Matt Kuchar isn’t completed. 

However each different golfer is. 

In a weird sequence throughout the closing spherical of the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship, Kuchar elected to cease his spherical after his first shot on the 18th gap as darkness fell Sunday on Sedgefield Nation Membership in Greensboro, N.C. — regardless of his two taking part in companions within the occasion’s closing group ending and Kuchar not being in competition for a win, nor a spot for the beginning of subsequent week’s PGA Tour playoffs. The transfer was authorized, however upended the end of the occasion, which was gained by Aaron Rai.

Kuchar was to proceed Monday morning, and he was to play for a better end and cash. He’s at present in a 10-way tie for twelfth, with a number of situations in play. Ought to he hole-out for eagle from effectively left of the 18th fairway — which is unlikely — he would bounce right into a tie for sixth, which might pay him $305,137.50, up from the $144,965 that he could be paid for the tie for twelfth. Ought to he birdie, he would transfer right into a six-way tie for seventh, which might pay him $240,950 — and a bogey would drop Kuchar right into a seven-way tie for twenty first, which might pay him $83,232. Nothing, although, will advance him into the Tour’s postseason — the Wyndham serves as the ultimate regular-season event, and Kuchar can’t accumulate sufficient factors on Monday to maneuver into the highest 70 cut-off.   

As for Kuchar’s rationalization, he was not formally interviewed by on-site reporters. Golf journalist Jason Sobel tweeted Sunday evening that Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis talked with Kuchar, who instructed Lewis that he had determined to cease taking part in earlier than Rai clinched the win with an 18th-hole birdie within the group forward of him — and that he was making an attempt to assist taking part in companion Max Greyserman, who, earlier than the birdie, trailed Rai by a stroke. 

All of it perplexed the announcers from CBS, which was broadcasting the event. 

“The event is over, however it’s not,” announcer Jim Nantz mentioned. “It’s so unusual. Really we’ll be one participant out right here tomorrow morning, I believe someplace round 8 o’clock.”

Under is a unfastened sequence of occasions::

— From the ultimate threesome, Kuchar teed off on the 508-yard, par-4 18th at about 8:15 p.m. — with Rai and taking part in companions Cameron Younger and Billy Horschel forward of them, readying to hit their second pictures. It was reported that Kuchar couldn’t see the gamers, however his tee shot sailed left of the bushes on the left aspect of the outlet and into the tough. 

Stated Kuchar: “God darn it.”

— After Kuchar’s taking part in companions, Greyserman and Chad Rainey, teed off three minutes later, the threesome was instructed by guidelines official Ken Tackett that they’d the selection of both taking part in on, or returning Monday because of the darkness, although no horn for stoppage of play was sounded. On the CBS broadcast, Tour guidelines official Orlando Pope revealed the Tackett dialog, then the community later confirmed footage of Tackett speaking with Kuchar.

Stated Kuchar to Tackett as he walked down the 18th gap: “Horn’s been theoretically blown.” 

Replied Tackett: “Right.” 

— Kuchar then marked his ball, and he walked the outlet with Greyserman and Rainey, who performed on. 

However Pope’s rationalization got here because the duo putted, and the dearth of a horn initially — and understandably — confused the published staff. It had at the very least appeared that Kuchar stopped taking part in on his personal accord. 

Stated analyst Trevor Immelman: “So he’s going to identify it? Has any person blown a horn I’m not conscious of?”

Stated on-course analyst Dottie Pepper, who was strolling with the threesome: “No, there’s been no horn blown.” 

Stated Immelman: “However is he allowed to cease in the event that they haven’t blown a horn?”

Stated Nantz: “I’ve not heard a horn.”

— Greyserman and Rainey then putted, as Kuchar stood behind the inexperienced. 

At this level on the published, Pope disclosed the Tackett dialogue with the gamers, saying this:

“Yeah, it was previous sundown. So we talked to them coming down the tee. As an alternative of simply blowing the horn, we gave them the choice to complete, and he selected to not end. And he may end the outlet. … However he determined he didn’t need to end, and we’ll enable it. Simply come again tomorrow.”

And Kuchar seemingly will. 

CBS’ protection of the sequence ended with this trade:

Stated Nantz: “[Kuchar] mentioned the horn has theoretically been blown and Ken Tackett instructed him sure and he has the ability to have the ability to make that call. Simply he’s going to come back out right here tomorrow and I don’t assume there’s going to be anyone right here to observe it. I don’t count on we’re going to be bringing you that protection tomorrow. However that’s his prerogative. It’s simply an fascinating determination — he’s not going to make the playoffs.” 

