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PGA’s Jay Monahan: ‘Challenging moments,’ but optimistic about future
Read full article: PGA’s Jay Monahan: ‘Challenging moments,’ but optimistic about futurePONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Jay Monahan remembers it all too well. The PGA Tour commissioner made the call to cancel the final three rounds of The Players Championship and that made things painfully real. The return to TPC Sawgrass for The Players this week is a step, a small one, in a staggered return to normalcy. For Monahan, the Tour staff, the 154 golfers and small army of Players volunteers, it’s a very welcome return to the area. Ad“I think this is an important week for us every single year but particularly so this year,” Monahan said on Tuesday.
The Beach Boys are coming to St. Augustine
Read full article: The Beach Boys are coming to St. AugustineOn Sunday, April 15, the St. Augustine Amphitheatre will proudly present pop music legends The Beach Boys live in concert. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Good vibrations are coming to the Saint Augustine Amphitheatre! The Beach Boys will return to the The Amp for their ’2021 Feel Flows Tour’ on Friday, May 14 for a limited-capacity concert with distanced seating. The Beach Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide and have received more than 33 RIAA Platinum and Gold record awards. With more than five decades of touring under their belts, The Beach Boys have performed more concerts than any major rock band in history.
Virus again slashes French Open crowd sizes; now only 1,000
Read full article: Virus again slashes French Open crowd sizes; now only 1,000Damir Dzumhur's coach called Roland Garros organizers "inhuman on Tuesday, Sept. 22 for excluding the Bosnian player from the tournament, because the coach failed a coronavirus test. Whereas the three-week Tour reached Paris last Sunday having pulled off the coup of getting through the country's worsening epidemic without any virus positives among its 176 riders, the French Open isn't proving so lucky with its timing. Nobody likes to play with these conditions, no?” 12-time French Open champion Nadal said Friday about having so few spectators. Forget congratulated him for the cycling roadshow that drew smaller but still sizable and enthusiastic crowds, and looked forward to welcoming 5,000 spectators per day at Roland Garros. Vehicles that are disinfected after each trip ferry players to Roland Garros.