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No. 11, Holler: It’s a middle- to long-iron shot into a shallow green that features a slight false front, with a large bunker in front and a smaller one behind. The green angles right to left, but shots going too far left will bound down the steep hillside. (Source: PGA of America)

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Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, was built specifically to host major championships, and it has stood the test of time. Now recently polished and upgraded, the course is ready to host this year’s PGA Championship.

1. WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Its name alone invokes epic tales, and it has been the site of some. Valhalla refers to the mythological Norse hall of slain warriors who rest under the watchful eye of the warrior god Odin. A bit fanciful, perhaps. But the original ownership hired Jack Nicklaus in the 1980s to design a major-championship venue, and the venue has produced memorable theatrics during three PGA Championships (1996 – Mark Brooks; 2000 - Tiger Woods; 2014 – Rory McIlroy), two Senior PGA Championships (2004 – Hale Irwin; 2011 – Tom Watson) and the 2008 Ryder Cup (USA). Perhaps another humbled god of yore can rise again this time.

The first PGA saw Kentucky’s own Kenny Perry fall in a sudden-death playoff to Mark Brooks. Perry made a mess of the first extra hole after making the questionable decision to be interviewed in the CBS broadcast booth instead of keeping warm on the range. Perry also lost a sudden-death playoff at the 2009 Masters after making bogey on the final two holes of regulation. He never did get his major championship, but he got redemption in his home state when, at the age of 48, he was a member of the U.S. Team that won the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla. That team, captained by Paul Azinger, set a template that the U.S. side has been trying to replicate since.

Valhalla’s next PGA, held just four years after Brooks’ victory, was Woods’ third consecutive major win. He became the first man since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in the same year and went on to win the following year’s Masters to complete the Tiger Slam. Woods had to hole a downhill, sliding 7-footer for birdie to force a playoff with plucky underdog Bob May, then dispatched of him in a three-hole playoff. The scene of Woods chasing down his birdie putt and pointing at the hole on the first extra hole is perhaps the most famous moment at Valhalla.

Photo Finish: This epic finishing hole bends gracefully to the right, with a large bunker to the left of the landing zone and a beautiful water feature on the right. Most players can get home in two, but will have to contend with a big bunker in front and a smaller pot bunker left. The vast, horseshoe-shaped green has distinct putting areas left, center, and right, so simply getting on the surface is no guarantee of a good score. (Source: PGA of America)

Straight Up: The tee shot must find the uphill, left-angling fairway, which means avoiding the two large bunkers, one on each side of the landing area. Then the approach must find the green, which is completely surrounded by trouble—two bunkers to the left and tightly mown turf everywhere else. (Source: PGA of America)

Homestretch: Brush Run Creek lines the right side of this slight dogleg-right, as well. But the real difficulty is the formidable green complex, which features two bunkers in front and a severe drop-off to a closely manicured chipping area to the right. The natural amphitheater is a prime spot for spectator viewing. (Source: PGA of America)

Julep: Unfortunately, that’s not mint julep in Brush Run Creek, which runs down the entire right side of the hole. The landing area is framed by deep bluegrass rough to the left and a large bunker to the right. The creek and a small bunker edge the right side of the large green, with a bigger bunker on the left. (Source: PGA of America)

On The Rocks: The longest par 3 on the course, and also one of the best views of the surrounding countryside. The serene setting gets more serious around the two-tiered green, which is sandwiched between two bunkers in front and two behind. Playing from either of the two rear bunkers can be especially painful as the green slopes from back to front. (Source: PGA of America)

The Limestone Hole: Don’t let the distance deceive you: Yes, it’s the shortest two-shot hole on the course, but those two shots have to be good. A cluster of six bunkers sits just to the left of the fairway landing zone, while the green is a true island, surrounded by water and built up nearly 20 feet on large limestone boulders. (Source: PGA of America)

Holler: It’s a middle- to long-iron shot into a shallow green that features a slight false front, with a large bunker in front and a smaller one behind. The green angles right to left, but shots going too far left will bound down the steep hillside. (Source: PGA of America)

Sting Like A Bee: This hole has an island fairway which is especially difficult because it doglegs to the right and then leaves an approach shot of 170-190 yards to an elevated green. One of the deepest bunkers on the course sits to the right of the angled putting surface, while the bluegrass rough to the left is gnarly and painful. (Source: PGA of America)

Big Red: Named after Secretariat, the big, long-distance thoroughbred, this hole is a double-dogleg with a fairway bunker on the right side of the driving zone and deep rough and trees to the left. The undulating, two-tiered green is nearly perpendicular to the fairway and protected by a large, deep bunker in front. (Source: PGA of America)

