Here on nbc at 5 00. We begin with the flames in marin county. Those flames burning dangerously close to homes. You see its here, firefighters have been battling this brush fire in san rafael for several hours. Heres what we know right now. The fire is contained. However, the danger remains. Heres the exact location. This is happening in an area north of mccinnis. Warm and fairly windy. Whats the status for the firefighters . Reporter firefighters are still out here in force. Residents are being allowed to return home but they arent allowed to bring their cars into many of the areas. Thats because the hose lines are still out on the roadways. While this fire is contained, fire crews are still keeping very close tabs on the situation. Firefighters in marin are working to put out hot spots after a 12acre grass fire put hundreds of homes at risk. Because of the wind conditions and the dry and hot weather, the fire moved quickly, both up the hill and then looped around to the north of us.
Well, you know today is certainly a very monumental day in the history of pga in america and certainly in the Golf Community in San Francisco im here to announce it the pga champing will come through harding park in 2020 and will mark the first time in the one hundred and 2 year history of the pga championing that will be played in the great city of San Francisco this would not be possible thank you clapping this certainly would not be possible without the great collaboration with the city and county of San Francisco the pga tour and the pga of america and mayor ed lee and thanks to you and phil givens berg and tim this seems like another step in a lot of the things weve been able to accomplish working together in the past 20 months and look forward to a great future for the pga of america and iceland be remissed if i didnt say thank you to our chief officers clapping at the pga of america quite honestly we got this deal done fast and it was certainly not without theyre great efforts b
Played are here this past weekend i heard cbs say over and over again in washington, d. C. The congressional is major champing venue and with teds announcement today from today on harding park will be referred to as a major champingship venue thats a terrific thing for any golf course and the first t to help it get moving is positive as well. Id like to spend a second before i bring ed up to talk about for a second the match play champing. We think that having played the president cup at harding and 9 and being existed about it cob in 2025 it sets up for a match play that was a factor in deciding to bring it. But also you may not be aware were bringing it forward with a new format historically we have the top 64 players 2 against 63 they play on wednesday and were down to 32 players and on thursday were going to do it differently t next year its going to be a worldclass play cup everyone in the United States being riverside to that formulate in brazil where well be playing golf in the
Running around and experiencing and playing i want to thank them and welcoming a good friend and someone i like to see in this city the pga tour president ted bishop thank you, very much for being here clapping im just excited, in fact, ill as excited when former willie brown asked me to build that clubhouse at harding park in the earlier 2000s said you have to build it on time o pga officials are coming in and cant be detailed i was happy to put our skill sets together a revitalize our park into a golf facility and thats what weve done and pga park today, im here to celebrate the announcement lange along what the folks that pga park will be hosting the 2020 knapp and the 2045 president cup at harding park arent those wonderful worldclass events before those arrive in 2015 we will be hosting the match champing to the park those 3 events is the sunlight of a Historic Collaboration between the pga tour and pga of america in concert with San Francisco. We can optional have done that with
Cup everyone in the United States being riverside to that formulate in brazil where well be playing golf in the olympics nor the be first time in six the players will be broken down into groups of 4, 16 groups of 4 and then on wednesday and thursday and friday theyll play each and cut to the top 16 players out of that play to play the 16, 8, 4 and 2 on the weekend why did it important. First of all, its a lot more golf 96 matches on wednesday thursday and friday its a ton of golf and one of the reasons we wanted to come here we know the fans will replenish relish the opportunity and the best players will rise to the top and third i think if youre a steve stricter Barbara Watson or tiger woods youll follow your favorite player to get sgo the round of 16 one that will create a a lot more enthusiastically and excitement so were going in a new direction in San Francisco and i want to comment that starting about sandy in all those years the relationship with the city and the mayors that per