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From a Tiger Woods major victory to the 2025 Ryder Cup, here is the history of Bethpage Black
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Bethpage Black will host the Ryder Cup this weekend, nearly 12 years after the initial announcement that it would be the tournament’s host venue.
“Ryder Cup 2024” merchandise was on sale during the 2019 PGA Championship at the Long Island course, but because of the pandemic in 2020, the Ryder Cup reverted to its old format of being played in odd-numbered years. That change was first forced after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Fans in the New York area have had to wait another year to return to the course, but the wait is sure to be well worth it.
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Tiger Woods celebrates his victory on the 18th green at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Dubbed “The People’s Country Club,” the major-championship course is open to the public and is often the site of overnight camping for golfers planning to play the course the following morning.
Before players tee off, they are greeted with a warning sign:
“The Black Course is an extremely difficult course which we recommend only for highly skilled golfers,” the infamous sign reads ahead of the right dogleg on the first hole.
The Ryder Cup trophy at Bethpage State Park Black Course on June 6, 2016, in Farmingdale, New York. (Gary Kellner/PGA of America)
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The course opened in 1936 but did not hold its first professional golf tournament until the 2002 U.S. Open.
The Ryder Cup will mark the sixth professional golf event held at Bethpage Black. The course also hosted the U.S. Open in 2009 and the Barclays, now called the St. Jude Championship, in 2012 and 2016.
Tiger Woods and Lucas Glover won the U.S. Open in 2002 and 2009, respectively, while Nick Watney won the 2012 Barclays, followed by Patrick Reed four years later. Brooks Koepka won the 2019 PGA Championship.
Brooks Koepka of the United States poses for photos after winning the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on May 19, 2019, in Farmingdale, New York. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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It was announced last week that the 2028 Women’s PGA Championship will be played at Bethpage, as will the 2033 PGA Championship.
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ESPN’s Bracketology efforts are focused on projecting the NCAA tournament field just as we expect the NCAA Division I basketball committee to select the field in March. ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi uses the same data points favored by the committee, including strength of schedule and other season-long indicators, including the NET and team-sheet data similar to what is available to the NCAA, in his projections of the field. Visit the NCAA’s website for a fuller understanding of NCAA selection criteria.
68-Team Bracket
The 68-team bracket is the standard version of the NCAA tournament field that has been in place since 2011. If the 2021 field is comprised of 68 teams, there will be some key differences to past years, however.
The primary adjustment from a normal year is, of course, the playing of the entire NCAA tournament at a single site. This eliminates the need for geographical considerations in seeding. Additionally, there will be at least one fewer automatic qualifier this season, as the Ivy League’s decision to forgo the 2020-21 season reduces the number of AQ entries to 31 for this season.
48-Team Bracket
In this projection, a condensed selection process would reduce the field by 10 at-large teams and 10 automatic qualifiers (the latter of which still receive a revenue unit). The top four seeds in each region would receive a bye into the second round, with four first-round games per region – 5 vs. 12, 6 vs. 11, 7 vs. 10 and 8 vs. 9 – being played without fans on the higher seed’s home court.
To minimize travel, first-round pairings will be guided by geography to the greatest extent possible. And the reduced field results in only 32 teams competing at the central site. All participants must post a minimum .500 conference record – the “Lunardi Rule” – for at-large consideration.
16-Team Bracket
In this projection, the committee selects and seeds the 16 best available teams. There are no automatic qualifiers, although all non-competing conference champions receive the designated revenue unit.
To maintain some sense of national balance, conference participation is capped at four teams. And no region shall have more than one team from the same conference.
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Nationals’ Jacob Young shows off incredible concentration to make bobbling catch for 2nd straight game
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Washington Nationals outfielder Jacob Young’s concentration was on display for the second straight game on Monday night.
Young and the Nationals were taking on the Atlanta Braves in one of the final series of the regular season for each team. Braves shortstop Ha-Seong Kim was at the plate in the fifth inning and he hit a line drive to Young.
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Washington Nationals outfielder Jacob Young catches a fly ball while falling in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Colin Hubbard)
The center fielder came in to make the grab. He slid and the ball rolled out of his glove for a split second. He then snagged it barehanded for the second out of the inning.
“He did it again,” the announcers said on the broadcast.
He was 0-for-4 at the plate.
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Washington Nationals center fielder Jacob Young (30) catches a fly ball against the Atlanta Braves in the fifth inning at Truist Park on Sept. 22, 2025. (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)
Atlanta won the game 11-5, but it was Young’s defensive prowess that was the talk of the night.
He showed off his concentration skills against the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon.
The Nationals were trying to keep a small lead over the New York Mets in the bottom of the fifth inning. Mets batter Brett Baty sent a pitch deep into center field at Citi Field. Young tracked it from the start but as he got closer to the warning track, he appeared to have misjudged where the ball was going to be.
Young jumped and turned back toward the ball as he crashed into the wall. He bounced off the fence and saw the ball pop in and out of his glove. He had the wherewithal to use his foot to keep the ball from hitting the ground and the concentration to complete the catch.
Washington Nationals outfielder Jacob Young catches a fly ball hit by New York Mets’ Brett Baty during the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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Washington defeated New York on Sunday, 3-2.
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