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Toronto Sun
14-07-2025
- Toronto Sun
4-year-old dead after drowning in rural Ontario pond, police say
Published Jul 14, 2025 • 1 minute read An OPP shoulder badge. Photo by Derek Baldwin / Postmedia Network Police say a four-year-old child is dead after drowning in a pond in Proton Station, Ont. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Ontario Provincial Police say officers were called to a farm in Southgate Township, northwest of Toronto, just after 7 p.m. on Sunday. They had received a report that a child went missing while swimming with family members. Read More They say police dogs, fire and emergency services searched the property and a pond at the scene. Emergency crews found the body of the missing child on Monday morning. Police did not immediately release further details on the incident or the identity of the child. RECOMMENDED VIDEO World Golf NFL Editorial Cartoons Uncategorized
01-07-2025
- Sport
LPGA giving diversity a new meaning with record 17 different winners to start season
The lingering question for the last three months on the LPGA Tour was when Nelly Korda finally would win this year. Now the question should be who's going to win next? The latest entrants into the 2025 winner's ledgers were Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im at the Dow Championship, the only official team event on the LPGA schedule. That made it 17 straight tournaments with different winners. The LPGA has not seen this level of parity — or maybe it's lack of dominance — in its 75-year history. The previous record to start a season was 15 different winners in 2017 and 1991. Perhaps even more telling was this amazing streak of different winners was assured long before the South Korean duo birdied the first playoff hole to beat out Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang. That's because no one from the top 16 teams on the leaderboard at the Dow Championship had won this year. And to think it was a year ago when Korda ran off five straight victories to tie an LPGA record and ended the season with seven wins and as the dominant figure in women's golf. It would be asking a lot for her to repeat that (Scottie Scheffler is nodding his head), though it's still somewhat surprising that Korda hasn't registered a win halfway through the season. 'It's golf,' Korda said going into the KPMG Women's PGA Championship two weeks ago, where she was on the fringe of contention until the wind blew her into reverse. "Every year is just so different. Last year coming into this event, I had five wins. I think even Hannah Green had multiple wins under her belt, too. 'It's just ... it's just golf,' she said. 'You kind of just have to ride the wave, and the competition is getting better and better every year. To win once, to win twice, it's really good.' The competition certainly is more diverse. The top 10 players in the women's world ranking represent eight countries. The 17 tournaments this year have been won by players from eight countries — including South Korea with four wins, and three each for the United States, Sweden and the potentially emerging power of Japan. But the parity is best illustrated by comparisons to the other streaks of different winners. There have been five first-time winners on the LPGA (six including both Lee and Im from the Dow Championship), and only three winners came into this year with at least five career victories on the LPGA. When the 2017 season began with 15 different winners, all of them previously had won on the LPGA and eight of them already had at least five wins. In 1991, which also featured 15 different winners to start the year, there were two first-time winners — one of them was World Golf Hall of Fame member Meg Mallon — and nine of those players already had five-plus LPGA wins. 'I think winning out here is getting tougher and tougher,' Carlota Ciganda said after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic, her first LPGA title in more than eight years. 'Lots of really good players, especially lots of youngster. Also good Japanese and Korean and Asians, and even Americans. Like, I think it's not easy." It's either parity or it's simply cyclical, and these things have a way of working themselves out. The 2017 season ended with nine multiple winners, none with more than two victories. South Korean rookie Sung-hyun Park and So Yeon Ryu shared the points-based LPGA player of the year, the first time for a tie since the award began in 1966. Four players left the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship with a trophy of some variety. That was some serious parity. In 1991, Mallon went on to win two majors and tied with Pat Bradley with four wins apiece. Bradley swept all the big awards by leading the money list and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and winning LPGA player of the year. There still are 15 tournaments on the LPGA schedule this year. Two of them are majors, starting next week with the Evian Championship in France. Lee was asked what she would take away from her first LPGA win and replied, 'Just same feel and same thing. Should be this win and forget and then again try to win.' The previous 16 winners surely were thinking along those lines. Instead, the LPGA has witnessed a record with 17 straight tournaments and now multiple winners to start a season. Stranger still is a glance at the races for LPGA player of the year. Mao Saigo, who won the first major at the Chevron Championship and tied for fourth in the U.S. Women's Open, has a five-point lead over Women's PGA champion Minjee Lee, who is three points clear of Jeeno Thitikul. Korda is at No. 11 and could move to No. 1 in the points race if she wins either the Evian Championship or the Women's British Open three weeks later. There's a lot of time left for the season to get some definition, and for Korda to reassert herself as the dominant player in women's golf. That's what Scheffler has done on the men's tour, running off three wins in four tournaments, including a major. For now, a victory by Korda or Green or Ruoning Yin at No. 4 in the world would only add to a level of diversity the LPGA has never seen.