Stated Immelman: “However let’s take it again 5 minutes earlier when he determined to tee off when the chief was about to stroll into his second shot, in the midst of the golf green. It has been a extremely weird sequence of occasions.” 

Stated Nantz: “Yeah, that’s a good level. It appeared that on the tee that he was in a rush to go forward and attempt to get it in. His two taking part in companions are going to complete.” 

Stated Immelman: “Yeah, if you happen to go forward and hit your tee shot, you bought to assume your intention is to get completed.” 

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LOS ANGELES — It is Los Angeles’ flip for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag on the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, earlier than handing it off to a key consultant of LA’s native enterprise — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek by way of motorbike, airplane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028.

Town will turn into the third on the earth to host the video games 3 times because it provides to the storied years of 1932 and 1984. This is a glance ahead and again in time on the Olympics in LA.

Los Angeles obtained the 2028 video games as a comfort prize when Paris was picked for 2024.

Again in 1932, LA hosted its first Olympics. Town was the one bidder for the video games at a time marred by the Nice Despair and the absence of a number of nations. But memorable sport moments got here from athletes together with American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who gained golds within the new girls’s occasions of javelin and hurdles.

Monetary and cultural success gave 1984 a status because the “good” Olympics” which made seemingly each main world metropolis need their very own.

Emphasizing each the trendy and the classical with a hand from Hollywood, the video games opened with decathlon champion Rafer Johnson lighting the torch, a man in a jetpack descending into the Memorial Coliseum and theme music by “Star Wars” maestro John Williams.

With Jap Bloc international locations boycotting, the U.S. dominated. Carl Lewis and Mary Lou Retton are among the many athletes who grew to become family names. A younger Michael Jordan led the boys’s basketball group to gold.

The video games renewed, for some time, the worldwide status of a metropolis that had been perceived to be in decline.

“We would like our video games to be a contemporary video games, youthful, stuffed with the optimism that Southern California brings to the world and the globe,” Janet Evans, four-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming and chief athlete officer for the LA 2028 organizing committee, informed The Related Press in Paris.

Bass, who returned to LA Monday, mentioned one of many greatest takeaways was the best way Paris organizers made the “Olympics for everybody, whether or not you participated within the video games or not.”

She gave examples of watch events held in surrounding cities and breakdancing lessons earlier than the competitions.

Becoming a member of her had been LA28 Chairperson Casey Wasserman, an leisure government, and LA councilmember Traci Park, chair of town Olympic committee.

Metropolis council president Paul Krekorian, who joined Bass in bringing the Olympic flag to LA, mentioned they had been “going to make this the one metropolis on the earth who’ve ever had three financially profitable Olympic Video games.”

Amid a stadium-and-arena increase, LA will polish current constructions reasonably than erect new ones.

“It is a no-build video games,” Evans mentioned.

After Paris’ modern opening ceremony on the Seine River, LA plans to open with a standard, stadium-based method at SoFi Stadium in neighboring Inglewood that additionally incorporates the century-old Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles itself.

House to 2 NFL groups, SoFi has hosted a Tremendous Bowl and a number of other Taylor Swift live shows since opening in 2020. It is going to turn into what organizers say is the most important Olympic swimming venue ever. Its opening ceremony function means swimming will come after observe and discipline for the primary time since 1972.

Intuit Dome, the soon-to-open Inglewood residence of the NBA’s Clippers, can be the video games’ latest main venue and is the deliberate residence for Olympic basketball. The Lakers’ downtown Crypto.com Area will host gymnastics.

The toxicity of swimming within the Seine grew to become a severe concern in Paris. That would put renewed concentrate on the Lengthy Seaside space waterfront when it hosts marathon swimming and triathlon races. Its cleanliness historical past is blended however its ocean waters obtained constantly excessive marks in a 2023 evaluation by nonprofit Heal the Bay.

The Lengthy Seaside shore was residence to the pre-recorded performances throughout Sunday’s ceremony of the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, although it was straightforward to mistake for LA’s Venice Seaside, the place the journey of the flag begun by Cruise was proven ending moments earlier.

A metropolis that is notoriously laborious to traverse might look like an odd match for the Olympics, however it may well work.

Bass mentioned she plans to emulate the ways of Tom Bradley, the mayor in 1984, whose site visitors mitigations had some saying it was higher than at non-Olympic instances. They embody asking native companies to stagger workforce hours to scale back the variety of vehicles on the highway and permit work at home in the course of the 17-day video games.