Twin Spires: The tee shot at this uphill par 4 is challenged by three fairway bunkers along the right side and two more left. The uphill approach makes judging the yardage difficult, exaggerated by the presence of one of the largest and deepest bunkers on the course just right of the green.The green itself is one of the most undulating on the entire golf course. (Source: PGA of America)

Float Like A Butterfly: It’s only a short- to middle-iron in, but the green complex is as dangerous as a Muhammad Ali combination. The front is protected by a deep bunker and a severe, closely manicured collection area. There is another bunker left, and another low-mow collection area beyond the green. The large, angled green affords numerous testing hole locations. (Source: PGA of America)

Genuine Risk: The split fairway sets up a classic risk vs. reward dilemma. Driving to the left shortens the hole by more than 50 yards, but the landing area is only 26 yards wide, surrounded by bluegrass rough, and guarded by water right; the approach from this island fairway is 210-230 yards, all over water. Driving to the right is longer but safer. With water along the front and left side of the green, it’s a brave player who attacks from any angle. (Source: PGA of America)

Long Shot: The name “Long Shot” refers not to distance but one’s chance of making a par on this difficult hole. It demands an accurate tee shot, and for some players will be something less than a driver as the aim is to get as close to Floyd’s Fork as one dares. Even after a good drive, players will still be looking at over 200 yards to a challenging green complex: A deep bunker guards the left side, a closely mown collection area lurks on the right. (Source: PGA of America)

The Sun Shines Bright: The fairway on this dogleg-right is bracketed by a large fairway bunker on the right side and three bunkers on the left. The large, triangular green is also guarded on both sides, by a large bunker right and a closely mown collection area left. The back-right hole location is one of the most challenging on the course. (Source: PGA of America)

Mine That Bird: The aggressive line on this short-ish par 4 is down the left side, carrying the large bunker at the inside of the dogleg-left’s elbow. When the tee is moved forward most players can drive the green, but this brings Floyd’s Fork into play to the left side of the green and the putting surface features significant movement and contours. Golfers who choose to lay back and approach with a wedge will need precise distance control to get near the hole wherever it’s positioned. (Source: PGA of America)

Honest Abe: Named after Kentucky’s only president (Lincoln was born in Larue County, about 70 miles south of Valhalla; his family moved to Illinois when he was 7), this challenging par 3 demands an “honest” attempt. Floyd’s Fork sweeps around to the right of the green, which also is guarded by a large bunker to the right and smaller bunkers to the left and behind. But the real danger is misreading the wind, which can push a shot to the right side, which slopes down toward the hazards. (Source: PGA of America)

The Post: The challenge on this dogleg-left is not only off the tee, but also on the approach. The large front-right bunker is both visually intimidating and a real threat when the hole is cut front-left or back-right. The left bunker will catch errant shots aimed at the back of the green. (Source: PGA of America)

Winning Colors: Another slight dogleg left, this long par 4 is lined with beautiful Kentucky hardwoods. Tee shots need to stay clear of a finger of Floyd’s Fork, a waterway that runs along the left side of the fairway and green, and continues to meander through the front nine. Also protecting the angled green are three bunkers, two front-left and one back-right. (Source: PGA of America)

McIlroy will mark something of a milestone when he returns to Valhalla this week. This was the site of his fourth – and most recent major – victory. That tournament was held in August, so we are a few months short of an exact decade, but there will no doubt be reflections on the fact that McIlroy won four majors from 2011-14 but has not won one since. He finished off his 2014 PGA Championship in the dark after storms delayed the final round. It was his second major win of the year, coming on the heels of his victory a month earlier in The Open.

2. BIG BALLPARK

This is a golf club, not a country club, and everything about it is big in scale. It’s a golf facility built for the modern game and built for hosting big events. The 485-acre property sits 20 miles east of downtown Louisville, easily accessible by highway and with plenty of local parking to accommodate the large crowds.

With 60 feet of elevation change across the entire site, Valhalla is easily walkable. There’s also plenty of room alongside the holes to provide spectators with excellent viewing and to tuck the necessary cart paths behind mounds or in the trees. The two tees of the double-sided practice area sit 350 yards apart so there’s no need to worry about netting on the practice area, either. The takeaway? There’s no shortage of space at Valhalla.

3. HAZARD-OUS MATERIAL

The corridors at Valhalla are framed by the spartan use of bunkers and the creeks that wind through the property. There are 62 bunkers on the course, and they’re almost evenly deployed between the fairways and the greens.

The fairway bunkers tend to line the sides of the landing zones, which are approximately 25 yards wide. They’re not necessarily there to define ideal lines of play or to present players with risky, but rewarding, carries. They simply constrict the landing areas and penalize those who stray from the fairway.

