I love a CliffsNotes condensation of a place All of Rome in ninety minutes gave me a Visigothic sense of accomplishment untarnished even when my tour bus’s automated audio commentary got out of synch implying that the Pope lived in the Trevi Fountain I was once shepherded through Beijing’s Forbidden City by the voice of Roger Moore coming from a stuttery tape recorder; while visiting the Teotihuacán ruins I was de-toured to a basilica housing the cloak of the Virgin of Guadalupe It looked like a dry-cleaned blouse still covered in plastic that some consider Herodotus the father of the travel guide account of Egypt arguably invented the form and it even included the obligatory section on public rest rooms: “[The Egyptians] established for themselves manners and customs in a way opposite to other men in almost all matters  the women make water standing up and the men crouching down.” it never occurred to me to be a tourist in the city where I’ve lived for forty years—namely which received almost sixty-five million visitors in 2024 I learned so many factoids that I am practically a walking almanac of New York City with a useful appendix listing Some Amusing Things You Can Say at Cocktail Parties Among the tours I didn’t take were “Smelling Bushwick,” “Death in New York,” and one of Ellis Island Hospital and traipse through infectious- and contagious-disease wards as Samuel Johnson said of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland (some forty thousand volcanically formed basalt columns sticking out of the sea) New York: A Centenary IssueSubscribers get full access. Read the issue » was raised in the ultra-Orthodox upstate village of Kiryas Joel (“It’s a different planet,” she said.) Vizel was set up at eighteen with a man she married after a thirty-minute meeting; fifteen years ago An outsider who knows the ways of the insiders She has two hundred and sixty-four YouTube videos on topics ranging from female head shaving to Hasidic wedding-night sex which have been watched millions of times; 2.3 million have viewed her TikTok on kosher phones (i.e. flip phones or browser-free smartphones that can’t access social media petite blonde whose face was partially concealed by sunglasses Of the three Hasidic Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn Williamsburg is the “most Amish.” She meant the most insular Pointing to a squat building across the street from a luxury high-rise where Justin Bieber used to live “Does anyone know what architectural detail tells me this is a Hasidic apartment house?” Answer: the balconies are arranged in a staggered pattern so that the terrace on one floor is never directly above or below the terrace on another stipulates that you must eat all meals in a hut open to the sky (“Camping vibe meets Christmas vibe,” she said.) We stopped at Brachsoni Shirts a pickleball-court-size store carrying nothing but stacks of identical-looking men’s white button-downs then paused in front of a parked B110 bus to Borough Park—D.O.T.-franchised but operated by a private company and used mostly by Hasidim any female passenger who dares to sit up front must be O.K My favorite stop on the tour was a variety store called Lee Avenue Photo—specifically Vizel explained how the assortment of playthings reflects Hasidic family values: for instance A “Babysitter Set” of miniature dolls includes one baby-faced babysitter and nine very young children which is three more offspring than Angelina Jolie has Five male dolls accessorized with seven different hats each worn by various members of the Jewish diaspora—and a hat brush and box A standout was the crunchy fried lox on a bagel that we were given at Williamsburg Bagel the Dutch began building Fort Amsterdam to keep the Natives (and the English) out a trained geologist with a background in archeology who is also a former park ranger at Ellis Island livened up the tour by periodically pulling items out of her messenger bag She started by brandishing a giant oyster shell half the world’s oysters were in New York Harbor some so big that their shells were the size of a pro basketball player’s shoes.) Next came a nutmeg (the spice was so valuable that in 1667 the Dutch ceded control of New Amsterdam to England in exchange for a teeny Indonesian island called Run which was then one of the only nutmeg sources in the world) and a copy of a map of New Amsterdam drawn in 1660 by the surveyor general of New Netherland Edgecombe explained that when the British took control of New Amsterdam couldn’t get anyone to join him in resisting the invasion he received a letter signed by ninety-three townspeople,” Edgecombe told us We don’t give a shit about New Amsterdam.’ ” She went on there’s a chance that you wouldn’t want to go back home to your family because life with the Natives was much more culturally warm and safe.” (The Patty Hearst story prefigured!) Edgecombe dispensed a bit of historical trivia that delighted me: the Lenape were called “the old women” by the neighboring Iroquois At the start of Rock Junket’s “East Village Rock n’ Punk” tour ($47) and I thought I would tell you I made that name up because the majority of people I’ll speak about today had stage names—all the Ramones who said that he worked in marketing and sales at various record labels from around 1990 to 2010 speaks with the relaxed cadence of a late-night radio announcer who needs to inhale only once an hour He had on a baggy Rolling Stones sweatshirt and a pair of jeans and his platinum-blond hair was styled in punky spikes Pinn preferred not to divulge his age (“Rock and roll’s a young business,” he said) but if I had two guesses I’d say “Sixty-three but looks fifty-three” or “Fifty-three but looks sixty-three.” “You guys have any favorite bands?” Pinn asked me and my six tour-mates accompanying his seventeen-year-old drummer son and a sixteen-year-old guitarist nephew; and a guy studying music theory at Juilliard lived in a four-hundred-square-foot apartment until his death Pinn explained that Johnny Ramone walked a straighter line than his bandmates “I don’t know if you guys remember that Johnny went to military school as a kid,” said Pinn “so he was a bit more orderly around the guys than I think they were hoping for Johnny would always request a couple of cold six-packs of Yoo-hoo.” There were plenty of other rock tidbits For instance: an annual readers’ poll in a 1973 issue of Creem named the New York Dolls both the best new group of the year and the worst new group of the year Pinn lowered his voice to a reverential register and explained that when the club was forced to close over a rent dispute a lot of famous people pissed in these.’ ” Not everyone on a tour is a tourist. Because the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden a restored antebellum day resort at 421 East Sixty-first Street ($15) is situated in a neighborhood dense with doctors and hospitals—sometimes called Bedpan Alley—it attracts locals looking for diversion when visiting a sick friend or family member The tour starts with mandatory viewing of a quaint introductory video (“What was America like when the hotel operated here [1826-33] narrated by a woman in a puffy-sleeved frock of a sort that the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe might wear when she has company including a women’s parlor with sewing equipment The property was originally owned by President John Adams’s daughter who sold it in 1796 after Smith lost all his money it is owned and operated by the Colonial Dames of America who seem to have bought it from the Standard Gas Light Company My favorite antediluvian bit of gossip: in 1806 the ne’er-do-well Smith (about whom President Adams wrote “All the Actions of my Life and all the Conduct of my Children have not disgraced me so much as this Man”) stood trial for treason for trying to free Venezuela from Spain which would largely be conducted from the Subaru Outback of the guide Our excursion through the cemetery’s four hundred and seventy-eight acres ignored whatever is left of such famous residents as Leonard Bernstein and instead focussed on the graves of an 1857 murder victim and a former lover of his We hopped out of the car only occasionally who had on a parka patched with reflective tape