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CME Group Tour Championship – Leaderboard after round 2

Here's the record prize money payout for each golfer at the 2023 CME Group Tour Championship

Win: $2,000,000
2 : $550,000
3 : $340,000
4 : $250,000
5 : $195,000
6 : $150,000
7 : $120,000
8 : $105,000
9 : $92,000
10 : $87,500

Round 3 - CME GROUP TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

• Amy Yang captures her first American LPGA title and cashes in on $2 million

Amy Yang picked a lucrative time for her first LPGA title on American soil.

Yang birdied her last two holes for a 6-under 66 to win the CME Group Tour Championship and claim the $2 million prize, matching the largest in women's golf.

"I was so nervous down the stretch," Yang said. "But I try to tell myself: 'I can do this. I can do this.' I'm so happy I made it."

The victory was her fifth on the LPGA Tour, the previous four coming in Asia.

Final Round - 2023 CME Group Tour Championship

• 90-year sentence handed to Kaitlin Armstrong for murder of Moriah Wilson

Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 35, was sentenced on Friday to 90 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the murder of Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson.

A jury of her peers in Travis County delivered a guilty verdict on Thursday in the nine-day trial at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas.

Attorneys presented witnesses in the penalty phase, which began late Thursday afternoon immediately after the jury took less than three hours to deliberate and return a guilty verdict for murder. Armstrong had pled not guilty to first-degree murder charges.

Stand-up paddlers hit the water for World Championships in Pattaya
20 November 2023

The biggest ever edition of the world championships drew competitors from 52 nations, as they raced their way through the technical, long distance and sprint disciplines.

In the technical open, Spain's Esperanza Barreras and Connor Baxter from the United States won the women's and men's finals. Known as the 'marathon' of stand-up paddling, the long distance open saw the athletes tackle a 15km course. Barreras successfully defended her crown, while France's Noic Garioud bounced back from disappointment in the shorter discipline to win his first long distance title. Finally, America's Seychelle Webster and Garioud won the women's and men's sprint open, which involved a fast and furious 200m sprint in a straight line. Stand-up paddlers hit the water for World Championships in Pattaya

^nice find!

• Football Australia hosts 20th AGM elects new chair Anter Isaac

he twentieth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Football Australia Limited was held at 10 am (AEDT) on Wednesday, 22 November 2023, at Allianz Stadium in Sydney and via videoconference. The AGM coincided with the release of the Football Australia 2023 Annual Review.

Football Australia’s members met to receive and consider the Annual Financial Report for FY 2023, the Annual Budget for FY24, review the year's activities and undertake elections for two Director positions on the Football Australia Board as stipulated by its Constitution.

Three nominations were received to fill two Elected Director positions on the Board of Football Australia for terms expiring at the 2026 AGM:

1. CICCARELLO, Salvatore (Sam) proposed by Football South Australia and seconded by Melbourne City FC;
2. HILL, Alison proposed by Football Tasmania and seconded by Football Northern Territory; and

PAPPAS, Spiro proposed by Football NSW and seconded by Football Victoria.

1. At the AGM, Football Australia’s Members voted to elect Mr. Sam Ciccarello and Mr. Spiro Pappas for terms of office expiring at the 2026 AGM.

Following the AGM, the Board convened to unanimously elect a new Chair. Mr. Anter Isaac, a respected figure within the football community, was appointed to lead the organisation, succeeding Mr. Chris Nikou, who stepped down at the conclusion of the AGM, after a commendable tenure. Experienced technology and media executive Ms. Jaclyn Lee-Joe was also elected as Deputy Chair. Nikou’s decision to step down was previously announced in September 2023.

• 11th Hour Racing Team is World Sailing's Team of the Year

Skipper Charlie Enright was on hand to pick up the Team of the Year prize at the World Sailing annual awards night held in Malaga, Spain on Tuesday evening.