The greenside bunkers also help define aerial lines of play; these are perched up putting surfaces that are not designed for ground-game approaches. In this sense, the course is distinctly modern in its encouragement of aerial power.

Additional strategy is provided by two meandering streams: Floyd’s Fork on the front nine and Brush Run Creek on the back nine. Together, they influence play on seven holes should players come up short with their approaches or wander too far afield with their tee shots.

4. LONG GAME

Valhalla has been lengthened by 151 yards for this year’s PGA Championship, a 2% increase over its yardage in 2014. It will now top out at 7,609 yards and have a par of 71. Over that same decade, the average drive on the PGA TOUR has increased by 2.8%. That means the effective playing distance is marginally less than it was a decade ago, especially when considering the added length that iron shots travel. Valhalla’s added length is part of ongoing renovation by the Nicklaus design team. Recent changes were concentrated on four holes: the par-4 first and 12th holes, the par-3 14th and par-5 closing hole.

The first hole will now play approximately 50 yards longer, while 20 yards have been added to No. 12. The 14th hole can now be played as a 250-yard par-3.

5. THREE KEY HOLES

These are three holes to keep an eye on this week:

No. 4: The 372-yard par 4 normally plays as a lay-up off the tee to a tightly-bunkered fairway and then a wedge to a well-guarded green. But the PGA’s Chief Championship Officer, Kerry Haigh, has indicated that the tees will “probably” be moved up at some point, in which case many players will tempt what amounts to a 305-yard carry to the green. Making the hole drivable brings Floyd’s Fork into play left of the putting surface.

No. 6: This 495-yard par 4 will likely be the toughest hole all week. Players have to back off on a driver because the fairway ends at 295 yards, bisected by Floyd’s Fork. It’s a 340-yard carry past trees and creek to reach the other side. Modesty off the tee leaves most players with 200 yards remaining to a perched green that falls off steeply on the left. Miss the fairway off the tee and par becomes very elusive.

No. 13: This 351-yard par 4 is Valhalla’s most photographed hole, and for good reason. It plays from an elevated tee to a densely-bunkered fairway. The approach is hit to a fortress of an island green that has absolutely no support around it. You either hit the 5,662-square-foot green or you are in the water. The risk-reward ratio is extremely high, so everyone rational lays up off the tee and then tries to hit the green with a wedge. The hole has recently been excavated anew to expose its supportive limestone and adjoining waterfall. It's quite the spectacle.

6. THAT 18TH

Fitting for a course in Kentucky, the 18th hole is nicknamed “Photo Finish,” and it has provided plenty of those. Two of the three PGAs held at Valhalla have been decided in a playoff, while the other was a one-shot victory.

For this year’s PGA, the par 5 has been lengthened by 28 yards to 570. It's still within reach of most of the field, but players will need to hit the fairway to get home in two.

The oversized green is 6,534 square feet. It wraps around a mammoth “lion’s mouth” bunker that is in front of the green and divides it into three sections. The green serves as center stage, surrounded by hills that create a huge amphitheater for spectators.

Perry bogeyed the hole in 1996, then watched Brooks make a 4-footer for birdie to force a playoff. Brooks birdied it again to win on the first extra hole.

Four years later, Woods had to hole a 7-foot birdie on No. 18 to force a three-hole playoff with May. And in 2014, the PGA had one of its most memorable finishes as McIlroy asserted himself on the 18th tee, finishing in the dark to avoid having to return the next day to complete his one-stroke win.

7. NEW GRASS

Louisville occupies what turfgrass folks call the “transition zone.” That is the mid-central region of the United States, which is in between a more Northern climate that favors bentgrass and a Southern climate suited for Bermudagrass. The mid-season heat and humidity that Valhalla endures is not ideal for cool-season grasses, and that meant that the club’s original bentgrass fairways and tees were prone to wilting and required extra care.

In 2021, the club switched 30 acres of fairway and teeing grounds to Zeon Zoysia, a fine-bladed turfgrass that thrives in the local conditions and requires less water, chemicals and labor. That leads to annual savings of $250,000 in maintenance.

From a competition standpoint, the Zoysia will play firmer, faster and effectively speed up the ground game, placing more of a premium on accurate ballstriking. That shrinks the playing surface because the ball will roll more after landing. In other words, it’s a more sustainable playing surface that also requires more precise play. It’s a win-win.

8. NEW GREENS

Valhalla’s greens, which were rebuilt in 2011, are on the small side for championship golf. They average approximately 5,000 square feet, which makes them the third-smallest thus far in the PGA TOUR season. Only those at Pebble Beach (3,500 square feet) and Harbour Town (3,700) have been smaller. This also is just the third time in 2024 that the TOUR pros will face bentgrass putting surfaces, following those at Augusta National and TPC Craig Ranch recently for THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson.