published a book called “Butchery on Bond Street.” The salacious crime in brief: body of scummy but prosperous dentist Harvey Burdell found in “pool of gore,” his “torso stabbed 15 times with pig sticker.” (Actually a dirk.) Did Emma Cunningham a widow with five children and a faked marriage certificate calling Burdell her husband Feldman told us that before the trial the coroner considered allowing the deceased’s eyeballs to be examined was that the retinas of a corpse retained an image of the last scene viewed before death he was less expert in the guiding part of tour-guiding getting us lost in the boneyard more than once in which bystanders are a part of the show How to describe THE RIDE (almost always printed the lab results would reveal it to be thirty-one per cent Broadway musical whose badinage is corny but crowd-pleasing (Host 1: “We are on a mission today to find out what makes New York City such a magical place!” Host 2: “Where millions of people come to visit each year Where millions more live on top of each other As THE RIDE pauses frequently along its 4.2-mile loop allowing RIDE-ers to take in a string of staged-to-look-spontaneous performances—for example an out-of-work actor dressed as a UPS man doing a hip-hop dance; a “street-cleaner” tap-dancing with his broom; two pedestrians (really ballet dancers!) who pretend to bump into each other If it bugs you that actors in musicals break out inexplicably into song these bits will make you break out explicably into rage You also won’t love the part where the hosts make everyone on board belt out “New York screens display “fun facts” about the city—e.g. Liza Minnelli and David Gest’s wedding cost $3.5 million (Wrong.) The vehicles are tricked out with surround sound too; and at one point on our joyride the bus was jerked around by the bus driver to simulate the sensation of a subway speeding underfoot you must be willing to suspend being a snob for seventy-five minutes (give or take fifteen minutes You must become a hundred per cent tourist Julian Locke, the brawny middle-aged guy who devised and leads a New York walk called “Tour D’Trump” (NYC Tour Guys, $45) has had a hand in thwarting his First Amendment rights He’s been having a tough time promoting his tour but my boosts keep getting rejected,” he said a chipper sixty-one-year-old who moved to New York from Winchester conducted his tour group of two as if he were addressing the hugest crowd in history Locke was cagey about his own political leanings (did the red beanie provide a clue?) as he led us briskly along what he called the “resident to President” route “And Donald Trump does not like low-energy people,” he said “So I need to turn you into winners.” He then made us do what he called “a quick Donald Trump dance Then pinch your fists”—or did he say “punch” should I split the difference?—“and you just kind of move up and down where I tried not to think about the latent meaning in putting one’s daughter on the menu at one’s eponymous bar-and-grill (the Ivanka Salad and Locke held forth about the famous escalator He padded out the hour with some Trump show-biz trivia: when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired “Home Alone 2,” in 2019 it cut out the scene that featured Trump saying a line “This sent Donald Trump ballistic,” Locke said Locke handed out complimentary Donald-faced key chains to all participants but for the most part they were led by official New York City Sightseeing Guides Just as you need a license from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (D.C.W.P.) to become an official Bingo Game Operator do you need a license from that department to lead tourists around town “You must have a Sightseeing Guide license to guide or direct people to any place or point of public interest or to describe or lecture about any place or point of public interest to any person in connection with any sightseeing trip or tour within the city.” Applicants are required to take a written exam and you’re allowed to fail it twice; after that you’ll need to pony up another fifty dollars The test consists of a hundred and fifty questions and you must answer at least ninety-seven correctly here are some examples of what might appear on the exam: 1 What arcade game was banned by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1942 What was one of the first items sent through the New York Post Office’s pneumatic-tube system Where does the blind character played by Audrey Hepburn in “Wait Until Dark” live concerned by reports that some of the locals showing visitors around the Gettysburg battlegrounds were too creative with their facts This made Gettysburg the first federally regulated tour site in the country Those caught leading a group without a license were arrested The first Gettysburg tour took place not long after the smoke cleared the attraction had become so popular that an advertisement by a local hotel touted Greeters introduce out-of-towners to a few of their favorite spots in the city as though they were friends or family Gail Morse has been the organization’s director of programs and volunteers Morse explained that there are more than a hundred and eighty Greeters in the city; being Greeted is free The organization tries to match visitors and Greeters according to their interests “They get to know each other by e-mail ahead of time,” Morse said “So once they meet they’re no longer strangers.” She was emphatic about terminology “We don’t use the word ‘tour,’ ‘tour guides,’ or ‘guide,’ ” she said “If a visitor thinks they are booking a tour guide they’ll think they had a stupid tour guide who doesn’t know how many steps to the top of the Empire State Building That kind of information can be looked up on the phone.” an eighty-two-year-old retired adman who has been a Greeter for twenty-one years “A tour guide shows you the hardware of New York and we show you the software.” No two Greets are the same then he reeled off tales of the various new friends he’s made He recalled a couple who wanted to have a glass of wine at each of a series of New York bars the woman went to the ladies’ room and her husband told Barnett that she had a terminal illness “All she wanted to do was go to New York and toast each other all over the city,” Barnett said You enter people’s lives in a way that is astounding.” Morse told me that several Greeters have ended up being witnesses at the City Hall weddings of couples who’d travelled to New York to get married they might want to consider the “Divorce Party Jet Ski” tour the newly uncoupled and their guests can zip themselves into wetsuits and “glide up close” to the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge sights like these “can help divorcees bounce back: New research shows that experiencing awe like marveling at vast and powerful landmarks can reduce stress and improve overall well-being.” Herodotus couldn’t have put it better A long-ago crime, suddenly remembered A limousine driver watches her passengers transform The day Muhammad Ali punched me What is it like to be keenly intelligent but deeply alienated from simple emotions? Temple Grandin knows The harsh realm of “gentle parenting.”  Retirement the Margaritaville way Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for the Light.”  Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null "\/liveblog_entry\/comptroller-tours-areas-devastated-by-fire-warns-we-were-one-step-away-from-losing-a-life\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=DbTNSOkstYSEQHJ_8rQSz6vAFLLK8odWlqPN3Sq3N1Y-1746493364-1.0.1.1-Nj7xhr.MQH2YbWTQ45nnESFcJ7MIbINRUc8GO2APzkk" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); Mark Cavendish and Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme launch the 2027 Grand Dèpart in front of Edinburgh Castle alongside key politicians 4.8 million people watched the 2014 Grand Dèpart on the roadside across the three stages The Great Belt Bridge is 18km long and acted as a focal point for stage two of the 2022 Grand Dèpart Zomegnan (right) alongside Alexandre Vinokourov (left) as the Giro d'Italia departs the Netherlands following a three-stage Grande Partenza in 2010 Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens was packed with fans for the team presentation ahead of the 2022 Tour de France  The first Tour de France Femmes Grand Dèpart from Rotterdam in 2024 acted as another key milestone and historic moment in the sport Foreign starts to Grand Tours are by no means new but why do major races often begin beyond their borders The Grand Tours are without doubt pro cycling's most popular and well-known races. Ask someone in the street to tell you something about cycling, and there's a high chance that 'the Tour de France' will be their immediate response It's a logical response when the French Grand Tour is the largest annual sporting event in the world Yet more and more often the Tour de France does start in France, the Giro d'Italia kicks-off outside of Italy and the Vuelta a España has started as far away as the Netherlands while the opening stage of the Corsa Rosa roll out from the coastal city of Durrës with organisers using them to secure extra funding and wider visibility from a city region or nation interested in hosting their races The first foreign start for a Grand Tour came in 1954 when Amsterdam hosted the start of the Tour de France with the finish on day two being back inside L'Hexagone in Lille The Grande Boucle has since hosted 26 starts outside of France while the Giro d'Italia first went elsewhere in 1965 to the enclave of San Marino Albania will be the 15th start beyond Italy's borders The Vuelta a España has begun from outside of Spain just five times in its history so far with the first foray only coming in 1997 in Lisbon The Spanish Grand Tour is now equally as international as its French and Italian counterparts It's previous Gran Partidas was also held in Lisbon and the next two will take place in Italy and Monaco The Tour de France Femmes returned in its latest reincarnation in 2022 hosting its first foreign start just two years later from Rotterdam in the Netherlands the route only arrived in France halfway through stage 5 after four days on Dutch and Belgian soil Yet just because road cycling's major stage races have a tradition of frequently starting outside their country of origin it doesn't explain how they come about and the driving forces behind them; that's where things get a bit more complex such as the FIFA World Cup or the Olympics foreign starts in Grand Tours don't have a standard bidding process per se or regions will make contact with race organisers ahead of the edition they'd like to host pitching their idea and why they think it deserves to kickstart one of cycling's major races.  The process can often start as far as a decade out with the 2027 UK Grand Dèpart from Scotland first pitched in the mid-2000s Race organisers and potential hosts will then work together to co-create a foreign start over several years so that it meets the needs of that year's race from not just a sporting standpoint but as a complete event with every aspect taken into consideration Route visits are then carried out to finalise the parcours before an official bid is made to race organisers It is often the case that bids are for one of several editions of a Grand Tour Copenhagen originally bid for the Tour de France Grand Départ across 2019 eventually being awarded the latter before it was then postponed 12 months.  A myriad of factors determine why and where Grand Tours host foreign starts to historic and cultural forces at play too.  with insight from individuals who have been part of previous Grand Départs and one who organised a foreign start that never came to fruition It's be wrong not to acknowledge that economic forces play a key part in taking a Grand Tour away from their homeland.  Prospective hosts must pay the organisers of the Grand Tours Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) for the Tour de France The cost of hosting a Grand Départ can vary massively depending on how attractive a proposition the bid is to the organisers as well as running cost variables such as the number of stages Cyclingnews spoke with Lars Vallentin Christensen senior events specialist at Wonderful Copenhagen the events company behind the 2022 Tour de France Grand Départ in the Danish capital who shed light on the approximate costs of hosting the three stages in Denmark but depending on how much you include - the route the police - at least €12 million," Vallentin Christensen revealed when asked how much Copenhagen paid for the privilege of kicking off the 2022 edition of Le Tour with a similar bill believed to have been footed for the 2014 Yorkshire Grand Départ of the Tour de France despite the sizeable outlay to win the bid and to host the event hosts are willing to commit the cash with the expectation that the economic return will well outweigh it Deputy CEO and Director of Sporting Systems and Events at UK Sport highlights this as a key focus for the upcoming 2027 Tour de France Grand Départ in Great Britain.  UK Sport's role as a strategic agency in the area of sporting events is to help program out what the UK should be hosting we look quite carefully at the return on investment." who wasn't yet in a position to comment on the likely cost of the 2027 men's and women's starts acknowledged that the cost of hosting such an event can weigh heavily not just at the national government level he and many others believe that the benefits outweigh the costs.  The tourism revenue that Copenhagen gained off the back of the 2022 Grand Départ was roughly 350 million Danish krone which is in the region of €46 million Alongside being able to put up the money to host the race foreign starts have to also be attractive enough propositions to encourage ASO and RCS to take the races outside of their native countries.  Vallentin Christensen was quick to mention the need for "a unique selling point" when pitching to the French Grand Tour's organisers Planning for Denmark to host the Tour de France began as early as 2011 with the concept taking a few years to iron out between Danish representatives and their contacts at the ASO Vallentin Christensen's team came up against a sizeable obstacle "We obviously knew that Denmark is a flat country so we needed to find our 'mountain'  and that turned out to be the Great Belt Bridge." Denmark thought outside the box in terms of the parcours challenges that their start could offer the Tour Another point of difference that helped to set Copenhagen apart from other suitors was the city's cycling heritage.  so we came up with a very long tagline of 'the greatest cycling race in the world meets the greatest cycling city in the world.' That was supposed to be the working title Taking a Grand Tour to one of the cycling capitals of the world is one thing but hosting a start in one of the world's biggest cities is a whole other ballgame.  That didn't stop former Giro d'Italia organiser Angelo Zomegnan attempting it in the late 2000s.  The Giro wanted to be the first Grand Tour to start outside of Europe and New York were planned for perhaps the most unique Grande Partenza ever at that time the Giro needed to internationalise itself The [proposed] Grande Partenza from Belgium in 2007 was the first step in my mind America: the first time outside of Europe for a Grand Tour." The main attraction for the Italian and RCS Sport was the potential rewards that the race visiting the US would bring.  "Starting from the USA would have meant having the big American television networks in tow which until then had only shown crumbs of the Giro with a minimal share," Zomegnan explained "Can you imagine the growth in audience in Europe with the Giro proposed [with coverage] at dinner time and the increase in advertising returns and popularity?" he continued.  Zomegnan lays the reason for the plan not coming to fruition at the feet of other RCS managers their lack of ambition and fear of "making the leap in quality."  flights across the Atlantic and costs can't be ignored Cycling's environmental footprint has moved more and more into the spotlight over recent years as the sport aims to become more sustainable.  the very nature of a foreign start means the topic of longer transits between stages and their impacts on the climate is hard to ignore.  The Giro's proposed trip to the US for a three-stage Grande Partenza would have required an 8.5-hour flight back to Rome on the rest day Calculating the environmental impact of such a plan is tricky especially given the size of the race caravan.  