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Cameron Smith Wins Sony Open In Another Hawaii Comeback

by DOUG FERGUSONHONOLULU (AP) — Two

weeks in Hawaii brought rain, unusually strong wind, playoffs and two players who thought victory was out of reach until the winner’s lei was draped around their necks.

Cameron Smith was the latest Sunday at the Sony Open.

He might have been even more surprised than Justin Thomas, who got a second chance when he won a playoff at Kapalua.

“Two or three holes left, I re-ally didn’t think there was much of a shot,” Smith said after his

Cameron Smith holds the champions trophy after the final round of the Sony Open PGA Tour golf event, Sunday, Jan. 12 at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Pete Dye, ‘Picasso’ of Golf Course Design, Is Dead at 94

by RICHARD GOLDSTEIN“His courses built for tourna-

ments are hard,” Tiger Woods once said, “but there’s a good reason for everything.”

Pete Dye, who designed many of America’s most famous golf courses and became known as the mad scientist of golf archi-tecture for his imaginative and supremely challenging layouts, died on Thursday in the Domin-ican Republic, the site of several Dye family courses. He was 94.

Pete Dye and his wife, Alice, at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., while it was under construction in 1980. The course has been the annual home of the Players Championship. (PGA Tour Archive, via Getty Images)

TOUR Players Beef Up Australian Bushfire Reliefby BEN EVERILL

HONOLULU — Maybe it was some sort of cosmic karma that helped Cameron Smith win the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Australian PGA TOUR players in the Sony Open field — with help from some friends — added over $175,000 to help boost bushfire relief efforts in their home country, taking the current total from the TOUR community to well over a $250,000.

The six Australians in the field in Marc Leishman, Smith, Matt Jones, Rhein Gibson, Cameron

Davis and Cameron Percy, plus American Parker McLachlin, all pledged funds per birdie and eagle made during the tourna-ment to the ongoing fire crisis down under.

Together, they raised over $30,000, despite difficult con-ditions with high winds and rain throughout the week at Waialae Country Club. And the figure will continue to rise as further matches are added.

Karma seemed part of the narrative as Smith came from behind to force a playoff with

a birdie on the 72nd hole and earlier, Leishman holed out for an eagle on Sunday from 130 yards to boost the cause.

Leishman’s Begin Again Foundation has over $9,000 of straight donations to add plus their pledge to match $5,000 of those contributions. Personal sponsors and friends of the four-time TOUR winner also added to his birdie/eagle pledge, which takes things up at least another $6,000.

The Presidents Cup, which Relief — PAGE 7

Pete Dye — PAGE 6

Sony Open — PAGE 3

Timeline of African-American Achievements in Golf

by BOB DENNEY, PGA HISTORIAN

From John Shippen to Tiger Woods and Renee Powell to Charlie Sifford, African-Amer-icans have played a significant role in the growth of golf, both on and off the course. Here is a timeline marking some of the many memorable moments in the history of African-Americans in golf.

1896: John Shippen, whose father was African-American and whose mother was Shinne-cock Indian, plays in the second U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills,

where he worked as a caddie, at the age of 17. Some of the professional players threat-en to boycott the event when they discover his race, but back down when USGA President Theodore Havemayer defends Shippen and another entrant, Shinnecock Indian Oscar Bunn. Shippen ties for sixth and wins $10. He goes on to play in five more U.S. Opens.

1899: George Grant, a dentist in Boston, invents the modern wooden golf tee.

1922: Joseph Bartholomew

Tiger Woods speaks with Charlie Sifford, the first African American in-ducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, during a practice round of the 2009 WGC Bridgestone Invitational. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

Timeline — PAGE 10

Fans Select Inbee Park As Player of the Decade

by AMY ROGERSWith 53 percent of the fan

vote received, No. 1 Inbee Park was selected as the LPGA Player of the Decade. Nearly 12,000

votes were cast over the LPGA’s social platforms to lift the LPGA Tour Hall of Famer ahead of No. 14 Brooke Henderson, who had

Park — PAGE 3

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Local Golfers & Clubs Prepared for New World Handicap System ‘Cutover’

The concept of one worldwide, universal golf handicap system — one that any player in any country can take with them to wherever they play golf and have it applied in just the same way they use it at their home course — has been years in the making.