Fox Sports
01-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
LPGA giving diversity a new meaning with a record 17 different winners to start the season
Associated Press The lingering question for the last three months on the LPGA Tour was when Nelly Korda finally would win this year. Now the question should be who's going to win next? The latest entrants into the 2025 winner's ledgers were Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im at the Dow Championship, the only official team event on the LPGA schedule. That made it 17 straight tournaments with different winners. The LPGA has not seen this level of parity — or maybe it's lack of dominance — in its 75-year history. The previous record to start a season was 15 different winners in 2017 and 1991. Perhaps even more telling was this amazing streak of different winners was assured long before the South Korean duo birdied the first playoff hole to beat out Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang. That's because no one from the top 16 teams on the leaderboard at the Dow Championship had won this year. And to think it was a year ago when Korda ran off five straight victories to tie an LPGA record and ended the season with seven wins and as the dominant figure in women's golf. It would be asking a lot for her to repeat that (Scottie Scheffler is nodding his head), though it's still somewhat surprising that Korda hasn't registered a win halfway through the season. 'It's golf,' Korda said going into the KPMG Women's PGA Championship two weeks ago, where she was on the fringe of contention until the wind blew her into reverse. "Every year is just so different. Last year coming into this event, I had five wins. I think even Hannah Green had multiple wins under her belt, too. 'It's just ... it's just golf,' she said. 'You kind of just have to ride the wave, and the competition is getting better and better every year. To win once, to win twice, it's really good.' The competition certainly is more diverse. The top 10 players in the women's world ranking represent eight countries. The 17 tournaments this year have been won by players from eight countries — including South Korea with four wins, and three each for the United States, Sweden and the potentially emerging power of Japan. But the parity is best illustrated by comparisons to the other streaks of different winners. There have been five first-time winners on the LPGA (six including both Lee and Im from the Dow Championship), and only three winners came into this year with at least five career victories on the LPGA. When the 2017 season began with 15 different winners, all of them previously had won on the LPGA and eight of them already had at least five wins. In 1991, which also featured 15 different winners to start the year, there were two first-time winners — one of them was World Golf Hall of Fame member Meg Mallon — and nine of those players already had five-plus LPGA wins. 'I think winning out here is getting tougher and tougher,' Carlota Ciganda said after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic, her first LPGA title in more than eight years. 'Lots of really good players, especially lots of youngster. Also good Japanese and Korean and Asians, and even Americans. Like, I think it's not easy." It's either parity or it's simply cyclical, and these things have a way of working themselves out. The 2017 season ended with nine multiple winners, none with more than two victories. South Korean rookie Sung-hyun Park and So Yeon Ryu shared the points-based LPGA player of the year, the first time for a tie since the award began in 1966. Four players left the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship with a trophy of some variety. That was some serious parity. In 1991, Mallon went on to win two majors and tied with Pat Bradley with four wins apiece. Bradley swept all the big awards by leading the money list and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and winning LPGA player of the year. There still are 15 tournaments on the LPGA schedule this year. Two of them are majors, starting next week with the Evian Championship in France. Lee was asked what she would take away from her first LPGA win and replied, 'Just same feel and same thing. Should be this win and forget and then again try to win.' The previous 16 winners surely were thinking along those lines. Instead, the LPGA has witnessed a record with 17 straight tournaments and now multiple winners to start a season. Stranger still is a glance at the races for LPGA player of the year. Mao Saigo, who won the first major at the Chevron Championship and tied for fourth in the U.S. Women's Open, has a five-point lead over Women's PGA champion Minjee Lee, who is three points clear of Jeeno Thitikul. Korda is at No. 11 and could move to No. 1 in the points race if she wins either the Evian Championship or the Women's British Open three weeks later. There's a lot of time left for the season to get some definition, and for Korda to reassert herself as the dominant player in women's golf. That's what Scheffler has done on the men's tour, running off three wins in four tournaments, including a major. For now, a victory by Korda or Green or Ruoning Yin at No. 4 in the world would only add to a level of diversity the LPGA has never seen. ___ On The Fringe analyzes the biggest topics in golf during the season. AP golf:
San Francisco Chronicle
01-07-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
LPGA giving diversity a new meaning with a record 17 different winners to start the season
The lingering question for the last three months on the LPGA Tour was when Nelly Korda finally would win this year. Now the question should be who's going to win next? The latest entrants into the 2025 winner's ledgers were Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im at the Dow Championship, the only official team event on the LPGA schedule. That made it 17 straight tournaments with different winners. The LPGA has not seen this level of parity — or maybe it's lack of dominance — in its 75-year history. The previous record to start a season was 15 different winners in 2017 and 1991. Perhaps even more telling was this amazing streak of different winners was assured long before the South Korean duo birdied the first playoff hole to beat out Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang. That's because no one from the top 16 teams on the leaderboard at the Dow Championship had won this year. And to think it was a year ago when Korda ran off five straight victories to tie an LPGA record and ended the season with seven wins and as the dominant figure in women's golf. It would be asking a lot for her to repeat that (Scottie Scheffler is nodding his head), though it's still somewhat surprising that Korda hasn't registered a win halfway through the season. 'It's golf,' Korda said going into the KPMG Women's PGA Championship two weeks ago, where she was on the fringe of contention until the wind blew her into reverse. "Every year is just so different. Last year coming into this event, I had five wins. I think even Hannah Green had multiple wins under her belt, too. 'It's just ... it's just golf,' she said. 'You kind of just have to ride the wave, and the competition is getting better and better every year. To win once, to win twice, it's really good.' The competition certainly is more diverse. The top 10 players in the women's world ranking represent eight countries. The 17 tournaments this year have been won by players from eight countries — including South Korea with four wins, and three each for the United States, Sweden and the potentially emerging power of Japan. But the parity is best illustrated by comparisons to the other streaks of different winners. There have been five first-time winners on the LPGA (six including both Lee and Im from the Dow Championship), and only three winners came into this year with at least five career victories on the LPGA. When the 2017 season began with 15 different winners, all of them previously had won on the LPGA and eight of them already had at least five wins. In 1991, which also featured 15 different winners to start the year, there were two first-time winners — one of them was World Golf Hall of Fame member Meg Mallon — and nine of those players already had five-plus LPGA wins. 'I think winning out here is getting tougher and tougher,' Carlota Ciganda said after winning the Meijer LPGA Classic, her first LPGA title in more than eight years. 'Lots of really good players, especially lots of youngster. Also good Japanese and Korean and Asians, and even Americans. Like, I think it's not easy." It's either parity or it's simply cyclical, and these things have a way of working themselves out. The 2017 season ended with nine multiple winners, none with more than two victories. South Korean rookie Sung-hyun Park and So Yeon Ryu shared the points-based LPGA player of the year, the first time for a tie since the award began in 1966. Four players left the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship with a trophy of some variety. That was some serious parity. In 1991, Mallon went on to win two majors and tied with Pat Bradley with four wins apiece. Bradley swept all the big awards by leading the money list and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and winning LPGA player of the year. There still are 15 tournaments on the LPGA schedule this year. Two of them are majors, starting next week with the Evian Championship in France. Lee was asked what she would take away from her first LPGA win and replied, 