Even if you just assess the impact of a round-trip from Europe to the US and back to Rome for the 184-rider peloton it equates to 460 tons of CO2 emissions (tCO2) UCI rules state that a Grand Tour can include an additional rest day This potentially facilitates a foreign start further afield than neighbouring countries Transfer times between stages are an issue that Grand Tours face even when the race is at home almost the same distance as the Tour itself.  Morton highlighted that it's also a big issue they're attempting to overcome in the planning for the UK's 2027 Grand Dèpart While the full routes for the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes visits have yet to be unveiled it is known that the men's race will feature a stage in each of Scotland Plenty of discussions are being had to mitigate the logistical challenges of such a route as well as the sustainability implications.  because any big sporting event has an environmental impact We definitely want to minimise that through all the normal ways of reducing carbon emissions minimising waste and promoting sustainable travel around the event," Morton added Vallentin Christensen believes that when the UCI Road World Championships return to Denmark in 2029 an event bid won off the back of their Grand Dèpart success the organisation committee will have even greater focus on encouraging spectators to plan their visits with sustainability in mind Legacy is a buzzword commonly associated with sporting events and the foreign starts of Grand Tours are no different.  The ASO and RCS Sport see it as a key part of a foreign start bid helping to justify their decision to take the race away from France Both the Yorkshire Grand Dèpart in 2014 and Copenhagen three years ago are examples of when a foreign start's visibility and spectacle have acted as a springboard for future pro cycling events in the regions Less than 12 months after the British county hosted the Tour The stage race had five editions before Covid-19 and financial issues made it no longer viable to run as Vallentin Christensen was quick and proud to point out Denmark now has plenty of pro cycling events in the pipeline It welcomes a men's and women's WorldTour one-day race for the first time in 2025 with the Copenhagen Sprint race The Dane pointed out that on top of the financial boost Copenhagen received from hosting the 2022 Grand Dèpart they received 75,000 mentions across editorial and social media content worldwide visibility that acted as a gateway for the future events coming their way.  the lasting impacts stretch much wider than the area's reputation for hosting pro cycling events the local people's impressions were equally if not more important than those of visitors from afar.  "We had to make sure that we had the media coverage all over the world and also bring in some visitors very important for us  was to involve the city and all the residents traders and business operators in the city to make them get involved with the event and bring them closer together." The city held several meetings with local people in the build-up to encourage buy-in to what they were aiming to achieve and it helped to turn Copenhagen yellow for the arrival of the Grande Boucle In a post-Tour survey of Copenhagen's residents a considerable 75% responded positively to the race being held in the city with less than 5% not engaged with the event Asking Morton about how he's looking to build a legacy akin to that of Yorkshire's off the back of the 2027 Grand Dèpart he pinpointed fostering community and civic pride as a key aim He spoke passionately about the reaction that the Tour had in every village and town it passed through in Yorkshire with the hope that weaving the race through three nations can help to scale this effect up to a national scale alongside other legacy goals focusing on social impact "Threading the UK together through the world's biggest cycling race is a really tangible demonstration of what our countries can achieve when they work together And [there's] no better way of doing that than hosting the opening stages of the Tour de France." Looking at the trend of foreign starts at Grand Tours and the frequency becoming ever higher there's no doubt that major races will continue to hunt for host venues that offer them something different and exciting to capture new audiences.  Does this mean that they naturally go further afield but foreign starts aren't just decided based on air miles and Grand Tours only seem to be pushing out into new frontiers Grand Tours have also visited destinations to signify historic or watershed moments like the West Germany Tour de France start of 1987 or the 2019 start in Brussels honouring Eddy Merckx's first Tour victory It wouldn't shock anyone for Slovenia to host a Grand Dèpart in the years to come nor would a visit to the Isle of Man be out of the question either While equal focus is expected to be on the planning of more foreign starts for the major women's stage races beyond the UK in 2027 after the Tour de France Femmes' inaugural foreign start in the Netherlands last year Vallentin Christensen predicts Denmark will be in the running to host the Tour de France again in the next decade but perhaps in a multi-country format to offer something unique yet again There have been suggestions that the Giro d'Italia could start in the UAE in 2027 with Saudi Arabia perhaps keen to host the Corsa Rosa if the One Cycling project is successful High summer temperatures would make it almost impossible for the Tour de France to start in the Middle East but North America is far more suitable Zomegnan still believes the Giro d'Italia should pluck up the courage to become the first Grand Tour to visit the USA. It is perhaps a matter of when rather than if as the Grand Tour look for more visibility and more funding in a combination of sport cutting his teeth in cycling journalism across their app he worked as a freelancer for Cycling Weekly reporting on races such as the Giro d’Italia and Milan-San Remo alongside covering the Women’s Super League and non-league football for various titles you will then be prompted to enter your display name During National Historic Preservation Month the Town of Braselton will host free guided walking tours through  Historic Downtown Braselton Braselton officials said the tours will be held on Wednesdays through May registration is encouraged due to limited space The tours will showcase the town's rich heritage and share the stories behind its historic buildings “Our downtown is full of stories that deserve to be told,” Community Development Director Amy Pinnell said “Historic Preservation Month is the perfect time to celebrate the people and places that shaped our community.” The tours will begin on the front porch of Braselton Town Hall This initiative is a collaboration between the Braselton Main Street Program and the Town of Braselton Community Development Office Attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water To register or learn more, click here or contact Jessica Payne at [email protected] or 706-654-5552 then this weekend you’re going to be in luck updating the ride experience to incorporate new footage inspired by locations from the prequel trilogy as well as the original saga Aside from the new paint job–and a matching new piece of box art inspired by The Adventures Continue–the toy remains largely the same as the one that debuted at D23 last year with some minor changes The ship still features seats to hold up to 25 3.75″-scaled figures (complete with those all-important seatbelts!) including opening doors that play the classic chime from the ride and a 4.75″ LCD screen housed at the front of the StarSpeeder’s interior that plays authentic Star Tours ride sequence footage from the Adventures Continue iteration of the attraction One key difference is that while the StarSpeeder 3000 playset featured a suite of voice phrases from the beloved original Star Tours droid pilot the 1000 will further reflect Adventures Continue by featuring lines from C-3PO who took over in the refresh as Star Tours’ latest unwitting pilot This is also