Valhalla’s greens are visible from the approach area, even if not every pin placement can be seen. The course generally presents itself very well visually, a design trait of Nicklaus. With putting surfaces mowed to 1/10th of an inch, they will likely support speeds of 12-12.5 on the Stimpmeter. The breaks tend to be subtle, not swooping, and particular attention must be paid to putts inside 5-6 feet given the presence of modest contours at the cup.

9. SUPER STUFF

Valhalla’s superintendent, John Bollard, is a 25-year veteran of the turfgrass industry. He has spent the past five years at Valhalla, where he oversaw the installation of the Zeon Zoysia fairways and tees. He’s also been prepping for his first professional major through close observation of the set-ups at Southern Hills for the 2022 PGA and last year at Oak Hill. It helps having a brand-new shop and storage area, plus the support of three assistants, a total of 40 employees, and – for championship week – another 125 volunteers.

He'll have Valhalla ready for another memorable finish.

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Bradley S. Klein is a veteran golf writer and author of 10 books on course design. A former PGA TOUR caddie, he was architecture editor of Golfweek for over two decades and is now a freelance journalist and course design consultant. Follow Bradley S. Klein on Twitter .

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour On Track to Become Highest-Grossing Global Tour in History

The 2023 shows earned more than $900 million, Billboard estimates. That total could nearly double next year.

Taylor Swift ’s The Eras Tour is poised to become the highest-grossing global tour of all time, according to Billboard ’s estimates.

While no official numbers have been reported yet, Swift’s tour should pass current record-holder Elton John ’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour with more than $900 million in ticket sales so far.

On Sunday (Nov. 26), Swift played her last scheduled show of the year, wrapping an intense run of 66 concerts in the United States, Mexico and South America. Representatives for The Eras Tour have not yet reported official revenue or attendance figures to Billboard Boxscore or any other trade journal or news entity, but the enormity of The Eras Tour is impossible to ignore, with a total that amounts to a staggering average of nearly $14 million per show.

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Dating back almost 40 years, all Boxscore rankings are based on figures reported to Billboard . Data is reported from a variety of official industry sources, from artist managers and agents to promoters and venue executives. Reporting has always been voluntary, and some artists, venues and promoters opt to withhold data from representation on our charts. It is not uncommon for artists to not report — or to wait until the end of a tour, which is still more than a year away in Swift’s case — though it’s rare that such a well-documented blockbuster tour, in contention for top year-end honors, is not submitted. Swift’s abstention disqualifies her from appearing on year-end Boxscore charts .

Swift kicked off The Eras Tour in Glendale, Ariz., on March 17, playing 53 domestic shows before wrapping at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., outside Los Angeles, on Aug. 9. She hit a total of 20 U.S. cities, and 11 of those venues have provided attendance figures to Billboard . Based on those numbers, as well as estimates based on aggressive scaling at the other nine stadiums, Swift likely sold 3.3 million tickets over 53 shows in the United States, or an average of 63,000 tickets per show.

Sources close to the tour point to an average domestic ticket price of around $252. This is in line with the prices for the summer’s other major concert event, Beyoncé ’s Renaissance World Tour, which maintained a $135 ticket in Europe and a $253 ticket in North America. While ticket prices might dip in certain markets and bloom in others, using that number as an average puts the U.S. leg of The Eras Tour at $838.3 million. That total gross spreads out to $15.8 million per show, a staggering figure that exceeds recent tours by Bad Bunny , Beyoncé, and The Rolling Stones , each of which had giant totals of their own.

That projected $838 million haul is more than enough to make Eras the highest-grossing U.S. and North American tour ever. John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour holds the official Boxscore title, with $567.7 million in the United States and Canada. That total reflects 135 shows over a span of four years, compared to Swift’s 53 shows in less than six months.

Moreover, The Eras Tour’s U.S. gross would situate it as the second-highest grossing tour of all time based on global figures, before even crossing the border. John’s farewell tour remains the official record-holder with $939.1 million.

Since wrapping the Eras Tour’s U.S. leg, Swift played four shows at Mexico City’s Foro Sol (Aug. 24-27) and, more recently, nine South American shows, spread between Buenos Aires in Argentina and Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Those dates bring her much closer to John’s global record, even based on relatively conservative projections. But as we’ve seen with virtually every worldwide stadium tour in the last two years, the post-pandemic surge in ticket prices hasn’t been as severe outside the United States.