Touchdown the Olympics beneath then-Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2017 gave town an unusually lengthy lead time for planning.

Whereas it is no Paris Metro, LA has constructed a subway since its final Olympics, with traces working previous main venues.

In 2018, town deliberate an formidable slate of 28 bus and rail initiatives to rework public transit. Some had been scrapped however others moved ahead, together with the extension of a subway line to attach downtown Los Angeles with UCLA, the deliberate residence of the Olympic Village.

One other high-profile mission is the Inglewood Individuals Mover, an automatic, three-stop rail line previous main Olympic venues. It initially obtained a dedication of $1 billion in federal funding, however opposition from Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters led to a $200 million discount, the Los Angeles Instances reported. It’s unclear whether or not the road shall be accomplished by 2028.

Metro lately obtained $900 million in funding by an infrastructure spending package deal and grants from the Biden administration, of which $139 million will go immediately towards enhancing transportation by 2028 and the aim of a “car-free” Olympics.

“The most important problem will not be ready to 2028, however actually taking the chance between now and 2028 to assist Angelenos and guests alike reimagine the transportation community as one thing that shall be their first selection,” Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins mentioned.

Whereas crime charges had been significantly greater in 1984 than at the moment, the countdown to 2028 comes as the problem has gotten elevated consideration and solid a social-media-amplified shadow.

The Olympics are designated as a nationwide particular safety occasion, which makes the U.S. Secret Service the lead company tasked with growing a safety plan, supported by important federal assets.

LA metropolis and county regulation enforcement despatched officers to Paris to look at, study and help as they put together for their very own 2028 video games.

There are numerous extra encampments on metropolis streets than there have been in 1984, and it is unlikely LA may have solved its homeless disaster within the subsequent 4 years. Because the Paris video games ended, California Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to withhold funding from cities unable to clear encampments.

Forward of the Video games in Paris, organizers relocated 1000’s of unhoused individuals, a follow additionally used for the 2016 Rio de Janiero video games and criticized by activists as “social cleaning.”

LA is the “subsequent logical vacation spot” for the Olympics, mentioned Adam Burke, president and CEO of the LA Tourism and Conference Board. “LA has emerged as actually one of many world’s sports activities capitals.”

First although, town will host a FIFA World Cup occasion and U.S. Girls’s Open in 2026 and one other Tremendous Bowl in 2027.

Town’s resort trade has continued to see development, including 9,000 new resort rooms previously 4 years with extra to come back over the subsequent 4.

LA28 organizers are banking on ticket gross sales, sponsorships, funds from the Worldwide Olympic Committee and different income streams to cowl the video games’ $6.9 billion finances. The committee has introduced in simply over $1 billion towards a aim of $2.5 billion in home company sponsorships.

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Related Press Author Noreen Nassir contributed from Paris.

The Olympics will at all times have Paris. Subsequent up for the Summer season Video games: Los Angeles 2028.

The baton was handed from one third-time Olympic host metropolis to a different on the closing ceremony Sunday in Paris, and far will likely be totally different in 4 years’ time.

New sports activities will make their Olympic debuts, picked by organizers in LA who are also bringing again others that left this system greater than 100 years in the past.

Whereas Paris had the Seine River, LA has the Pacific Ocean and its seashores.

Paris’ unmatched historic buildings gave town a cinematic look. LA’s streets are a dwelling historical past of movie and tv.

Right here’s a take a look at some issues that will likely be totally different concerning the subsequent Summer season Video games.

Which sports activities will likely be new on the Los Angeles Olympics?

Flag soccer, squash and impediment racing. Sure, “American Ninja Warrior”-style impediment racing, to switch the horses and pep up fashionable pentathlon.

Sports activities that get invited into the Olympics sometimes are performed internationally. Within the fashionable Olympics, nonetheless, in addition they should be wished by the host metropolis.

Flag soccer is an efficient match for Los Angeles organizers, who final yr instructed IOC members earlier than they voted that it represents “the longer term and the tip of the spear for American soccer’s worldwide development.”

The star-studded Closing Ceremony featured a lot of music and stunts from a Hollywood icon.

Squash will be part of tennis and badminton as racket sports activities on the Video games. Might padel or pickleball sooner or later comply with?

