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RYDER CUP '23: The reachable par-4 16th is the highlight on a course designed for drama
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Rory McIlroy’s chances of winning the Italian Open a year ago at the Marco Simone course that will host this week’s Ryder Cup vanished when his tee shot on the reachable par-4 16th splashed into the pond right of the green. That came two days...
Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98
ROME (AP) — Giorgio Napolitano, the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency and the first person to be elected twice to the mostly ceremonial post, died on Friday, the presidential palace said. He was 98. A statement issued Friday night by the presidential palace...
RYDER CUP '23: Justin Thomas, the American that gets the Europeans' attention
Justin Thomas had the weakest credentials and the strongest case for being part of this American team in the Ryder Cup, without even having to make an argument. U.S. captain Zach Johnson needed only a few words to say so much about Thomas and the Ryder Cup when he used one of his six...
RYDER CUP ’23: A rarity in the golf world. A woman is the course superintendent
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — When Lara Arias started her job as course superintendent at the Marco Simone golf club outside Rome that will host the Ryder Cup next week, there was hardly any grass to manicure, no bunkers to rake and nary a green to shape. That’s because the...
Ancient 'power' palazzo on Rome's Palatine Hill reopens to tourists, decades after closure
ROME (AP) — An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city's Palatine Hill was reopened to tourists on Thursday, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city’s Imperial period. The sprawling...
US looks to end losing streak against Europe at Solheim Cup in Spain
CASARES, Spain (AP) — The United States wants to avoid making the wrong kind of history against Europe at the Solheim Cup this weekend in Spain. The Americans have never lost three straight editions of the top team event in women's golf. The biennial competition is the equivalent...
Jordan Spieth announces birth of second child. He's now a girl dad
DALLAS (AP) — Jordan Spieth missed out on the Ryder Cup scouting trip to Marco Simone outside Rome, and for good reason. His wife gave birth to their second child. Spieth posted on social media that his wife gave birth to a girl named Sophie. She was born on Sept. 12, right after...
Women who say they were abused by a onetime Jesuit artist denounce an apparent rehabilitation effort
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist said Tuesday they had been revictimized by his superiors, saying Pope Francis’ recent gestures and an apparent effort to exonerate him publicly showed church pledges of “zero tolerance” were just a...
Phil Mickelson says he's done gambling and is on the road to being 'the person I want to be'
Phil Mickelson won't be betting on football this year — much less the Ryder Cup — saying in a lengthy social media post Monday that he previously crossed the line from moderation into addiction and “it wasn't any fun.” “The money wasn't ever the issue since our financial...
Report on racism against Roma and Sinti in Germany shows widespread discrimination
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leading Roma and Sinti group recorded hundreds of incidents of discrimination and racism against the minority community in the past year, a report said Monday, warning that increasing nationalism and right-wing extremism are contributing to violence against Germany's...
