The U.S. Open has a reputation for testing the world’s best golfers with the most demanding courses. The competition is designed to challenge, traditionally favoring courses that feature brutal rough and narrow fairways.
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Lady Golfers for Rent: Escort Service for Duffers?
Visit any public or private golf course, any day of the week, and you’ll spot the same things. Manicured trees and flush fairways. Ecstatic fist pumps, as hacks somehow chip it near the cup.
Wesleyan shooting suspect threatened Jewish students
A man suspected of killing a Wesleyan University junior may be targeting the university and its Jewish population, Middletown, Connecticut, police said Thursday. Police have launched a nationwide search for Stephen Morgan, 29, who is suspected of killing Johanna Justin-Jinich. The young woman was shot and killed Wednesday at a bookstore in Middletown near the Wesleyan campus, police said.
Spotting Distant Worlds from the Backyard
It was arguably the biggest news in science this month: A graduate student in Australia discovered the continent of Africa. What makes Sally Langford’s discovery so remarkable — and worthy of reporting in the journal Astrobiology on April 6 — is not what she saw, but how she saw it. Once a month over the course of three years, Langford stood huddled against the evening chill in lonely Australian farmland and watched as the east coast of Africa shone in the midday sun
N. Ireland cops given more time to probe soldier, police killings
Police investigating the killing of a police officer and two soldiers in Northern Ireland have been given more time to question suspects, the Police Service of Northern Ireland announced Sunday.