From January to July of this year, Enright led his 11th Hour Racing Team to a come from behind victory in The Ocean Race, demonstrating remarkable resilience and fortitude over the toughest fully crewed offshore race in the world.

And for Enright, the victory was a team effort:

"Winning this race has been such an achievement for the entire team," he told the crowd at a homecoming event in Newport, Rhode Island at a victory party during the summer. "We went through the first half of the race not winning a leg and then, as I’m sure this community remembers, we won Leg 4 into our hometown of Newport. This was a turning point for us in the race and the momentum stayed with us right through to the final victory."

https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/news...am-of-the-Year

2023 Fortinet Australian PGA Championship

The Fortinet Australian PGA Championship is one of the major highlights of this year’s summer of golf and will see the DP World Tour season commence in Brisbane at the Royal Queensland Golf Club. A stellar field of Australian and International players will compete for the Joe Kirkwood Cup and $2M in prizemoney, the richest prize on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.

• Min Woo Lee wins Fortinet Australian PGA Championship

Lee bounced back from an early bogey to close out his win with a 3-under par round of 68 and 20-under par total at Royal Queensland Golf Club, Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino (68) showing admirable composure in the final group to snare second at 17-under.

Victorian Marc Leishman, whose 7-under 64 was the best of the last day, birdied his final two holes to claim outright third with Lee’s good friend and fellow West Australian, Curtis Luck, playing the back nine in 4-under for a round of 69 and fourth spot.

“I’ve always thought I could win, but it took a while to get over the hump,” Lee said on the 18th green.

“But two wins in the last month or so, I’m really proud of my team and myself.

Australian PGA Championship Round 4 Highlights

How much will golfers win at the 2023 Fortinet Australian PGA Championship?

Below is the prize money breakdown for the Australian PGA Championship:

• WIN - $340,000
• 2 - $220,000
• 3 - $126,000
• 4 - $100,000
• 5 - $84,800
• 70 - $3,800

• Andrea Mura sets sail for the Global Solo Challenge

On a gray autumn afternoon in the bay of A Coruña, with light southwesterly winds, Andrea Mura departed on November 18th at 14:00 local time (13:00 UTC) for his Global Solo Challenge, joining the fleet of thirteen competitors already at sea.

Vento di Sardegna, the Italian sailor's Open 50', swiftly cut through the water, proudly displaying the Italian flag and the Sardinian standard on its hull. Andrea, tired from the strenuous preparation of the preceding months but motivated, finally looked towards the horizon with calmness.

His family, his wife Daniela and his young children Lucas and Marvel, accompanied him to the starting line on the organization's RIB. It was a moving and shared moment, and during his journey, they will continue to support him and give him the necessary strength, albeit from afar.

For Mura, who in his maritime career has spanned from Olympic campaigns to the America's Cup, circumnavigating the world solo was a dream he no longer wanted to postpone. Now or never. The innovative format of the Global Solo Challenge immediately appealed to Andrea. He saw in this event the opportunity to realize a project he had attempted before but which had foundered in 2016, when, due to lack of funds, he lost the opportunity to participate in the Vendée Globe. "I was aiming for the Vendée Globe because I wanted to push myself beyond the competitions I had already won. Unfortunately, that project did not come to fruition. Now, the GSC offers me the opportunity to sail around the world with my 23-year-old boat."

Indeed, Vento di Sardegna, born from the design of Umberto Felci, has always proven to be sturdy, reliable, and well-built, and with a proven track record of results. Andrea had purchased it as a training boat before transitioning to the IMOCA class. Nonetheless, over the years, Andrea has optimized and kept the boat competitive. He changed the mast and the rigging, lightened the bulb, and, thanks to the sponsor Lamborghini, rebuilt the rudders and stanchions in titanium.

• New LPGA tour schedule drops with historic purse increases

After the step back that was the pandemic a few years ago now, the LPGA has gone from strength to strength.

Nowhere has this been reflected more than in the record purses announced alongside the 2024 schedule.

