LAS VEGAS - This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine.

He injected himself with weight loss drugs, testosterone, and legal-but-off-label growth hormones, designed to reduce deep layers of fat and regenerate his cells. To feel more outgoing, he added the peptide oxytocin, typically used by doctors to stimulate labor. For focus, he popped a pill of his usual stimulant, normally prescribed for sleep apnea. He logged tens of thousands of steps, sprinting to meetings at his hotel and doing circles around a large swimming pool.

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Angermayer was getting ready to show the world that the experimental health protocols embraced by longevity-obsessed business elites like himself can work for top athletes - and, ultimately, the entire world.

Angermayer, who at 48 looks a decade younger, is the co-founder and funder of the Enhanced Games, a Silicon Valley-backed athletic tournament that breaks a cardinal rule of sports by encouraging athletes to take steroids, hormones, peptides and any legal performance-enhancing drug.

The 42 inaugural participants who will compete Sunday in Vegas are elite swimmers, runners and weightlifters, some of whom are Olympic medalists. They are souped up on proprietary drug regimens prescribed by the organization’s team of doctors - an effort athletes hope will enable them to beat their personal records and earn millions in prize money.

But Angermayer, co-founder and CEO Max Martin, and their team of heavyweight investors have a decidedly bigger ambition for their new sports franchise. They aim to mainstream experimental therapies just as those treatments are gaining cultural momentum and political acceptance.

Enhanced, their telehealth platform, will sell testosterone and other supplements deemed “enhancements” to a wellness-crazed public. What better marketing for these therapies, the founders reason, than enabling the public to witness top athletes surpass peak performance goals, providing living proof that the science behind longevity drugs is real?

The company went public earlier this month with a $1.2 billion valuation and has ties to some of the biggest names in business and politics. One of its main funders is billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who has long been a fan of life-extension treatments, including a process called parabiosis, which involves older people getting transfusions of younger people’s blood. Another backer is 1789 Capital, a venture firm that counts JD Vance strategist Chris Buskirk and Donald Trump Jr. as partners.

Wellness and supplements are a $6.8 trillion global industry, fueled by celebrities, Make America Healthy Again influencers and the “manosphere” on social media, according to the Global Wellness Institute, an industry group. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - who said he takes testosterone, experimental hormones and amino acid chains known as peptides for antiaging - moved in April to legalize seven peptides that had been restricted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over safety concerns.

While sports officials and medical experts have raised ethical concerns with the unorthodox event, Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur who controls a $1.6 billion company dedicated to psychedelic medicine, had a different take. He said in an interview he believes it is immoral not to give athletes performance-enhancing substances.

Being a professional athlete “is very cumbersome and puts hard wear and tear on your body,” he said. Withholding drugs that could improve their performance is like sending a miner “into a coal mine but denying them a helmet.”

Enhanced Games executives insist the competition is a legitimate sports enterprise, but others have cast it as a carefully crafted marketing scheme, designed to turn athletics into advertising for a telehealth business that promotes controversial compounds whose benefits and risks remain unclear.

Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, has called the Enhanced Games a “dangerous clown show that puts profit over principle,” warning that the event could encourage children and young athletes to believe they need performance-enhancing drugs to chase athletic dreams.

Pieter Cohen, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and practicing internist at Cambridge Health Alliance who studies the boundary between drugs and supplements, said it was “really insidious” to use athletes as both test subjects and marketing tools.

“You can take any athletic performance, claim that it was based on these athletic-performing peptides, and then convert that into a marketing campaign,” Cohen said.

Chief executive and co-founder Martin, who at age 29 is also on a cocktail of longevity regimens, told The Post that he was completely against the “glorification” of supplements and opposed the black market that has emerged for longevity products. He said that “enhancements” should be taken with medical supervision, even when they are being prescribed off-label.

But he said it was unfair that an Olympian is banned from taking FDA-approved drugs that any person can buy at a pharmacy. If drugs are legal, “people should have their freedom of choice,” he said.

The company is not just built for athletes, Martin said. It is for anyone who wants to enhance their everyday life, including a grandparent seeking the energy to take a grandchild to the playground, he said, someone trying “to be the best 65-year-old they can possibly be.”

Biohacking the podium

Barring performance-enhancing substances has long been one of the most sacred rules of sports, a sacrosanct line that determines whether competition is fair, authentic and safe.

Enhanced organizers say elite athletes have always searched for an edge - through training, technology, nutrition, equipment and banned drugs. Their argument is that the Enhanced Games will make the last part transparent, medically supervised and financially rewarding.

Of the 42 athletes expected to compete Sunday in a newly constructed competition venue at the Resorts World hotel and casino in Las Vegas, event officials said 36 have been doping in preparation for the event. (Four athletes are competing “naturally.”)

The athletes were stationed together this spring in Abu Dhabi, where they trained and were administered doping regimens that would violate traditional rules and earn hefty bans from competition under normal circumstances. The individualized protocols included performance-enhancing substances and regular medical testing, according to Enhanced Games officials. An Institutional Review Board-approved clinical study is tied to the company’s medical program.

Organizers have not released individual athletes’ regimens but revealed this past week that 91 percent used testosterone, 79 percent used human growth hormone, 62 percent used stimulants such as Adderall, 50 percent used metabolic modulators, 41 percent used EPO and 29 percent used an anabolic steroid agent such as Deca-Durabolin.

The athletes are not just aiming to challenge the limits of human potential: They are lured with hefty financial rewards. Athletes who manage to break certain records can earn a $1 million bonus, a life-changing sum in a field where even Olympians often struggle to build financially secure careers.

“I’ll be very straightforward: It’s about the money,” said English swimmer Ben Proud, who won a silver medal competing at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. “This is not what an Olympic athlete would say is the epitome of sport.”

Even before the first event Sunday, organizers say they already have proof of concept. In February 2025, an early signee named Kristian Gkolomeev, a Greek Olympic swimmer who had finished fifth in the 50 freestyle at the Paris Olympics, swam 20.89 seconds in a secret time trial in Greensboro, North Carolina, topping Cesar Cielo’s official world record time by two hundredths of a second. Enhanced celebrated the swim as a breakthrough and awarded him the bonus money, though the mark is not recognized as an official record.

Enhanced’s defense starts with a simple claim: its medically supervised protocol is safer than the secret doping that athletes have been doing for years.

According to Enhanced officials, athletes in the study were permitted to consider substances across five categories: testosterone esters, anabolic agents, peptides and growth factors, metabolic modulators and stimulants.

Medical and anti-doping experts say Enhanced’s framing leaves important questions unresolved. A drug can be legal. A doctor can prescribe it. A study can monitor athletes for short-term harms. But none of that proves that powerful substances are safe for athletes using them to chase records, especially when used off-label, in combinations or doses that have not been well studied.

The World Anti-Doping Agency polices drug use across the sprawling Olympics world, and a spokesman for the global body called the Enhanced Games “a dangerous and irresponsible concept.”

“Just because a drug is FDA approved … or is provided under medical supervision, does not mean it can be taken risk-free,” said WADA’s James Fitzgerald. “These are powerful drugs and they can cause serious harm - sometimes immediately, sometimes months or years later.”

He noted that steroids, testosterone, human growth hormone and EPO can carry serious risks, including heart attack, stroke, blood clots, liver damage, diabetes, hormonal disruption, infertility, psychiatric effects and sudden cardiac death.

“The reality is that sports medicine still doesn’t fully understand the long-term consequences of stacking multiple substances together at the doses elite athletes might use to chase records,” he said.

While Enhanced officials aren’t detailing individual athlete protocols, James Magnussen, the Australian Olympic medalist who became the first prominent athlete publicly tied to the games, spent months on a regimen of daily injections in his stomach and backside. Magnussen told the Sydney Morning Herald that regimen included testosterone, the peptides BPC-157 and thymosin, and ipamorelin and CJC-1295, which are used to stimulate growth-hormone release.

That kind of stack is precisely what worries medical experts. Cohen, the Harvard professor, said while many of these compounds “might have significant benefit,” it could take years to understand their full effects, with dangers often not obvious in the moment.

“Risks are usually subtle, and it takes time and scholarship and studies and costs a lot of money to try to sort it out,” he said.

A convert to enhancement

Angermayer isn’t the most obvious person to make a career selling controversial drugs. He describes himself as maniacally cautious by nature. Growing up in the 1980s in a small town in the German countryside, where heavy drinking is a rite of passage, he abstained from alcohol and mind-altering substances. He tried coffee for the first time at age 29.

Self-control was a survival skill, he said, honed during childhood by fear that imbibing any such product might cause him to slip up and reveal the secret of his homosexuality.

“Where I come from, heavy drinking starts at age 14,” he said. “I was popular, but I was like, if I drink alcohol, I’m gonna spill it. … That’s when I decided I would never touch anything.”

A competitive overachiever in everything except sports, he did make an exception for one product: fructose, a crystallized fruit sugar that is popular in Germany. He kept a pack on his desk every time he took a test at school.

But overachievement was also a form of self-protection. Even if people did find out he was gay, “you’re kind of protected by success.”

By his late 20s, he had left Bavaria behind and had become a successful entrepreneur. One evening in 2013, he was invited to a dinner party where he happened to be sitting next to a scientist studying the potential of psychedelics to heal trauma and improve mental health. The men spent the evening in animated conversation, but Angermayer said he left feeling deeply skeptical.

He also wasn’t interested: He felt that he was a generally happy person without psychological wounds.

Instead, he asked the researcher for recommendations for what might improve his looks, along with his physical and cognitive performance. The researcher recommended the stimulant modafinil, which he takes to this day.

He became fascinated by the subject, doing his own research. A year later, at an Easter party, he was offered homegrown “magic” mushrooms containing the compound psilocybin. He called the scientist, who had been sending research for a year, “and he was like, ‘Do it!’” Angermayer recalled.

He said his trip was unexpectedly powerful, the most profound experience of his life. He connected to inner truths about the person he was becoming, he said. From that moment on, he was a believer.

While most friends thought he was crazy to start a pharmaceutical company to develop psilocybin - years before author Michael Pollan published a best-selling book on magic mushrooms - Thiel and cryptocurrency investor Michael Novogratz backed his plan.

