BRITISH OPEN
Site: Troon, Scotland.
Course: Royal Troon GC. Yardage: 7,385. Par: 71.
Prize money: $17 million. Winner's share: $3.1 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 1:30-4 a.m. (Peacock); 4 a.m. to 3 p.m. (USA Network); 3-4:15 p.m. (Peacock); Saturday, 5-7 a.m. (USA Network); 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 4-7 a.m. (USA Network), 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (NBC).
Defending champion: Brian Harman.
Last year: Harman won his first major by building a five-shot lead and closing with a 1-under 70 at Royal Liverpool for a six-shot victory. Harman never trailed over his final 51 holes.
Notes: The British Open returns to Royal Troon for the 10th time. The last time was in 2016 when Henrik Stenson outdueled Phil Mickelson and set a record score of 264 for all the major championships. ... Six different Americans have won the last six majors dating to Jon Rahm in the 2023 Masters. ... Rahm has yet to win anywhere in the world since that Masters. He joined LIV Golf at the end of last year. ... Scottie Scheffler will try to join Tiger Woods as the only players to win the British Open as the world No. 1. ... Woods is playing Royal Troon for the first time since 2004. He has missed the cut in his last two majors. ... Arthur Havers in 1923 is the only British player to win the claret jug at Troon. ... Rory McIlroy has gone 10 years without winning a major. He missed a 30-inch putt at Pinehurst No. 2 and lost the U.S. Open by one shot. ... Royal Troon features the longest (623 yards) and shortest (123 yards) holes on the current British Open rotation.
Next year: Royal Portrush.
Online: https://www.theopen.com/
BARRACUDA CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Truckee, California.
Course: Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood). Yardage: 7,480. Par: 71.
Prize money: $4 million. Winner's share: $720,000.
Television: Thursday-Saturday, 5-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 6-9 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Previous winner: Akshay Bhatia.
FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.
Last week: Robert MacIntyre won the Scottish Open and Harry Hall won the ISCO Championship.
Notes: This is the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system. An eagle is five points, a birdie is two points, a par is worth nothing, a bogey is -1 and a double bogey is -3. ... While the tournament is not co-sanctioned with the European tour, the field includes a category for European tour players. Richard Mansell was planning to play until he shot 61 and qualified for the British Open. ... The winner gets into the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the PGA Championship but not the Masters. ... Billy Horschel is the only player this year to win an opposite-field event while ranked inside the top 100 in the world. He was No. 84 when he won in Puerto Rico. ... The tournament dates to 1999. It switched over to the Stableford scoring in 2012. ... Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa won his first PGA Tour event at the Barracuda Championship in 2019.
Next week: 3M Championship.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/
DANA OPEN FOR CHILDREN
Site: Sylvania, Ohio.
Course: Highland Meadow GC. Yardage: 6,555. Par: 71.
Prize money: $1.75 million. Winner's share: $262,500.
Television: Thursday-Friday, noon to 3 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2-5 p.m. (NBC Sports app), 8-10 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Sunday, 1-2 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2-4 p.m. (CBS).
Defending champion: Linn Grant.
Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.
Last week: Ayaka Furue won the Evian Championship.
Notes: Ayaka Furue gave Japan two majors in the same season when she won the Evian Championship last week. Yuka Saso won the U.S. Women's Open. ... Furue was the third Japanese player in the last five years to win a major. ... The tournament comes one week after the LPGA held a major in France. Top LPGA players head back to France in four weeks for the Olympics. ... None of the top 10 in the women's world ranking is playing in Ohio. Xiyu “Janet” Lin from China is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 15. ... Stephanie Kyriacou of Australia tied for fourth in the Dana Open last year. That was her best LPGA finish until she was a runner-up last week at the Evian Championship. ... Furue now leads the Annika Major Award standings for best finishes in the majors. She tied for sixth in the U.S. Women's Open. None of the other major champions has a top 10 in another major.
Next week: CPKC Women’s Open.
Online: https://www.lpga.com/
PRICE CUTTER CHARITY CLASSIC
Site: Springfield, Missouri.
Course: Highland Springs CC. Yardage: 7,115. Par: 72.
Prize money: $1 million. Winner's share: $180,000.
Television: None.
Previous winner: Pierceson Coody.
Last week: Cristobal Del Solar of Chile won The Ascendant.
Points leaders: Steven Fisk.
Next week: NV5 Invitational.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/
Last week: Robert MacIntyre won the Scottish Open.
Next tournament: Czech Masters on Aug. 15-18.
Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.
Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/
Last week: Ernie Els won the Kaulig Companies Championship.
Next week: Senior British Open.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Ernie Els.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions
Last week: Sergio Garcia won LIV Golf Andalucía.
Next week: LIV Golf United Kingdom.
Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.
Online: https://www.livgolf.com/
Epson Tour: Twin Bridges Championship, Pinehaven CC, Guilderland, New York. Defending champion: Jenny Bae. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/
U.S. Golf Association: U.S. Junior Girls.
Challenge Tour: Euram Bank Open, Adamstal GC, Ramsau, Austria. Defending champion: Casey Jarvis. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/
Ladies European Tour: Dutch Ladies Open, Hilversumsche GC, Hilversum, Netherlands. Defending champion: Trichat Cheenglad. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/
PGA Tour Americas: Bromont Open, Golf Chateau-Bromont, Bromont, Quebec. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/americas
Japan LPGA: Daito Kentaku Eheyanet Ladies, The Queen's Hill GC, Fukuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Mio Kotaki. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/
AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf
Balls lie on the range at the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Troon golf club in Troon, Scotland, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Vice President Kamala Harris has a new advertising push to draw attention to her plan to build 3 million new homes over four years, a move designed to contain inflationary pressures that also draws a sharp contrast to Republican Donald Trump’s approach.
