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☆ Hideki Matsuyama overturns six-shot deficit to win Genesis Invitational
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“I’m trying to think if that was the most impressive round I’ve ever seen in person,” the 30-year-old American told the PGA Tour. Harry How/Getty ImagesTriumph secured Matsuyama a $4 million cut of the $20 million prize purse and raised him 35 places to world No. 20, but the victor was more preoccupied with the significance of his ninth win on Tour – his first since Hawaii’s Sony Open in 2022. “After my eighth win, I’d been struggling with my back injury,” Matsuyama told reporters Sunday. “There were a lot of times where I felt I was never going to win again.

Persons: Hideki Matsuyama’s, ”, Patrick Cantlay, Phil Rodgers, Will Zalatoris, Luke, JT Poston, Matsuyama, “ I’m, “ It’s, ” Poston, Harry, –, South Korea’s KJ Choi, “, I’d, ” Matsuyama, I’m, Maruyama, Shigeki, you’ve, KJ Choi, Tiger Woods, Rob McNamara, ” Woods Organizations: CNN, Riviera, PGA, Matsuyama, Sony, Tiger Locations: birdies, South, Matsuyama

☆ Women in China Aren't Having Kids. 3 of Them Told Us Why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewWhen it comes to settling down and having children, 26-year-old Bihan Chen views the choice in simple terms: It's a bad investment. Falling birth rates saw China's population shrank in 2022 for the first time since the early 1960s. "When it comes to having children, I don't have a shred of desire, only fear. AdvertisementOthers cited the loss of personal freedom as a key obstacle to having children. Having children remains a deeply personal decision that can't be evaluated by finances alone.

Persons: —, Chen, Emily Huang, Huang, Xi Jinping, Xi, Zhu Zheng, haven't, Dudley L, Poston Jr, Rich, we've, Lanjie Wang, Wang, Collin Meisel, might've, Yi Organizations: Service, Business, Women's Congress, Getty, Texas, M University, Weibo, University of Denver's, Center for International Futures, Publishing, University of Wisconsin, Project Syndicate Locations: China, Beijing, Weibo, Xinhua, Japan, Korea, America, Madison

☆ This 90-year-old has been working as an NYC crossing guard for nearly 50 years—why she hasn’t retired
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Maggie Poston started the morning after her 90th birthday the same way she has nearly every day for the past 45 years: helping students at P.S. Poston started working as a crossing guard at P.S. "We haven't had any students hit by a car with Maggie here, because she makes sure that everyone stops," says Katerina Sidbury, P.S. The only time Poston says she's been late was on Jan. 29, the morning after her 90th birthday. She told her friends she was looking for a part-time job with a short commute, and one of them told her about the open crossing guard job.

Persons: Maggie Poston, Poston, Maggie, Katerina Sidbury, Ida Ripo Ramos, she's, Ripo Ramos, She's Locations: P.S, Brooklyn, N.Y, Lincoln

As big as the win was for Murray, it was a tough loss for Byeong Hun An and Keegan Bradley. But after Murray made his 40-footer, and Bradley missed his 18-foot birdie putt, An missed the short putt. Bradley broke out of a five-way tie with a 20-foot birdie putt on 15th hole. Yuan made his mistake on the par-3 17th, missing the green left and missing a 4-foot par putt to fall out of the lead. Murray followed with a wedge to 3 feet for birdie, and Bradley missed his potential winner from just inside 25 feet.

Persons: — Grayson Murray, Murray, —, Byeong Hun, Keegan Bradley, Bradley, Kevin Na, Korn, “, ”, ” Carl Yuan, Russell Henley, Henley, Yuan, Poston Organizations: Sony Locations: HONOLULU, Hawaii, Honolulu, J.T

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lexi Thompson kept a rough round from getting worse and wound up holding her own Thursday in the Shriners Children's Open until darkness kept her from finishing. Thompson was the main attraction of this FedEx Cup Fall event, the seventh woman to play a PGA Tour event and the first in five years. She was even par when she came up short of the green on par-4 seventh and had 12 feet for par. On the par-3 eighth, she came up well short in the rough, chipped about 25 feet by the hole and left her par putt 6 feet short. Then he holed a short birdie putt on the 18th for his 62.

Persons: — Lexi Thompson, Beau Hossler, Thompson, “, ” Thompson, . Poston, ” Hossler, Hossler, Cameron Champ, Davis Thompson, Lanto Griffin, Lexi Thompson's, Michelle Wie, who've, ”, ___ Organizations: LAS VEGAS, Shriners Children's, PGA, TPC, FedEx, Sony, Shriners

☆ ‘Transcendent’ Caitlin Clark claims crowds and compliments at PGA Tour pro-am
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Seemingly not content to dominate only the college basketball scene, Caitlin Clark stole the show at a PGA Tour event this week. Three months on, the popularity of Clark – who will be eligible for the WNBA Draft in 2024 – shows no sign of waning. A fellow Iowan, Johnson praised Clark for her “transcendent” basketball talents, but drew particular attention to her character. “I can’t speak highly enough about how she handles herself, whether it’s in interviews or just the way she goes about her work. This is not an off day for me, but it is something I really, really enjoy and love getting to do this.

Persons: CNN —, Caitlin Clark, John Deere, Clark, Clark –, Michael Reaves, Ludvig Åberg –, Zach Johnson, Johnson, “ It’s, ” Johnson, “ I’m, it’s, It’s, she’s, “, Charlie Neibergall, –, ” Clark, ”, Sweden’s Jonas Blixt, Cameron Young, James Tyree Poston Organizations: CNN, Iowa Hawkeyes, Deere, NCAA, LSU Tigers, WNBA, Ryder Locations: Illinois, Iowa

☆ This non-profit has raised over $10 million to support Indigenous women entrepreneurs: 'It's up to us to close the racial wealth gap'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here's how one non-profit, Native Women Lead, is enabling Indigenous women's economic mobility:'It's up to use to close the racial wealth gap'Native Women Lead was founded in 2017 by eight Native American women entrepreneurs: Jaime Gloshay, Kalika Davis, Lisa Foreman, Kim Gleason, Vanessa Roanhorse, Alicia Ortega, Stephine Poston and Jaclyn Roessel. That conversation inspired the creation of Native Women Lead, an Albuquerque-based non-profit that aims to help Indigenous women entrepreneurs across the world access the capital, mentors, financial education and support needed to thrive in their careers and narrow the wealth gap. To date, Native Women Lead has provided about $500,000 to 65 Indigenous women entrepreneurs through the two funds, partnering with credit unions and investing firms such as Nusenda Credit Union and ImpactAssets to connect entrepreneurs with capital. While closing the wealth gap might start with funding opportunities, Native Women Lead views wealth as "more than just revenue or profits," Stephine Poston, one of the group's co-founders, says. Keeping this in mind, Native Women Lead offers wellness-focused retreats for Indigenous women as well as fireside chats on self-care practices, healing from trauma and other mental health topics.

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