By 2023, he had become one of Europe’s best known biotechnology investors and his psilocybin company, Atai, had gone public on Nasdaq. Around that time, an Australian businessman, Aron D’Souza, approached him about a different idea, a sports tournament that he framed as a libertarian challenge to the anti-doping system.

“He came to me saying … you’ve done it once with psychedelics,” Angermayer recalled. Here’s “another similarly crazy idea.”

D’Souza needed helped raising money. So Angermayer went to Thiel and other friends in the billionaire’s network of libertarian techno-futurists. A year later, Enhanced publicly announced its seed round of financing, which included Thiel, Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group, former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan, brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and a Saudi prince. The venture firm 1789 Capital, where Trump Jr. is a partner, became a major investor in 2025. A spokesman for Trump Jr. did not respond to a request for comment.

The first Enhanced Games were initially floated for late 2024, but they never happened, feeding skepticism that the venture would never move beyond provocation. D’Souza left the company last year, and Angermayer tapped a mentee from his investment company, co-founder Martin, to become CEO.

Martin said they spent much of the past year recruiting athletes, scientists and doctors to join the league. At first, this was slow going, but over the past two years, the enterprise slowly added athletes to its roster - including Proud, American sprinter Fred Kerley and the burly Icelandic weightlifter Hafthor Björnsson. Now Martin says he has world record holders, doctors and Olympians “in my Instagram DMs.”

The company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings suggest Sunday’s event is less the core business than the billboard. Enhanced noted that the competition is a way to build brand awareness, generate media content, engage athletes and acquire consumers.

“What works for a world record holder informs what works for consumers,” the company said in a recent news release.

Angermayer and his team have spent months building out a $20 million competition venue on the Vegas Strip, and on Sunday they’ll host 2,500-invite only spectators - including 16 luxury boxes - and stream the spectacle to the world, including a post-event concert by the Vegas rock band the Killers.

The athletes have long ago come to terms with what the competition is - and what it isn’t.

“It should be seen for now as entertainment, in the future as human optimization and human performance,” said Magnussen, the Aussie swimmer.

Magnussen made his comments Friday in a hotel ballroom, meeting with reporters and explaining his journey from Olympic swimming to Sunday’s doped-up pool. His veins were popping and muscles nearly busting through skin. At 35, he said he’s never felt healthier in his life.

“For the past decade, it’s really only been available to the elite. We’re bringing this to the everyday person,” he said. “I want everyone to have the potential to live longer and have access to these products, like we do.”

Angermayer said that he was watching the FDA, which has begun reconsidering whether some restricted peptides could be produced by compounding pharmacies, a move that Kennedy said could bring powerful substances out of the black market. It could give Enhanced a whole new set of products to sell.

But the billionaire said only handful of the peptides noted by Kennedy had enough scientific data to consider them worth selling.

“The power of the idea is that we’re going against everything people were told for decades [about] how sports should function,” he said. “But we have science, ethics, and morals on our side.”

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Folds of Honor founder Dan Rooney’s favorite saying is that freedom isn’t free. 

United States Navy Petty Officer 1^st Class Michael Lammey is living proof. He honorably served his country for over nine years. But on Dec. 1, 2006, while aboard the U.S.S. Frank Cable in Guam, he was injured when a damaged boiler exploded, filling the room with 700-degree steam. He sustained third-degree burns on 56 percent of his body. He spent 4 ½ years undergoing multiple surgeries and a lengthy process of healing. 

“I lost my profession; I lost my whole sense of self. It was a big thing that I had to rehabilitate,” he said, “not just my body but my mind.”

When he was medically retired, Lammey suddenly had all this free time on his hands. “I heard that retired people played golf, so, I went to Walmart and bought a driver and I went to the driving range and started trying to crush golf balls,” said Lammey, who wears two batting-cage style gloves when he plays because of the damage to his skin.

During his recovery process, his three daughters – Francine, Alexis and Mackenzie, began attending a Catholic private school. 

“We didn’t know how we were going to keep the kids in school,” he recalled. “My wife, Rose, went on a retreat for caregivers and they mentioned Folds of Honor, and we looked it up on online and applied and were accepted and able to keep the kids in school, which was awesome.”

Francine is currently following in her father’s footsteps, serving in the Navy. Alexis and Mackenzie are both Folds of Honor scholarship recipients. So, too, is Rose, underscoring the profound impact Folds of Honor has had on their family. Since its founding in 2007, Folds of Honor has awarded nearly 73,000 educational scholarships totaling more than $340 million.

“This is such a big blessing for us, and I wanted to do something to say thanks,” Lammey said. 

Since 2019, he has been a member of the Folds of Honor Speaker’s Bureau, turning his life-changing experience into a source of hope and inspiration for others. 

Golf facilities around the country are celebrating Patriot Golf Days, recognized annually throughout the month of May. Over the past 19 years, golf clubs nationwide have formed impactful partnerships with Folds of Honor, contributing to the transformative work of providing educational scholarships for the families of our brave military and first responders.

“There’s still thousands of other people that apply that there isn’t enough money to fund those scholarships,” Lammey said. “We need to keep getting the word out and let more people know the good work that Folds of Honor does so we can get all the rest of these families supported as well.”

On Memorial Day weekend, Lammey said it is time to reflect on the sacrifices that he and so many others made for their country. And a reminder that freedom isn’t free. 

Adam Schupak is a senior writer for Golfweek, covering the PGA Tour.

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Teenage sensation Blades Brown is on the verge of another impressive accomplishment.

Brown, 19, carded seven birdies at TPC Craig Ranch in Dallas on Saturday, signing for a 6-under 65 in the third round of The CJ Cup Byron Nelson. He climbed to T-12 at 14-under 199. That makes the final round an important day for the Tennessee native who turned pro at age 17.

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Brown, who is a member of the Korn Ferry Tour this season, entered this week 42.553 points short of the threshold for Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour, which he can reach with a solo 21^st this week. Special Temporary Membership grants unlimited sponsor exemptions for the remainder of the 2026 season. It can be earned by gaining enough FedEx Cup points to match the 150th player from the previous season's standings. As a non-member, Brown is limited to taking a maximum of seven sponsor exemptions. This week didn’t count as one as he earned his spot in the field by virtue of finishing T-9 at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic two weeks ago.

Brown has made six Tour starts this season, recording two top-10s, including a third-place finish at the Puerto Rico Open, and missing just one cut.

Brown has experience going the special temporary membership route to earning full-time status. In 2025, he did just that on the Korn Ferry Tour, securing his full card for this season and in eight starts has a runner-up and third-place finish to his credit. But if Brown can finish 21^st or better, he may be saying so long to the Tour’s developmental circuit and hello to special temporary membership and full pursuit of his playing privileges in the big leagues for 2027.

Adam Schupak is a senior writer for Golfweek, covering the PGA Tour.

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The Florida Southern College men's golf team won its 14th NCAA national championship on Friday, May 22, defeating Wingate University of North Carolina 3-2 in the D-II title match.

Friday's win gave the storied athletic program its 31st overall national championship in all sports. The men's golf program last one a championship in 2017. All three FSC seniors won their finals Friday at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada.

Tyler Mistretta beat Wingate's Brandon Skidmore by one, 70-71. The graduate student from North Palm Beach went down on the opening hole before tying on hole 2. He then went 1-up and held on to the advantage for most of the front nine. He worked all the way to 4-up on the back nine. Skidmore closed the gap to one stroke but Mistretta held on to clinch his match.

The Moccasins' Donte Groppuso dominated his match against Mattia D'Errico, winning by five strokes, 66-71. Groppuso, a graduate student from Kingston, New York, carded five birdies and an eagle, losing only two holes and tying his tournament-low 66 from the semifinal round. The highlight of his round was sinking a 30-foot eagle putt on 15.

Max Barile clinched the title for the Mocs, beating Wingate's Cole Rouse by four strokes, 68-72. The senior from Land O' Lakes led the entire match and carded six birdies in the round.

Anthony Monteleone fell by two strokes to Wingate's Alfie Storer, 70-68. Monteleone led through the first six holes, but Storer tied on hole 7. A bogey on No. 8 gave Storer a brief lead, but a Monteleone birdie on 9 evened it at the turn. Monteleone managed one birdie on the back nine, on hole 13, But a birdie on 10 and an eagle on 16 gave Storer the 68-70 win.

Colton Swartz, a junior from Fleming Island, was the only Moc to not shoot under par, carding an even-par 72. Wingate's Lewis Beeden recorded six birdies and an eagle in the match. Back-to-back bogeys by Beeden on 11 and 12 helped Swartz close within one stroke. But Beeden recorded three straight birdies and an eagle to pull away and win 68-72.

The Mocs reached the championship round after beating Colorado Christian 3-2 in the quarterfinals, and Lee 4-1 in the Semifinals.

Against Colorado Christian, Mistretta, Monteleone and Swartz won their matches, while Groppuso and Barile lost by narrow margins. Earlier in the week, the No. 3-ranked Mocs secured the top spot in medal match play with a stroke play score of 829, or 35 under.

Mistretta shot a career-low 64 on the final day of stroke play to finish in third place with an 11-under 205. Monteleone shot 10-under over three days to tie for fourth. Barile finished stroke play tied for 14th at 7 under. Swartz and Groppuso tied for 23rd at 4 under.

USC Beaufort's Octavio Laurent won the individual title on Wednesday, finishing 17 under in the championship.

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Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking remains confident that the club can avoid a first ever Bundesliga relegation on Monday when they visit Paderborn for a play-off return leg.

The first meeting in Wolfsburg ended 0-0 on Thursday but Hecking said on Sunday that "too much has been interpreted into" that game and the result hasn't changed anything.

"We are where we should be, in a good mental state. We wanted this final. Now we are playing it. We have every chance to stay in the league," Hecking said.

"There is no more beating about the bush, it is only about whether you deliver or not. At the end of the day we will either have to say 'congratulations' or celebrate. There are no other alternationes."

Wolfsburg were second last and four points away from the play-off spot when Hecking took over in March. They reached the play-off on the final matchday with victory at St Pauli who were relegated along with Heidenheim.

