Charles Barkley, who finished a career-best 58th last year, remains the biggest long shot to win this week's American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. ... Read full Story
Jake Knapp is loving links golf so much he'd like to extend his stay another week, and he took a step toward that Thursday with a 6-under 64 that put him in a four-way share of the lead after the opening round of the Scottish Open. ... Read full Story
Leona Maguire made a hole-in-one at the 2nd hole at the Evian Championship on her way to a first round 6-under 65 on Thursday and a share of the lead. ... Read full Story
Charley Hull, a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, withdrew from the Evian Championship in France on Thursday after collapsing on the tee box of the 4th hole due to illness. ... Read full Story
Harris English is eyeing a "new Plan B" as his caddie, Eric Larson, has yet to be granted a new ETA visa for travel to the U.K. because of his past drug conviction. ... Read full Story
Aldrich Potgieter and Brian Campbell won PGA Tour events the last two weeks, and it wound up getting them into The Open next week at Royal Portrush. ... Read full Story
Ed Fiori, 72, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour who for 13 years was the only player to rally from a 54-hole deficit to beat Tiger Woods on the tour, died Sunday, the tour said on its website. ... Read full Story
Brian Campbell won for the second time this year on the PGA Tour, both in a playoff, after beating Emiliano Grillo on the first extra hole at the John Deere Classic. ... Read full Story
English golfer Lottie Woad, 21, became the first amateur in three years to win a Ladies European Tour title after a six-shot victory at the Women's Irish Open on Sunday, after entering the final round with a seven-stroke advantage in Maynooth, Ireland. ... Read full Story
English golfer Daniel Brown captured his second European tour title by winning the BMW International Open by two strokes on Sunday. ... Read full Story
“A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently required to be dumped at sites specifically designated and approved for hazardous waste.” — Tony Briscoe, The Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Did you know?
Rescind and the lesser-known words exscind and prescind all come from the Latin verb scindere, which means “to split, cleave, separate.” Rescind was adapted from its Latin predecessor rescindere in the 16th century, and prescind (from praescindere) and exscind (from exscindere) followed in the next century. Exscind means “to cut off” or “to excise,” and prescind means “to withdraw one’s attention,” but of the three borrowings, only rescind established itself as a common English term. Today, rescind is most often heard in contexts having to do with the withdrawal of an offer, award, or privilege, or with invalidation of a law or policy.