PGA TOUR
RBC CANADIAN OPEN
Site: Toronto.
Course: Oakdale Golf & CC. Yardage: 7,264. Par: 72.
Prize money: $9 million. Winner’s share: $1.62 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2:30-5:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 5:30-7:30 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, 1:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2:30-6:30 p.m. (CBS).
Defending champion: Rory McIlroy.
FedEx Cup leader: Jon Rahm.
Last week: Viktor Hovland won the Memorial.
Notes: The Canadian Open is the fourth-oldest national open in golf and celebrates a new wave of success with four Canadians among the top 50 in the FedEx Cup. … Rory McIlroy is the defending champion. He has won the last two editions of the Canadian Open, also winning in 2019 before the tournament was canceled for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. … The field has five of the top 20 in the world ranking, including RBC ambassadors Cameron Young and Sam Burns. … California club pro Michael Block is playing on a sponsor exemption. He also played at Colonial a week after his tie for 15th in the PGA Championship. … Ludwig Aberg of Sweden makes his pro debut. He has a full card as the top player in the PGA Tour University ranking. … Adrian Meronk of Poland received a sponsor exemption to play ahead of the U.S. Open next week in Los Angeles. … The top 60 in the world ranking after the Canadian Open will be exempt for the U.S. Open if they are not already in.
Next week: U.S. Open.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/
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LPGA TOUR
SHOPRITE LPGA CLASSIC
Site: Galloway, New Jersey.
Course: Seaview GC (Bay Course). Yardage: 6,190. Par: 71.
Prize money: $1.75 million. Winner’s share: $262,500.
Television: Friday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 2:30-5 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Brooke Henderson.
Race to CME Globe leader: Lilia Vu.
Last week: Rose Zhang won the Mizuho Americas Open.
Notes: Rose Zhang won in her professional debut, the first time for an LPGA winner since Beverly Hanson in 1951. … Zhang is not in the field. … The ShopRite LPGA is now one of only two LPGA Tour events contested over 54 holes. The other is the Walmart NW Arkansas Open. … This event marks the four-year anniversary of Lexi Thompson’s last win on the LPGA Tour. She won the Aramco Team Series event in New York last year on the Ladies European Tour. … This is the second of four tournaments in New Jersey for the LPGA over a six-week stretch. The LPGA returns in two weeks for the KPMG Women’s PGA at Baltusrol. … The field includes five of the top 10 in the world, led by Jin Young Ko at No. 1. Thompson is not playing this year. … Nelly Korda is taking the week off to rest a nagging injury. She also missed the Mizuho Americas Open last week at Liberty National. … The tournament dates to 1986 and was played through 2006. It returned to the schedule in 2010. Juli Inkster was the first winner of the ShopRite LPGA Classic.
Next week: Meijer LPGA Classic.
Online: https://www.lpga.com/
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EUROPEAN TOUR AND LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
VOLVO CAR SCANDINAVIAN MIXED
Site: Stockholm.
Course: Ullna Golf & CC. Yardage: 6,819. Par: 72 (Men); Yardage: 6,067. Par: 72 (Women).
Prize money: $2 million. Winner’s share: $333,333.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Linn Grant.
Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.
Last week: Tom McKibbon won the Porsche European Open.
Notes: The tournament is co-sanctioned by the European tour and the Ladies European Tour and has players competing from separate tees but for one prize fund and one trophy. … Linn Grant last year became the first woman to claim a European tour trophy. She won by nine shots over Henrik Stenson and Marc Warren. … Stenson and Annika Sorenstam were the hosts of the tournament. Stenson was stripped of that responsibility when he decided to join Saudi-backed LIV Golf, a move that also cost him his Ryder Cup captaincy. … Sorenstam is among LET players in the field. … One of the amateur exemptions went to Ingrid Lindblad of Sweden, one of the top college players who plans to return for a fifth season at LSU. … Alex Noren is playing. That means a trip from Ohio for the Memorial to Sweden for the Scandinavian Mixed and then to Los Angeles for the U.S. Open.
Next week: U.S. Open.
Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/ and https://ladieseuropeantour.com/
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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Madison, Wisconsin.