Volkswagen-owned Wolfsburg have played in the Bundesliga since 1997, were surprise champions in 2009 and have saved themselves in play-offs twice before, in 2017 and 2018. Paderborn, who came third in the second division, aim to reach the top flight for a third time.

Hecking stressed his relaxed mood when he said he was at a state garden show on Saturday night with the family.

"It was a relaxed family day. All my children were there. All of my grandchildren were also there. You have to do this as well. Why should I change my life just because of one match? I enjoy not thinking about football," he said.

Real Madrid being linked with Sunderland’s Trai Hume is not the kind of transfer rumour most people would have expected.

When Madrid look for new players, fans usually imagine superstar names, expensive wonderkids or established Champions League performers.

A move for Sunderland’s Northern Ireland international full-back feels very different.

But that is exactly what makes the story interesting. If Jose Mourinho is returning to Real Madrid, this kind of signing could actually tell us a lot about how he wants to rebuild the squad.

Mourinho has never been obsessed with glamour in every position. He has always valued players who are disciplined, competitive and willing to follow instructions.

Real Madrid target Sunderland full-back

Hume fits more into that category than the usual flashy Madrid transfer target, according to Defensa Central.

Real Madrid are expected to strengthen at right-back, especially with changes coming in defense.

Even if they already have bigger names in the squad, depth is important across a long season.

Madrid cannot rely on one or two players to cover every match in La Liga, the Champions League, domestic cups and international-heavy schedules.

Hume would not arrive as a superstar. He would arrive as a useful, hard-working defender who has already gained Premier League experience with Sunderland. That matters.

The Premier League is physically demanding, and any player who performs regularly there shows a certain level of toughness and adaptability.

What makes Hume appealing is his attitude as much as his ability. He is energetic, aggressive in duels and comfortable playing in a high-intensity environment.

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Mourinho tends to like defenders who do not overcomplicate things. He wants players who can defend properly, stay switched on and compete.

Hume may not be the most fashionable name, but he looks like the type of player who would give everything for the team.

From Sunderland’s perspective, this would be a difficult situation. Hume is under a long contract, and losing an important player would hurt.

But if a club like Real Madrid comes calling, it becomes a very different conversation.

For the player, it would be almost impossible not to listen. Moving from Sunderland to the Bernabeu would be a huge career leap.

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The 2026 French Open gets underway at Roland Garros on Sunday as the second Grand Slam of the year sees Coco Gauff put her title on the line.

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The long wait between the first and second Grand Slams of 2026 is finally over as the latest edition of the French Open gets underway on Sunday. Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff are the defending singles champions at Roland Garros, though only the latter will get her first round underway on Sunday.

Gauff, 22, will take on Taylor Townsend in the first matchup of her French Open title defense after coming from behind to beat Aryna Sabalenka last year. Belarusian Sabalenka will also be in action on Sunday and takes on Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in her latest effort to complete the career Grand Slam.

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On the men’s side of the draw, Jannik Sinner will take the headline slot on Sunday in Alcaraz’s absence as he eyes revenge following last year’s defeat to the Spaniard. Sinner was edged out in an instant classic of a final against Alcaraz and is tasked with beating one of the home favorites in Clement Tabur first up.

Veterans Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka are also in action against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Arthur Fils, respectively. There will also be a French Open swan song for 39-year-old Gael Monfils, who takes on French compatriot Hugo Gaston in the latest segment of his retirement tour.

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Brandon Nakashima vs Roberto Bautista Agut

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Women’s 

Coco Gauff vs Taylor Townsend

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Marcus Rashford’s future is becoming one of the more dramatic stories of the summer, because it now looks like Barcelona may not be the only Spanish giant trying to sign him.

The Manchester United forward has spent the season on loan at Barcelona, where he has rediscovered confidence and played a role in their La Liga success.

However, Real Madrid are now being linked with a surprise move, which would add a completely different level of drama to the situation, according to Football Insider.

Rashford is still a Manchester United player, and Barcelona have not yet completed a permanent deal.

Reports have previously stated that Barcelona have an option to buy him for around £26 million, but no final agreement has been reached with United.

Marcus Rashford has revived his career at Barcelona

Rashford’s loan spell in Spain has done exactly what he needed it to do.

After a difficult period at Manchester United, he needed a change of environment, and Barcelona gave him that. He has looked more relaxed, more direct and more useful in a team that allows him to attack space.

Reports in Spain and Catalonia have credited him with 14 goals and 11 assists, and Frenkie de Jong has openly backed him to stay, praising his pace and attacking threat.

That is why Barcelona’s interest makes sense. Hansi Flick clearly values what Rashford brings. He is not the typical slow-possession Barcelona winger, but that is probably part of the appeal.

He gives them speed, power and a direct outlet when games become stretched.

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Real Madrid entering the picture would change the mood completely. Rashford has already made himself popular at Barcelona, especially after scoring in a 2-0 El Clasico win that helped seal the club’s 29th La Liga title.

A move to Madrid after that would be controversial, but football has seen stranger things.
For Manchester United, the situation is fairly simple. They need clarity.

Rashford is 28, on big wages, and does not appear central to their long-term plans under Michael Carrick.

United would likely prefer a permanent transfer rather than another loan, because they need funds and squad space for their own rebuild.

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Mercedes won the Canadian Grand Prix Sprint, but the atmosphere inside the Brackley garage is rapidly turning toxic. George Russell successfully converted his pole position into a Saturday victory, but the triumph was entirely overshadowed by a highly aggressive, physical battle with his 19-year-old teammate.

According to reports from GPBlog, the two Mercedes W17s explicitly made contact during the opening laps, sparking what looks to be the beginning of a brutal internal rivalry.

“I Got Pushed Off”

Following the race, Kimi Antonelli refused to play the corporate PR game. When asked about the intense early scrap, the rookie championship leader bluntly accused his veteran teammate of crossing the line and forcing him off the circuit.

“It was a tough battle, to be fair. We were all there in terms of pace, it was not easy,” Antonelli explained during his post-race interview. However, he quickly zeroed in on the contact. “I tried to make my move and yeah, I need to review on that because I was quite well alongside and, yeah, got pushed off. But, it is what it is.”

Antonelli was forced to take severe evasive action to avoid a massive crash, with the interviewer joking that the teenager did the track staff a favor by “mowing the grass.” While Antonelli maturely admitted that a subsequent lock-up over a nasty bump at Turn 8 is what ultimately compromised his podium chances, his anger over the initial shove was palpable.

Russell’s Passive-Aggressive Relief and Wolff’s Ultimate Nightmare

When Russell was asked for his perspective on the incident, he offered a carefully worded response that felt more like a warning than an apology. Noting how powerful the slipstream and engine overtake modes are in the 2026 cars, Russell casually brushed off the severity of the clash.

“It was a good battle with Kimi,” Russell remarked, before adding a highly revealing caveat: “And, you know, glad we both are standing here after the race.” That final sentence says everything. Russell essentially acknowledged that his defensive move brought both cars to the absolute brink of a catastrophic double-DNF.

For Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff, this scenario is giving off terrifying echoes of the past. Wolff famously spent three exhausting years managing the bitter, crash-filled “Silver War” between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg from 2014 to 2016. He knows exactly how quickly an entire organization can implode when two drivers in a championship-capable car stop respecting each other’s track limits.

The current power dynamics at Mercedes make this a literal powder keg. George Russell is driving for his contract life, desperately trying to prove his worth while Wolff openly hosts public meetings with Jos Verstappen. Meanwhile, Antonelli is the undisputed golden child of the Mercedes academy, completely unafraid to challenge his senior teammate’s authority.

If Russell and Antonelli are already trading paint, pushing each other onto the grass, and pointing fingers in a Saturday Sprint race, the writing is on the wall. Toto Wolff needs to regain control of his drivers immediately, or a devastating repeat of the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix collision is inevitable.

Scandinavian rivals clash on Saturday at the 2026 IIHF World Championship as Norway (2-0-1-1, 7 points) battles Sweden (3-0-0-2, 9 points) as the teams jockey for positions in the quarterfinals at BCF Arena in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Sweden scored twice in the first period on Friday and cruised to a 3-0 victory over winless Italy, keeping the puck in the Italian zone for much of the game while outshooting its opponent 34-12. Carl Grundström (Philadelphia Flyers) opened the scoring at 9:09 of the opening period, and Ivar Stenberg (Frölunda HC, Sweden) made it a 2-0 game with 33 seconds left in the period. Stenberg added another goal at 8:04 of the second to close the scoring, and Magnus Hellberg (Djurgårdens IF, Sweden) stayed focused despite the light workload to post the shutout.

Norway took a 5-4 lead over Canada with 10:03 left in regulation when Tinus Luc Koblar (Leksands IF, Sweden) scored before the Canadians tied the game with 1:39 to go and won it 6-5 29 seconds into overtime. Noah Steen (Örebro HK, Sweden) scored twice for the Norwegians while Eskild Bakke Olsen (Linköping HC, Sweden) and Johannes Johannesen (Lahti Pelicans, Finland) staked them to a 2-0 lead in the first 11:37 of the game. Norway kept it close despite a 42-19 deficit in shots on goal.

Lucas Raymond (Detroit Red Wings) enters with four goals and nine points for Sweden, while Mattias Ekholm (Edmonton Oilers) comes in with three goals. Arvid Söderblom (Chicago Blackhawks) has a .938 save percentage and 1.00 goals against average in two starts. Steen, Koblar, and Jacob Berglund (Storhamar, Norway) have three goals apiece for Norway, with Koblar pacing the team with five points. In net, Henrik Haukeland (Straubing Tigers, Germany) has two shutouts in two starts, stopping 41 shots.

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Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez has been linked with a move away from the club at the end of the season, and Real Madrid is hoping to secure his signature.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez admires the player and is ready to offer a massive fee to secure the deal. The Spanish club could invest around €150 million in order to sign the South American midfielder, according to reports from Spain.

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Enzo Fernandez would improve Real Madrid

Real Madrid needs more quality in the middle of the park, and the 25-year-old would be an exceptional acquisition. He has 22 goal contributions (15 goals and 7 assists) for Chelsea this season, and he is entering the peak of his career. He could improve further and become a star for Real Madrid. He will add control, creativity, drive, and goals from the middle of the park.