Squash misplaced out in a number of earlier campaigns and, like flag soccer, now goes Video games to Video games with no assure of staying for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

Fashionable pentathlon has been an Olympics staple since 1912 however usually has appeared near being ousted. Equestrian is being changed as one of many 5 disciplines as requested by the IOC after a horse was abused in Tokyo three years in the past.

In comes impediment racing in LA, aiming to make the game extra accessible and relatable.

Gone for a century, again in LA

Lacrosse final was performed on the Olympics in 1908, cricket not since 1900.

Each return in 2028 with keen assist from Los Angeles organizers and in viewer-friendly brief codecs; Lacrosse in a six-a-side model, cricket within the aggressive, hard-hitting T20 model that doesn’t require 5 days per match.

Lacrosse pays respect to the Indigenous roots of the game: “It’s really genuine to the land we’re on,” LA 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman stated Saturday.

Cricket has been coveted to attach particularly with the greater than 1.6 billion folks in India and Pakistan.

“They’ll be taking note of the Olympics like they by no means have,” Wasserman stated. Cricket certainly will likely be stored in 2032 by Brisbane, which is residence to one of many sport’s most storied venues.

Some coaches would deserve a medal on the Paris Video games due to how they celebrated with their athletes. Listed here are some frenzied and memorable moments.

Baseball and softball have maybe probably the most uncommon fashionable Olympics story: out after the 2008 Beijing Video games, again in at Tokyo in 2021, out in Paris, again in LA. Effectively, Oklahoma Metropolis, in softball’s case.

House to ladies’s softball in 2028 is Devon Park that phases the Girls’s Faculty World Sequence annually, about 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) from the Pacific Ocean.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has stated he is open to permitting Main League Baseball gamers to take part within the LA Video games, however important challenges stay. Insurance coverage insurance policies for gamers like Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Decide, whose contracts are price lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars}, would be the largest sticking level.

Early opening, early closing

The following Summer season Video games begin two weeks sooner than this one, with a gap ceremony on Friday, July 14.

There’s no river in LA to match Paris’ athlete parade on boats on the Seine, although it would use two stadiums as a substitute of 1: each SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will likely be in play.

That plan means flipping the schedule of the trendy Summer season Video games.

Observe and discipline is on the Coliseum — because it was in 1932 and 1984 — and now strikes up every week, changing swimming because the front-loaded anchor sport. That’s as a result of So-Fi should be transformed right into a spectacular non permanent venue for swimming with seats for 38,000 followers. Races will transfer again into the second full week of motion.

The July 30 finish date in Los Angeles is the primary time a northern hemisphere Summer season Video games will end so early for the reason that 1924 Olympics closed July 27 in Paris.

Parisians who left town to keep away from the floods of vacationers mirror on their determination and share recommendation with the hosts of the 2028 Olympics: Los Angeles residents.

How will the Los Angeles Olympics look?

The Paris Olympics usually regarded unimaginable on display screen. Los Angeles virtually invented the look of recent cinema and tv and is a artistic hub of music and style.

The message right here to LA is persistently: Do not attempt to copy Paris.

“Paris is probably the most stunning metropolis on the earth,” Wasserman stated Saturday. “The 2028 Video games will likely be authentically Los Angeles.”

The IOC’s head of Olympic broadcasting, Yiannis Exarchos, stated LA “can not redo a metropolis (Paris) with a historical past of 500 years. LA speaks concerning the future, about new frontiers, about expertise.”

Street occasions resembling marathons and biking can present “the place an enormous a part of the mythology of the twentieth century has been created, due to Hollywood,” Exarchos stated in an interview.

“That is the place I’m extra intrigued. I discover attention-grabbing to see how we are able to recreate the tv geography of LA.”

PARIS (AP) — Monica De Gennaro of Italy made three earlier journeys to the Olympics solely to go away empty-handed every time.

Lastly, at age 37, she’s going dwelling with the gold.

Italy beat the defending champion U.S. crew Sunday to win gold in girls’s volleyball on the Paris Olympics.

“It feels particular,” she stated. “It’s the dream of each participant to play within the last of the Olympics and win it. It’s one thing distinctive. We labored so onerous for thus a few years to have the ability to attain this last.”

When Italy scored the match level to finish it, lots of the gamers collapsed to the courtroom, then started hugging in an enormous scrum. Collectively they tossed De Gennaro into the air.

The victory got here in straight units, 25-18, 25-20, 25-17. The Italians ended a dominant match having misplaced only one set.

It’s the primary medal within the sport for top-ranked Italy and sends the Individuals dwelling in disappointment after they gained their first Olympic title in Tokyo. It’s an enormous win for the Italians, whose earlier finest Olympic end was fifth.

