Augusta, GA
Panel makes its pick for Fort Gordon’s new name
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The navy base renaming fee has chosen Fort Eisenhower as its suggestion for the brand new title of Fort Gordon.
The fee has been tasked with recommending new names for navy installations which can be named in honor of individuals with ties to the Confederacy.
The panel will ahead its suggestions to Congress in by Oct. 1.
After the fee’s official suggestion, the U.S. Division of Protection will likely be charged with executing base renamings no later than Jan. 1, 2024.
Fort Gordon was named after John Gordon, a Accomplice basic. He went on to change into a U.S. senator and Georgia governor.
As Fort Eisenhower, the submit could be named in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a World Warfare II basic who went on to change into the thirty fourth U.S. president.
The submit’s hospital already bears the Eisenhower title.
Rep. Rick Allen, R-Augusta, mentioned if Fort Gordon have to be renamed, he’s proud of it changing into Fort Eisenhower.
“We made it clear to the Naming Fee that, ought to the bottom be renamed, our group hoped it could change into Fort Eisenhower – in reference to the previous president’s deep ties to the Augusta space. I’m glad the Fee has taken this suggestions under consideration in its suggestion,” Allen mentioned in an announcement Tuesday afternoon.
He mentioned from the second the renaming initiative was introduced, his workforce has labored side-by-side with members of the area people to make sure that, if the bottom needed to be renamed, its new title would mirror each the historical past of this space in addition to the importance of Fort Gordon’s mission.
Allen beforehand signed onto a letter to the fee urging it to think about the widespread group help for the title Fort Eisenhower when making its official suggestion.
The fee is making these different suggestions to Congress for 9 Military posts at the moment named after Accomplice officers:
- Fort Benning, Ga. – rename as Fort Moore after Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore.
- Fort Bragg, N.C. – rename as Fort Liberty after the worth of liberty.
- Fort A.P. Hill, By way of. – rename as Fort Walker after Dr. Mary Walker.
- Fort Hood, Texas – rename as Fort Cavazos after Gen. Richard Cavazos.
- Fort Lee, Va. – rename as Fort Gregg-Adams after Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
- Fort Pickett, Va. – rename as Fort Barfoot after Tech. Sgt. Van T. Barfoot.
- Fort Polk, La. – rename as Fort Johnson after Sgt. William Henry Johnson.
- Fort Rucker, Ala. – rename as Fort Novosel after Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael J. Novosel Sr.
Whereas there are different installations with names linked to the Confederacy, the fee is empowered to make suggestions just for Division of Protection property and never Nationwide Guard installations.
The congressional fee’s mission is “offering naming, renaming, and removing suggestions to Congress for all Division of Protection objects that commemorate the Accomplice States of America or any one that served voluntarily with the Accomplice States of America.”
It accepted greater than 34,000 suggestions for renaming installations. From there, it recognized 3,670 distinctive names potential use. Utilizing standards that will likely be detailed within the ultimate report and aided by a workforce of historians, the fee reviewed the record and performed deliberations to slim the record to fewer than 100 whole names.
The fee mentioned its standards centered on “making certain the names thought of for navy installations appropriately mirrored the braveness, values, sacrifices and demographics of the women and men in our armed forces, with consideration given to the native or regional significance of names and their potential to encourage and encourage service members.”
The panel is made up of Adm. Michelle Howard, U.S. Navy, Retired (chair); Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, U.S. Military, Retired, (vice chair); Chair Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, U.S. Military, Retired; Jerry Buchannan; Gen. Robert Neller, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired; Lawrence Romo; Dr. Kori Schake; and U.S. Rep. Austin Scott (Georgia).
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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Augusta, GA
The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
Augusta, GA
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