reflected in the included figures which will feature an R2-D2 and C-3PO from the ‘Droid Factory’ 3.75″ figure line Disney sells in the parks replacing the Captain Rex included in the D23 StarSpeeder 3000 release At least this time you won’t have to make the trek to an event like D23 to get your hands on the vehicle this time. The Star Tours: The Adventures Continue StarSpeeder 1000 play set will be available from direct from the Disney Store at this link starting from 11am ET/8am PT this Sunday ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Twice-daily hiking trips for civilians in Golan buffer zone recently seized by Israel sold out almost immediately Israel’s military is organising hiking tours for civilians in newly occupied Syrian territory during the Passover holiday The twice-daily tours in the contested Golan Heights will run for a week beginning this Sunday Read moreThe itinerary includes the Syrian side of Mount Hermon and Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms at the foot of the mountain The Israeli-occupied strip of Lebanese land reputedly the site of God’s covenant with Abraham has been a flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for decades Visitors will also be able to hike and swim in the Ruqqad river valley which flows into the Yarmouk on the border with Jordan and see parts of the abandoned Ottoman Hejaz railway which used to connect the empire’s capital in Istanbul to Haifa Nablus and holy sites in present day Saudi Arabia The trips have been organised by the IDF’s 210th Division the Keshet Yehonatan religious education centre the environmentalist Golan Field School and the Israel nature and parks authority after the end of last year’s Israel-Hezbollah war which was part of the regional fallout ignited by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip The Israeli military said: “It’s important for us to restore heritage and tourism to the region and to tell the story of the battles fought during the war.” Tourists sign up at their own risk and the trips may be cancelled at short notice if there are security issues In response to questions from Israeli newspaper Haaretz the IDF said that the tour was “inside Israel” although the visits take place in the Golan Heights demilitarised buffer zone internationally recognised as Syrian territory The IDF began a heavy bombing campaign across Syria targeting the regime’s weapons stockpiles shortly after Assad fled the country while ground troops advanced in violation of a 1974 agreement Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that forces belonging to Syria’s new Islamist-led transitional government stay away from the border area and that the IDF remain until an alternative arrangement can be found organisers have said that they hope the security situation will permit additional tours to Syria after Passover — According to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce Those visitors are estimated to bring in more than $3 million during the National Main Street Conference during the same year as the Route 66 Centennial Jefferson Graham is the Host and Producer of Photowalks travel photography series airing on Scripps News Sundays at 9 am He’s in Tulsa working on a series of episodes along Route 66 eventually working at USA Today covering Apple and new iPhones Graham went on a Downtown Tulsa Art Deco tour with 2 News Oklahoma’s Christine Stanwood eventually going next door to the Atlas building He shared his best tips for shooting images with his iPhone Then charge your phone and make sure you have enough storage Kicking off on August 22 at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul the tour includes stops at Madison Square Garden in New York and many more before wrapping up at Delta Center in Salt Lake City on October 8 American Express is providing Card Members access to Amex Presale Tickets™ for shows in North America, available for purchase HERE starting Wednesday May 7 at 10am local time before the general public on-sale This is one of the many entertainment benefits American Express Card Members can access across the arts sports and music through Amex Experiences™ A special fan presale goes live Thursday, May 8 at 10am local time, with public on-sale beginning on Friday, May 9 at 10am local time. Tickets will be available HERE As part of the tour, Boone is partnering with Google Maps to exclusively share his favorite local spots for fans to check out before or after the show and help concert-goers find the best way to get to the venues the performance immediately soared across social media generating tens of millions of views overnight “Beautiful Things” was the #1 most streamed song in the world last year earning Boone the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024 the chart-conquering track has now surpassed 2 billion streams on Spotify and nearly 4 billion total streams since its release last year Featured on his acclaimed, Platinum certified debut album Fireworks & Rollerblades the viral smash logged an impressive 7 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and vaulted to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart It also earned Boone two Billboard Music Awards an iHeartRadio Music Award, and multiple global accolades he opened for Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour in London at Wembley stadium following a performance with Lana Del Rey at Hangout Festival in May He also embarked on his fully sold-out Fireworks & Rollerblades Tour With the upcoming release of American Heart performances at landmark festivals across the globe and a highly-anticipated arena tour on the horizon, Boone is on track for another record year in 2025 NY — The Governors Ball Music Festival Switzerland — Montreux Jazz Festival France — Monte-Carlo Summer Festival KY — Bourbon & Beyond Music Festival .css-s4id4f{font-family:Suisse Intl,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.9rem;line-height:2.2rem;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:-0.01em;}Official Money Scottie Scheffler taps in to secure wire-to-wire win at THE CJ CUP Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler dominated his hometown event Had Scheffler played his last two holes Sunday in even-par, he would have held the PGA TOUR scoring record alone. But he missed the green left at the par-3 17th and flubbed his chip shot en route to a bogey, and he failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker at the par-5 18th, missing an 8-foot birdie putt and settling for par. Before those final two holes, Scheffler’s week at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson was nearly flawless. The world No. 1 carded rounds of 61-63-66-63 at TPC Craig Ranch, becoming the first wire-to-wire winner on TOUR since Lee Hodges at the 2023 3M Open (and just the third wire-to-wire winner at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, an event that dates to 1944). Scottie Scheffler's excellent tee shot leads to birdie on No. 7 at THE CJ CUP Scheffler led the field at +12.811 Strokes Gained: Approach the Green, his second-best approach week on TOUR behind the 2024 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (+12.96). He also ranked third in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee and sixth in Strokes Gained: Putting. Prior to Scheffler’s bogey on No. 17, CBS analyst Colt Knost received a tongue-in-cheek text from Thomas that encouraged Scheffler to be satisfied with a share of the record: “Tell Scottie to just make bogey-par and tie my 72-hole record, please … 31-under is just fine,” Thomas texted Knost. “Take pride in that.” Scheffler obliged – and he certainly took pride in his first PGA TOUR stroke-play title in Texas, at the same event where he made his first TOUR start in 2014 at age 17. “It feels like a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice for little moments like these,” said Scheffler, who also won the 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas. “And they're pretty special.” Copyright © 2025 PGA TOUR, Inc. 