“It means every little thing,” Alessia Orro stated. “There’s plenty of onerous work, plenty of sweat, many sacrifices and lots of disappointments which have introduced us this far. They made us take this path, they made us win the gold.”

The victory got here in entrance of a boisterous crowd at South Paris Enviornment, the place many followers waved Italian and U.S. flags. Individuals danced and cheered because the Italians romped to the win.

The U.S. was up 6-5 within the third set earlier than Italy scored the subsequent seven factors to take a 12-6 lead. The Individuals fought again, scoring three of the subsequent 4 factors.

The U.S. acquired inside 19-16 earlier than Italy closed it out with a 6-1 run capped by the match level by Paola Egonu, who had a dominant efficiency, scoring 22 factors.

“It’s magnificent,” Italy’s Caterina Bosetti stated. “It’s the match that I’ve been ready for all my life.”

Myriam Sylla beamed whereas carrying her gold medal as she spoke to reporters after the win. The 29-year-old, who was a first-time Olympian, was requested the way it felt round her neck.

“It’s heavy like … the journey that we did to realize it,” she stated.

The silver end by the Individuals provides them a seventh Olympic medal to make them the winningest nation within the volleyball.

“I’ll stroll away being very proud that we had been in a position to play on the final day of competitors,” American Jordyn Poulter stated. “And I feel it feels much more candy to us due to simply all that we’ve got gone by means of as a crew.”

Italy swept Turkey in straight units to succeed in the ultimate whereas the U.S. beat Brazil in a five-set thriller for its spot within the recreation.

U.S. coach Karch Kiraly modified the lineup after a five-set loss to China on July 29 to start out group-stage play. He moved veterans Jordan Larson and Kelsey Robinson Prepare dinner to the bench in favor of Avery Skinner and Kathryn Plummer.

The transfer labored, and the crew defeated Serbia the subsequent trip to get again on monitor. However on Sunday, it wasn’t sufficient to get previous the mighty Italian crew and repeat as champions.

Kiraly was impressed with the way in which his crew fought by means of adversity to succeed in the ultimate.

“It was completely superior to see that once we acquired pushed to the restrict … how succesful this group was, how a lot resolve it had, how a lot grit it had,” he stated. “That was in all probability the very best factor to study in these Olympics.”

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Max Greyserman coming to the end of a loopy lengthy day, but it surely was all going his manner.

Beginning the day one again of Matt Kuchar after practically taking pictures 59 within the second spherical Friday night, Greyserman pulled out forward three-quarters of the best way by means of Sunday on the Wyndham Championship finale thanks to a few eagles over the third and fourth rounds. The third of which approaching the thirteenth gap of the fourth spherical, his thirty first of the day, when he spun a wedge again from 91 yards for a duce.

It was seven minutes to 7 p.m. ET with nearly 75 minutes till sundown on a day that started for Greyserman at 9:40 a.m. after heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby worn out Thursday play, forcing the third and fourth rounds to each be held Sunday.

He doubled his result in 4 pictures as he headed to the tee of Sedgefield Nation Membership’s hardest gap and raced to play the final 5.

Then, golf occurred.

Greyserman wiped his tee shot on the 14th gap out of bounds, then compounded it by enjoying his 4th shot right into a bunker and ended up making a quadruple bogey. Two holes later, after rebounding with a birdie to regain the lead, he four-putted the sixteenth inexperienced for a double.

That opened the door for Aaron Rai. Rai was main the chase for second all day as Greyserman raced out forward, however because the rookie struggled, the veteran hung robust. On the 72nd, after the solar had already set, Rai threw a dart of an iron from 200 yards into the center of the inexperienced, rolling out to only seven toes. He drained the putt to slam the door shut on Greyserman within the fairway and win the Wyndham Championship for his first PGA Tour victory.

Rai’s win won’t technically be official till Monday morning as Kuchar who was one over for the ultimate spherical, elected to not end Sunday night and can full his closing gap Monday. He was the one participant to not full the ultimate spherical Sunday.

However Rai’s victory was solely the results of the weird flip of occasions for Greyserman that began after he holed out on 13 for eagle.

After holing out, Greyserman stood on the 14th tee, a burley 509-yard par-4 that’s performed as the toughest gap this week, for practically 10 minutes whereas he waited for Kuchar and Chad Ramey to complete the thirteenth.