Real Madrid have not been able to dominate the midfield contests since the departure of Luka Modrić and Toni Kroos. It would make sense for them to invest in the 2022 World Cup winner.

Jose Mourinho is set to manage the Spanish club next season, and he is already looking to raid his former club for Fernandez.

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Fernandez could be tempted to join Real Madrid

The opportunity to play for Real Madrid will be exciting for him as well. It would be a step up for him, and he will look to test himself at the highest level. Chelsea has failed to secure Champions League qualification for the next season, and Fernandez will want to move on to a club where he can fight for league titles and the UEFA Champions League.

It remains to be seen whether Chelsea is prepared to sell him for €150 million. It is a substantial amount of money that would allow Chelsea to bring in quality players. If the South American is intent on completing the move, Chelsea could find it difficult to resist a transfer.

Meanwhile, Fernandez is thought to be open to a move to Manchester City.

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Haig Point Club and Community Association – reachable only by boat on Daufuskie Island, S.C. – has announced a multi-year investment initiative that will include upgrades to its two golf courses, Signature and Osprey. Named Project Harmony, the $40 million initiative at the member-owned club will steer all growth in golf, infrastructure and residential development. 

Operating as a private club that allows limited guest play, Haig Point offers the two courses designed by Rees Jones, both of which opened in the late 1980s. The Signature course features 20 greens, with the Nos. 8 and 17 each offering two greens for play. The Osprey is a nine-hole course. Jones will return to lead the work on both courses. 

As described in a media release announcing Project Harmony, plans for the Signature courses include: 

• Reshaping, realigning and laser-leveling all tees
• With the exception of holes 1 and 15, all greens will be partially rebuilt with an emphasis on regrading all approaches
• Complete rebuild of greens 1 and 15
• Reshaping all bunkers to a modern style
• Bunkers reconstructed using Bunker Solutions
• Fairways regraded
• Greens to be re-grassed with TifEagle Bermuda.
• Fairways, tees and rough to be re-grassed with Tahoma 31
• Vegetation management in and around wetlands to open views
• Cart path repair and maintenance as needed

“This is not about reinventing the course,” Don W. Hunter Jr., Haig Point’s CEO and general manager, said in the media release. “It’s about restoring and refining it in a way that brings it back to its full potential while ensuring it performs at a high level for years to come.”

The plans for the Osprey Course include: 

• New irrigation system
• 21 new forward tee options to create a new par-3 course
• New short game practice area

The work on the two courses will be conducted in three phases over three years, so members will always have at least 18 holes to play. The Osprey Course work begins in late 2026 and runs to November 2027, followed by the first 10 holes of the Signature Course in early 2028 to November that year, then the final 10 holes of Signature Course in 2029. Duininck Golf will handle the construction. 

Project Harmony also will create a foundation for residential growth as the community aims to add 25 new homes per year. Also on the list are a new wellness and fitness center, expansion of racquet and pickleball facilities and road improvements.  

“Haig Point already has all the touchpoints of an exceptional golf and club experience,” Hunter said. “This initiative, agreed upon by 77 percent of the membership, is about polishing what is already a very strong golf course and modernizing it for today’s game, while creating a more complete and flexible playing experience for our members and enhancing the island lifestyle that is uniquely Haig Point.”

Jason Lusk is Golfweek's travel and golf course architecture editor, as well as the magazine's creative director. He has written for and designed Golfweek for more than two decades.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Haig Point in South Carolina announces master plan to renovate courses

Lanny Wadkins’ redesign of TPC Craig Ranch began almost immediately after Scottie Scheffler romped away with the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in May 2025.

Scheffler won the 2025 CJ CUP Byron Nelson in 2025 after shooting an incredible 31-under par for four rounds at TPC Craig Ranch.

The 29-year-old world number one made the course in McKinney, Texas, look far too easy this time last year.

Scottie Scheffler won the CJ CUP Byron Nelson after shooting rounds of 61, 63, 66 and 63.

16-under par wasn’t even good enough to get inside the top-12 in 2025.

The bottom line is that TPC Craig Ranch was far too easy for the best golfers in the world, and Lanny Wadkins was brought in to change that.

The winning score Lanny Wadkins wanted for the CJ CUP Byron Nelson

This week, Si Woo Kim has absolutely torn up the golf course at TPC Craig Ranch.

The South Korean has posted rounds of 64 and 60 during the first two rounds to lead by five shots heading into the weekend.

The early signs are that Lanny Wadkins’ renovations haven’t quite worked in the way that he expected them to.

Wadkins spoke about the renovation that he performed at TPC Craig Ranch, as quoted by Golfweek.

“They basically said they didn’t want 30-under winning the thing anymore,“ Wadkins said.

“And I told them, don’t worry.

“I would say that I did think about the Tour, particularly with the length and the bunkering. We’ve got one, two, three holes or so that play downwind and the bunkers don’t even start until 315 or 320 yards.

“So, you know, that’s definitely with the Tour in mind. If I’d put them where they normally would have gone, they’d have blown them over, never even seen them.

“I did think about the fairway bunkers as far as tightening the property up somewhat. Craig Ranch is a big piece of property.

“So we did four waste bunkers on holes 3, 5, 10 and 16, that when the plantings that we did with the native grasses and the Texas sage and stuff grows in, it’s going to make it look a lot more intimate and really have a lot more character. It’s going to be a lot more intimidating from the tee.“

It was then explained what score Wadkins wanted to see win the CJ CUP Byron Nelson after his redesign.

“The overhaul included new grass turf, tighter fairways, the movement of bunkers, additional water features, native grasses and waste areas and revamped holes. Wadkins, who won the Byron Nelson in 1973, said he aimed to make the course more difficult for PGA Tour players while still keeping it enjoyable for club members. He hopes the redesign will lower winning scores closer to 12- to 15-under par.“

Soft conditions at TPC Craig Ranch have impacted renovations

Obviously the soft conditions haven’t helped this week, but as things stand, Lanny Wadkins’ renovations haven’t quite done the job he thought they would.

Unless the PGA Tour trick up the pins on Saturday and Sunday, Scheffler’s 31-under par record score last year will be seriously under threat.

Many of the bunkers have been made deeper with steeper faces, while more undulation has been added to the greens.

However, those changes have not slowed down the players one little bit.

If you were five-under par after two rounds, you missed the cut, while 11-under isn’t even good enough to get inside the top 10 after two rounds.

Perhaps TPC Craig Ranch is a golf course that needs to play firm and fast in order to really challenge the players.

However, that will never happen when hosting a tournament at a golf course in Dallas in late-May!

Golfers love to talk about putter shapes, alignment lines, inserts and feel, but they almost never know numbers that often have the biggest influence on whether a putter actually fits a player’s stroke.

That’s the strange reality of putter fitting. A golfer can spend $400, $500 or even $600 on a putter and never once think about loft, lie angle, length or toe hang, and when those things aren’t right for a player, the results can show up immediately in the form of bouncing putts, poor aim, directional misses or a putter that simply feels uncomfortable to swing.

The good news is that most of these problems are fixable. The bad news is that many golfers never realize the putter itself may be contributing to the misses or forcing them to develop compensations for a poorly-fit putter.

Here are the four putter specifications that matter far more than many golfers realize.

Loft affects how quickly the ball starts rolling

While weekend golfers almost never think about it, putters have loft, typically between about 2.5 and 4 degrees, and that loft is important.

When a golf ball sits on a putting green, its weight (1.62 ounces) creates a tiny depression in the turf. If a putter had no loft, the ball would hop and bounce before it started rolling smoothly because it is sitting down in that tiny depression. A small amount of loft helps lift the ball out of the depression, so it can roll more efficiently.

The important part, however, is the ideal loft is highly personal.

Some golfers naturally add loft at impact because of the way they release the putter. Others reduce loft by adopting a forward-leaning shaft position at impact. In both cases, the “dynamic loft,” which is the loft at impact, is different than the loft at address.

Golfers who regularly see putts bouncing or hopping before they start rolling may simply have a putter with the wrong loft for the way they putt. This is why dynamic fitting matters. A good fitter is not just measuring the putter. They are measuring what happens when the golfer actually makes a stroke.

The Good News: The loft of most putters can easily be adjusted by a custom fitter in a matter of minutes.

Lie angle can quietly cause left and right misses

Lie angle is one of those terms many golfers associate with irons, but it matters with putters, too. Lie angle refers to the angle created by the shaft in relation to the sole of the putter when the putter rests flat on the ground. So, a 90-degree lie angle would position the shaft straight up and down (which is not allowed by the Rules of Golf). Most putters are built and shipped with a lie angle of around 70 degrees.

If a putter’s lie angle does not match a golfer’s ideal posture and setup, directional misses often follow. For a right-handed golfer, a putter with a lie angle that is too upright (meaning the degree number is too high) will encourage the toe of the putter to lift off the ground at address, which can contribute to putts missing left. If the heel comes up in the address position, the putter’s lie angle is too flat and it can lead to misses to the right.

The tricky part is that lie angle is influenced by more than just a golfer’s height. Arm length, torso length, posture and natural setup position all play a role. That means two golfers who are exactly the same height may need completely different lie angles.

The Good News: Lie angle is often adjustable on traditional putters. A qualified fitter can typically bend a putter flatter or more upright easily.

Length changes posture, eye position and aim

Most golfers assume that finding the ideal putter length is simple. Taller players use longer putters. Shorter players use shorter ones. Easy, right?

In reality, it’s not that straightforward. Height matters, but so do arm length, posture and how a golfer naturally positions themselves over the ball. The wrong length often forces compensations that affect alignment before the stroke even starts.

A putter that is too short tends to make golfers hunch over excessively. That can not only lead to back pain, it also push your eyes too far outside the ball and distorts how you sees the target line.

A putter that is too long creates the opposite issue. It encourages golfers to stand too upright, moving the eyes too far inside the ball.

Many golfers who struggle with setup consistency or who constantly question where the face is aimed may actually be dealing with a putter-length issue rather than a vision problem.

