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Letters: Anthem controversy ginned up to score political points
Gov. Jeff Landry excels at political grandstanding. Let's take a quick analysis of his latest misguided and uninformed attack on the LSU women's basketball team. He was on the attack because the team was not on the court when the national anthem was played at the start of the LSU v. Iowa game. He is starting a political crusade to require athletes to be on the field of play or risk losing an athletic scholarship.
2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans format, cut rules and day-by-day games
The 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans format is unique for this PGA Tour event, the only event on the FedEx Cup schedule to be played as a two-man team competition. The Zurich Classic field is 160 players as 80 teams of two. The top 80 players in the PGA Tour's priority ranking that committed to the field got to pick their partner, so long as they had some kind of PGA Tour status or garnered a sponsor exemption.
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