The LPGA announced a $116.5 million total purse in 2024, a $15.2 million raise from $101.3 million this season to give players a terrific dangling carrot.

The schedule also includes another Solheim Cup, contested for back-to-back years for the first time since 2002-03, and the Olympics tournament at Le Golf National in Guyancourt.

“The 2024 LPGA Tour schedule reflects our historic growth,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said in a statement. “With new events and improved geographic flow, enhancing the athlete experience, our global reach and competitiveness have never been stronger.”

The season gets underway on 18 January at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions and concludes at the CME Group Tour Championship on 24 November, a little more than 11 months later.

The number of non-major events on the LPGA schedule with purses above $3 million has increased from four to ten.

From this season to the next, the purses of four events—the Mizuho Americas Open ($2.75 million to $3 million), the Meijer LPGA Classic ($2.5 million to $3 million), the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship ($2.3 million to $3 million), and the Lotte Championship, which saw a $1 million rise ($2 million to $3 million)—rose to the $3 million mark.

Terry Venables: Barcelona training session featuring Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes - BBC Sport

• Richmond’s Monique Conti wins her first AFLW best and fairest

Richmond’s Monique Conti has stormed to her first AFLW best and fairest, winning the league’s highest honour with two rounds to spare.

Last year’s runner-up to Brisbane’s Ally Anderson, Conti polled 20 of a possible 24 votes across the first eight rounds to add the best and fairest to her fifth All-Australian selection.

The star midfielder, who juggles football with her basketball commitments with the WNBL team Melbourne Boomers, put an exclamation mark on her win by earning a maximum three votes in round 10.

Conti, 23, won with 23 votes out of a possible 30.

When asked when she thought the award was hers, Conti said with a laugh “[the] last round”.

“I don’t know. I just had a pretty good game last round. We had an amazing win, I was so happy to finish on that.

“Leading into that [final vote count] it was like, OK, this is actually real.”

Nomination for Athlete of the Year

Lung Lai, age 61

^Hope he sees 62

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• British Gymnastics bans coaches from weighing gymnasts in new safeguarding rules after damning review

Coaches will no longer be able to weigh gymnasts under new British Gymnastics rules designed to stop "harmful practices" which it says are "on the fringes of abuse".

The 2022 Whyte Review found "systemic" physical and emotional abuse in the sport "borne of inadequate practice".

This included athletes having their bags searched for food in the "tyranny" of weight management.

"Weighing was used as a punishment," former gymnast Eloise Jotischky said.

"In the past, because there were no policies relating to excessive and inappropriate weight management, often coaches were able to kind of exploit that and would use very harmful practice," Jotischky told BBC Sport.

In June 2022, Jotischky became the first - and to date only - gymnast to win a civil case against British Gymnastics for the abuse she experienced from coach Andrew Griffiths, with British Gymnastics admitting full liability and issuing an apology.

She alleges that between 2016 and 2018, she was left "physically exhausted" after being subjected to inappropriate weight management techniques by Griffiths, who is no longer permitted to coach.

"I think it's a big step," Jotischky said of the new policies. "It's massive to have something in concrete."

https://www.americascup.com/results


Louis Vuitton 37th America's Cup Barcelona - Race Day 1 Wrap

Preliminary Regatta Jeddah - Day 2 LIVE

Fleet Race 5 - America's Cup Preliminary Regatta Jeddah

Preliminary Regatta Jeddah - Day 3 LIVE (watch from 1 : 51 : 00 to 1 : 53 : 00)

Chilean golfer Joaquin Niemann has won the ISPS Handa Australian Open, defeating Japan's Rikuya Hoshino in the second playoff hole.

In the Women's Championship, defending champion Ashleigh Buhai retained her title after narrowly beating Minjee Lee by a single-stroke.