The Good News: Like loft and lie angle, length can be adjusted. Putters can often be shortened, re-gripped and reweighted fairly easily. A good fitter can also add an extension to a shaft or a putter can be re-built with a longer shaft if that’s what the player needs.

Toe hang needs to match the way the putter moves

Toe hang sounds “golfy” but few players understand how it relates to the way a putter naturally swings.

When they are balanced freely, some putters come to rest with the face pointing upward, toward the sky. These putters are referred to as being ‘face-balanced,’ and they generally work best for golfers with a relatively-straight putting stroke.

When other putters are balanced, their toe drops downward. In some cases, about 25 to 30 degrees, but some putters have significantly more ‘toe hang.’ A putter with toe hang is inclined to naturally rotate during the stroke, and the more toe hang it has, the more it is inclined to rotate.

Golfers with a slight arc in their stroke usually match up well with putters that have moderate toe hang, while players with significant arc tend to pair better with putters that have more toe hang.

Problems happen when the golfer’s natural stroke type fights the putter’s natural balance. If a golfer who has a strong-arc stroke uses a face-balanced putter, the putter may resist rotating enough through impact. Conversely, a golfer who’s stroke has very little arc who tries a putter with significant toe-hang may excessive rotation. In both these cases, golfers will commonly miss to one side of their target; under rotation to the right for right-handed players, and over-rotation to the left.

The Bad News: Unlike loft, lie angle and length, toe hang generally cannot be adjusted after purchase because it is built into the design of the putter. If the balance and toe hang are wrong, the golfer may simply have the wrong putter for their stroke.

Why zero-torque putters complicate the conversation

The rapid rise of zero-torque putters has added another layer to putter fitting.

To create the zero-torque condition, these putters rely on placing the shaft axis directly in line with the putter’s center of gravity (CG). In many cases, the shaft enters the head directly on top of the CG location. This setup helps reduce twisting during the stroke, but it can also make loft and lie adjustments far more complicated.

In many cases, manufacturers recommend sending zero-torque putters back to the company for adjustments because bending the putter could subtly alter the shaft axis/CG relationship. Some models also use shaft and hosel configurations that are not bendable. Finally, like any putter that is built with a graphite shaft, a zero-torque putter fitted with a graphite can’t be adjusted because graphite does not bend, it snaps.

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That makes proper fitting before purchase even more important with zero-torque putters. Golfers who need non-standard loft or lie specifications are often better off ordering those adjustments directly from the manufacturer rather than attempting to modify the putter later.

Remember: Whether you choose a traditional blade, a mallet or a zero-torque design, the larger point remains the same—the best putter for you is not simply the one that looks good or feels good when you try it in the store. It is the one whose specifications actually match what you need and how you swing the club.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Putter specs you need to understand to hole more putts loft lie angle

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McKINNEY – The sun finally emerged Friday, brightly illuminating a near-historic and action-packed second round that was exactly what the CJ Cup Byron Nelson needed. 

South Koreans and Dallasites dominated the day, punctuated by Si Woo Kim’s 11-under 60 at TPC Craig Ranch — only a bogey on No. 18 keeping him from the 16th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history. 

Kim is 18-under entering the weekend. Among those in his wake and tied for second at 13-under are fellow South Korean Sungjae Im and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.  

Scheffler’s fellow Dallasite and local fan favorite Jordan Spieth is 12-under after a Friday round of 62 that included a personal PGA Tour best six straight birdies. 

What more could a South Korea-based title sponsor and North Texas fanbase want entering the weekend? Kim appeals to both, as a Dallas resident and native of Seoul, where CJ Group is based. 

“I hit it great and putted great,” said Kim, who hit his approach to No. 18 over the green and failed to get up and down. “So everything was perfect, other than the last hole.  

“I'll still take it. Sixty is hard, but I was a little bit thinking about the 59 after I made that [15-foot putt] on 17. It was a little bit of adrenaline.” 

Scheffler, who shot one of the 14 59s in tour history, in the second round of the 2020 Northern Trust Open, is a friend and frequent practice partner of Kim’s. Of course, much like a no-hitter in baseball, there was no discussion down the stretch of a potential 59.    

“I felt like I was hitting all my shots to 15, 20 feet and Si Woo was hitting all his shots to like 8 feet or closer,” Scheffler said. “It was fun to watch.  

“I was glad for myself to be able to kind of stay in the tournament. I made some nice putts there on the back nine, but it's always fun to watch Si Woo do his thing.” 

It’s extra fortuitous that local fans get to watch Scheffler and Spieth do their thing in contention this weekend. Due to timing and the packed nature of this year’s PGA Tour schedule, neither is entered in next week’s Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club. 

“It’s nice having them back-to-back weeks, but I just think it’s the timing of them, following a major and sandwiched in-between a bunch of other events we historically play, as well,” Scheffler told The Dallas Morning News. 

“I’ve said it before, but if I had my way I’d play every tournament on the PGA Tour. It’s just the schedule and all the other stuff that goes with it. Mentally, you can only play so many weeks, especially in a row, and you’ve got to take care of the body and mind.” 

This year’s Nelson field only includes three of the world’s top 50-ranked players: Scheffler, No. 24 Kim and No. 47 Spieth. 

No doubt a significant factor is that in five of the past six weeks of the PGA Tour schedule, there has either been a major tournament (Masters in April, PGA Championship last week) or one of the tour’s $20 million Signature Events. 

Wanting to play one of North Texas’ events, Scheffler and Spieth both bypassed the May 7-10 Truist Championship in Charlotte, a Signature Event.  After Colonial next week is another Signiture Event, Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament, where Scheffler is the two-time reigning champion.  

Next May brings another tournament to North Texas that will dominate most of the local golf oxygen. The PGA Championship will be played May 20-23 on PGA Frisco’s Fields Ranch East Course. 

That sets up a potential Nelson, PGA Championship, Schwab Challenge triple-header, but fortunately, several people close to the Nelson tournament told The News that the tour has indicated next year’s Nelson will be in late April or early May – between the April 8-11 Masters and PGA Championship. 

“That would be great,” Spieth told The News. “Because I'm stuck right now this year. 

“If I were to play next week and the one after [Memorial], that goes to six in a row, with three Elevated and a major in there. And then the two in between are Dallas and Fort Worth. 

“It's just a rock and a hard place for myself and Scottie and guys who are local, who grew up here. There's just such a premium on the Elevated Events.” 

While Scheffler was paired with Kim and Brooks Koepka here Thursday and Friday, Spieth was grouped with Im and Chris Kirk. 

Im and Spieth shot, respectively, 61 and 62 – a warmup, it turns out, for the afternoon Kim-Scheffler fireworks. 

Spieth seemed to enjoy Im’s round as much as Scheffler admired Kim’s. Spieth thought he had the edge on Im until the South Korean’s 5-iron from 222 yards out on his next-to-last hole, No. 7, rolled into the cup. Two holes later, Im added a final punctuation, an eagle. 

“I was hurting my head trying to figure out what our best ball was,” Spieth said. “I think it was 57, which is pretty good.”

Rain is in the forecast this weekend, so much so that on Saturday the tour has players again grouped in threes and playing off split tees – with tee times ranging from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 

Preferred lies were in effect on both Thursday and Friday. That, soft greens and very little wind certainly have contributed to the low scores. 

Scheffler, Spieth and other players, though, have favorable opinions of the TPC Craig Ranch’s $25 million makeover by Lanny Wadkins’ design team. 

“I think it's awesome,” Spieth said. “The problem right now is this is like the first time in the history of Dallas, Texas, that you'll have four or five days of very little east wind and soft conditions in May. 

“You get your normal [south] wind we had on Monday out here, that's how it's designed. I think it would show that it's significantly harder, but also fair.” 

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MARICOPA, Ariz. — Gavin O'Neill admits he and his teammates joked about an improbable, but possible, scenario that could play out Sunday at the Men's National Golf Invitational.

The junior at Grand Canyon has pictured he and his four teammates, donning their purple shirts, strolling down the fairway in a five-way playoff. Not only would bragging rights be on the line as well as a postseason title, but a spot in a PGA Tour event this fall in Bermuda.

"We'd be foolish enough to say we haven't thought of that," O'Neill said.

Talk about pressure.

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The NGI kicked off Friday at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes, with the fourth edition of the tournament (think NIT of college golf) having more on the line than any before it. Not only will the winning team claim a postseason championship to conclude their season, but the individual winner will receive an exemption into the PGA Tour's Butterfield Bermuda Championship in October.

"It's in the back of your mind," O'Neill said Friday after opening in 8-under 64. "It's 36 holes away now, but you have to just go at it one hole at a time, one shot at a time. Just can't get too far ahead of yourself. Golf is too hard as it is."

O'Neill made it look anything but hard. He had nine birdies during the first round, the most of any player in the field, and carded circles on five of his last six holes to get in the clubhouse at 64, tied with Wyoming's Brody Leid after the first round. Rhode Island's Tyler Bruneau, who had two eagles in three holes, sits a shot back of the duo on top.

"I've thought about it a little bit," Leid said. "At the end of the day, you've just got to try to hit good shots and play good golf and the rest will take care of itself."

Leid was the only player in the field to reach 9 under, but he bogeyed the par-3 17th before a terrific up-and-down for par from long of the 18th green to finish at 8 under for the day.

In the past, the individual winner of the NGI earned a spot in the field of the Southeastern Amateur. Now, it's a postseason title worthy of a professional start.

"It's like the icing on the cake," said Missouri coach Glen Millican, whose squad leads Grand Canyon by a stroke after the first day of play. "It's the cherry on top. It's a nice bonus. It's a huge opportunity for these kids."

The NGI has quickly grown to become the premier tournament for teams who miss out on NCAA postseason play. For the men, the pressure of trying to earn a spot in a PGA Tour events has added to the pressure.

And with 36 holes to go at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes, plenty of pivotal moments await to determine who will had to Bermuda in five months.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: With PGA Tour exemption on the line, pressure is on at 2026 NGI

Don Rea is out as the president of the PGA of America.

In a Friday news dump ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, the PGA said its Board of Directors announced a leadership transition following the suspension of Rea for the remainder of his term, which concludes in November. Vice President Nathan Charnes, PGA, has been elevated to serve as Acting President, effective immediately.