When it was lastly time for him to hit, he took a mighty lash on the ball with driver. As quickly as his head got here up, his proper hand got here off the membership and pointed proper. He was disgusted at what he noticed.

“FORE!” the very last thing a PGA Tour rookie trying to find his first win needs to shout with 5 holes left to play in a event.

The primary bounce was a large one off the cart path, up into the bushes farther proper. When it got here down, it was properly out of bounds.

“[He] was ready there for thus lengthy,” mentioned CBS’ Trevor Immeleman, shocked at what he had simply seen.

With one swing, the 2 pictures he had simply picked up on the final gap have been principally worn out and he nonetheless needed to deal with the 14th.

Greyserman reloaded with one other pellet and ripped it. This one was a seed. The published recorded it at 183 mph ball velocity up the fitting aspect, however this one was turning left. An excessive amount of. The ball simply barely cleared the bunker within the nook of the dogleg within the fairway however nestled within the thick Bermuda tough. He wanted Kuchar’s assist to search out it.

With 186 yards to the inexperienced, there was no likelihood Greyserman might advance the ball to the inexperienced. However there was a large cross bunker quick that he needed to layup wanting. His caddie reminded him that he had 110 yards to the entrance of it.

Absolutely he wouldn’t compound his error additional by laying up too far?

He hacked out. His shoulders dropped as quickly as he regarded up.

“Oh, he hasn’t simply completed that?” Immelman requested. “You can also make a nasty swing off the tee, get a little bit unfortunate with the cartpath, however that mistake proper there? That’s inexcusable.”

Issues have been going from dangerous to worse as Greyserman’s ball landed to the fitting, however took a tough bounce again to the left and down into the huge sand entice. It was shut sufficient to convey to the lip into play once you consider he was nonetheless 74 yards from the opening.

There aren’t many more durable pictures in golf.

Greyserman took a brief iron and tried to blast his ball out and up the inexperienced. It didn’t make the entrance and plopped down wanting the inexperienced with no roll.

From there, he stabbed at his chip shot, caught it too steep and it stored working, 10 toes by. His putt for a triple, the putt that might have preserved his as soon as safe 4-shot lead, simply slid previous the low aspect of the cup.

He tapped in for a lead-evaporating quadruple-bogey 8.

In a single gap, he went from being 4 pictures up with 5 holes to play to tied with 4 holes to play.

Fortunately for Greyserman, the par-5 fifteenth was enjoying because the second-easiest gap on the course and he was nonetheless tied with Rai for the lead.

He roasted one other tee shot down the left aspect of the golf green after which hit an ideal 4-iron into the center of the inexperienced in two. He two-putted for birdie to regain a one-shot lead.

His method on the subsequent, the par-3 sixteenth wasn’t spectacular, but it surely was secure and on the inexperienced. Absolutely he’d now steadied himself. In any case, he’d solely dropped one shot over the previous three holes.

Greyserman’s method had landed in the midst of the inexperienced, but it surely spun down the slope and left him 41 toes, up the hill. It’s not a putt you anticipate to make, however not one you anticipate a professional to three-putt both.

He motored the birdie putt three-feet-four-inches by, leaving a ticklish downhill putt for par. Now the ideas of a three-putt needed to enter.

That’s precisely what occurred. Greyserman was shocked as his putt caught the excessive lip, didn’t drop and trickled one other three toes away.

He remarked and missed that one too. The meltdown was full on now. Up to now 4 holes, he’d gone 2-8-4-5. Eagle-Quad-Birdie-Double. 4-shot lead, to one-shot deficit.

In the meantime, Rai bided his time. He made 4 birdies in a row on the entrance 9 to climb into competition. He added one other one at 12 however missed makable possibilities at 13, 16 and 17.

On 18, he lastly capitalized, whilst darkness fell. He birdie putt after the method by no means left the middle of the cup because it curled in. Greyserman watched from the golf green, as Rai was illuminated by the leaderboard wanting the 18th inexperienced, impassive.

Greyserman’s final gasp effort to gap his method at 18 to tie discovered the entrance left bunker and it was throughout.

“Performed adequate to form of run away with it,” Greyserman mentioned afterward, summing up his week. “Clearly stuff occurs in golf that typically it’s not meant to be typically.”

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There was a photograph that hung in my childhood residence — I need to say it was sepia-toned and certainly one of 4 organized in an oblong body — of me, mid-stride as I boarded Bus No. 426 in September 1996.

