Almost 4 months in the past, Danielle Kang revealed on the U.S. Ladies’s Open she had a tumor on her backbone. She took break day for testing and returned to motion on the CP Ladies’s Open in late August, telling reporters that she’d quite preserve the small print of the method and her well being inside the workforce.
In solely her third begin again, Kang discovered herself in a playoff towards hotshot rookie Atthaya Thitikul on the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship. She got here up quick, with Thitikul making birdie on the second playoff gap to win for a second time this season.
Kang broke down in tears throughout her interview with Golf Channel.
“I’m simply actually proud that I’m even right here,” she stated. “Clearly I needed to win, however these are like tears of pleasure.”
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Kang, 29, holed out for eagle on the par-5 18th Sunday to take the clubhouse lead at 17 below with a closing 64. Thitikul answered moments later with an birdie on the seventeenthto tug herself right into a tie with Kang. The 19-year-old Thai participant couldn’t convert for birdie on the ultimate gap, nevertheless, they usually headed again to the par-3 fifteenth for a sudden-death playoff.
Each Kang and Thitikul received early on within the 2022 season. Thitikul joins Jennifer Kupcho, Minjee Lee and Brooke Henderson as the one a number of winners on tour this season.
The 29-year-old Kang endured again ache for a number of months earlier than discovering out in regards to the tumor in late April after she withdrew from the Palos Verdes Championship.
Kang stated earlier within the week in Arkansas that her return has been extra demanding that some would possibly assume.
“There are some random photographs that simply come out that I used to not hit,” she stated. “It simply actually irks me the incorrect approach. I’ve to be affected person. I threw my membership as soon as and there’s no cause to throw it. I’m 5-under par. I simply by no means used to do this.”
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Ball-striking is one thing the two-time U.S. Ladies’s Beginner champion has all the time taken satisfaction in, however Kang stated she returned to motion with much less swing pace, noting that ball doesn’t cease as rapidly because it used to.
She hoped to have some additional persistence with herself on Sunday, telling her caddie that her objective was to complete at 17 below.
“Truthfully, it’s been hell,” Kang stated when it was over.
When requested the place Sunday’s end takes her for the remainder of the season, Kang stated it’s nonetheless going to be a course of.
“It’s a battle nearly,” she stated, “generally within the morning, however I got here out right here to do one thing that I like, and I’m simply so joyful for my workforce that by some means acquired me again taking part in this 12 months.
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“I imply, there was a part of me that I didn’t assume I’d ever play once more or contend, however right here I’m. I’m not that far off, and I’m joyful about that.”
HOUSTON — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising temperatures that could pose health risks.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard said on Saturday that highs of about 90 degrees were expected through the start of the coming week, with heat indexes likely approaching 100 degrees by midweek.
“We expect the impact of the heat to gradually increase … we will start to see that heat risk increase Tuesday into Wednesday through Friday,” Chenard said.
The heat index is what the temperature feels like to the human body when humidity is combined with the air temperature, according to the weather service.
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“Don’t overdo yourself during the cleanup process,” the weather service’s Houston office said in a post on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Houston Health Department said it would distribute 400 free portable air conditioners to area seniors, people with disabilities and caregivers of disabled children to contend with the heat.
Five cooling centers also were opened — four in Houston and one in Kingwood.
The widespread destruction of Thursday’s storms brought much of Houston to a standstill. Thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds tore through the city, and a tornado touched down near the northwest Houston suburb of Cypress.
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More than a half-million homes and businesses in Texas remained without electricity by midday Saturday, according to PowerOutage.us. Another 21,000 customers were also without power in Louisiana, where strong winds and a suspected tornado hit.
CenterPoint Energy, which has deployed 1,000 employees to the area and is requesting 5,000 more, said power restoration could take several days or longer in some areas, and that customers need to ensure their homes can safely be reconnected.
“In addition to damaging CenterPoint Energy’s electric infrastructure and equipment, severe weather may have caused damage to customer-owned equipment” such as the weatherhead, which is where power enters the home, the company said.
