RUB 3.890.000 ($114.000) spread in ten prizes for the finalists. Type:  Open competition for architects.

We are happy to announce the launch of online registration for those wishing to take part in the Architectural and Design Competition for Moscow Metro Stations Solntsevo and Novoperedelkino. The aim of the Competition is to create an inimitable, one of a kind profile for the two Moscow Metropolitan underground railway stations of Solntsevo and Novoperedelkino. The prize fund for the Competition stands at 3,890,000 rubles (including VAT) and is to be divided between the 10 Participants who pass through to the second stage of the Competition. Each of the two winners will be invited to settle a contract for the implementation of their architectural and design concept to a sum no larger than 3 500 000 rubles. Should you be able to make any news article or feature on this, thereby giving foreign architects the opportunity to participate in the Competition, we would be very grateful and willing to provide any assistance necessary.

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