Further, these are Swift’s first shows in these Latin American markets. That means pent-up demand likely drove huge sales, though her base isn’t quite as explosive there as it is in the States.

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Based on estimates considering the high end of grosses and ticket prices for each Latin American venue’s post-pandemic history, The Eras Tour likely earned another $60 million to $75 million and more than 750,000 tickets from those 13 shows.

In all, Billboard estimates that Swift has generated $906.1 million and sold 4.1 million tickets in 2023 across all shows in the United States, Mexico and South America. That would unofficially make The Eras Tour the biggest tour of 2023. And when considering Swift’s total revenue from the tour, it doesn’t even account for merchandise sales, sponsorships, music streaming and sales boosts, or her self-produced and released Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film.

Swift is scheduled to resume The Eras Tour on Feb. 7 with four shows at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Then, she’ll play seven shows in Australia and six in Singapore. In May, she kicks off a 50-date run in Europe before returning to North America for 18 shows in new markets, including the tour’s first entry into Canada. In all, that’s 85 shows to go, with the possibility of more to come, considering her recent concert additions to runs in London and Vancouver.

These upcoming international legs are already more ambitious than any previous Swift tour. While this year’s 53 U.S. shows are in line with what she did on 2018’s Reputation Stadium Tour and 2015’s The 1989 World Tour, those treks included just six and seven shows in Europe, respectively — a fraction of next year’s slate of 50.

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If we use the comparison between Beyoncé’s recent European and North American grosses as a north star, in Europe, Swift could be looking at $8.5 million per show, or about $420 million over the entire leg. And even if next year’s North American shows dip from 2023’s record-breakers, the U.S. and Canada shows could add another $240 million to 260 million. Including the 17 shows in Asia and Australia, The Eras Tour is likely headed toward a total gross of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion by the end of 2024. It will be the first in history to earn more than $1 billion in ticket sales and will set Swift far apart from her competitors. If figures skew toward the higher end of what’s possible, she could double John’s current record gross.

Representatives for Swift did not respond to a request for comment on Billboard ‘s estimates at press time.

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Adam Scott pushed back on the latter Sunday, putting forth a positive spin on all the developments, saying what is occurring is complicated and that patience is needed.

“I would disagree completely,” Scott said when asked about the alleged disagreement. “I don’t see it that way at all.”

Scott is a player director along with Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Webb Simpson and Peter Malnati, all of whom played in the Wells Fargo Championship.

The 2013 Masters champion was named on Thursday by the PGA Tour to a transaction committee that includes McIlroy, Woods, PGA Tour commissioner, player liaison Joe Ogilvie, Joe Gorder, a board member from Valero Energy and John Henry from Strategic Sports Group.

Scott said Ogilvie, a former Tour player, is a huge asset and making it easier for the player directors to concentrate on their golf while getting updates on the intricate matters.

“It became a bigger drama than was really needed,” said Scott, 43, who has 14 victories on the PGA Tour and played it for more than 20 years. “Ultimately we got to a really positive outcome. Tiger and Rory are both going to be right there before anything goes beyond that committee. And I think that’s really important at the end of the day that Tiger has a say in how professional golf shakes out on the PGA Tour, something he’s really influenced the evolution of.

“And Rory is the most influential active player. Tiger’s not quite as active as Rory. But Rory’s had a strong voice over the last couple of years. Whatever the result, if they achieve a result together, it’s unquestionable whatever that result is and it’s all positive moving forward.”

Simpson had sought to have McIlroy replace him on the board a few weeks ago when he was considering leaving the post. McIlroy had resigned in November but has become dismayed over the lack of movement toward unification or a deal with the PIF, which backs LIV Golf.

Golf Digest reported that Woods, Cantlay and Spieth did not want McIlroy to return while the other board members have been more receptive to working something out.

Scott denied that was the case. And he said the private equity deal with the Strategic Sports Group which was announced in January and saw an initial investment of $1.5 billion to PGA Tour Enterprises has delayed the situation with the PIF due to its complexity.

“Both sides said that the SSG deal was one of the most complicated deals they’ve ever been involved in. Both sides,” Scott said. “And I can only think this (with the PIF) is going to be as complicated. So some patience is required. There are even more complications to iron out. As PIF is funding LIV and how all this moves forward.

“I’m keen for it to be resolved. But I’m not keen to rush something through that’s wrong. I’m putting my player hat on. There’s guys livelihoods out here and I think the core of our game is great and that will aways rise above it if we let it.”

Scott was among those who went to the Bahamas in March to meet with Yasir Al-Rumayyan , the governor of the PIF who has been behind the LIV Golf League and its team model. “It was more formalities,” Scott said.