The board’s action followed a series of issues over time that, taken together, were determined to be detrimental to the Association.

Rea was elected president in 2024 but has been silenced since the Ryder Cup concluded in early October after he fell under scrutiny for failing to apologize for the unruly American fan behavior that crossed the line with Rory McIlroy and other European Ryder Cuppers. He also was criticized for his part in an awkward trophy presentation in which he said that Europe had retained the Cup rather than won it outright. Rea also went viral in a video that showed him doing karaoke on Saturday night while the U.S. side was getting pummeled. 

Charnes will lead the officers and board of directors in carrying out the association’s governance responsibilities during this transition. Secretary Eric Eshleman, PGA, has been elevated to Vice President and will continue to serve in a dual role as vice president and secretary until November, when the association will hold its officer elections.

These changes are limited to board leadership and do not affect the association’s executive leadership or day-to-day operations.

Rea is not the first PGA president to be removed from office during his tenure. In 2014, Ted Bishop, the 38^th PGA President, was unceremoniously impeached after he made a sexist remark on social media. Bishop was ousted from his volunteer job less than a month before his term was to end.

Golfweek's Adam Schupak contributed to this story.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Don Rea Jr out as PGA of America president, Nathan Charnes takes over

Red Bull is officially entering crisis management mode. After Jos Verstappen and Toto Wolff were spotted having a highly visible meeting on the Mercedes hospitality terrace ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, the paddock rumor mill instantly caught fire.

With Max Verstappen currently holding performance-related exit clauses, the threat of a massive summer defection is hanging heavily over the Milton Keynes garage. However, Red Bull management is now desperately trying to convince the fans, and perhaps themselves, that the sky is not actually falling.

Laurent Mekies’s “Nothing to See Here” Defense

Speaking during the weekend’s Sky Sports broadcast, Laurent Mekies attempted to extinguish the flames surrounding his star driver. According to a recap of the broadcast shared by F1 journalist Daniel Valente, Mekies completely dismissed the idea that the Montreal meeting was a calculated political stunt.

Valente noted that Mekies did not believe there was “any intention or game plan” behind the highly public chat between Wolff and the elder Verstappen.

Instead, Mekies offered a remarkably casual explanation for the summit, painting it as just another weekend in the paddock. “We speak all the time with Max & Jos,” Mekies stated during the broadcast. “It’s completely natural that they can have a conversation with Toto”.

Why the Spin Doesn’t Work

In the hyper-political, cutthroat environment of Formula 1, there is absolutely no such thing as an accidental, “natural” conversation in full view of global media cameras. Toto Wolff and Jos Verstappen are two of the most calculated operators in the sport. If they wanted to have a private catch-up, they have dozens of secure motorhomes and private offices at their disposal. Choosing to sit on an open-air terrace was a deliberate, weaponized broadcast.

Mekies’ damage control routine completely ignores the terrifying context currently surrounding Max Verstappen. The reigning World Champion is profoundly miserable driving the 2026 regulations. The extreme battery management has drained his passion for the sport, to the point where paddock insiders recently claimed he now views F1 as a mere “day job” to fund his real passion for GT3 endurance racing.

Furthermore, Toto Wolff is currently holding all the cards. With 19-year-old rookie Kimi Antonelliroutinely dismantling George Russell on the track, Mercedes has maximum flexibility to reorganize their driver lineup if a multi-time World Champion suddenly becomes available over the summer break.

Red Bull can push the PR narrative that there is no “game plan” behind these meetings, but the reality is much bleaker. Mekies is attempting to use corporate spin to cover up a glaring vulnerability. Until those summer exit clauses officially expire, Red Bull has every reason to be sweating.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — The 2026 NCAA Women's Golf Championship is underway.

The best teams in women's college golf are at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa's North Course for the third straight year battling it out for a national title. Northwestern is the defending national champion, but Stanford is the No. 1 team in the field this week. Play started Friday morning, kicking off four rounds of stroke play.

Follow along below for live updates from the opening round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championship:

NCAA Women's Golf Championship live leaderboard

Follow along here for live scores from the 2026 NCAA Women's Golf Championship.

NCAA Women's Golf Championship first-round tee times

1st tee

• 6:52 AM — Meijin Song (The Ohio State), Charlotte Brook (Baylor), Erina Tan (Eastern Michigan)
• 7:03 AM — Nellie Ong (The Ohio State), Silje Ohma (Baylor), Jasmine Leovao (Eastern Michigan)
• 7:14 AM — Marina Joyce Moreno (The Ohio State), Malena Castro (Baylor), Savannah de Bock (Eastern Michigan)
• 7:25 AM — Sophie Eppelstun (The Ohio State), Yurang Li (Baylor), Baiyok Sukterm (Eastern Michigan)
• 7:36 AM — Matilde Santilli (The Ohio State), Bridget Boczar (Baylor), Janae Leovao (Eastern Michigan)
• 7:47 AM — Cathryn Brown (Kentucky), Ryleigh Knaub (Louisiana State), Remi Bacardi (Virginia)
• 7:58 AM — Raleygh Simpson (Kentucky), Josefin Widal (Louisiana State), Kennedy Swedick (Virginia)
• 8:09 AM — Samantha Paradise (Kentucky), Taylor Riley (Louisiana State), Mira Berglund (Virginia)
• 8:20 AM — Karlie Campbell (Kentucky), Elsa Svensson (Louisiana State), Elsie MacCleery (Virginia)
• 8:31 AM — CA Carter (Kentucky), Francesca Fiorellini (Louisiana State), Jaclyn LaHa (Virginia)
• 8:42 AM — Johanna Sjursen (Louisiana Monroe), Sheridan Clancy (Indiana), Kirstin Angosta (Texas Christian)
• 12:12 PM — Natalie Yen (Texas A&M), Angela Heo (Texas), Carys Worby (Auburn)
• 12:23 PM — Brynn Kort (Texas A&M), Selina Liao (Texas), Charlotte Cantonis (Auburn)
• 12:34 PM — Sky Sudberry (Texas A&M), Cindy Hsu (Texas), Katie Cranston (Auburn)
• 12:45 PM — Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio (Texas A&M), Lauren Kim (Texas), Molly Brown Davidson (Auburn)
• 12:56 PM — Vanessa Borovilos (Texas A&M), Farah O'Keefe (Texas), Anna Davis (Auburn)
• 1:07 PM — Yingzhi Zhu (Pepperdine), Helen Yeung (North Carolina), Grace Jin (SMU)
• 1:18 PM — Grace Anderson (Pepperdine), Thanchanok Iadpluem (North Carolina), Kirra St. Laurent (SMU)
• 1:29 PM — Kylee Choi (Pepperdine), Reagan Southerland (North Carolina), Celine Chen (SMU)
• 1:40 PM — Eunseo Choi (Pepperdine), Megan Streicher (North Carolina), Emily Odwin (SMU)
• 1:51 PM — Jeneath Wong (Pepperdine), Marie Prats-Rigual (North Carolina), Mackenzie Lee (SMU)
• 2:02 PM — Thanana Kotchasanmanee (Princeton), Emma Bunch (New Mexico State), Isabella McCauley (Minnesota)

10th tee

• 6:30 AM — Summer Lee (Oklahoma State), Elin Pudas Remler (Florida State), Isla McDonald O'Brien (Arizona State)
• 6:41 AM — Ellie Bushnell (Oklahoma State), Layla Pedrique (Florida State), Beth Coulter (Arizona State)
• 6:52 AM — Tarapath Panya (Oklahoma State), Alexandra Gazzoli (Florida State), Pimpisa Rubrong (Arizona State)
• 7:03 AM — Yu-Chu Chen (Oklahoma State), Haruhi Nakatani (Florida State), Paula Schulz-Hanssen (Arizona State)
• 7:14 AM — Marta Silchenko (Oklahoma State), Sophia Fullbrook (Florida State), Patience Rhodes (Arizona State)
• 7:25 AM — Emilia Väistö (Houston), Hsin Tai Lin (Northwestern), Fleur Van Beek (Missouri)
• 7:36 AM — Alexa Saldana (Houston), Lauren E. Lee (Northwestern), Addie Dobson (Missouri)
• 7:47 AM — Natalie Saint Germain (Houston), Megan Meng (Northwestern), Jade Zamora (Missouri)
• 7:58 AM — Maelynn Kim (Houston), Dianna Lee (Northwestern), Melanie Walker (Missouri)
• 8:09 AM — Moa Svedenskiold (Houston), Ashley Yun (Northwestern), Ebba Liljeberg (Missouri)
• 8:20 AM — Grace Vetter (Michigan State), Kelly Hope (Oregon State), Klara Hurtova (Texas Tech)
• 8:31 AM — Ana Sofia Murcia (Michigan State), Kyra Ly (Oregon State), Cameron Freund (Texas Tech)
• 8:42 AM — Sarisa Pojanalai (Michigan State), Rebecca Kim (Oregon State), Denisa Vodickova (Texas Tech)
• 8:53 AM — Lucia Valderrama (Michigan State), Kate Nakaoka (Oregon State), Maja Ambroziak (Texas Tech)
• 9:04 AM — Taylor Kehoe (Michigan State), Raya Nakao (Oregon State), Lauren Zaretsky (Texas Tech)
• 11:50 AM — Megha Ganne (Stanford), Kylie Chong (USC), Elaine Widjaja (Florida)
• 12:01 PM — Kelly Xu (Stanford), Bailey Shoemaker (USC), Katelyn Huber (Florida)
• 12:12 PM — Meja Örtengren (Stanford), Jasmine Koo (USC), Siuue Wu (Florida)
• 12:23 PM — Paula Martín Sampedro (Stanford), Elise Lee (USC), Megan Propeck (Florida)
• 12:34 PM — Andrea Revuelta (Stanford), Catherine Park (USC), Paula Francisco (Florida)
• 12:45 PM — Swetha Sathish (Arkansas), Chloe Kovelesky (Wake Forest), Anna Cañado Espinal (Duke)
• 12:56 PM — Abbey Schutte (Arkansas), Chutimon Rujiranan (Wake Forest), Avery McCrery (Duke)
• 1:07 PM — Sara Brentcheneff (Arkansas), Anne-Sterre Den Dunnen (Wake Forest), Andie Smith (Duke)
• 1:18 PM — Reagan Zibilski (Arkansas), Macy Pate (Wake Forest), Katie Li (Duke)
• 1:29 PM — Maria Jose Marin (Arkansas), Morgan Ketchum (Wake Forest), Rianne Malixi (Duke)
• 1:40 PM — Isabella Yan (Iowa State), Sofie Engesaeth (Tennessee), Filippa Sundquist (Ole Miss)
• 1:51 PM — Pimkwan Chookaew (Iowa State), Sophie Christopher (Tennessee), Matilda Björkman (Ole Miss)
• 2:02 PM — Alexandra Vidal Rivera (Iowa State), Manassanan Chotikabhukk (Tennessee), Sophie Linder (Ole Miss)
• 2:13 PM — Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn (Iowa State), Madison Messimer (Tennessee), Mary Miller (Ole Miss)
• 2:24 PM — Nichakorn Pinprayoon (Iowa State), Kyra Van Kan (Tennessee), Kajsalotta Svarvar (Ole Miss)

NCAA Women's Golf Championship TV information

Golf Channel is the TV home for the NCAA Championships. All times ET.

