This Day In Sports 1967 — Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, is convicted of violating the United States Selective Service laws by refusing to be Numbers Game drafted. Clay is sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000. Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, June 20, 2019 C5 Morning rush Women ready to add to their history Valley Press news services By DOUG FERGUSON and people are familiar with this Associated Press golf course,” Stacy Lewis said. Guardado scores 2 as Mexico beats MAJOR Canada 3-1 CHASKA, Minn. — The “But it’s a property ... you drive DENVER — Andres Guardado had two goals LPGA Tour gets its crack at Ha- In this June here and it feels big, from the in the second half, Roberto Alvarado also scored zeltine National, the course with 2 file photo, clubhouse to the range to the and Mexico beat Canada 3-1 in the knockout round a recent history of surprising out- Jeongeun Lee6 practice areas. It feels like a ma- of the Gold Cup on Wednesday night. comes. chips to the 16th jor championship, and that’s ul- Mexico has won its first two matches by a com- This is where Rich Beem, a green during timately what we wanted to do.” bined score of 10-1 and took control Group A despite former car stereo salesman, held the final round When this LPGA Tour and losing midfielderErick Gutierrez in the first half. off a charge by Tiger Woods in of the U.S. PGA of America relationship Lucas Cavallini scored for Canada. the 2002 PGA Championship. It’s Women’s Open began, the major was taken to The third leg of pool play for Group A moves to where Y.E. Yang became the only golf tournament, Westchester, Sahalee, Olympia Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday. Canada will face Cuba player to come from behind and Fields and Kemper Lakes, all in the first match of the day followed by Mexico in Charleston, beat Woods in the final round of S.C. courses known to the golfing against Martinique in the second match. public from men’s majors or big The top two teams in the four-team pool advance a major at the 2009 PGA Cham- Associated Press pionship. events. Next up is Aronimink to the quarterfinals starting on June 26. Martinique talk it up so much.” see how people play that down It’s where the Americans ac- and Congressional, two more used two goals in the second half to beat Cuba 3-0 And now it’s time to play it. the stretch on Sunday.” in Wednesday’s first match to even its record to 1-1. tually won a Ryder Cup in 2016. storied courses that add to the Hazeltine also is an example The field is the strongest of For the fifth straight year, cachet. Cuba, which has been outscored 10-0 in its two the year for the LPGA, with 99 KPMG staged a women’s leader- games, was eliminated from the Gold Cup. of how much the second-oldest “I think like any major cham- major in women’s golf has risen of the top 100 on the money list. ship summit designed to inspire pionship, it’s going to test every- Dominican AG: Ortiz shooting result of in stature since the LPGA Tour Sung Hyun Park won last year young women in the corporate thing that you’ve got mentally mistaken identity and PGA of America became at Kemper Lakes (where Payne world. Among the speakers this and physically — shot making, SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — partners to stage what is now the Stewart won the PGA Cham- year was former Secretary of everything — especially around Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was shot in KPMG Women’s PGA Champi- pionship in 1989). The PGA of State Condoleezza Rice, soccer here,” said Brooke Henderson, the back by a gunman who mistook him for the real onship. America has set it up at 6,741 star Mia Hamm and executives whose victory last week in the target, another man who was seated at the same “The magnitude of this event yards on the card — long by from Target and Bank of Amer- LPGA Meijer Classic gave her a table at an outdoor cafe, Dominican officials said has gone up so high, and it’s neck LPGA standards — with plans ica. record nine LPGA titles by a Ca- Wednesday. and neck with the USGA and at least once this week to play It sets up as a big week in a nadian. The Dominican Republic’s attorney general U.S. Open,” said Danielle Kang, the signature 16th hole — with a big year for the LPGA Tour, with Lately, the LPGA majors have and national police director told reporters that the who won the Women’s PGA two green that extends into a lake — the Solheim Cup scheduled for been more wide open regardless attempted murder was ordered from the United years ago at Olympia Fields, the at 240 yards as a reachable par 4. Scotland in September. of where they’re played. States by Victor Hugo Gomez, an associate of “I think it’s actually harder as And being at Hazeltine Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. They said Gomez had hired a course south of Chicago where Ten women have won the last gang of killers to eliminate his cousin, whom Gomez Walter Hagen and Jim Furyk a drivable par 4 because you’re makes it feel bigger. 