But he added: “To be totally honest, I think Rory is going to be incredibly helpful having that line of communication he has with Yasir. I think we’ll get to a good place. I’m really positive. I think it’s all moving in a good spot. Even though it seems rather tumultuous but it probably realistically wasn’t going to happen that fast anyway.

“And when these guys who have done a lot of deals through their lives say this is the most complex thing they’ve ever seen ... I can only imagine.”

Scott said he has no idea what the future of professional golf will look like, but he does wonder if players today realize that they might need to do more in order to be compensated at even higher levels.

PGA Tour Enterprises is a for-profit entity and to get sponsors and TV deals that provide even more revenue is going to mean commitment from the players. As he noted, playing for a $20 million purse in Charlotte would have seemed absurd even five years ago.

“If we want to play for big money, there are going to be more rules,” Scott said. “They’ll have to show up. And do some stuff. I think we do nothing, actually. To be honest, it has been the dream situation. We’re really not told much. Even when a strength-of-field rule was added (requiring players to an an event they had not attended for four years). That’s how good we’ve had it. Incredibly good.

“If you’re a full-card carrier, it’s pretty easy to make a schedule out here and do whatever the hell you want. And there’s very little obligation outside of doing a pro-am. I just think there’s nothing wrong with that at all. And playing for $20 million is almost unfathomable. Even for me, coming behind Tiger. I don’t even know what the purses were in Europe when I turned pro. I can’t believe we’re playing for a $20 million purse It’s gone nuts.”

Bob Harig is a golf writer for SI.com and the author of the book "DRIVE: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods," which publishes in March and can be ordered here. 

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Education | DePaul University reaches ‘impasse’ with pro-Palestine encampment, next steps unclear

Pro-Palestinian activists argue with pro-Israel activists while members of the Chicago Police Department stand between the two groups outside a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University on May 5, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Israel activists argue with pro-Palestinian activists while members of the Chicago Police department stand between the two groups outside a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University on May 5, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Palestinian activists argue with pro-Israel activists while members of the Chicago Police department stand between the two groups outside a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University on May 5, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

A person with a “We the people” tattoo shakes hands with officers while pro-Israel activists argue with pro-Palestinian activists as members of the Chicago Police department stand between the two groups outside a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University on May 5, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

A protester is taken away by paramedics and officers while pro-Palestinian activists argue with pro-Israel activists at a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University on May 5, 2024, in Chicago. The person had been sitting in a medical tent inside the encampment before being taken away to an ambulance. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

A pro-Israel activist walks through the quad at DePaul University on April 30, 2024, where students have set up an encampment site calling for the university to divest from donations and funding associated with Israel. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine stand by during a rally against pro-Israel counterprotesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Israel counter protesters rally nearby an encampment site set up by activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine on April 30, 2024, at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

A pro-Palestine protester, left, argues with a pro-Israel protester, right, during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine participate in a rally against pro-Israel counter protesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Israel counter protesters rally together nearby an encampment site set up by activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine on April 30, 2024, at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine stand by during a rally against pro-Israel counter protesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine pray during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

An activist affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine participates in a rally against pro-Israel counter protesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Israel counter protesters dance while rallying nearby an encampment site set up by activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine on April 30, 2024, at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

An activist affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine claps during a rally against pro-Israel counter protesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Sydney Farmer, left, and Morgan Anders, both pro-Israel counter protesters, dance while rallying nearby an encampment site set up by activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine on April 30, 2024, at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

An activist affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine sits in a tent while participating in a rally against Pro-Israel counter protesters on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

A pro-Israel activist yells while walking through the quad at DePaul University on April 30, 2024, where students have set up an encampment site calling for the university to divest from donations and funding associated with Israel. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine organize a pile of Palestinian flags during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine stand by during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Pro-Israel activists walk through the quad at DePaul University on April 30, 2024, where students have set up an encampment site calling for the university to divest from donations and funding associated with Israel. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine listen to speakers during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

Activists affiliated with DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine hang Palestinian flags during a rally on April 30, 2024, at an encampment site on the quad at DePaul University in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune)

The future of the nearly two-week old encampment remains unclear. A university spokesperson declined to elaborate on what methods might be used to end the encampment given the stalemate, or the timeline for intervention. 

DePaul President Robert Manuel and Provost Salma Ghanem said in a statement that while students are peacefully protesting, “responses to the encampment have inadvertently created public safety issues that put our community at risk.” There was a heavy Chicago police presence on campus last Sunday as tensions flared between the encampment and pro-Israeli counterprotesters.

They also said they are “extremely disappointed” negotiations have fallen apart in the past few days.

