FOND MEMORIES: Tommy Cannon with long-time comedy partner Bobby Ball at The Witham in 2019
COMEDIAN Tommy Cannon will make a welcome return to Barnard Castle later this year for a show which is sure to be tinged with sadness as well as full of smiles.
The veteran funnyman’s long time comedy partner Bobby Ball died last October aged 76.
The pair performed a sell-out show at The Witham on what turned out to be their final tour in 2019.
When he returns to the Barney venue on Thursday, September 30, Tommy Cannon will be joined by two other long established performers Stu Francis and Johnnie Casson.
Oklahoma s Quade Cummins was in shock over Walker Cup selection
Being on the Sooners national championship team in 2017 gave us the taste of the good stuff
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When Oklahoma senior
Quade Cummins learned he was the first Sooner in 16 years to make the Walker Cup team, he actually had to tap the brakes emotionally.
He said shortly after OU finished a disappointing third at the Seminole Intercollegiate in Tallahassee, FL, in mid-February, he learned he had missed a call from USGA president
Stu Francis.
“I called him back when I was finished signing my scorecard and stuff like that,” Cummins said during a video press conference Tuesday. “He said, ‘Congratulations, you re going to represent the United States at the Walker Cup.’ Immediately I was in shock.
A crisis of the magnitude of a global pandemic has a âpowerful wayâ of identifying if a business has made the right strategic decisions to help it navigate and respond nimbly. The United States Golf Association weathered the storm and is stronger than ever, said president Stu Francis during the organization s virtual annual meeting held Friday.
âOvercoming adversity, like achieving success, does not come overnight,â Francis said, noting it was a triumph of will that took great strength and agility to create a path forward.
Pinehurst Resort and the USGA have enjoyed a special relationship for 30 years, with its masterpiece No. 2 course having played host to more championship events than any other site in the nation. But that cozy, informal relationship was cemented into plans announced last fall for USGA to develop its second headquarters, a facility it calls âGolf House Pinehurst,â in addition to naming Pinehurst Country Club as its first anchor site f
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(Reuters) - Mike Whan, who turned around the fortunes of the LPGA during his tenure as commissioner of the women's tour, has been named chief executiv.