'Just same feel and same thing. Should be this win and forget and then again try to win.' The previous 16 winners surely were thinking along those lines. Instead, the LPGA has witnessed a record with 17 straight tournaments and now multiple winners to start a season. Stranger still is a glance at the races for LPGA player of the year. Mao Saigo, who won the first major at the Chevron Championship and tied for fourth in the U.S. Women's Open, has a five-point lead over Women's PGA champion Minjee Lee, who is three points clear of Jeeno Thitikul. Korda is at No. 11 and could move to No. 1 in the points race if she wins either the Evian Championship or the Women's British Open three weeks later. There's a lot of time left for the season to get some definition, and for Korda to reassert herself as the dominant player in women's golf. That's what Scheffler has done on the men's tour, running off three wins in four tournaments, including a major. For now, a victory by Korda or Green or Ruoning Yin at No. 4 in the world would only add to a level of diversity the LPGA has never seen. ___
USA Today
29-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
'We are so proud of the way it looks right now': Ben Crenshaw delighted with retooling of International's Pines Course
Two-time Masters champion and World Golf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw is from Austin, Texas, but Massachusetts has played an important role in his golfing accomplishments. Crenshaw, 73, played in the U.S. Junior Amateur at The Country Club in Brookline when he was 16 years old, and the course's topography ignited his interest in golf course architecture. He couldn't get over how different the course's hills were than the flat courses he grew up playing in Texas. Crenshaw also met noted golf writer Herbert Warren Wind that week, and they became lifelong friends. In 1973, Crenshaw played in his first PGA Tour event at Pleasant Valley CC in Sutton after PV owner Cuzzy Mingolla gave him a sponsor exemption to reward him for earning medalist honors at three consecutive NCAA championships. He tied for 35th in the USI Classic at PV and earned $903. In 1999, he captained the U.S. at The Country Club to the greatest Ryder Cup comeback to that point. In 2004, Crenshaw and Bill Coore designed Old Sandwich Golf Club in Plymouth, ranked the sixth-best private golf course in the state this year by Golfweek's Best. Coore & Crenshaw have designed many golf courses in the U.S., Canada, China, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, and on June 6, their complete retooling of the Pines Course at the International in Bolton opened. Crenshaw and Coore returned to the International on opening weekend to ride around the Pines with officials from Escalante Golf of Fort Worth, Texas, which bought the club in 2021. As avid golf fans remember, when Crenshaw captained the 1999 U.S. Ryder Cup team at The Country Club in Brookline, he refused to give up on his squad after it fell behind, 10-6, entering the final day. No Ryder Cup team had ever overcome such a deficit, but Crenshaw told the media, 'I have a good feeling about this.' The media thought Crenshaw was crazy, but the U.S. rallied to beat Europe, 14½-13½. Crenshaw also had a good feeling about designing and building an entirely new Pines Course at the International in Bolton with Coore. This was the first time that Coore and Crenshaw built a new course on the site of an existing one. 'The character of the ground, vegetation and the sand, it all goes together,' Crenshaw said, 'and it makes you think you can do something special, you hope, and God we are so proud of the way it looks right now. It's matured quite a bit. It looks fun to play.' Escalante Golf purchased the region's only private 36-hole club for $10 million and has invested more than $40 million in upgrades. Construction of a new clubhouse and member cottages is planned. Architect Tripp Davis renovated the Oaks Course prior to it hosting a LIV Golf event in 2022. He primarily improved tees and bunkers on the 2001 Tom Fazio design. Then an overhaul of the Pines began. Geoffrey Cornish designed the Pines as a 8,040-yard course with steeply pitched greens and challenging bunkers. It opened in 1955 on the site of Runaway Brook CC, which opened in 1901 as a nine-hole public course. More: Coore, Crenshaw finish renovation of famously long golf course in Massachusetts In 1972, architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. softened several greens and bunkers on the Pines, but he also lengthened the course to 8,325 yards. The par-5 fifth hole was 715 yards long and had a green that measured nearly 90 yards long. For more than half a century, the Pines Course was known as the world's longest golf course. Coore & Crenshaw shortened the course to 7,103 yards with a par of 71. Coore, 78, said he couldn't think of another course that was designed more than 1,000 yards shorter than the original. When Crenshaw first visited the Pines in 2022, he asked to have the flags removed because he didn't want to know where the greens were when he envisioned the new layout. No corridor or green site remains from the previous version of the course. 