Apart from my comically giant backpack, one’s eye is drawn to the phrases “watch your step” displayed as an admonition on the highest riser. If reminiscence serves, I didn’t.

On my first day of kindergarten, I faceplanted as poor Mrs. Thomas (God relaxation her soul, I’m fairly positive, as a result of she’d be like 100 now) appeared on in helpless terror from behind the wheel.

Solely now do I totally perceive why my mother and father needed to seize that second. On Monday, my spouse Katie and I walked our daughter Effie to the nook of Washington and Stuart Streets for her first day of kindergarten as a part of Fredericksburg Metropolis Faculties’ transition days.

Moments earlier, Effie humored us by posing for the requisite “first day” snapshots on our entrance porch. She displayed an indication proclaiming her love for “cats, bedtime tales and Mama’s brown leggies,” in addition to her said profession aspirations to grow to be a “Mail Girl” sometime.

Her backpack — weighed down with folders, a lunchbox and a change of garments (“in case of meals or rest room emergencies”) — threatened to topple her at each flip. As we waited, we had been graced by an look from “Dude,” a benevolent long-haired outside cat identified to frequent the block. Effie gave her loads of pets.

We noticed an equally terrified-looking dad one block away on Pelham Road ready together with his equally carefree daughter. After which, at 7:35 a.m., Bus F-as-in-Frog turned onto Washington and rumbled towards us. Nicely, not rumbled a lot as glided, as a result of it’s an electrical automobile.

After alternating hugs and excessive fives (Effie doles out affection on her personal phrases), we let her go. We heard her ask the kindly bus driver, Mr. Invoice, one thing earlier than vanishing behind the veil of tinted home windows to start her scholastic journey.

All people asks you a similar query.

“Did you cry?”

Neither of us did. We felt bizarre, possibly a bit helpless? For the following eight hours, she would journey or triumph on her personal phrases. Most likely each, if we’re being sincere. I keep in mind an awesome urge to make espresso.

By Thursday, Effie demonstrated the nonchalance of a seasoned bus rider. She loves her lecturers and specials — and he or she’s even included some Gen Alpha lingo into her already-expansive vocabulary.

“I virtually fell away from bed — on God!” she remarked whereas monkeying round earlier than bedtime one night time.

And no new early-childhood schooling expertise could be full with out an opportunistic virus wreaking havoc on an immune system lulled right into a false sense of safety throughout summer time break. On Friday morning, as Katie and I had been furiously lunch prepping and topping off water bottles, we seen Effie slumped relatively listlessly on the sofa.

Her zeal to be taught, it appears, may very well be tempered solely by a fever of 102. So we loved yet one more torpid, sudden weekday of summer time collectively. I need to purchase shares in Kids’s Motrin.

Excellent attendance is overrated anyway.

The U.S. girls’s basketball group received its straight eighth Olympic gold medal, beating host France by the tightest of margins: 1 level. Crew USA received 67 to 66 in a contested ultimate match that got here all the way down to the final shot.

Led by A’ja Wilson, who scored 21 factors, the U.S. survived a last-second shot by Gabby Williams that was simply contained in the 3-point line to carry off France.

No group had been capable of push the People throughout this spectacular streak of 61 consecutive wins. The win was the closest the U.S. has ever received an Olympic gold medal because the 1988 Video games once they beat Yugoslavia by seven factors. The one different group to maintain the U.S. at single digits in a gold medal recreation was South Korea on the 1984 Video games.

“It is superb. It really is a dynasty that we’ve constructed right here at USAB has been unbelievable,” Wilson mentioned. “And I’m so pleased with the resilience that my group confirmed. We might have fumbled it many instances, however we pulled by. To say I’m a two-time gold medalist, I’m so blessed.”

With Sunday’s victory, the U.S. girls’s legacy stretches to 61 consecutive wins in Olympic contests. It additionally breaks a tie with the U.S. males’s program that received seven in a row from 1936-68.

The ladies’s victory got here fewer than 24 hours after the U.S. males’s group additionally beat France within the title recreation. This was the primary time in Olympic historical past that each gold medal video games featured the identical two groups.

Not like the boys’s recreation, this one got here all the way down to the ultimate minute and one final shot by France that was simply contained in the 3-point line.

The People have been up 67-64 with 3.9 seconds left after Kahleah Copper hit two free throws. Marine Johannes introduced the ball up the court docket to Williams and the previous UConn standout caught the ball simply contained in the 3-point line and banked in over the outstretched arms of Breanna Stewart for the ultimate margin.