Manuel released the school’s updated response to the encampment’s demands, which if students had accepted would have required that the encampment disband by noon Sunday.  Among other items, DePaul agreed to say the university is “devastated by the destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure,” but not to call the war a “genocide” because the phrase is “a question of international law and fact.” They also agreed to host a meeting between organizers and Board of Trustees leadership. 

However, representatives with the DePaul Divestment Coalition said they felt pressured to close the encampment immediately and that they had too little notice to properly consider the latest response. They called on the school at a Saturday night news conference to continue negotiations, urging them to disclose their investments and divest from those with ties to Israel or weapons manufacturers. 

“Despite this coalition’s dedication to encouraging and facilitating the community built with empathy and compassion, and continuing to come to the table in good faith, this university has met us with constant disrespect, professional ignorance and extraordinary apathy,” said Parveen Mundi, DePaul’s student body president. 

Mundi said school administrators have cited “vague threats that they’re unwilling and unable to specify” as the reason the encampment must end. She said it would be a “mistake” for them to call in Chicago police to break it up. 

“What’s most concerning to us is that the president’s office is unwilling to directly answer what exactly happens now that a stalemate has been declared,” she said.  

For around a week, there was little to no police intervention at Chicago-area campuses, even as schools across the country sent in law enforcement to douse pro-Palestine demonstrations, leading to more than 2,400 arrests nationwide. 

That changed last Saturday, however, when Chicago police arrested nearly 70 protesters at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Loop, and university police raided the encampment at the University of Chicago a few days later. In rarer instances, schools including Northwestern University, struck ​​agreements with protest leaders to restrict the disruption to campus life and upcoming commencement ceremonies.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, said at the news conference that students are exercising their First Amendment rights to “denounce the genocide, to denounce the complicity of our own government.” 

“We are asking the university to come back to the negotiation table, to refrain to use any force against students that are peacefully demonstrating,” he said. “Furthermore, those who perpetrate violence, those who provoke, those who come to actually instigate a great violence in our city, those individuals and those organizations should be investigated.”

Lena Rajab, a Palestinian student at DePaul, said some of her family is still in Gaza and that she finds it “disgusting” that her “tuition money is going to the genocide of my own people.” 

More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as Israel ordered new evacuations Saturday in the southern city of Rafah as it prepared to expand its military operation. Israel launched its bombardment of Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, where the group killed some 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. 

President Joe Biden has defended t he right to protest but insisted that “order must prevail” at college campuses, as some in Chicago’s Jewish community demanded action at local universities to prevent hate speech.

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FILE - PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne departs the witness table after testifying before a Senate Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on the proposed PGA Tour-LIV Golf partnership, July 11, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dunne, one of the architects of the deal with the Saudi backers of LIV, resigned from the PGA Tour board on Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Jimmy Dunne, one of the architects behind the PGA Tour's stunning reversal to strike a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, abruptly resigned Monday from the PGA Tour board with a letter that expressed frustration at the lack of progress that no longer included his input.

Dunne, a power broker on Wall Street and in golf circles, was not included on the PGA Tour Enterprise's new “transaction subcommittee” that will be handling the direct negotiations with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

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Dunne and Ed Herlihy, an attorney specializing in mergers and acquisition and chairman of PGA Tour Inc., were whom PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan leaned on when he first met with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor, that led to the June 6 agreement .

The immediate result of the deal was an end to antitrust lawsuits neither side wanted and had already cost the PGA Tour in the neighborhood of $50 million. The tour has since brought on Strategic Sports Group as a minority investor in a deal initially worth $1.5 billion.

“As you are aware, I have not been asked to take part in negotiations with the PIF since June 2023,” Dunne said in his letter to the board first obtained by Sports Illustrated .

“Since the players now outnumber the independent directors on the board, and no meaningful progress has been made towards a transaction with the PIF, I feel like my vote and my role is utterly superfluous,” he wrote.

The tour, feeling pushback and resentment for the secrecy behind the June 6 deal, appointed Tiger Woods to the board with no term limit. The board now has six player directors — Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Webb Simpson, Adam Scott and Peter Malnati — and five independent directors.

Dunne is the second independent director to resign following the June 6 announcement. Randall Stephenson, former AT&T chairman, resigned in July over objections to the agreement with the Saudis.

Rory McIlroy resigned from the board in November, and player directors appointed Spieth to finish his term.

The move signals the tour in a state of disarray as it tries to work out a deal with PIF and start the process of unifying a sport that has been divided since LIV launched in June 2022.

The June 6 agreement included a deadline to complete a deal by the end of 2023. By then, the tour had private equity suitors and LIV Golf signed reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm and eventually Tyrrell Hatton.