High-voltage transmission towers that were torn apart and downed power lines pose a twofold challenge for utility companies because the damage affected transmission and distribution systems, according to Alexandria von Meier, a power and energy expert who called that a rare thing. Damage to just the distribution system is more typical, von Meier said.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez reported late Friday that three people died during the storm, including an 85-year-old woman whose home caught fire after being struck by lightning and a 60-year-old man who had tried to use his vehicle to power his oxygen tank.
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire previously said at least four other people were killed in the city when the storms swept through Harris County, which includes Houston.
School districts in the Houston area canceled classes Friday for more than 400,000 students and government offices were closed.
Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Saturday that he hoped to reopen schools on Monday, but that is dependent upon the restoration of electricity in school buildings.
In light of the storm damage, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Whitmire both signed disaster declarations, paving the way for state and federal storm recovery assistance.
A separate disaster declaration from President Joe Biden makes federal funding available to people in seven Texas counties that have been affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding since April 26.
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Information for this article was contributed by Jamie Stengle, Valerie Gonzalez and Lisa Baumann of The Associated Press.
A crane sits on top of a cement truck, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston, at an address where authorities say a man was killed when a crane fell on the cement truck he was sitting in during the previous night’s storm. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Power transmission lines were twisted and toppled after powerful storms swept through the Houston area on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Cypress, Texas. As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat. (AP photo/Mark Vancleave)
The wall of a tire shop at the intersection of Sowden and Bingle is blown out in the aftermath of a severe storm on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston. The widespread destruction brought much of Houston to a standstill as crews raced to restore power and remove uprooted trees and debris. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Fans make their way into Minute Maid Park as a severe thunderstorm hit before a baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the Houston Astros, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Houston. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Down power lines are shown in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm Friday, May 17, 2024, in Cypress, Texas, near Houston. Thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Cheryl Herpich takes a photograph of a downtown building with blown out windows in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston. Thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Blown out windows on a high-rise downtown building are shown in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston. Thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Blown out windows on a high-rise downtown building are shown in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston. Thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Carrie Jenkins stands in her living room by the light of her open front door, the only light in her home since losing power the night before in the aftermath of a severe storm, Friday, May 17, 2024 in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Arkansas baseball team will play either Alabama or South Carolina first at the SEC Tournament next week in Hoover, Ala.
The Razorbacks (43-12) are the No. 2 seed at the tournament by virtue of winning the SEC West. They will play the second quarterfinal game Wednesday at approximately 1 p.m.
The Crimson Tide and the Gamecocks will play a single-elimination game Tuesday at approximately 1 p.m.
Alabama (33-21) is the No. 7 seed after tiebreakers with four other teams that finished with an SEC record of 13-17. South Carolina (33-21) was also included in the tiebreaker and is the No. 10 seed.
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The Crimson Tide were the highest seeded of the five teams that were tied in the standings. That was because Alabama was the only team to win a series against the highest-seeded common opponent, top-seeded Tennessee.
South Carolina earned the No. 10 seed over LSU due to results against Arkansas. The Gamecocks went 1-2 against the Razorbacks on April 19-20, while Arkansas swept LSU in March.
The Razorbacks defeated South Carolina 2-1 in the series opener in Columbia, S.C. The Gamecocks won 6-3 in the first game of an April 20 doubleheader and Arkansas won the finale 9-6.
Alabama lost 5-3 to the Razorbacks in the series opener. The Crimson Tide won the final two games of the series by scores of 4-3 in 10 innings and 5-0. That series was played in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on April 12-14.
The Arkansas-Alabama-South Carolina grouping will be paired against a grouping of Kentucky-Georgia-LSU in the quarterfinal round.
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The Razorbacks will play at least two games in Hoover. The quarterfinals are a double-elimination round that are scheduled Wednesday through Friday.
The semifinal and final rounds revert to a single-elimination format.
SEC Tournament Schedule
Tuesday (First Round)
Game 1: No. 6 Georgia vs. No. 11 LSU
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Game 2: No. 7 Alabama vs. No. 10 South Carolina
Game 3: No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 9 Florida
Game 4: No. 5 Mississippi State vs. No. 12 Ole Miss
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