The winner of this year’s British Open will collect more than £1 million ($1.6m, 1.4m euros) for the first time in the tournament’s history, organisers the R&A announced on Wednesday. The overall prize fund for the game’s oldest major championship has increased £900,000 to £6.3 million, with the champion receiving £1.15 million. “The Open is one of the world’s pre-eminent sporting events,” R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said.
This year’s British Open winner will collect a record 1.15 million pounds in prize money, organizers said on Wednesday. The purse is 175,000 pounds up on last year’s tournament, won by Rory McIlroy, with the overall prize fund rising to 6.3 million pounds, up 900,000 on 2014. Announcing the bumper pot, Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal & Ancient (R&A), said: “The Open is one of the world’s
This year’s British Open winner will collect a record 1.15 million pounds ($1.81 million) in prize money, organisers said on Wednesday. The purse is 175,000 pounds up on last year’s tournament, won by Rory McIlroy, with the overall prize fund rising to 6.3 million pounds, up 900,000 on 2014. Announcing the bumper pot, Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal & Ancient (R&A), said: “The Open is one of
Harvey Pollack, who reinvented the art of collecting NBA statistics from the very first season, died on Tuesday at age 93. The long-time statistics and media relations director with the Philadelphia 76ers and their predecessors the Philadelphia Warriors invented things that are now commonplace in NBA statistical fare, including the counting of blocked shots and technical fouls as well as keeping track of both offensive and defensive rebounds. “There has
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for 10 hours in an appeal hearing over a four-game ban issued after Brady’s supposed knowledge of under-inflated footballs. The controversy known as “Deflategate,” which nagged the Patriots on their way to the Super Bowl title in February, has lasted five months, stemming out of a New England victory over Indianapolis in the American Conference final. Goodell on
The 2017 NBA All-Star game will be played in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the second time, it was revealed on Tuesday. The decade-old, $260 million (232 million euros) home arena for the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets will seat 20,000 for the 66th showdown of elite NBA stars on February 19, 2017. Charlotte previously hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1991, when the Eastern Conference edged the Western Conference 116-114 behind 26