'You touch on people's skills,' Crenshaw said. 'You don't want to beat them up. You want to encourage good play, you want to reward them. It's a very trite observation, but anybody can build a really difficult golf course, and that's not what you want. You want to welcome them and have each class of golfers have some thrills.' The Pines is also one of the region's few courses to feature fescue grass on tees, fairways and in the rough. Crenshaw said he's still grateful that Mingolla gave him his first sponsor exemption, and he was surprised that he did. 'It kind of came out of the blue,' he said, 'but I had played some good golf, so I guess I was worthy of a nod.' Crenshaw returned to play in several PGA Tour events at PV, and he finished second in 1976 to Buddy Allin and in 1978 to Lou Graham, both times by one stroke. When in the area to play PV, Crenshaw made the short drive to play Whitinsville Golf Club with Steve Melynk and a couple of other players. They heard it was a Donald Ross course and wanted to go play the nine-hole course that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. 'We were very thankful to Whitinsville for letting us do that,' Crenshaw said. 'It was a wonderful nine-hole golf course. People don't know that about New England. There are wonderful nine-hole golf courses all through New England, and it has nothing to do with the number of holes, it has to do with the character of the holes. But it was wonderful to see.' Crenshaw especially loved the challenging, par-4 ninth hole. 'Oh gosh, a gorgeous hole,' he said. 'You remember holes like that.' Crenshaw knows his golf history. So he knows all about Bobby Jones calling a penalty stroke on himself that cost him the 1925 U.S. Open championship at Worcester CC. He even recited what Jones said after the media praised him for his honesty in calling the penalty stroke: 'You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.' He's also well aware that Worcester CC hosted the first Ryder Cup in 1927. 'I never did make it to Worcester Country Club,' Crenshaw said. 'I should have.' Worcester CC head pro Andy Lane said he'd loved to have Crenshaw play the course. 'First off, we welcome Mr. Crenshaw to come and play Worcester Country Club any time,' Lane said, 'and I think it's exciting. With all these centennials and Ryder Cup celebrations coming up, I think Worcester is kind of the center of attention in golf here in New England. Each day gets a little more exciting as we approach that 100-year anniversary of that first Ryder Cup, and obviously with guys like Ben Crenshaw, who are pioneers in the game of the golf affiliated with Ryder Cups, we can't wait to get him out here to play.' 'I'd love to see it because I know it's a Ross course,' Crenshaw said. Nevertheless, Crenshaw is familiar with golf in Massachusetts. 'It's traditional,' he said. 'It's been a leader forever, historically. People that know golf know that it's quality. It's been that way forever, and I'm extremely proud to be part of it.' Of course, Crenshaw is most proud of captaining the 1999 U.S. Ryder Cup team to victory at TCC. When he saw Justin Leonard sink a 45-foot birdie putt on 17 on the final day to help win the cup, he thought of Francis Ouimet sinking sizable putts on 17 in the final round of regulation and the playoff to help him win the 1913 U.S. Open at TCC. 'That's pretty eerie,' Crenshaw said. 'I've called him (Leonard) Francis ever since.' On April 15, Michael Galvin became the general manager at the International after serving as director of agronomy for five years. He was the superintendent the previous four years at Red Tail GC in Devens after working on the grounds crew at Wedgewood Pines in Stow for two and on Long Island for 15. Galvin replaced Tom Barnard, who retired after one season for health reasons. 'I've always thought about it in my career whether I'd be 55 years old and still being a superintendent,' the 44-year-old Galvin said. 'Being a superintendent is a grind. It's early hours. You're at the mercy of Mother Nature. The opportunity came up, and with where we are right now with Coore and Crenshaw and where we're going and the support of all of Escalante, I felt it was the right decision to make to keep this going in the right direction.' Galvin said the International has 302 members and that he and the club's two membership directors would like to boost that total.