As of Monday, January 6, that concept became reality as the new World Handicap System (WHS) went live for the first time.

Although many avid golfers — near and far — have heard about the WHS, many other golfers have yet to learn about the new system. Locally, the Rochester District Golf Association has been busy since the end of last season getting the word out about the WHS — first, to its more than 70 Mem-ber Clubs and organizations who actively use the current system (the USGA Handicap System) and now, as the WHS has been launched to the rest of its near-ly 13,000 local GHIN Handi-cap-using members.

As an official Allied Golf Asso-ciation of the USGA, the RDGA is the local “franchise” of the USGA and has been tasked to communicate this message about the WHS.

“On January 1, the World Handicap System officially launched in the United States, delivering the first universal Rules of Handicapping for all golfers. For the first time in the U.S., every Handicap Index will now be computed through a centralized database to ensure

consistency and integrity in every number,” said a recent email from the RDGA to its members.

“Between January 1-5 the USGA migrated all previous Handicap data to the new tech-nology. Starting on January 6, golfers have been able to post any scores they missed during this temporary down time, and any rounds played between Jan-uary 1-5 will be used for handi-capping purposes under the new World Handicap System.”

Since late summer, the RDGA has been busy communicating these changes to representatives of its Member Clubs throughout the Rochester area — including a series of four WHS seminars, which were attended by club handicap chairs, head profes-sionals and other club officials. In fact, these educational sessions were mandated by the USGA for any club that will be using WHS beginning in 2020. As a result of these local seminars, nearly 75 percent of all clubs in the RDGA have become officially certified in the use of WHS.

Now that the clubs have most-ly all been trained in WHS, the RDGA is making sure that rank-and-file golfers throughout the area also know what to expect from the changes that will occur when the USGA Handicap Sys-tem turns over to the WHS.

Included in the recent email to RDGA members was a list of five things that every golfer who has an official handicap needs to know about WHS, including:1. The Handicap Index Calcula-

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Part of the “more responsive” Handicap updates noted in item No.4 include “daily” handicap updates. In other words, when golfers post a score for handicap purposes, they will receive a new, adjusted, handicap via email by the following day — rather than the former “eRevisions” that were sent out on the 1st and 15th of every month.

The RDGA-issued GHIN Hand-icap app that many golfers cur-rently use will also be getting an update as a result of the WHS launch on January 6. This up-date — which if downloaded from users’ app stores will automatically replace the old app — will include new features such as hole-by-hole score posting, statistical tracking (such as fairways made, greens in regulation, putts, etc.), as well as posted scores that au-tomatically account for a player’s handicap. All a golfer needs to do is input their raw score into the system and the system calcu-lates their “net “ score based on their current handicap.

The new WHS represents a major upgrade and improvement over the former handicapping sys-tem — one that the RDGA says more golfers should use in the new year. And for those golf-ers who have questions about the new system, the RDGA recommends contacting their local club representatives or the RDGA office. x

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What’s in the Bag: Sony Open Winner

Cameron SmithCameron Smith won the

2020 Sony Open in a playoff over Brendan Steele. Here’s a look inside his golf bag:

DRIVER: Titleist TS2 (9.5 degrees), with UST Mamiya Ele-ments Platinum 6 shaft

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playoff victory over Brendan Steele on rain-soaked Waialae Country Club. “I knew I had to play some good golf. It just kind of all fell into place.”

Smith was 4-over par just two holes into the tournament Thursday, and his focus turned to making birdies that would give him a chance to salvage his round and raise money for the wildfires in his native Australia. Smith and Marc Leishman had

pledged $500 for every birdie to help raise money.

He twice pulled within shot of the lead at various points Sunday, but it looked like a lost cause when Steele had a two-shot lead with two holes to play.