Prize Money

1^st - $270,000
2^nd - $179,500
3^rd - $101,099
4^th - $80,750
5^th - $68,476

• Luke Rowe hoping for more 'incredible memories' after signing new two-year Ineos Grenadiers deal

Luke Rowe has signed a new two-year contract with Ineos Grenadiers and says he is hoping to create more "incredible memories" with the team.

The Welshman has put pen to paper on a deal will keep him with the team until 2025, as has team-mate Kim Heiduk.

It means Rowe will have spent 14 consecutive seasons with Ineos and will make him the third-longest tenured rider on the squad.

• Daniel Chopra shares first-round lead at PGA TOUR Champions Q-School's Final Stage

Micah Rudosky, amateur Bryan Hoops match Chopra's 7-under 64 at TPC Scottsdale (Champions)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.– Three weeks shy of his 50th birthday, two-time PGA TOUR winner Daniel Chopra opened with a bogey-free 7-under 64 on Tuesday at TPC Scottsdale (Champions Course) to claim a share of the opening-round lead of the PGA TOUR Champions Qualifying Tournament (Final Stage) with Micah Rudosky and the field’s lone amateur, Bryan Hoops.

At the conclusion of 72 holes at Final Stage, the top five finishers will be exempt into all open, full-field PGA TOUR Champions events in the 2024 season. There will be a playoff if needed to break ties.

Australian Cameron Percy used an eagle at the par-4 14th (his fifth hole of the day) from 114 yards to post a 6-under 65, good for a share of fourth place with Shane Bertsch.

Chopra, who claimed three victories on the Korn Ferry Tour in addition to his two TOUR titles, finished the day both elated and, admittedly, a bit surprised.

“There was a lot of anxiety starting today,” said Chopra. “I haven’t played an official tournament since July. I took six months after that and didn’t even hit a ball. I just didn’t have the motivation. There was nothing to practice or play for. I had just been waiting for this.”

• Chris Froome plans cycling academy in Kenya but first wants to '''finish off''' career with Tour de France fireworks

Speaking publicly for the first time about what his post-racing career may hold for him, Israel-Premier Tech's Chris Froome has revealed plans for a cycling academy to be started in his name in his birth country of Kenya.

The 38-year-old disclosed the idea to his friend and former teammate, Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), on the Welshman's Geraint Thomas Cycling Club Podcast.

"It has always been at the back of my mind wanting to do it, and I think now as I get towards the end of my career, it's the perfect time to start setting things up," said Froome. "Basically [we're] looking at starting a Chris Froome Cycling Academy out in Kenya at the base of Mount Kenya, up at altitude at 2,000m."

Although he holds a British passport and an Olympic bronze medal from his time racing for Team GB, Froome was born in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi and explained that his experiences as a child at the Banda School left a lasting impact on him, which has given him the desire to promote cycling in East Africa.

"I used to run cross-country back there and any time we did inter-school cross-country or anything, I'd just get killed by the Kenyans. They are obviously the best long-distance runners in the world. There was always a part of me all those years I was winning the Tour that kind of made me feel a little bit ridiculous, inadequate knowing that there are much better athletes - in the true sense of an endurance athlete - much better athletes than me back in East Africa.

"But they just haven't had access to bikes, cycling doesn't really exist there. They have no equipment, no training, no structure at all."

• Cycle journeys in London have increased by 20 per cent since Covid pandemic, figures show

The number of journeys cycled in London has increased by 20 per cent since before the pandemic while hybrid working continues to limit demand for public transport, it was revealed on Wednesday.

The annual Travel in London report said the number of bike trips had increased from 1.19 million a day last year to 1.26 million this year– an annual rise of 6.3 per cent, and up a fifth on 2019.

Cycling now accounts for 4.5 per cent of all trips in London - up from 3.6 per cent in 2019. However, many of these were shorter journeys, and cycling levels in central London remain “subdued” due to fewer cycle commuters.

