Yesterday, past U.S. Open champion Justin Rose shot a six-under par 64 to win the Fort Worth Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. He won by three strokes with a 260 total for the 72 holes of regulation play over current U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka. This is the oldest golf tournament on the PGA Tour that is still staged at the same golf course. It started there right after WWII, in 1946. I played in that... Read more
During the nineteenth century, some European archaeologists, especially from Germany, did seminal archaeological work in some of the most significant tells in the Middle East. One result was that they uncovered ancient city ruins and removed artifacts. These antiquities treasures usually wound up in European museums where they have remained until recent times. However, there is a movement going on to return these valuable artifacts to their countries of origin. No nation in the world has more ancient ruins and... Read more
Thursday, heads of the 28-nation member states of the European Union (EU) met and denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s removal of the U.S. as a participant in the nuclear agreement with Iran, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The other participants in that agreement are the UK, France, Germany, EU, Russia, and China. The EU said it will stay in the agreement. During Trump’s campaign for president, the author of The Art of the Deal repeatedly said JCPOA... Read more
Yesterday, the Republican-chaired Senate Intelligence Committee, in a major disagreement with the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee, announced that it was in full agreement with the U.S. intelligence community–such as the CIA and FBI–that Russian government operatives under the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin seriously tried to disrupt our 2016 presidential election to get Donald Trump elected and therefore for Hilary Clinton to lose. Both Republican chairman Richard Burr and Democratic vice-chairman Mark Warner issued statements about this. Yet President... Read more
I think Thomas Friedman, who is Jewish, is one of the best American journalists. And he usually gets it right about all-things-Israel. Two days ago, he sounded off about U.S. President Trump’s inauguration Monday concerning the removal of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem. He says Trump was a “sucker” for doing this. He alleges that Trump did not make “the art of the deal”–the title of Trump’s book–but “the art of the give-away.” Friedman concedes that... Read more
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court made sport gambling legal in all fifty states by declaring unconstitutional a 1992 federal law known as Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) and thus ruling against the NCAA in the case Murphy v. NCAA. The Court therefore dismissed arguments by the NCAA, professional sports leagues, and even the Department of Justice. Thus, each state will be able to decide whether sports betting is legal or illegal and regulate this business accordingly. Of course,... Read more
Today, a U.S. delegation representing President Donald Trump’s administration held a celebration in West Jerusalem inaugurating the U.S. moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem and simultaneously recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The decision resulting in this historic occasion had been announced last December by President Trump. It was a promise he had made often in his campaign for the presidency in 2016. Trump called this move today “a great day for Israel.” No... Read more
The 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson held onto most of his seven-stroke lead today in The Players Championship to win the coveted title and nearly $2 million. He played smart, conservative golf until the last hole. But it didn’t make much difference when his six iron on the par four hole rolled across the left side of the green and into the water. So, he had to settle for a double bogey six and a four shot win with... Read more
Newly-bearded Webb Simpson set a scoring record today at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass by capturing a seven-stroke lead with a 54-hole total of 19-under par 197 going into the final round tomorrow. He had complete control of his game all day except for running a few putts too far past the hole as the greens that seemed to exceed 13 on the Stimpmeter as we were told on TV earlier in the day. The closest players now chasing... Read more
Webb Simpson–the 2012 U.S. Open Champion with three other PGA Tour wins–tied the tournament record 63 yesterday at the PGA Tour’s marquee event, The Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Florida. It gave him a 36-hole total of 129 with whopping five-stroke lead starting today’s third round. That is amazing golf on such a precision golf course. Trouble lurks all over that Sawgrass layout, with water and sand yawning to gather up golf balls. In fact, Simpson’s... Read more
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