Dunne said along with the lawsuits being dismissed — often overlooked as a key point in the agreement with PIF — the agreement did not contain an exclusivity clause that allowed players “a full range of options to seek outside investors.”

“That resulted in a multi-billion-dollar commitment from the Strategic Sports Group,” Dunne wrote. “I believe that history will look favorably on this outcome and the very real opportunities now afforded the tour.”

Monahan and the player directors eventually met with Al-Rumayyan for the first time in March, though there has been no clear progress on any deal — PIF as a minority investor or how to bring back the best players together more than four times a year at the majors.

Simpson, meanwhile, offered to resign from the board contingent on McIlroy replacing him. That never happened, with McIlroy saying last week "there was a subset of people on the board that were maybe uncomfortable with me coming back on for some reason.”

Instead, McIlroy was added to the transaction subcommittee along with Woods; Scott; Monahan; liaison director Joe Ogilvie; Joe Gorder, the CEO of Valero Energy Corp. and chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises; and John W. Henry of Fenway Sports Group, a principal in SSG.

“It is crucial for the board to avoid letting yesterday’s differences interfere with today’s decisions, especially when they influence future opportunities for the tour,” Dunne wrote. “Unifying professional golf is paramount to restoring fan interest and repairing wounds left from a fractured game. I have tried my best to move all minds in that direction.”

According to the tour's bylaws, the four independent directors choose Dunne's replace after consulting the player directors and John Lindert, the PGA of America president who is a nonvoting board member.

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A hate-fueled revolutionary manifesto that links Columbia University’s pro-terror protests to heralded “anti-colonial” movements is circulating at the school, bolstering claims of outside agitators there.

The six-page “National Liberation Struggles’’ proclamation was found left behind in a lab class at the embattled Ivy League institution, according to a Jewish student who received a copy of the missive.

“This manifesto associating Jews with all the world’s ills would be an amusing parody if it weren’t fueling the deadly aim of destroying the Jewish state and returning Jews everywhere to a dispossessed, defenseless people available for abuse and scapegoating as the mood arises,” said Rory Lancman, senior counsel at the Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law, a Columbia Law School grad and a former New York City councilman.

The document strengthens claims by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and others that outside “agitators” have influenced and even infiltrated groups of pro-terror protesters at the Upper Manhattan school and other college campuses.

An anti-Israel mob launched an illegal takeover of an academic building at Columbia earlier this month, forcing cops in riot gear to storm the site to roust and arrest them.

“The students of Columbia are organizing their power to demand the university divest from all companies profiting off the Israel occupation of Palestine, to end all academic affiliations with Israel, and to end Columbia’s complicity with the Zionist project,” the manifesto starts out.

The missive emphasizes the goal to expand students’ minds “beyond the university” and join “the larger struggle for the liberation of all the oppressed people everywhere.

“How is the student movement engaged in the larger anti-imperialist and internationalist movement in the U.S. and the world” the document says.

The communist manifesto only inflames antisemitism, Lancman said.

“The anti-Israel protests at Columbia and elsewhere are part of the global antisemitism movement, not merely ideologically but logistically and operationally,” he told The Post.

The US and Israel and “The West” are painted as oppressors in the manifesto, while rights-restrictive Cuba and Vietnam are revolutionary models to emulate.

Hard-line, freedom-denying China and North Korea get a pass.

Liberation struggles also are touted for blacks in the US and the downtrodden in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the oppressed Ukranians’ quest for freedom doesn’t make the “liberation” cut in the pamphlet.

“The people of Palestine, the students on this campus, and oppressed people everywhere teaches us that we can fight for another way of life, to struggle for a new world to be born,” the document says.

The US even gets blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak.

“The neglect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd and rising anti-Black violence, and the unconditional support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza shows us that, at every turn, at every crisis, the U.S. and other western countries will alway put their interests first,’’ the document says.

There’s an odd reference to North Korea, considered the harshest communist regime in the world.

“We can see that the workers and students in the U.S. have more in common with the people of Palestine, Sudan, Korea and India than with the elite of Washington, New York, London and Tel Aviv,” the document says.

The manifesto applauds the spread of communism in Vietnam and Cuba — backed at the time by China and the former Soviet Union — while excoriating the US.

New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said the manifesto is proof that the communists and the anti-American hard left are organizing and exploiting the anti-Israel campus protests.

“These are the Marxist-Leninists who are the agitators stoking the fires at Columbia and other campuses. I’m not surprised. They’ve done this throughout history,” Cox said.

“They can have an impact on gullible students,” he said. “They are not American. They are anti-American.”

A Columbia University rep declined comment.

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