There was a quick delay earlier than the officers signaled that it was a two-point shot, which led to the start of a celebration and loads of comfortable hugs for the People and left the French gamers standing in disbelief after falling simply quick.

“Gabby hit some nice photographs down the top, robust photographs,” Wilson mentioned. “We understood what we had in our locker room and leaning on one another and speaking to 1 one other and believing that we believed in one another and that is the best factor about it.”

The American gamers went to have fun with the celebrities sitting courtside together with males’s basketball gamers LeBron James, Bam Adebayo, Derrick White, together with U.S. girls’s greats Lisa Leslie, Sue Chook and Daybreak Staley.

Williams, who completed with 19 factors, had hit a deep 3 a number of seconds earlier to get France inside one earlier than Copper’s free throws. She bought a consoling hug from Staley.

The victory gave Diana Taurasi a sixth consecutive gold medal, making her essentially the most embellished basketball participant in Olympic historical past, breaking a tie with longtime teammate Sue Chook, who received 5.

Taurasi, who did not play within the gold medal recreation, has been humble concerning the potential document, saying she cares extra concerning the group successful than her particular person success.

It has been a attempting Olympics for her as she did not begin any of the knockout section video games, the primary time she wasn’t within the opening lineup because the 2004 Olympics.

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PARIS – It wasn’t nice basketball. But it surely didn’t need to be. It was simply sufficient.

Led by A’Ja Wilson, who scored 21 factors, the U.S. girls’s group beat France on Sunday, 67-66, turning into the primary basketball group in Olympic historical past to win eight consecutive gold medals. The U.S. has now received 61 video games in a row on the Summer time Video games courting again to 1992.

This win didn’t include the benefit with which this group usually performs, with the People repeatedly examined by the tenacious French group and an enormous pro-French crowd at Bercy Enviornment. They had been handled to a heart-stopping second with France star Gabby Williams sinking a long-range jumper on the buzzer. However the shot was dominated a two-pointer, not a 3, giving the U.S. a one-point win.

“It was a bit bit ugly. However it doesn’t matter what whether or not it’s good, ugly, no matter we simply need to come out on prime, and we did that, and we go house with this gold,” Breanna Stewart advised reporters afterwards.

Kahleah Copper #7 of Workforce United States goes up for a basket in the course of the girls’s gold medal recreation between France and the U.S. on Sunday.

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The primary half of the sport was extremely disjointed, with the U.S. seeming unable to seek out any offensive rhythm towards a really bodily French protection. France briefly took the lead, 25-23 proper earlier than halftime, however the U.S. fired again and was in a position to tie it proper earlier than the buzzer, bringing it to a 25-25 tie on the half.

When play resumed, the U.S. didn’t rating till greater than three minutes into the quarter. At one level they trailed by as many as ten factors.

“We had a tough time attending to our identification of with the ability to play and transition and rating,” stated U.S. girls’s basketball coach Cheryl Reeve. “We had been the 2 greatest defensive groups within the event, and we each confirmed that. It was ugly, but it surely was ugly for a cause. We each made it laborious for one another.”

Guard Jackie Younger, who has been a key scorer for the usteam within the quarterfinals and semifinals, fouled out within the fourth quarter. However not earlier than the U.S. rallied with key three-pointers and free throws by Kelsey Plum.

It was France’s first look within the Olympic gold medal basketball recreation because the 2012 Video games in London, when the U.S. beat France by 36 factors. With Sunday’s loss, France wins the silver medal and Australia claimed bronze by beating Belgium within the third-place recreation.

France’s Marine Fauthoux reacts after a 3 level basket in the course of the girls’s gold medal basketball recreation between america and host France.

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Brittney Griner, who was competing internationally for the primary time since was freed in a prisoner swap 20 months in the past with Russia, stated that upon successful, her feelings had been “all over” in the course of the medal ceremony following the sport.

“I used to be on the rostrum, flag was going up, as quickly because the anthem began tears began coming down my face,” Griner stated. “I didn’t assume I’d be right here, like I stated earlier than, after which to be right here, successful gold for my nation, representing when my nation fought so laborious for me to even be standing right here. This gold medal’s gonna maintain a particular place amongst the opposite two I used to be lucky to win.”

It was a giant basketball weekend for the U.S., with each the boys’s and girls’s basketball groups dealing with host France for gold medals.

At some point earlier the U.S. males’s group held off France, 98-87 to win its fifth-straight Olympic gold. The lads’s group went 6-0 within the Paris Video games and received gold.