“I thought I had to birdie 17 and then do something really good on 18,” Smith said. “You never know what can happen.”

Just about everything did in the final hour, which is about how long it took to play the last

two holes. It rained every day since Tuesday, and the rain was so steady on Sunday the PGA Tour moved the hole location from its traditional spot to higher ground, and the green still had to be rolled with sponges between groups.

Steele missed a 6-foot par putt on the 17th, and his lead was down to one shot.

In the group ahead, Simp-son’s wedge into the par-5 18th skipped off sheen of water and settled 15 feet behind the hole for a birdie attempt he narrowly missed. He shot 67.

Palmer never even had that opportunity. His fairway metal from a bunker sailed so far right that he hit the metal railing atop a massive video screen, sailed well to the right of the corporate tents and was lost, presumably in a back yard. He had to go back to the bunker and made bogey for a 68.

Steele was trying to figure out what happened to Palmer, and then he did the opposite. He pulled a 2-iron so wildly to the left that it was near the ropes lining the 10th fairway. After a free drop, he hit wedge off the muddy lie to 30 feet, taking a reasonable birdie putt out of the equation. His par gave him a 71 and opened the way for Smith.

The 26-year-old Australian delivered with a long bunker over the forming puddles to 8 feet, and Smith poured it in for a 68 to force the second straight playoff in Hawaii, and the third straight dating to end of last year.

Steele, who led by as many as three shots when he holed a bunker shot for birdie on the 11th, made no excuses for his approach to the 18th.

“Lie was good, water was fine,” he said. “It’s just a 2-iron to win a golf tournament. Just a hard shot.”

Equally hard was the playoff

hole, which was No. 10 because of the water on the 18th green. Steele again looked to have the advantage with a great drive that left him 88 yards away in the fairway, with Smith over by the trees in the right rough. Smith chased a shot low and onto the green to 10 feet.

Steele, so used to having a blast of wind in his face on that hole, tried to get a shot to the back tier toward the pin, because anything less would spin back to the lower tier. Instead, it sailed over the green, he chipped some 15 feet by the hole and missed his par putt.

And there was Smith, who an hour or so earlier had stood on the 17th tee wondering how he could win from two shots be-hind, and now was two putts and 10 feet away from a PGA Tour victory he could call his own.

He twice won the Australian PGA Championship. He shared a team title with Jonas Blixt three years ago in New Orleans.

“My first individual win on the PGA Tour, it’s definitely going to be one I never forget,” Smith said. “Given the conditions and how tough it was, I’ll draw back on this in the future.”

For the week, Smith made 21 birdies for $10,500 toward the Australian fires relief fund, along with other contributions from the PGA Tour and $125,000 from the International team at the Presidents Cup.

It was personal for Smith. His uncle lives in New South Wales and lost everything but a shed.

“We’re a tight-knit family and it hit everyone pretty hard,” he said. “It’s good to do something good, and hopefully puts a smile on their face.” x

A course worker clears standing water off the 18th green before Bo Hoag putts during the final round of the Sony Open. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Cameron Smith hits from the 14th tee during the final round of the Sony Open. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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been buoyed to three upsets by overwhelming support from her fan base at home in Canada.

In the LPGA Player of the Decade bracket, Park advanced from the Kathy Whitworth bracket, where she faced No. 16 Michelle Wie in the Round of 16. She advanced past Wie with 85 percent of fan votes to face No. 8 Sung Hyun Park in the quarterfinal. Inbee Park was once again selected by the fans, receiving 50.33 percent of the vote, and she faced No. 4 Lydia Ko in the LPGA Player of the Decade Final Foursome. Park advanced past Ko with 54

percent of the vote to face Hen-derson in the final matchup.