10 majors dating to Kang’s victo- suspected of turning him in to Dominican drug in- won majors. “It’s just when you putting the water into play a “The name is obviously a big ry in the Women’s PGA at Olym- vestigators in 2011. get here and people talk so much bit more on the right side,” Nel- deal, I think more from a fan pia Fields. Ko and Henderson The cousin, Sixto David Fernández, was about the golf course. ‘Oh, you’re ly Korda said. “So I think that’s perspective and the attention of are the only multiple winners seated with the former baseball star on the night going to play Hazeltine.’ They going to be a really cool hole and it that the guys have played here this season. of June 9, when a gunman approached and fired a single shot at Ortiz, the officials said. Fernández owned an auto-repair shop and was friends with Women’s soccer MLB sports odds AUTO RACING GOLF Ortiz, according to Attorney General Jean Alain 2019 Women’s World American League Glance Major League Baseball NASCAR Monster Energy PGA Tour schedule Rodríguez and Maj. Gen. Ney Aldrin Bautista West Division Today Jan. 3-6 — Sentry Tournament of Cup Glance W L Pct GB National League Cup Schedule Champions (Xander Schauffele) Almonte, director of the Dominican Republic’s na- GROUP STAGE FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Sunday, May 5 — MENCS race (Martin GROUP A Houston 48 27 .640 — Truex Jr.) Jan. 10-13 — Sony Open, Honolulu (Matt tional police. at ARIZONA -153 Colorado +143 Kuchar) W L D GF GA Pts Texas 39 35 .527 8½ at WASHINGTON OFF Philadelphia OFF Saturday, May 11 — MENCS race (Brad Ortiz remains hospitalized in Boston, where doc- x-France 3 0 0 7 1 9 Oakland 39 36 .520 9 at ST. LOUIS -158 Miami +148 Keselowski) Jan. 17-20 — Desert Classic (Adam x-Norway 2 1 0 6 3 6 Angels 38 37 .507 10 at CHICAGO -134 New York +124 Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Long) tors have upgraded his condition from guarded to Seattle 32 46 .410 17½ Jan. 24-27 — Farmers Insurance Open good. Nigeria 1 2 0 2 4 3 at MILWAUKEE -145 Cincinnati +135 Open (Kyle Larson) South Korea 0 3 0 1 8 0 East Division at LA DODGERS -193 San Francisco +178 Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy (Justin Rose) x-advanced to second round W L Pct GB American League All-Star Race (Kyle Larson) Jan. 31-Feb. 3 — Waste Management Tour director tells AP race won’t be same Friday, June 7 New York 46 27 .630 — Cleveland -129 at TEXAS +119 Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600 (Martin Phoenix Open (Rickie Fowler) France 4, South Korea 0 Tampa Bay 43 31 .581 3½ at NEW YORK OFF Houston OFF Truex Jr.) Feb. 7-10 — AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am LA Angels -150 at TORONTO +140 without Froome Saturday, June 8 Boston 41 35 .539 6½ Sunday, June 2 — Pocono 400 (Kyle (Phil Mickelson) PARIS — The Tour de France just won’t be the Toronto 26 48 .351 20½ Minnesota -172 at KANSAS CITY +160 Feb. 14-17 — Genesis Open (J.B. Norway 3, Nigeria 0 Tampa Bay -112 at OAKLAND +102 Busch) same without four-time champion Chris Froome Wednesday, June 12 Baltimore 21 53 .284 25½ Sunday, June 9 — FireKeepers Casino Holmes) Central Division at SEATTLE -134 Baltimore +124 Feb. 21-24 — WGC-Mexico in the field, race directorChristian Prudhomme Nigeria 2, South Korea 0 Updated odds available at Pregame.com 400 (Joey Logano) France 2, Norway 1 W L Pct GB Sunday, June 23 — Toyota/Save Mart Championship (Dustin Johnson) told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Monday, June 17 Minnesota 48 25 .658 — 350, Sonoma, Calif. Feb. 21-24 — Puerto Rico Open (Martin Froome was injured last week in a crash in France 1, Nigeria 0 Cleveland 39 34 .534 9 CALIFORNIA LEAGUE Sunday, June 30 — Camping World 400, Trainer) Feb. 28-March 3 — Honda Classic, PGA At Reims, France Chicago 35 37 .486 12½ South Division Joliet, Ill.