• Monday, May 25
  • 5:30-9:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 26
  • 1-3:30 p.m.
  • 6-10 p.m.
• Wednesday, May 27
  • 6-10 p.m.

NCAA Women's Golf Championship format

Finals play for both championships consist of three days of stroke play on Friday thru Sunday (54 holes), after which the top-15 teams and nine individuals not on an advancing team will be determined. That is followed by a final day of 18 holes of stroke play (Monday) to determine the top eight teams that will advance to match play as well as the 72-hole individual champion. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format that will consist of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday, followed by the finals on Wednesday.

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This article originally appeared on Golfweek: NCAA Women's Golf live updates: Scores, results for 2026 first round

Jordan Spieth is still a box-office draw on the PGA Tour, despite his recent struggles on the golf course.

Incredibly, Spieth is without a win on the PGA Tour since April 2022, and he’s working incredibly hard to change that.

The three-time major champion grinded throughout the off-season in a bid to rediscover his very best form.

However, Jordan Spieth simply hasn’t had the results he would have liked on the PGA Tour so far this season.

He is still without a top-10 finish to his name in 13 events in 2026, although he has only missed one cut.

Spieth let yet another attempt to complete the career Grand Slam slip by at the PGA Championship last week.

And his poor putting was a key reason why he failed to contend.

The issue that is stopping Jordan Spieth from winning on the PGA Tour

Spieth has missed his fair share of short putts so far this season and he quite simply hasn’t holed enough mid-range ones either.

The reason for Spieth’s woes on the greens this year is a very simple technical issue that can easily be fixed.

Because the American has a left below right putting grip, his shoulders have always been fairly parallel to the ground, which is fine.

However, this season his lead shoulder seems to be getting lower than his trail shoulder with every tournament that passes.

This causes a big issue for him whereby he’s almost striking the ball down into the surface, rather than getting it rolling quickly off the putter face.

Rich Beem noticed this problem with Spieth back in April at the Valero Texas Open, and it seems to be getting worse with every week that passes.

The really worrying thing is that Spieth hasn’t realized this himself.

Sure, he will have coaches who run their eyes over this putting stroke, and the fact that they haven’t picked up on this issue is a concern in itself.

However, given Spieth’s experience and knowledge of the game in general, he really should have noticed the quirk mentioned above that has developed in his stroke over the past few months.

Jordan Spieth’s putting is simply not consistent enough

In fairness to Spieth, he has improved on the greens this season.

From the 2025 season going backwards, Spieth has ranked 65th, 101st, 79th, 155th, 33rd, and 105th in strokes gained putting.

In 2026, he is ranked 42nd in strokes gained putting.

However, the problem for the 32-year-old from Dallas is that he isn’t putting to that standard every single week.

Some weeks he putts well but his driver or his irons let him down. Other weeks, his putting is quite simply horrendous.

If Jordan Spieth manages to find a way to putt better more consistently, he will undoubtedly return to the PGA Tour winners’ circle very soon.

In order to do that though, his putting technique needs to improve.

“Neftçi”nin U-19 komandasının baş məşqçisi Asif Ramazanov müsahibə verib.

Futbolpress.az müsahibəni təqdim edir:

– Öncə başlayaq mövsümün əvvəlindən…
– Rəhbərliyin qarşımıza qoyduğu məqsədlər var idi. 19 yaşlılarda plan üzrə, əsas da futbolçuların inkişafı ilə bağlı bir-iki yaş cavanlaşdırma etdilər. Tələblər qoyuldu ki, daha çox iki çempion komanda ilə, hansı ki, 2009 təvəllüdlü futbolçular U-16 liqasında, 2008-cilər U-18 liqasında çempion olmuşdular. İki kollektivin vəhdətindən komanda yaratmaq və U-19 liqada daha yüksək yerlər uğrunda oynamaq, gələcəkdə daha çox A və B komandaya oyunçu yetişdirmək və növbəti mövsüm üçün isə çempionluq üçün təməlli bir kollektiv formalaşdırmaq məqsədi qoyulmuşdur. Mövsümə bu yöndə başladıq.

– “Neftçi”yə U-19 liqasının ən gənc komandası demək olar. Hazırda kollektivdə çıxış edən futbolçulardan neçə faizi gələcəkdə karyerasını peşəkar səviyyədə davam etdirə bilər?
– Bizdə həm 2009, həm də 2008 yaş qrupunda kifayət qədər milliyə layiq oyunçu var. Hər yaş qrupunda say nisbətinə görə komandanın yarıdan çoxu perspektivlidir. Təbii ki, A komandaya tələblər başqadır, orda bəzi keyfiyyətlər olmalıdır, həm fitnes, həm də sosial baxımdan. Bu iki-üç il ərzində A komandamıza onların arasından 4-5 futbolçu verə bilsək, bizim üçün böyük uğur ola bilər. Belə deyək də, iki komandanın birləşməsindən 20-25 istedadlı futbolçu var. Ümid edirik ki, onların içindən A komanda düşə biləcək futbolçular olacaq.

– A komandanın məşqçilər korpusundan sizin komandanızın uşaqları ilə yaxından maraqlandığı kimsə var? Yəni növbəti mövsümdən kimisə əsas komandada görə bilərik?
– Mövsümün əvvəlində bir müddət baş məşqçi dəyişikliyi yaşandı. Həmin dönəmdə Sənan Qurbanov müvəqqəti olaraq komandaya rəhbərlik etdi. Ondan sonra bu tendensiya davam etdi və uşaqlar iki-iki, üç-üç A komandanın məşqlərinə cəlb olundular. Onlar həmin ab-havanı, əsas komandanın şəraitini, orda gedən məşq prosesini, peşəkar futbolçuların işə yanaşmasını yaxından gördülər. Demək olar ki, 12-14 nəfəri iki-iki məşqlərə göndərdik. Yuri Vernidub gələndən sonra da tendensiya davam etməyə başladı. Biz də bacardığımız qədər uşaqları ora göndərirdik. Əlavə olaraq da ev oyunlarımız, əsas meydançamız bazaya çox yaxındır… Köməkçi məşqçilər, baş məşqçi, idman direktorumuz, komandanın meneceri, klub prezidenti və akademiyanın direktorları – hamısı komandanı müşahidə altında saxlayır, izləyir, oyunlara gəlib baxırlar. Bu da uşaqlar üçün əlavə bir motivasiyadır. Yəni indidən deyə bilmərəm ki, mövsümün sonunda kimlər A komandaya yüksələcək, kimlər isə əvəzedici heyətə yollanacaq. Nə qədər çox getsələr bizim üçün bir o qədər yaxşıdı. Bizim əsas işimiz böyük komandalara futbolçu qazandırmaqdır. Əsas məqsəd isə kollektivi qorumaq, dediyim kimi, gələn il çempionluq uğrunda mübarizə aparmaqdır. Bu il də şansımız var idi, axıra qədər mübarizə apardıq, hələ heç nə dəqiqləşməyib, qarşıda son tur var. Çalışacağıq ki, bu oyunu da qələbə ilə başa vuraq.

– Çempionluq şansınız hələ də qalıb. Komandanın belə nəticə göstərəcəyinə inanırdınız?
– Mövsüm başlamazdan əvvəl yoldaşlıq oyunları keçirdik. Qarşılaşmaların 90 faizini də I və II Liqa klubları ilə üz-üzə gəldik. Bunu özümüz istəmişdik. Çünki rəqib komandada yaşlı, təcrübəli və vaxtilə millidə çıxış etmiş futbolçular da var idi. Həmin komandalarla başabaş mübarizələr apardıq, hətta qalib gəldiyimiz oyunlar da olub. Əvəzedicilər Liqasının komandaları ilə də qarşılaşmışdıq. Yaxşı siqnallar var idi ki, bu uşaqlar çempionatda uğurlu nəticə əldə edə bilər. İki dövrəli çempionatda rotasiyalı oyunlar da keçirdik, həm qalib gəldiyimiz, həm də uduzduğumuz matçlar oldu. Amma ümumi mənzərə gələcəyə ümid verirdi. “Altılıq”da da bunu nümunə göstərə bilərik. 10 oyunun 6-da qazanmışıq, 1-də heç-heçə etmişik. Hətta qol buraxmadan qalib gəldiyimiz matçlar da olub. Əsas rəqiblərimiz olan “Sabah” və “Qarabağ”a qarşı da başabaş mübarizə aparmışıq. Qarşıda son matç da var. Unutmayaq ki, rəqiblərin heyətində beş nəfər 2007-ci il təvəllüdlü futbolçu meydana çıxır, daha beşi isə ehtiyatda olur. Legionerləri də var – “Sabah”, “Qəbələ” və  “Qarabağ”da çıxış edirlər. Bizdə isə legionerlərin sayı cəmi bir nəfərdir. O da son 3 ayda bizə qoşulan Fredi idi və çox da köməyi dəydi. Amma öz uşaqlarımız: 2009-cu il təvəllüdlü 9, 2008-ci il təvəllüdlü isə 12-14 nəfər birlikdə yaxşı iş görə bildik. Uşaqlar da sağ olsunlar. Rəhbərliyin də dəstəyini xüsusi qeyd etmək lazımdır.