Park earned the No. 1 seed based on her staggering accom-plishments on the LPGA Tour between 2010 and 2019. During that time, Park won 18 times, including six major champion-ships, and won the Rolex Player of the Year, Rolex Annika Major Award, Vare Trophy and three-times topped the Money List. Park also made history in 2016, be-coming the youngest to qualify for the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame at the age of 27, and won the Olym-pic gold medal at the Summer games in Rio that same year. x

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A Half-Century Friendship On Turf

by BOB DENNEYDick Gray never forgot Pete

Dye eschewed being called a golf course “architect,” even though he was an honored member of the same elite “club” as one of his idols — Scotsman Donald Ross.

“I heard that Pete’s father once asked his son, what do mean ‘architect? ‘ You don’t have a degree in that.’ ” recalled Gray, 77, the Director of Agron-omy at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida. “Pete was an artist. He left footprints that nobody’s legs have enough room

to reach.”Gray and Dye had a 50-year

friendship, a bond that continued through decades of change in the game and how the industry shaped golf facilities. When Gray got word that Dye passed away Jan. 9, at age 94, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease, memories came gushing.

“I’m feeling today is my ‘American Pie, you know, the day the music died,’ ” said Gray, referring to Don McLean’s mel-ancholic 1971 hit song. “Today, I feel it’s that kind of that day for

all of golf.” In March 1969, Gray was a

25-year-old, a graduate in botany from Wabash College in Craw-fordsville, Indiana, and on his third job. It was a cool morning in March in Carmel, Indiana, when Gray met Pete Dye at Crooked Stick Golf Club — a facility that would ultimately host the 1991 PGA Championship.

“I had sprinklers running in a loop on several fairways,” said Gray. “I came upon one sprin-kler that wasn’t working. About this time, I saw a guy walking to me. He was wearing khaki pants and a cloth shirt.

“If you keep running the water, you will run out in Au-gust,” said Dye.

“If I don’t water now, I won’t be here in August,” said Gray.

The twosome became quick friends. Gray would be men-tored by a man who would go on to change the face of golf. Dye’s signature is more than 100 courses worldwide, and in 2008, was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Dye-designed courses have hosted 13 overall major cham-pionships conducted among the PGA of America, USGA, PGA Tour, LPGA and PGA Tour Champions. This September, Dye’s challenging Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin, follows the Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, South Carolina (1991) in hosting a Ryder Cup.

Gray and Dye would continue to intersect through the years. When Gray landed a superin-tendent post in the 1980s at Loblolly Pines in Hobe Sound, Florida, it came after a round at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach.

“I didn’t know that I was being interviewed while having lunch with Pete and the course owner, and playing golf,” said Gray. “It was good for me that I was caught by surprise.”

In 2013, Gray was named Di-rector of Agronomy at PGA Golf Club and reunited with Dye to get his perspective on renovat-ing the Dye Course. Gray asked his grounds crew at PGA Golf Club to pick a nickname they

would like imprinted on their black work shirts. They chose “DYE HARD.”

When Dye designed a golf course, said Gray, “he left a sig-nature.” Dye’s late wife, Alice, left her own indelible mark in the industry as her husband’s partner in the family design firm. Alice passed away last February at age 91. She was the 2004 PGA First Lady of Golf and the first woman member of the PGA of America Board of Directors.

“Pete and Alice were ama-teurs, and not in the golf course business,” said Gray. “Golf course design was their passion. It wasn’t a business to them. They played by ear, worked with what they saw, decided what it should look like and were totally fearless.”

Gray said that Dye instilled confidence in him.

“If it’s a good strategy, Pete used to say, ‘just do it,’” said Gray. “For so many guys, he gave us confidence.

“All of the artwork that came in the last 20 years by others was influenced by Pete, whether they worked with him or met him; had a connection to him or would meet later.

“If not for Pete Dye, we would still have rectilinear tees, round greens, a bunker left, a bunker right and trees down both sides of the fairways. Pete didn’t see golf that way. He broke the code and said, ‘This is how I see it.’

“Pete didn’t think outside the box; he was outside the box.”

Dick Gray said he often spends time at twilight on The Dye Course at PGA Golf Club. He thinks about those days when he and Dye toured the course.