Course: University Ridge GC. Yardage: 7,083. Par: 72.
Prize money: $2.4 million. Winner’s share: $360,000.
Television: Friday 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Saturday, 8:30-10:30 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Sunday, 8-10 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay).
Defending champion: Thongchai Jaidee.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steve Stricker.
Last week: Stephen Ames won the Principal Charity Classic.
Notes: Steve Stricker is the host of a tournament that began in 2016. He was strictly the tournament host that year because he had not turned 50 to become eligible for the PGA Tour Champions. … Stricker and Stephen Ames lead the PGA Tour Champions with three wins apiece this year. … University Ridge is the home course for the Wisconsin Badgers. It plans to move in 2025 to the TPC Wisconsin. … Stricker has yet to win his tournament. He lost in a three-man playoff in 2019 to Jerry Kelly, also a Wisconsin native. … Kelly is a two-time winner and was runner-up another time in the tournament. … Among the sponsor exemptions are Wisconsin natives Skip Kendall, Mario Tiziani, Notah Begay III and Mike Small, the longtime golf coach at Illinois, where Stricker went to college. … Bernhard Langer, still tied with Hale Irwin with 45 career wins on the PGA Tour Champions, is not playing this week.
Next tournament: Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on June 22-25.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions
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KORN FERRY TOUR
BMW CHARITY PRO-AM
Site: Greer South Carolina.
Course: Thornblade Club. Yardage: 7,065. Par: 71.
Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.
Television: Thursday, noon to 2 p.m. (Golf Channel); Friday, 8:30-10:30 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Saturday, 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Sunday, 5-7 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Previous winner: Robby Shelton.
Points leader: Ben Kohles.
Last week: Jorge Fernandez Valdes won the UNC Health Championship.
Next week: Wichita Open.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour
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OTHER TOURS
Epson Tour: FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship, Battle Creek CC, Battle Creek, Michigan. Previous winner: Xiaowen Yin. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/
Japan Golf Tour: ASO Iizuka Challenge, Aso Iizuka GC, Fujuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Tomoyo Ikemura. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/
Challenge Tour: Andalucía Challenge de Cádiz, Iberostar Real Golf Novo Sancti Petri, Cadiz, Spain. Previous winner: Kristof Ulenaers. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/
Legends Tour: Jersey Legends, La Moye GC, Jersey, England. Defending champion: Richard Green. Online: https://www.legendstour.com/
Japan LPGA: Ai Miyazato Suntory Ladies Open, Rokko Kokusai GC, Hyogo, Japan. Defending champion: Miyuu Yamashita. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/
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WBGO is running a re-broadcast of the New Jersey Democratic Senate Primary Debate tonight at 11pm.
Three Democrats running to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate squared off in a live primary debate hosted by the ACLU of New Jersey, the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, and Salvation and Social Justice, in partnership with WNYC/New Jersey Public Radio, on Monday, May 13, at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC).
The debate was free and open to the public; registration is required.
Candidates Patricia Campos-Medina, Larry Hamm, and Andy Kim participated in a debate moderated by WNYC’s Morning Edition host and WBGO’s Newark Today host Michael Hill.
The NJ Democratic Primary takes place on June 4, 2024.
Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, along with Middlesex County, announce the New Jersey FoodTech 2024 Conference, which will be held on June 26 at the Rutgers College Avenue Student Center, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conference costs $50 with registration by June 24. Registration is free for Rutgers faculty, staff, students and conference partners by emailing ayg6@njaes.rutgers.edu. (photos by Rutgers University)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, along with Middlesex County, announce the New Jersey FoodTech 2024 Conference, which will be held on June 26 at the Rutgers College Avenue Student Center, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conference costs $50 with registration by June 24. Registration is free for Rutgers faculty, staff, students and conference partners by emailing ayg6@njaes.rutgers.edu.
The conference, which was inaugurated last year to great success, is designed to help promote the growth of New Jersey’s food technology sector by building awareness of its strength in food innovation.
Keynote speaker, Lou Cooperhouse, is the founder, president & CEO of BlueNalu, and expressed his excitement at returning in this role.