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When Roth's Vegas residency was first announced organizers promised "a changing set of 26 instantly recognizable songs Roth postponed the final six shows of his Las Vegas residency due to the coronavirus pandemic that is spreading across the globe Roth's last Vegas residency kicked off on January 8 2020 with a 15-song set that included 10 VAN HALEN classics and five songs from his solo career Backing the singer were lead guitarist Al Estrada from the VAN HALEN tribute band ERUPTION keyboardist Danny Wagner and drummer Mike Mussleman Roth explained that he chose Vegas as the place to debut his new band because "this is where you come to celebrate and do the victory dance In a February 2020 interview with StarTribune Roth openly wondered whether his first tour since VAN HALEN completed its 2015 run of shows would be the last time he would perform "I'm calling it 'The Last Tour'," he said at the time "and then underneath it in parentheses: 'Unless It Isn't' "But this kind of music requires the kind of energy that people in their 20s bring You know what NFL stands for: Not For Long I remember the days when we would stand around and say 'Let's go have a cigarette.' And that's what we did: Four guys having one cigarette Roth performed as the opening act for the North American leg of KISS's "End Of The Road" farewell tour gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have announced the dates for the first leg of their "Ascension Of Europe Tour 2025" Italian band MESSA will be direct support on all dates dates and LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE on select mainland Europe shows 09 - UK - Manchester - New Century HallOct 10 - UK - Wolverhampton - KK's Steel MillOct 17 - UK - London - Islington Assembley HallOct In a recent interview with Alejandrosis PARADISE LOST guitarist Aaron Aedy spoke about the status of the follow-up to the band's latest album which was released in May 2020 via Nuclear Blast but it's recorded." Asked if he could give fans some details about the musical direction of the new PARADISE LOST material It's like opening your presents before Christmas I don't wanna go into the new album too much just yet 'cause I'll wait to see what it's like when it's mixed This past March, PARADISE LOST guitarist Greg Mackintosh told Chile's PowerOfMetal.cl that the band's new LP would likely be released "September time." He added: "It's been the longest time we've ever had between albums But that's kind of because of the pandemic as well… So shit happens PARADISE LOST will embark on "The Devil Embraced" North American tour later this month The trek will kick off on May 16 at the Milwaukee Metal Fest and conclude on May 24 at Maryland Deathfest In a November 2023 interview with Jorge Botas of Portugal's Metal Global PARADISE LOST singer Nick Holmes spoke about how the band's songwriting process has evolved over the decades Nick said: "The writing process is 100 percent different to how we used to write when we were younger but it's just — maybe you're kind of more fussy You can listen to things more than maybe you would do in the old days There isn't an element of that as much now There's a lot of ping-ponging ideas backwards and forwards and you have more time to dwell on things and think It might be all right.' There's benefits of both ways of writing you can have too long and you can have too short We're just not the kind of band who can just kind of throw out a song and it's just brilliant but I guess you can pretend that you're spontaneous and you just can throw out a genius song in about 10 minutes I don't think that really happens with many people has changed dramatically to where it was when we started." When Botas noted that the different songwriting approach is something that was developed through experience Holmes said: "When you start writing something 'This is fantastic,' and then you can wake up in the morning and you think it's rubbish And then sometimes you have to take a step backwards having a step backwards and maybe let someone else have a listen Once you've gone to the top of the hill and you're coming down Asked if he can still trust his instincts when writing music you could hear something that's not necessarily you think this is strange.' And then you've gotta listen to it and then get into the… I don't instantly dismiss something — I would never do that — but I've gotta give it a few [listens] And if I still feel the same way after a few listens But I don't instantly dismiss things 'cause I don't think that's really a positive thing to do Asked if he can write a whole set of lyrics without music or if he needs the music to get some like melodies in his head Nick said: "I prefer the music as a springboard to write lyrics to And that's always something I've admired about certain bands over the years I'm not particularly interested in hearing stories in songs it's more about how the songs sound at a certain time how the lyrics sound at a certain time and the words but I prefer to have something to kind of bounce off To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their fourth album, "Icon", PARADISE LOST re-recorded the LP for a special new release. There was also "an extra special vinyl" version of the album, both of which were made available in December 2023 "Icon 30" is a totally re-recorded version of "Icon" and PARADISE LOST once again worked with longtime collaborator and producer Jaime Gomez Arellano PARADISE LOST recorded the vocals and drums for "Icon 30" at Jaime's new studio Arda Recorders in Porto The rest of the album was completed at Mackintosh's Black Planet Studios "Icon 30" also features brand new artwork created by Scott Robinson and new liner notes from Kerrang!'s Nick Ruskell "Icon" marked a departure from the death-doom sound of PARADISE LOST's early work and was the last album to feature Matthew Archer on drums "Icon" was inducted into the Decibel "Hall Of Fame" with the magazine naming it influential to the development of the gothic metal subgenre PARADISE LOST welcomed Guido Zima Montanarini as their official new drummer Finnish drummer Waltteri Väyrynen left PARADISE LOST to join OPETH he issued a statement saying that his decision involved "absolutely no bad blood or drama whatsoever." PARADISE LOST were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the U.K But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece "Gothic" nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995's "Draconian Times" they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of 1990s classics "One Second" and "Host" to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009's "Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us" and "Tragic Idol" (2012),with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters The band's "The Plague Within" (2015) and "Medusa" (2017) albums saw a much-celebrated return to brutal via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat Shannen Ace A new play set inspired by the modern Star Tours vehicles will be released by the Disney Store on May the 4th The new Starspeeder 1000 vehicle play set is an updated version of the Starspeeder 3000 set released last year this new vehicle is painted to reflect the 2011 update to Star Tours that turned it into Star Tours: The Adventures Continue the biggest difference between this set and the Starspeeder 3000 is the inclusion of a C-3PO figure instead of Captain Rex (a.k.a C-3PO replaced Rex as the ride’s pilot The seats inside the Starspeeder are blue instead of orange They can hold up to 25 3.75″-scaled figures and even have elastic seatbelts An R2-D2 figure is also included and fits into a slot on top of the speeder Scenes from Star Tours: The Adventures Continue play on the 4.75″ LCD screen in the cockpit Other electronic features include opening doors playing the Star Tours chime The play set will be available on DisneyStore.com at 8 a.m Disney didn’t announce a price but the Starspeeder 3000 was $300 Check out our TikTok of the original toy below Source: io9 For the latest Disney Parks news and info, follow WDW News Today on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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The confirmation email was sent from messages@fareharbor.com You've successfully subscribed to Untapped New York Check your email for magic link to sign-in Fresh off his first public performance in five years, David Lee Roth has announced a summer 2025 tour The former Van Halen singer is currently scheduled to hit the road July 22 in Paso Robles California with 20 newly announced dates concluding Sept He had previously announced one other show Roth made a triumphant return to the stage at the M3 Festival Saturday night performing 16 classic Van Halen songs with the help of a newly expanded backing band drummer Francis Valentino and a keyboard player he was joined by a four-piece group of backing vocalists Prior to this weekend's performance, Roth's last public live show was opening for Kiss in March 2020. He announced his retirement in late 2021 shortly before he had been scheduled to begin a Las Vegas residency "We've reached the end of my first retirement," he joked at one point during the M3 show Read More: Steve Vai Says 'Eat 'Em and Smile' Reunion Was One Chord Away Information on ticket sales for the 20 newly announced David Lee Roth shows can be found at his official website CA - California Mid-State FairJuly 31: Hollywood CA - Humphrey's Concerts by the BaySept The former Van Halen singer will hit the road after making a triumphant return from a five-year retirement.