– Artıq çempionat başa çatır və bir tur qalıb. Növbəti mövsüm üçün hədəfləriniz nədir?
– Mövsüm bitdikdən sonra rəhbərliklə iclasımız olacaq. Mösüm ərzində gördüyümüz işlərin yazılı və şiafahi hesabatın verəcəyik. Məşqçi təyinatları rəhbərlik tərəfindən müəyyənləşdirilir, bölgülər aparılır. Ondan sonra bilirik ki, hansı yaş qrupunda işləyəcəyik. Düzdür, biz məşqçilər öz aramızda gələn mövsüm üçün artıq planlaşdırma aparırıq. Amma rəhbərliyin bölgüsündən və məsləhətindən sonra birlikdə qərar veririk ki, gələn mövsüm hansı məqsədlər, hansı nailiyyətlər uğrunda mübarizə aparacağıq. “Neftçi”də hər zaman qarşıya yüksək məqsədlər qoyulur. Xüsusən də, U-17 və U-19 yaşlı komandalar üçün. Rəhbərlik tərəfindən bizə etimad göstərilsə, yeni mövsüm də komandamızı qoruya bilsək, əlavələr də edə bilsək, çempionluq üçün mübarizə aparacağıq. (newsport.az)

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF) has announced a credit guarantee of AED 1.5 million for 01Gov, an Emirati GovTech startup. The guarantee will accelerate the growth of 01Gov’s proprietary AI-powered platform, reinforcing the UAE’s agenda to lead the world in government development and excellence.

Fatima Yousif Alnaqbi, Acting Assistant Undersecretary for the Support Services Sector at the UAE Ministry of Finance and the Ministry’s representative at MBRIF, said: “The Fund plays a pivotal role in advancing the national innovation strategy, reflecting the UAE’s vision to build a knowledge-based economy with strong global competitiveness. We are committed to empowering high-potential innovators and providing the necessary foundations for their growth and expansion, in a way that ensures sustainable developmental impact. Our support for (01Gov) reflects our firm commitment to fostering innovation, accelerating digital transformation, and strengthening national capabilities that can shape the future of vital sectors.”

The 01Gov Platform is a comprehensive cloud-based solution, available online and as a mobile app, designed to address challenges faced by government entities. It empowers public sector professionals by providing tools to track emerging global trends, conduct rapid benchmarking studies, and access international best practices, and helps government employees generate innovative ideas, run idea labs, and engage in continuous self-learning.

The new backing positions 01Gov to scale its operations and meet the growing demand for its intelligent, purpose-built solutions. The guarantee will fund the advancement of ‘One’, 01Gov’s agentic AI system, and deepen the capabilities of the 01Gov Platform for its existing government clients.

Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri, Partner, Artificial Intelligence and Future Foresight at 01Gov, said: “We are deeply honoured by the trust placed in us by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund and the UAE Ministry of Finance. This support aligns with our strategic direction to contribute to the UAE’s efforts to enhance government efficiency and strengthen foresight capabilities. The UAE has set a clear and ambitious agenda to lead globally in AI-powered government, and as an Emirati company, we take great pride in contributing to the achievement of this national ambition. We also extend our sincere thanks to our clients in the government sector and to everyone who has been part of this journey with us.”

MBRIF’s Guarantee Scheme plays a pivotal role in driving the country’s innovation ecosystem by providing affordable debt financing to groundbreaking companies, reflecting its dedication to helping drive the growth of disruptive enterprises that contribute to the country’s economic diversification and sustainable development.

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FIFA prezidenti Canni İnfantino Azərbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyasının (AFFA) prezidenti Rövşən Nəcəfə məktub ünvanlayıb.

Arena.az xəbər verir ki, dünyanın ali futbol qurumunun rəhbəri məktubla “Sabah” klubunu Azərbaycan Premyer Liqasının 2025/2026-cı illər mövsümünün qalibi olması münasibətilə təbrik edib.

FIFA prezidentinin göndərdiyi məktubun məzmununu diqqətinizə çatdırırıq:

“Hörmətli prezident, Bu məktub vasitəsilə Azərbaycanın yeni çempionu “Sabah”ı təbrik etməkdən məmnunam! Onların mövsümboyu davamlı səyləri və nəticələri öz bəhrəsini verib, bu mühüm titul qazanılıb. Bu böyük nailiyyətə görə komandanı və klubun hər bir üzvünü təbrik edirəm.

Hörmətli prezident, ölkənizdə futbolun inkişafı üçün göstərdiyiniz davamlı dəstəyə, əməyə və fədakarlığa görə sizə və assosiasiyanıza təşəkkür etməklə yanaşı, sizi tezliklə yenidən görməyi səbirsizliklə gözləyirəm”.

Intuit is cutting 3,000 jobs, or roughly 17% of its global workforce, as the TurboTax maker restructures around artificial intelligence and trims layers inside the company. The layoffs were disclosed in an internal memo sent Wednesday by CEO Sasan Goodarzi […]

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The Kia Stonic is back to #1 YTD in Cyprus.

According to our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the Cypriot market is up 8.1% year-on-year in April to 1,185 units. The YTD tally is now down -13.5% to 4,799. This month Kia (+78.9%) easily reclaims the brands top spot after a freak #1 spot by Nissan last month. Hyundai (+42.5%) also shines to 2nd place ahead of Volkswagen (-18.9%). Newcomer BYD is up to #4 with 7% share which are both new records. Toyota (-46.9%) closes out the Top 5 in party form. #1 last month, Nissan (stable) falls to #7.

Model-wise, the Hyundai Tucson (+77.2%) shoots up to #1 with 8.5% share ahead of the Kia Stonic (+196.6%) which climbs three spots YTD to reclaim the pole position it held over the Full Year 2025. In fact Kia places no less than five models inside the Top 6 with the Xceed (+1200%) at #3, the EV3 (+163.2%) at #4, the Sportage (-4.7%) at #5 and the Picanto (estimated at +11.1%) at #6. The BYD Atto 3 and Dolphin Surf are both inside the Top 10.

Previous month: Cyprus March 2026: Nissan Juke and Qashqai dominate in market off -24.2%

One year ago: Cyprus April 2025: Renault Arkana up to #2 in market down -31.8%

Full April 2026 Top 33 All brands and Top 20 models below.

Cyprus April 2026 – brands:

Cyprus April 2026 – models:

Note: This ranking features the Top 30 models YTD ordered based on their April sales and may therefore not be 100% accurate.

Source: SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT

The BMW X1 is the most popular vehicle with German private buyers in April.

88,204 new cars four a private buyer in Germany in April, a 8.2% year-on-year improvement. The Private Sales Ratio (PSR) stands at 35.4% vs. 33.6% a year ago in April 2025. The year-to-date tally is up 3% to 316,821 and 33.4% PSR vs. 33.9% a year ago.

For the second month in a row we can share with you exclusive private sales brands data. Volkswagen (-5.9%) holds 12.5% of the market vs. 18.5% in overall sales due to a weak 24% PSR. It is the only brand in negative in the Top 6. Mercedes (+0.8%) overtakes Skoda to #2 with 36.5% PSR vs. 37.7% for the Czech brand. BMW (+14.8%), Hyundai (+32.5%) and Dacia (+15.2%) follow with Hyundai reaching 54.3% PSR and Dacia at 77.6%. Renault (+32.2%, 54.8% PSR), Fiat (-9.5% and 55.9% PSR) and Ford (-4.5% and 41.9% PSR) also command a higher PSR than average in the remainder of the Top 10.

In the models ranking, the BMW X1 (49% PSR) takes the lead whereas it ranked #6 last month. It distances the Fiat Ducato (55.9% PSR) and Skoda Elroq (55.4% PSR). The VW Golf (24% PSR) has to contend with the 4th place as it does YTD, and is followed by the VW T-Roc (31% PSR) and Hyundai Tucson (62.4% PSR). Distant leader last month, the Tesla Model Y (76% PSR) falls to 7th place but stays #1 year-to-date. The Dacia Sandero (80.3% PSR) climbs back into the Top 10 at #8 but only ranks #10 YTD whereas it was #4 over the Full Year 2025.

Previous month: Germany private sales March 2026: Tesla Model Y distant leader

One year ago: Germany private sales April 2025: Fiat Ducato repeats at #1, Skoda Elroq in Top 10

Full April 2026 Top 62 All brands and Top 345 All models below.

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Source: KBA

The VW T-Roc ranks #3 in Slovenia in April.

6,004 new cars hit Slovenian roads in April, a splendid 15.6% year-on-year improvement coming at the back of a 10.6% YoY uptick a year ago. The year-to-date volume is now up 13.3% to 22,505. Volkswagen (+22%) is the uncontested leader with 17.4% share, almost three percentage points above its YTD level of 14.5%. Skoda (-19.8%) sinks on a high year-ago comparison base when it placed three models in the Top 4. Renault (+8.2%) disappoints at #3 whereas Toyota (+74.7%) surges ahead but is stuck at #4 like YTD. Opel (+95.8%), Citroen (+50.7%) and Dacia (+50%) impress below. Further down, the Chinese have wind in their sails with Dongfeng (+1228.6%), Geely (+183.9%) and MG (+94.5%) making themselves noticed.

Model-wise, the Skoda Octavia (-17.9%) is #1 for the second time this year and despite a ghastly YoY fall. It is followed by the Renault Captur (-24.9%) in even worse shape whereas the VW T-Roc (+186.5%), up 40 spots on March, and the Toyota Corolla (+167.3%), up five, both post fantastic scores. The VW Tiguan (+31.2%) also shines and rounds out the Top 5. Great performances also by the Toyota Yaris Cross (+75%), Dacia Duster (+41.3%) and VW Golf (+36%).

Previous month: Slovenia March 2026: First win for the Tesla Model 3

One year ago: Slovenia April 2025: Skoda places three models in Top 4

Full April 2026 Top 51 All brands and Top 274 All models below.

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