The report, which provides a fascinating insight into Londoners’ changing travel patterns, reported 1.7 per cent annual increase in cycle journeys in central London 8.2 per cent in inner London and 5.5 per cent in outer London.

A total of 24 per cent of Londoners reported having cycled in the last year, though women and black and minority ethnic Londoners continue to be under-represented.

Transport for London attributed the rise in cycling to the increase in cycle lanes, which now total 220 miles, though not all are protected from vehicles.

• ‘The Queen’e participated in the IRC Zero sailboat race, finishing 1st at the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta.

Her Majesty the Queen visits (Personally) participated in the competition in the IRC Zero sailboat team, boat number THA72, at Kata Beach, Karon Subdistrict, Mueang Phuket District. Phuket Province, by the THA72 boat, was able to cross the finish line in 1st place in both rounds of today’s competition. On this occasion, Major General Suratep Nookaew, Commander of the Royal Thai Army District, 44/Royal Guards, Mr. Sophon Suwannarat, Governor of Phuket Province, Mr. Korkiat Suphonphong, Chief Justice of the 8th Region, Lieutenant General Santi Sakuntanaga, Commander of the 4th Army Region, Vice Admiral Suchat Thammara. Phithakwet Commander of Naval Region 3, Police Lieutenant General Suraphong Thanomchit, Commander of Provincial Police Region 8, Mr. Monchai Tanode, Director of Phuket International Airport. along with government officials and citizens to welcome His Majesty the King at Phuket International Airport.

Later, His Majesty entered the reception room. Beyond Kata Hotel, with Mr. Amnuay Pinsuwan, Deputy Governor of Phuket Province, Mr. Luengsak Kongdet, Chief Judge of the Phuket Provincial Court, Major General Thanat Chimpali, Commander of the 41st Military District, Rear Admiral Puchong. Rodnikorn, Deputy Commander of the Third Naval Region, Police Major General Sinlert Sukhum, Commander of the Phuket Provincial Police, Mr. Kevin Robert Whitcraft, Chairman of the Competition Organizing Committee, Admiral Adung Phan-iam, navy commander As Honorary Chairman of the Competition Organizing Committee, Admiral Somprasong Nilsamai, President of the Sailing Sports Association of Thailand Under the Royal Patronage, Mr. Pramukhphisit and Mrs. Thanyarat Achariyachai, Chairman of the Executive Committee Kata Group Resorts along with the organizing committee, executives, and staff of Beyond Kata Hotel welcomed His Majesty.

Then he left the reception room. Beyond Kata Hotel to board the RIB boat, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn boarded the THA72 sailboat and participated in the IRC Zero sailing team competition. The competition took approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes. Upon completion of the competition His Royal Highness boarded a RIB boat to Kata Beach and then went to the portrait screening area at the hotel’s beach to pose with the THA72 sailing team and the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta working group. etc.

After that, His Majesty went to the reception room and took his royal posture. At the royal request and at 3:00 p.m. on the same day. On behalf of His Majesty, he presided over the ceremony to present royal trophies to the winners of the 35th Phuket King’s Cup Regatta International Sailing Competition, year 2023.

Jason Day, Lydia Ko win 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational in Florida

Two teams were tied for the lead with three holes to play. Another was a shot back after firing the low round of the afternoon, a blistering 12-under 60. Seven teams finished within four shots of the lead.

In short, the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational delivered.

The team event featuring pairs of LPGA and PGA Tour players at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, was won by Lydia Ko at Jason Day following a final-round effort of 6-under 66 to finish at 26 under for the tournament. The winners will split the $1 million top prize, while last place will share $120,000.

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2023 Grant Thornton Invitational prize money for PGA Tour

1 Lydia Ko / Jason Day - $1,000,000
2 Brooke Henderson / Corey Conners - $560,000
3 Madelene Sagstrom / Ludvig Aberg - $330,000
T-4 Megan Khang / Denny McCarthy - $232,500
T-4 Nelly Korda / Tony Finau - $232,500