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Tiger Woods had a tough time at Riviera even when healthy
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods made it by means of 16 holes of his pro-am Wednesday on the Genesis Invitational on a bitterly chilly morning with occasional 25 mph gusts that made the temperature really feel just like the higher 30s.
What mattered, not less than for now, was how he completed. He didn’t play the final two holes at Riviera, however after shaking arms along with his beginner companions, he had no hassle climbing the 52 steps that result in the clubhouse.
There might be no stopping on Thursday when Woods competes towards a full area of the world’s greatest gamers for the primary time since lacking the lower at St. Andrews within the British Open.
The plantar fasciitis that stored him from taking part in within the Bahamas in December is doing higher. He stated his ankle, badly injured from his February 2021 automobile crash outdoors Los Angeles, is his largest concern. There’s additionally that matter of rust.
“However I’ve come off a rusty scenario earlier than and I’ve completed nicely,” Woods stated Tuesday throughout his information convention.
He returned from knee surgical procedure on the finish of 2002 and received in his first begin at Torrey Pines. He as soon as took 10 weeks off after the 2007 tour season ended and received his World Problem by seven pictures.
He was youthful, more healthy and in his prime. His swing appears to be like as environment friendly as ever, significantly along with his irons. For Woods, it’s about attending to the following shot on a pair of legs which have been battered over time.
After which there’s the matter of the golf course.
Riviera is amongst his favourite designs, however the love affair ends there. Woods stopped taking part in this match after 2006, primarily as a result of he hardly ever had good outcomes. He alluded to that when he talked about his preparation for the Genesis Invitational.
“Plus, I do know this golf course,” he stated, pausing to smile earlier than including, “I do know I haven’t had a number of success on this golf course. However I knew what to apply for, pictures to hit at residence preparing.”
It truly is a thriller.
Woods has by no means performed extra instances on a PGA Tour course with out profitable — 11 appearances at Riviera as a professional, with just one likelihood at profitable. That was in 1999, when he tied for second, two pictures behind Ernie Els.
Most telling was his biggest stretch in golf. From the top of August 1999 by means of March the next yr, Woods both received or completed second in 10 out of the 11 PGA Tour occasions he performed.
The exception? He tied for 18th at Riviera.
“This can be an anomaly, and the one one in his complete profession possibly,” stated Adam Scott, who has two wins and two runner-up finishes at Riviera. “It’s a bit of bit unexplainable. I don’t know what to say about that. Over his profession, there’s been solely strengths, actually. This course is sort of demanding from the second shot in, and he’s actually able to dealing with it.
“I don’t know if he simply doesn’t really feel it right here or what it’s,” Scott added. “However I’ll share some ideas with him if he shares some recommendations on win a couple of majors with me.”
The problem for everybody Wednesday was the chilly and wind, although that is likely to be the worst of it. It was gusting to 25 mph (40 kph) within the morning. Woods hit driver and a fairway metallic into the frigid wind on the 458-yard ninth gap and plugged in a entrance bunker, some 10 yards in need of reaching the inexperienced.
That elicited little greater than giggle, and one other one adopted when he blasted out proper as a ball from one in every of his amateurs zipped close to his legs and into the bunker.
“Lot occurring right here,” Woods stated with a chuckle.
The sphere is the strongest of the yr thus far with a $20 million purse, although Riviera is so pure it at all times attracted the very best gamers. Nineteen of the highest 20 on this planet rating are taking part in (Woods is No. 1,294), the exception being Cameron Smith, who’s suspended for signing with the Saudi-funded rival league at LIV Golf.
Additionally lacking is Joaquin Niemann, the defending champion, who joined LIV Golf in August. Woods is the match host of the Genesis Invitational and offered Niemann with the trophy final yr.
He wish to take residence the trophy himself, even towards such lengthy odds.
Max Homa obtained the trophy from Woods two years in the past, probably the greatest reminiscences he’s ever had as a man who grew up within the LA space and who grew up idolizing Woods.
Learn how to clarify Woods not profitable at Riviera given his elegant iron play? Homa discovered himself making an attempt to reply that whereas taking part in the course Wednesday.
“It makes completely no sense,” Homa stated.
He considered programs Woods has dominated, comparable to Bay Hill, the place the second shot is so crucial, like at Riviera.
“So if you come right here … I’d have thought he received 10 instances,” Homa stated. “That one’s a thriller to me. This looks as if it will be a playground to him.”
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American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 5 others 'brutally murdered' by Hamas right before rescue: IDF
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Hamas terrorists killed six hostages Saturday, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as Israel Defense Forces closed in for a rescue attempt in the tunnels deep below Gaza’s Rafah.