\nRead More Fresh off his first public performance in five years, David Lee Roth has announced a summer 2025 tour The former Van Halen singer is currently scheduled to hit the road July 22 in Paso Robles Roth made a triumphant return to the stage at the M3 Festival Saturday night Prior to this weekend's performance, Roth's last public live show was opening for Kiss in March 2020. He announced his retirement in late 2021 Read More: Steve Vai Says 'Eat 'Em and Smile' Reunion Was One Chord Away Information on ticket sales for the 20 newly announced David Lee Roth shows can be found at his official website https://t.co/UGdXcPV89n pic.twitter.com/CtGJ59tsvx Libraries  A-Z Index  Directories Summer Campus Tour options begin on May 13 Any questions regarding a specific date should be directed to CampusVisit@twu.edu For Summer 2025:All school/community groups will be scheduled on a case by case basis YOU MUST REACH OUT DIRECTLY TO CampusVisit@twu.edu Register for a Summer Tour now! 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Contact webmaster Timberlake x Nike shoe collab early access Scottie Scheffler won by eight on Sunday in Dallas Check in every week for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors as they break down the hottest topics in the sport, and join the conversation by tweeting us at @golf_com we break down Scottie Scheffler’s epic win Bryson DeChambeau’s performance in Korea and the recent caddie movement on Tour Scottie Scheffler dominated the CJ Cup Bryson Nelson closing with a third round of 63 or better to win by eight over Erik Van Rooyen It was Scheffler’s first win in 2025 following his epic 2024 season of nine wins Josh Sens, senior writer (@joshsens): First, a tragic ravioli-making incident that sidelined him for a spell Then a run-in with the reality that winning is hard and often comes with the tiniest margins Scheffler now has nine starts this year and this to show for it: a win Sean Zak, senior writer (@sean_zak): Other people got in the way Scheffler was probably 85% as good this year as he was last year — and that 15% is just enough to let one or two other guys have their best week but the numbers he put up this week should scare the rest of the field Josh Schrock, news editor (@Schrock_And_Awe): A little bit of rust and good play from Rory McIlroy Justin Thomas and others kept Scheffler out of the winner’s circle Scheffler admitted that the ravioli injury set him back a little and that while he was pain-free which led to un-Scheffler-like ball-striking The win is Scheffler’s first in nine starts this season; he had four in 10 starts at this point last year What side of the fence are you on: that this is the first step of another scorching Scheffler summer Or is last year’s total too unrealistic to match Sens: I think we can fairly expect a scorching summer from Scheffler which doesn’t mean he might not also win Player of the Year for the third season in a row I think he wins three more times this summer Last year’s total is too unrealistic to match Schrock: Is he going to win six more times this year But I fully expect him to knock off a few more and win the first non-Masters major of his career a title defense at the Travelers and at least one playoff event Also victorious this week was Bryson DeChambeau, who won LIV Golf Korea for his first of the year With the PGA Championship just two weeks away Sens: Hard to say that either really “needed” a win He had some close calls and uncharacteristic stumbles — to the point where he showed some very outward signs of frustration and even borderline snippy-ness in some of his exchanges with the press For a guy as at peace with himself as Scheffler I guess you could say that the dry spell had begun to eat at him a bit He had let wins slip a few times recently on LIV So starting the day with a lead and shutting the door was good to see You can bet he thinks his best is still better than Scheffler’s.  He held the 36-hole lead in Miami and got run down by Marc Leishman He scored well through three rounds at Augusta and somehow held an early Sunday lead before iron play nuked his chances to win He held the 36-hole lead last week in Mexico but lost to Joaquin Niemann If he had lost to Richard Bland or Charles Howell III I think the confidence would have taken a hit heading into Quail Hollow and my opinion of him wouldn’t have changed Had Bryson blown a four-stroke lead in Korea I’d be down on his chances in two weeks I think he’s the best [only?] chance at a person not named Scottie or Rory winning at Quail.  Brandt Snedeker (USA) and Geoff Ogilvy (International) were announced as Presidents Cup captains for the September 2026 event at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago And why might Ogilvy be the guy to end the International squad’s drought Both likable players who have been around long enough to earn their peers’ respect on and off the course including two wins at the WGC Championship I think the influence of captains gets overstated in these events The captains don’t hit shots or stroke putts Pep talks and strategic pairings only go so far Zak: I think we are seeing the result of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both not being available to captain right now. This era of teams was supposed to be led by them, and neither are anywhere near assuming that position. So, we get Keegan at the Ryder Cup — which his own play may negate — and a non-major-winner but overall “good guy” in Snedeker But something tells me Ogilvy will do a good job (in defeat) and then retain the position for the next Prez Cup is going to continue to trot out six of the top 10 players in the world every two years the International side probably doesn’t have much of a chance I don’t think Ogilvy leads them to victory in 2026 but perhaps in 2028 when they play in Australia 4 Collin Morikawa has replaced long-time caddie J.J who used to be with Max Homa and who recently won as a fill-in with Justin Thomas at the RBC Heritage Morikawa has played well lately but is still winless since the fall of 2023 it’s just the psychological shift that comes with making a change I don’t mean to dehumanize the player-caddie relationship but I think there’s an analogy to be made with the seeming magic of swapping out a putter and suddenly draining every putt you look at the confidence builds and a positive feedback loop kicks in there’s got to be more to the dynamic than just that sudden sugar rush Zak: A new caddie can have a ton of influence … in either direction Because bringing a new person into that walking walking and gawking is a vibe-shift that players will notice it sounds like that’s what he was seeking — a vibe-shift Possibly during contention the most.  