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...Caves Valley Golf Club, built in 1991, is a par-71 course that stretches 6,942 yards. Designed by famed golf course architect Tom Fazio, Caves Valley’s biggest challenge was the speed of its greens...
Although Harvard could not match last year’s result, its finish constitutes the Crimson’s third-straight top-three performance. Going into the final event of the season—this weekend’s Ivy League Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.—Harvard’s consistency bodes well...
...Labour hopes that its proposals, which could also see fans offered right of first refusal to buy their club in the event that it was put up for sale, could coax many football fans to turn out for the party come election day. "There's the potential for [the plan] to be very popular in an electoral sense," says Duncan Drasdo, chief executive of the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST), which advocates for fans having an ownership stake in the club. A large number of United's 3.8 million adult fans in the U.K. live in marginal constituencies, Drasdo says...
...opposition Conservatives, who've dismissed the offer of ownership stakes as a "gimmick," are currently ahead in the polls - implementing its proposals could still prove tricky. While the government is taking legal advice on how the sale of shares to supporters might be enforced, it's hard to imagine club owners would allow any such reform to pass unchallenged.(Read "Can Fans Buy Their Team...
...while most fans might resent an owner who has bought their club on his credit card, convincing them to buy him out with their own hard-earned cash won't be easy. A 2008 campaign to get 100,000 Liverpool fans to each chip in $10,000 toward the cost of buying back the club from its unpopular owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, failed to gain momentum. Ongoing uncertainty over their plans for the club - Hicks and Gillett are expected to step down as co-chairmen this week amid the search for a buyer - has meant a revised fundraising...