North Carolina
US Women’s Open golf ticket sales soar for 2022 in North Carolina
SOUTHERN PINES — Maintain it, and they’re going to come.
And are available, they’ve, by the 1000’s every day this week to the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Membership to witness the premier gamers compete for probably the most prestigious titles in girls’s golf.
The 77th U.S. Girls’s Open is at Pine Needles for the fourth time and has added one other memorable chapter to the course’s huge event historical past. Already this week we have seen the emotional return of Corridor of Famer Annika Sorenstam to the US Open. We have witnessed former No. 1-ranked Nelly Korda come again after surviving a blood clot in her proper arm. And we have watched with nice curiosity to see if Lexi Thompson may overcome the frustration of final 12 months’s US Open setback to contend once more.
The ultimate chapter of this 12 months’s US Open will likely be written Sunday, however the ending may have a bigger reside viewers than ever earlier than.
Blue Satan in high 10:Former Duke star Leona Maguire in high 10 heading into US Girls’s Open last spherical
Prize cash breakdown:2022 US Girls’s Open prize cash: A breakdown of the document $10 million purse
Inspiring others:Bailey Davis, solely Black golfer within the US Girls’s Open, has a message for others
The crowds at this 77th model of the US Girls’s Open have been among the many largest lately, and presumably ever.
The US Golf Affiliation, which sponsors the Girls’s Open, does not usually reveal attendance figures. However they did say ticket gross sales for the Pine Needles event are up 50 p.c in comparison with the three-year pre-COVID interval.
In fact, followers weren’t allowed on the 2020 Open attributable to pandemic considerations and attendance was restricted on the 2021 event. So perhaps the bounce in attendance at Pine Needles is because of followers being hungry to expertise skilled golf in particular person once more.
Both method, the gamers on this 12 months’s Open have seen the bigger crowds following them across the course.
“I believe, total, that is most likely one of many greatest crowds that I’ve seen on the U.S. Girls’s Open,” Lydia Ko mentioned after Saturday’s third spherical. “This can be a large {golfing} group. I do know that even when there aren’t championships right here, lots of people come within the space to play Pinehurst or play right here.
“It is truly good to go to these sorts of locations the place folks adore it, individuals are enthusiastic about girls’s golf being right here, and individuals are enthusiastic about golf generally. I believe that is why the followers aren’t in a single particular gap or one particular group. They’re simply type of scattered throughout. Like even once I noticed teams teeing off at 10:00 (a.m.), there have been a bunch of individuals.”
Tons of of followers may very well be seen following Korda and Thompson’s teams on Saturday. As Thompson performed the par-4 fourth gap, the group following her stretched from the tee field all the way in which up the left aspect of the golf green.
Korda, who’s enjoying in her first event since surgical procedure in February to take away a blood clot, additionally had an enormous gallery that yelled encouragement after each shot.
“It was actually cool,” Korda mentioned. “Actually, tremendous particular. I do not assume I’ve ever had that huge of a crowd following me at a Girls’s Open, or generally, on a Saturday, not even being within the final pairing. In order that was actually cool to listen to everybody shout my title. And for everybody to say that they are pleased that I am again, it felt very nice, too.”
Gamers resembling Korda, Sorenstam and plenty of others repaid the help by signing autographs on the course and after play ended.
“I actually, actually love when, like, the little youngsters and little ladies type of scream my title,” Korda mentioned. “A few of them even ask me for an autograph through the spherical, and I simply cannot say no.”
And that accessibility and graciousness of the ladies’s gamers is one other huge purpose the crowds have come to Pine Needles this week, together with the good golf being performed.
Let’s hope the USGA continues to incorporate Pine Needles as a US Girls’s Open web site transferring ahead. Perhaps even contemplate it as a part of the Girls’s Open rotation like its neighbor, the Pinehurst Resort’s famed No. 2 Course, which has been named an anchor web site for future males’s US Opens.
North Carolina
Obituary for Ernest "Trey" Cleveland Skipper, III at Market Street Chapel
North Carolina
North Carolina man charged with 9 felonies after shooting at tree crew
YANCEY COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) — A tree-trimming crew in North Carolina had a harrowing encounter when a man with a criminal record opened fire on them.
This happened near Murphytown in the Green Mountain area of Yancey County. According to a statement from the Yancey County Sheriff’s Office, 36-year-old Lucas Wilson Murphy shot three tree workers while they were clearing trees for a power company.
All three sustained serious injuries. They were taken to a hospital for treatment.
31-year-old Shelby Teague, whose husband Brandon Teague, 32, was part of the five-member crew, is still grappling with the incident. The couple have three children together.