Goldberg-Polin’s family confirmed his death early Sunday. His body was one of six recovered on Saturday. The IDF revealed that Hamas killed the hostages, who had been held for nearly 11 months, just as they were on the brink of freedom.
“According to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them,” IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement.
Goldberg-Polin, 23, was abducted at a music festival in southern Israel during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against the Jewish State. He lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. His body was recovered Saturday in the tunnels under Rafah, along with Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Master Sergeant Ori Danino.
DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS ISRAEL MUST ‘WIDEN THE GOALS’ OF WAR TO RETURN RESIDENTS TO THE NORTH
Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has been confirmed dead. (Israel’s Minister of Defense)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, “He who murders abductees – does not want a deal. We are in a difficult day. The heart of the entire nation was torn.”
“Along with all the citizens of Israel, I was shocked to the core by the terrible cold-blooded murder of six of our abductees.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he “embrace[s] their families with all my heart, and apologize[s] for failing to bring them home safely.”
A dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, Goldberg-Polin immigrated to Israel with his family in 2008 at the age of seven, according to a statement from his family. He leaves behind his parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, and his two sisters.
Goldberg-Polin’s family and friends traveled the world demanding his release and met with world leaders, including officials in the Biden administration.
President Biden said he is “devastated and outraged” by the news of Goldberg-Polin’s death.
“It is as tragic as it is reprehensible,” he said. “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.”
Vice President Harris, also the Democratic nominee for president, said her prayers are with Goldberg-Polin’s loved ones as they mourn his loss.
“Hamas is an evil terrorist organization,” Harris said. “With these murders, Hamas has even more American blood on its hands. I strongly condemn Hamas’ continued brutality, and so must the entire world. From its massacre of 1,200 people to sexual violence, taking of hostages, and these murders, Hamas’ depravity is evident and horrifying.”
ISRAEL KILLS PALESTINIAN COMMANDER MUHAMMAD JABER ‘ABU SHUJAA’ AS FIGHTING INTENSIFIES: IDF
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Goldberg-Polin, 23, was abducted at a music festival in southern Israel during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. (IDF)
“The threat Hamas poses to the people of Israel — and American citizens in Israel — must be eliminated and Hamas cannot control Gaza,” she added. “The Palestinian people too have suffered under Hamas’ rule for nearly two decades.”
“A few hours ago, we informed the families that the bodies of their loved ones had been located by IDF troops in an underground tunnel in Rafah,” IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement. “According to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them.”
Fox News’ Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
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Photos: Mass polio vaccination drive kicks off in Gaza amid Israeli strikes
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Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a vaccination drive against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory ravaged by nearly 11 months of Israeli bombardment.
Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the Strip, aiming to inoculate about 640,000 children. On Saturday, a few children were vaccinated before the formal start of the campaign.
“This is the first few hours of the first phase of a massive campaign, one of the most complex in the world,” said Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency.
“Today is test time for parties to the conflict to respect these area pauses to allow the UNRWA teams and other medical workers to reach children with these very precious two drops. It’s a race against time,” Touma told the Reuters news agency.
Israel and Hamas, which have so far failed to conclude a deal to end the war, said they would cooperate to allow the campaign to succeed.
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that Israel has agreed to limited pauses in its military operations to facilitate the campaign. There were initial reports of Israeli strikes in central Gaza early on Sunday, but it was not immediately known if anyone was killed or wounded.
Hospitals in Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat confirmed that the campaign had begun on Sunday. Israel said on Saturday that the vaccination programme would continue through September 9 and last eight hours a day.
The vaccinations will be held at some 160 sites across the territory, including medical centres and schools. Children below 10 years of age will receive two drops of oral polio vaccine in two rounds, the second to be administered four weeks after the first.
Gaza recently reported its first polio case in 25 years – a 10-month-old boy, now paralysed in the leg. The WHO says the presence of a paralysis case indicates there could be hundreds more who have been infected but are not showing symptoms.
Most affected children do not experience symptoms and those who do usually recover in a week or so, the UN health agency said. There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented. When polio causes paralysis, it is usually permanent. The disease can be fatal if the paralysis affects breathing muscles.
The vaccination campaign faces a host of challenges, from ongoing war to devastated roads and hospitals shut down by the war. About 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, with hundreds of thousands crammed into squalid tent camps.
Health officials have expressed alarm about disease outbreaks as rubbish piles up and the bombing of critical infrastructure has sent putrid water flowing through the streets. Widespread hunger has left people even more vulnerable to illness.
“We escaped death with our children and fled from place to place for the sake of our children, and now we have these diseases,” said Wafaa Obaid, who brought her three children to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah for vaccination.
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