“I take a lot of pictures of the course and smile about what I remember that Pete did to en-hance something in places that I would never have imagined,” said Gray. “What he and Alice have left will be in the ground for all time.” x

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How to Pick the Perfect Junior Golf Coach

As parents, we spend an in-ordinate amount of time mak-ing sure that we find the ideal situation for our children. From finding the perfect pediatrician, the perfect school, and the per-fect “everything,” we consider, discuss, and conduct extensive research to find “only the best” opportunities for our children.

When it comes to enrolling our kids in golf coaching, we should also equip ourselves with the insight needed to find the per-fect coach, who will properly supervise, nurture, and enrich our children.

PGA Professional Ralph Landrum is a junior golf expert. With numerous years of hands-

on experience working with thousands of junior golfers, as well as experience teaching and mentoring other teaching pro-fessionals, Landrum has keen insights as to what characteris-tics make the finest junior golf instructors. Landrum advises parents to consider the follow-ing:

Look for the Seal: Landrum strongly suggests that parents “look for the seal” and seek PGA or LPGA Professionals. “By se-curing the services of either a PGA or LPGA Professional, you can be assured that the individual has received extensive training on how to most effectively teach the game of golf and know how to ensure that students ultimate-ly achieve success and confi-dence out on the course,” said Landrum.

Ask for a Recommenda-tion: “While you could go ‘doc-tor shopping’ online, most of us find healthcare professionals by asking our friends and family for recommendations,” notes Landrum. Finding a qualified teaching professional works on the same premise.

Observe: There is no truer testament of a golf profession-

al’s teaching style than “watch-ing them in action.” Landrum suggests you observe the poten-tial instructor coaching young-sters around your child’s age group. You should be able to determine how well he or she relates to young golfers, how well they can inspire and en-gage, and how effective they are in helping kids succeed and have fun.

Follow the Happy Kids: A great junior golf coach will be surrounded by happy kids! Many of the country’s top junior coaches have devoted them-selves to developing strategies and techniques designed to evoke an optimal learning expe-rience for each individual child; and in the process, most have accumulated a sizable following.

Landrum also notes, “There are other unique skills needed to teach kids as compared to adults. The youth golf coach should be capable of creating a fun, safe environment. They also need to be a little quicker on their feet due to shorter attention spans!”

Search for the Intangible: One of the best things about the game of golf is that it provides an opportunity for kids to learn some of life’s most valuable les-sons – integrity, respect, and discipline. So, along with helping your child to drive the ball 200 yards, your coaching profession-al should also teach your child on-course etiquette and sports-manship, along with other values which can be used both on and off the course. x

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Three Talking Points in Golf This WeekPARIS (AFP) — Brooks Koep-

ka will be one of six Americans playing in Abu Dhabi this week as the European Tour starts its Gulf swing, after Cameron Smith’s breakthrough Sunday win on the PGA Tour.

Here, AFP Sport looks at three talking points in golf this week:

American stars set for Mid-dle East. Three leading Amer-ican players, including world number one Koepka, will play in this week’s Abu Dhabi Champi-onship despite political tensions following the United States’ kill-ing of top Iranian military com-mander Qasem Soleimani.

Four-time major champion Koepka will also compete in the controversial Saudi International later this month, alongside fellow top-20 players Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Tony Finau.

World number seven Patrick Cantlay and the 14th-ranked Bryson DeChambeau will also feature in one of the strongest fields of the season so far in the United Arab Emirates.

There are six Americans in the field in total.

Reigning Abu Dhabi champion Shane Lowry showed strong form by finishing second in the Hong Kong Open on Sunday as he looks to build on his success-ful 2019 campaign which fea-tured his British Open triumph.

Armitage puts days ‘liv-ing off credit cards’ behind him. England’s Marcus Armitage claimed a third-place finish at the South African Open to pocket prize money five times the total amount he earned on the second-ti-

er Challenge Tour last season.Armitage, who gained his Eu-

ropean Tour card at Qualifying School, was just one shot off Louis Oosthuizen’s lead heading into the final round.