“I’m excited to serve as keynote speaker again for this outstanding conference. The food industry is going through such an extraordinary transformation now and over the coming years, in which technologies are enabling precision agriculture, resulting in new forms of protein, personalizing nutrition, creating new methods for distribution and utilizing AI to better understand consumer motivations and product satisfaction.”
Cooperhouse, a leading global authority in food innovation, business and product differentiation, and technology commercialization, will speak on the topic, “Food for Thought: Food Industry Trends and the Power of Partnerships.”
He emphasizes this basic formula. “Success in the food industry begins with the identification of your company’s problem statement, and how your business differentiation creates a unique and valued selling proposition.”
To help businesses, from concept to commercialization, many established early-stage entrepreneurs and existing food companies often turn to the Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) for support.
Rutgers Food Innovation Center.
Nolan Lewin is the executive director of FIC, a unique food business incubator in Bridgeton, NJ. Since 2001, FIC has been a strategic partner to New Jersey companies, providing enormous value to businesses and accelerating their pathway to market.
“FIC is a trusted source of information, expertise and capabilities, unmatched by other universities. It is FDA and USDA registered, capable of manufacturing goods that can be sold directly into market. Our Marketing and Food Safety programs also cover many facets of food and beverage manufacturing, including Competitive Sensory analysis, FSMA certificate training, Servesafe and GAP audit facility reviews.”
In addition to helping to grow NJ’s food technology sector, the FoodTech conference also aims to highlight business retention capacity and opportunities in the state.
Sho Islam, Division Head of Life Sciences & Food Innovation at Middlesex County’s Office of Business Engagement, is a speaker at NJ FoodTech 2024. He started his career with FIC, focusing on business development, entrepreneurship, innovation commercialization and strategic business consulting. Currently, Islam is responsible for providing business expansion and advisory support to companies located or interested in locating to Middlesex County.
He notes that New Jersey’s world class facilities – 22 million square feet of lab space that is expected to grow 27% by 2026, and highly skilled workforce – firmly establish the state as a hub for the life sciences.
According to Islam, “the same labs and talent pool that support life sciences are also spurring growth in food innovation across the state.”
Angel Planet Foods – a plant-based food company specializing in Asian cuisine – is one such New Jersey-based success story. A former incubated company with FIC, the company was founded in 2020 by Zheng Song, who served as a panelist at the inaugural NJ FoodTech conference in 2023.
“My experience was extraordinary. I was honored to be in the company of other entrepreneurs and investors, and found the conference to be a rewarding experience. The debut of the FoodTech conference was very successful.”
Song adds that “the plant-based presentations were very informative and I also enjoyed the networking and learning about the trends in the industry.”
FoodTech 2024 keynote speaker Lou Cooperhouse brings 40 years of experience in the food industry. He has close ties to FIC and New Jersey food innovation, having previously served as a founder and executive director of this award-winning program. He’s also the current chair of the Rutgers University Food Innovation Center Advisory Board.
His portfolio includes extensive entrepreneurial expertise leading cross-functional teams in a wide array of settings, including new business startups, multinational corporations, foodservice and retail operations, non-profits and trade associations, and university food incubation programs
Cooperhouse sums up why entrepreneurial startups, established businesses, industry suppliers, venture capital sources, non-profits, and others should attend the conference.
“Strategic partnerships can provide enormous value to an entrepreneurial company, as well as an established multinational corporation, and accelerate and support food innovation and market differentiation, and I look forward to sharing these insights at New Jersey FoodTech 2024.”
–Rutgers University
Prosecutors last week entered piles of cash and 13 gold bars into evidence in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, who is accused along with his wife Nadine of accepting bribes from a trio of New Jersey businessmen. Canva for NJ.com
The FBI agents stepped quietly inside U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s modest white house tucked in an upscale neighborhood along New Jersey’s scenic Palisades one morning in June 2022, creeping in through the garage.
They were directed to move discreetly, none of the shock and awe of a pre-dawn raid and perp walk. Nobody was even home.
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Sean Sullivan is a senior reporter on NJ Advance Media’s news team, covering criminal justice issues and government corruption in New Jersey for over a decade. He is chronicling the federal trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for NJ.com and its affiliated newspapers. He does not invest in gold.
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