“To have somebody crazy running through the woods is not a risk that you would think about,” she told ABC affiliate WLOS
She is thankful her husband wasn’t hurt, but three of his colleagues were.
“I’m trying not to be angry,” Shelby said. “We could have lost a bunch of good men.”
Authorities said during the exchange, an officer-involved shooting happened. Murphy was injured and taken to a hospital.
Murphy is charged with nine felony counts detailing that he assaulted five crew members with a long rifle with intent to kill.
Previous Criminal History
Shelby is angry Murphy was not in jail for previous charges.
Murphy’s misdemeanors, dating back to 2013, carry little to no jail time. This includes resisting public officers, driving while intoxicated and carrying a concealed weapon.
In 2021, the most serious case where he went to trial involved a charge that he shot and tried to kill his brother.
A law enforcement source who spoke anonymously told WLOS that Murphy’s brother refused to cooperate and minimized what happened.
Because of this, the jury could only find him guilty of assault.
Copyright © 2024 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.
North Carolina
Amid torrential rains and flooding, 21 North Carolina river sites fail fecal bacteria testing this week
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A group says more than 20 North Carolina river sites failed testing for fecal bacteria this week after several days of torrential rains and nearly a foot of rainfall in some spots.
Leading up to Friday, there were several days of flood warnings and nearly a foot of rain fell in some North Carolina areas — such as Sampson County with 11 inches. Other spots — such as Durham County — received more than 9 inches of rain.
Sound Rivers, a group that monitors more than 50 recreational sites along North Carolina rivers, says that heavy rain can lead to more pollution in rivers.
“Swim Guide results are in, and they definitely reflect the impact all this rain is having on our waterways,” the Sound Rivers group said on Friday.
Full rainfall totals for Central NC for a week ending Friday
Some flood warnings continued this weekend with one still active Saturday along the Tar River at Tarboro in Edgecombe County.
“Remember, more stormwater runoff means more nasty stuff gets washed into the water,” Sound Rivers wrote Friday after 21 North Carolina river sites failed their weekly testing.
In the previous Swim Guide report, just six sites failed.
In the Raleigh area, three sites along the Neuse River failed the week ending July 26, according to Sound Rivers.
Just east of Raleigh in Wake County, these canoe launch sites met water quality standards less than 60 percent of the time: Buffaloe Road, Milburnie Park and Poole Road.
Elevated levels of fecal bacteria in the water can bring an increased risk of gastrointestinal illness and skin infections for pets and humans, Sound Rivers says.
East of the Wake County area along the Neuse River, these seven sites also failed water quality testing:
-
Maple Cypress boat ramp in Grifton
-
Glenburnie Park
-
Town of Bridgton Park
-
Upper Broad Creek at Black Beard Sailing Club
-
Lawson Creek Park in the New Bern area
-
Slocum Creek boating access in Havelock
-
Pierce Creek at the Sea Harbor Yacht Club in Oriental
Closer to the North Carolina coast, 11 sites failed the testing along the Tar and Pamlico rivers:
-
Sunset Park on the Tar River in Rocky Mount
-
Tar River Reservoir in Rocky Mount
-
River Road boat ramp on the Tar River in Tarboro
-
Town Common on the Tar River in Greenville
-
Wildwood Park on the Tar River in Greenville
-
Port Terminal on the Tar River in Greenville
-
Yankee Hall Road boat ramp on the Tar River at Pactolus
-
Mason’s Landing on the Pamlico River in Washington
-
Havens Gardens on the Pamlico River in Washington
-
Dinah’s Landing just off the Pamlico River at Goose Creek State Park
-
Cotton Patch Landing on Blounts Creek just off the Pamlico River
Sound Rivers issues a report on various recreational areas of rivers in North Carolina after testing dozens of recreational sites each week throughout the summer.
The testing by the group includes enterococci bacteria in salt water.
Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to CBS17.com.
-
News1 week ago
RNC speakers want to separate the president from the person to show softer side of Trump
-
News1 week ago
Video: Young Republicans on Why Their Party Isn’t Reaching Gen Z (And What They Can Do About It)
-
World1 week ago
Civilians try to pick up daily life in Ukraine's East
-
World1 week ago
Freshers' week in Strasbourg for new EU lawmakers
-
News6 days ago
How the Trump Rally Gunman Had an Edge Over the Countersnipers
-
Politics1 week ago
Balance of Power: Trump singles out Nevada at RNC as he looks to flip state he lost twice
-
Movie Reviews1 week ago
Bad Newz Movie Review: Vicky Kaushal and Ammy Virk’s hilarious rivalry elevates this laugh riot
-
Politics1 week ago
Reporter's Notebook: 'Do not stop filming'