Meanwhile, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent four years ago and linking herself to the GOP nominee’s critiques of Harris and the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal.
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JD Vance is continuing Republicans’ attempts to lay any blame for U.S. economic struggles at Harris’ feet.
During a campaign appearance in Big Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday, the Republican vice presidential nominee said that Harris “is undoing the incredible work that Donald Trump did” to shore up American manufacturing.
Messaging against Vance’s visit, Harris’ campaign argued that the U.S. lost more than 150,000 manufacturing jobs during Trump’s final year in office.
That timeframe — 2020 — also encompassed the initial year of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
“You had your chance, you’ve failed and we’re not giving you a promotion,” Vance said, directing his comments at Harris.
Saying that, as much as he is “frustrated” with Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vance noted that he is “hopeful” for America’s future — provided that he and Trump are elected into office this year.
As he has been since the Republican National Convention, Vance continues to stump in battleground states this week, planning visits to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid, cautioning that the notion of a second term for GOP nominee Donald Trump “is simply untenable” and “will hurt real, everyday people.”
In a letter first published in USA Today, 238 alumni of the campaigns of former Presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney call on their fellow “moderate Republicans and conservative independents” to join them in backing the Democratic nominee and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, over Trump.
The appeal signals the importance of voters in the middle of the two major parties, with just more than two months until Election Day. In their letter, the former staffers note the significance of a handful of key battlegrounds to Biden’s slim margin of victory in 2020, marking the importance of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin “and beyond” in this year’s results.
In a similar letter, many of the same signatories issued a letter in 2020 supporting Biden’s candidacy over Trump.
“Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz,” the Republicans wrote. “That’s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable.”
Trump’s campaign did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have joined Donald Trump’s presidential transition team.
Kennedy and Gabbard both recently endorsed the former president and the Republican’s campaign on Tuesday confirmed their addition to the team planning for a future Trump administration.
“We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team was we work to restore America’s greatness,” said Brian Hughes, a senior advisor to the campaign.
Kennedy last year ran as a Democrat challenging Biden for the nomination. He then ran switched to become an independent candidate. Last week he suspended his bid and endorsed Trump.
Gabbard, who ran as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, endorsed Trump on Monday and appeared with him at a campaign stop. She’s scheduled to hold a town hall with him Thursday in Wisconsin.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected enough signatures to be on the Maryland ballot as a presidential candidate despite suspending his campaign, state election officials said Tuesday.
Kennedy suspended his independent presidential campaign Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president.
Although Kennedy has said he would try to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states, he has made clear that he was not formally ending his bid and said his supporters could continue to back him in the majority of states where they are unlikely to sway the outcome.
Kennedy has said his internal polls had shown that his presence in the race would hurt Trump and help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, though recent public polls do not provide a clear indication that he is having an outsize effect on support for either major-party candidate.
Vote.org re-launched its campaign Tuesday that urges companies of all sizes to guarantee paid time off for their employees to vote on or before Election Day.
The ElectionDay.org initiative, which was first created in 2020, intends to challenge companies during this year’s election cycle to create voter-friendly work policies. The goal is to help workers avoid work scheduling conflicts, which in past elections, has primarily kept them from the polls. Participants in this campaign also get access to Vote.org’s online registration tools and additional materials to promote civic engagement at their companies.
Kayak, OpenTable, Snap Inc., and United Talent Agency (UTA) are some of the companies that have already joined the campaign this year.
“Work-related barriers should never prevent someone from making their voice heard at the polls,” said Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey. “By joining ElectionDay.org, companies can stand for the rights of their employees while proudly demonstrating their commitment to our democracy. It’s also important to recognize that a thriving business environment goes hand-in-hand with a healthy democracy, which is all the more reason for companies to take steps to actively promote voting this election season.”
Vice President Kamala Harris has a new advertising push to draw attention to her plan to build 3 million new homes over four years, a move designed to contain inflationary pressures that also draws a sharp contrast to Republican Donald Trump’s approach.
Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, highlights her plan in a new minute-long ad that uses her personal experience, growing up in rental housing while her mother had saved for a decade before she could buy a home. The ad targets voters in the swing states including Arizona and Nevada. Campaign surrogates are also holding 20 events this week focused on housing issues.
In addition to increasing home construction, Harris is proposing the government provide as much as $25,000 in assistance to first-time buyers. That message could carry weight at this moment as housing costs have kept upward pressure on the consumer price index.
The state and national Democratic parties have sued to block two recent rules adopted by Georgia’s State Election Board that could be used by county officials who want to refuse to certify an election, potentially causing delays in finalizing the state’s results.
The lawsuit, filed Monday before a state judge in Atlanta, argues the rules violate a state law that makes certification a mandatory duty. The suit asks the judge to find the rules are invalid because the State Election Board, now dominated by allies of former President Donald Trump, is exceeding its legal authority.
The actions of the board alarm Democrats and voting rights activists, playing out against Georgia’s background of partisan struggle over voting procedures that predates even the 2020 presidential election. It’s a battle in yet another state over what had long been an administrative afterthought, state and local boards certifying results.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and wife Gwen react during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally at the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Valdosta, Ga. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
FILE - Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris appears on stage during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Guard Association of the United States' 146th General Conference, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, left, and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., third from right, look on as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a stop at a campaign office, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in Roseville, Mich. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
This combination of photos taken at campaign rallies in Atlanta shows Vice President Kamala Harris on July 30, 2024, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on Aug. 3. (AP Photo)
