Print AP
Dustin Johnson chips onto the ninth green during a practice round prior to the Tournament of Champions golf event, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at Kapalua Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Matt York) Credit: The Associated Press
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) Dustin Johnson will have gone 53 days from tapping in for par to win the Masters by five shots to blasting his tee shot down the hill at Kapalua toward the Pacific horizon.
A little rust is inevitable, even with being on Maui for more than a week.
Motivation doesn t appear to be an issue.
“Motivation for me, it s not that hard,” Johnson said Wednesday at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, where he has won twice. “I like being the best. I want to continue the good play and hopefully can have a little bit better year.”
How One Turn Shut Out 10 Days of Confusion at the Billabong Pipe Masters
John finally gets his Masters, Tyler claims first women s Pipe major, and surfing saves a calamitous week
Photo: WSL / Heff
Link copied to clipboard
Well I guess we now all know who’s in line for the world titles in 2021.
Whatever else it did, this sensationally weird and unpredictable event or really, series of events ended up doing its one real job in the most magnificently predictable fashion imaginable.
You couldn’t watch that final day or I couldn’t without thinking the finalists in both men’s and women’s are the surfers destined to fight it out down the track. JJF vs Gabriel, Tyler vs Carissa. It’s a script that scarcely needs to be written.
Paul Evans
Somebody’s has to speak up for the forgotten victims, like 2016. The year that gave us Brexit, Trump and killed everyone who’d ever thought about making a decent song or film, had enjoyed a level of infamy as the gruesome year everyone wanted to turn off and on again, until 2020 came along and put 2016 back in its bland to middling irrelevant little vanilla box.
If 2016 was kicking life while it was down, 2020 was Tyson uppercuts to the face whilst underwater in a crashed plane going over the falls in a tsunami.
And yet for all the misery, as seen from the narrow prism of surfers, we were more concerned for our wave counts than R-numbers.
cuechi@mauinews.com
Researchers were able to swab mucus left by a shark on a surfer’s board, sequence the DNA and match it to a tiger shark. DLNR photo
Swabbing for cells left in the 17-inch bite marks on a surfboard, researchers tapped into new DNA technology to determine that a 14-foot tiger shark was behind the fatal attack on 56-year-old Napili man in Honolua Bay this month.
Lead researcher and renowned shark expert Carl Meyer said that in the past, scientists have had to rely on observations by the victims or bystanders to help identify the shark in an attack. In Hawaii, the species goes unidentified in about 40 percent of incidents.
UH Research Leads to Identification of Shark Involved in Fatal Incident
Honolulu – Using new DNA barcoding technology, a pair of shark researchers at the University of Hawai‘i‘s – Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have determined a tiger shark caused fatal injuries to a 56-year-old Lahaina man, who was bitten at Maui’s Honolua Bay on December 8. Separately, by measuring bite marks on the surfer’s board, they have determined the shark was approximately 14.3-feet-long.
Lead researcher Dr. Carl Meyer, a renowned shark expert said, “Prior to the development of these new techniques, uncertainly over the size and species of sharks responsible for bites to people was common. We are absolutely certain that it was a large tiger shark (in the 98th percentile for size), that bit this man.” The DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) collaborated with HIMB to definitively identify species and to calculate shark size from bite impressions.