Schrock: The vibe-shift might help Morikawa get over the hump if he immediately puts himself back in contention If getting Greiner on the bag helps give him a different Sunday feel when he’s in contention but in the end it’s on Morikawa to execute the shots down the stretch when he’s under pressure All of our market picks are independently selected and curated by the editorial team Andy's Frozen Custard turns 40 next year the brand is launching Sweet Since '86: Andy's Frozen Custard 40th Anniversary Tour a year-long event designed to bring the joy of Andy's to communities The tour launches in early 2026 and culminates in Texas at the Andy's Frozen Custard 300 NASCAR Race The tour will visit all 170-plus store locations across more than 30 markets guests will be able to see the Sweetest Trophy from the Andy's 300 NASCAR Race making special appearances "This tour is our way of saying thank you to our #FANdys — the families and loyal custard lovers who've been part of our story for four decades," Andy Kuntz "We're bringing the party to every corner of the country and celebrating the sweetest moments Andy's Frozen Custard was founded in 1986 in Missouri the brand has 172 company-owned and franchises stores across 15 states Get the latest news and resources from Fast Casual McKINNEY, Texas -- Scottie Scheffler cradled his year-old son Bennett -- the reason he missed his beloved hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson in 2024 -- and struggled to keep his emotions in check for a TV interview just as he did a few minutes later during the victory speech The top-ranked player had time to prepare for the moment because of the giant lead he took into Sunday's final round and he even added a little drama by chasing the PGA Tour's 72-hole scoring record Scheffler matched that mark of 253 set by Justin Thomas at the 2017 Sony Open and equaled six years later by Ludvig Åberg at the RSM Classic closing with a 63 to finish at 31 under par The runaway victory came 11 years after his PGA Tour debut at the Nelson as a high school senior and 22 years after a photo was taken of then-6-year-old Scheffler with the tournament namesake Scheffler couldn't help but think about that day in 2014 was his girlfriend -- not yet the mother of their first child -- and sister Callie Scheffler finished with a 72-hole score of 253 tying the mark set by Justin Thomas at the 2017 Sony Open and matched six years later by Ludvig Åberg at the RSM Classic. LM Otero/AP"My family was all able to be here and I think at times it all comes crashing down to me at once," Scheffler said "We have a lot of great memories as kids coming to watch this tournament and it's more of a dream to be able to win it." Scheffler was in position to break the tour scoring record before a flubbed chip that led to bogey on the par-3 17th hole and a par from a greenside bunker on the par-5 closing hole His 8-foot putt for birdie and the record slid by the left side of the hole Hideki Matsuyama has the lowest score in relation to par this season 35 under on the par-73 Plantation Course at Kapalua and I told you it was going to be a steep mountain to climb which is kind of what you expect from the world No Scheffler and Spieth finished with the two lowest rounds of the tournament Scheffler opened with a 10-under 61 on Thursday at the defenseless par-71 TPC Craig Ranch in a suburban community about 30 miles north of Dallas knowing his friend and fellow Texas alum was about to become the first of the pair to win the event they both cherish Spieth was the first to make his tour debut at the Nelson leading many to believe he would have won it by now "I think I'll take it easy on him," Scheffler said with a chuckle Spieth played with Scheffler the first two days and was 12 shots behind him going into the weekend They started the tournament with 13 PGA Tour wins apiece "It wasn't that long ago I was definitely better than him and now I'm definitely not right now," said Spieth but I just watched it those first two rounds It was the first victory this year for Scheffler after he won 10 times before May in the previous three years combined Scheffler's previous best Nelson finish was a tie for fifth in his most recent appearance two years ago. He's the first wire-to-wire Nelson winner since Tom Watson 45 years ago "I'm not jealous of him winning this event over any other," Spieth said Scheffler beat the previous Nelson scoring record of 259 set by Steven Bowditch in 2015. That tournament was played at the TPC Four Seasons. Normally a par 70, that course had a par-69 layout the final three days when heavy rain forced officials to convert a par 4 into a par 3. Bowditch finished 18 under. The margin of victory was the second largest at the Nelson behind Sam Snead's 10-shot win in 1957, when it was known as the Dallas Open Invitational. "This is a golf course where you can kind of make a run, and I knew that I couldn't just coast to the finish line today," Scheffler said. "I knew I had to put together a good round." Because of heavy rain Wednesday and Friday, players were allowed to lift, clean and replace their golf balls in the fairway for the first three rounds, but not in the final round. Aberg had so-called preferred lies during the first rounds at the 2023 RSM Classic. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association opens its doors to the public for guided tours Experience the rich history of Pasadena and Wrigley Mansion You are invited to take a peek at the Tournament House uncover the stories and see this iconic landmark little-known facts and endearing trivia about the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association and Tournament House You will learn about the history of the house and hear more about the traditions of the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game the house was once home to William Wrigley Jr and his wife Ada Wrigley was also known for the Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field and Wrigley Chewing Gum the Wrigley family presented the property to the city of Pasadena with the request that it become home for the Tournament of Roses the house has served as headquarters for the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game We ask all individuals to register at least one day in advance Each guest must have a complimentary ticket Are tickets to the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game available for purchase at the Tournament House Tickets for the Rose Parade are available from our partner Sharp Seating Tickets for the Rose Bowl Game are available from Ticketmaster Visit www.tournamentofroses.com for more information the Pasadena Tournament of Roses offers group tours which are booked separately from individual tickets Group tours are available during business hours from May to August on Thursdays Are tours offered during inclement weather Do you allow food or drink during the tour We ask that you wait to eat or drink before or after the one-hour tour All children must be accompanied by an adult A small retail/gifting area is located in the office lobby Please use the grounds during daylight hours and dispose of waste in the provided trash receptacles Masks and hand sanitizer are available upon request Please email: membership@tournamentofroses.com The Australian band will play Canadian shows in Montreal BY Megan LaPierrePublished May 5 Ahead of the release of their new album If That Makes Sense on Friday (May 9) via Concord, Australian indie rockers Spacey Jane have announced a world tour for this fall that makes sense!) The stint on the road is set to include a trio of Canadian stops in Montreal With support from the Belair Lip Bombs, the tour's North American leg kicks off on September 3 in Atlanta, GA. The band will make their first venture into Canada to play Montreal's Studio TD on September 14 and Toronto's Danforth Music Hall on September 15 After weaving their way back through the US for a handful of stateside concerts, Spacey Jane will return to Canadian soil for a September 26 gig at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom they'll wrap the North American dates on October 8 in Oklahoma City before heading overseas through until early November Tickets go on general sale this Friday (May 9), following various presales getting underway on May 7 at 10 a.m. local in select markets. Check out the full schedule of dates below, as well as more upcoming shows by way of Exclaim!'s Canadian concert listings * with the Belair Lip Bombs^ with Mia Wray Be the first to get our biggest stories delivered to your inbox.