He could have been forgiven for having bad memories after collapsing to a Sunday 83 when in a similar position at the Alfred Dunhill Championship last month.

But Armitage had laughed off that “bad day” in a video posted on social media, stressing that he “just loves” being on the Tour, and he was rock solid on Sunday to put those memories behind him.

Armitage said he was playing off scratch without ever having had any lessons in a blog post on the European Tour website and that last year he was on the Challenge Tour “playing and living off credit cards”.

A brilliant nine-under-par 62 in the third round catapulted him into contention in Johannesburg, before a solid fourth-round 69 secured solo third, five strokes behind winner Branden Grace, and a place at the British Open.

“Where I was a few months ago, I was off the cliff,” he told europeantour.com.

“I’ve turned it around. A few people have given me a few keys to change my life and that’s proof you can do it, you can do it in months. I’m a product of the hard work I’ve put in.”

Australian Smith dedi-cates win to bushfire victims. Smith, whose uncle lost his home in the bushfires devastating Aus-tralia, dedicated his maiden indi-vidual PGA Tour victory to his

compatriots back home.The 26-year-old edged out

Brendan Steele in a play-off to win the Sony Open in Hawaii on Sunday.

“I realize Australia is doing it tough right now and the focus is probably not on my golf for good reason. But hopefully it gave a few people reason to smile for a moment or two,” Smith said.

“Uncle Warren drove back to his place the other day and what he found was quite devastating. I kind of saw the photos and the only thing he had left was a little shed that him and his son built a few months back.

“We’re a tight-knit family and it kind of hit everyone pretty hard. It’s good to do something good, and hopefully puts a smile on their face.”

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His death was announced by the family’s company, Dye De-signs, on Twitter. He had been treated for dementia and had previously lived in Gulf Stream, Fla.

Often collaborating with his wife, Alice, who died in Feb-ruary at 91, and in later years with their two sons, Perry and Paul Burke (known as P.B.) Dye, Dye designed more than 100 courses.

He and his wife were best known for the “island green,” the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., probably the most photographed hole in golf history. The green is only some 135 yards from the tee, but it brings dread to even the world’s greatest golf-ers competing in the Players Championship, an unofficial fifth major tournament. Surrounded by water and connected to the rest of the course by a slender land bridge, it has tormented even the world’s greatest golfers and is one of the most recog-nized images in the sport.

When Pete was unsure how to fill in sandy terrain he had hollowed out around the green for transfer to other spots on the course, Alice had a solution.

“Originally, the water was just supposed to come into play on the right side, but we just kept digging,” the Golf Channel quot-ed Dye as saying. “And then one day Alice came out and said, ‘Why don’t you just go ahead and make it an island?’ So we did.”

Dye named the 18th hole at his Whistling Straits course in Wisconsin Dyeabolical. A par 4 that measures at least 500 yards, it plays into often sudden and shifting winds blowing in from Lake Michigan and requires golf-ers to drive over sand dunes and bunkers, among some 1,000 hazards on the course.

The hole figured in a con-troversy certain to be long re-membered when Dustin John-son, playing in the 2010 P.G.A. Championship, was penalized two strokes for grounding his club before hitting from what he thought was trampled-down dirt but which was determined to be an ill-defined bunker, or hazard, where grounding is not permitted. The penalty cost him a chance to enter a playoff for the title (won by Martin Kaymer of Germany).

Rarely using a set of grading plans for construction, relying instead on his instincts as he laid out a course, walking it in khakis and work boots or sitting atop a tractor, Dye emphasized strategy over raw power.

“I think of Pete like Picasso, somebody that has created a nontraditional design, whether it’s a painting, a sculpture or a golf course,” the prominent course designer Arthur Hills was quoted by ESPN as saying. “He was so innovative in a profession that is very traditional.”

Tiger Woods told Golf Digest in 2008: “The way Pete gets on a property and feels it is pretty impressive. His courses built for tournaments are hard, but there’s a good reason for everything.”

Paul Dye Jr., known as P.D. and then Pete as a youngster, was born on Dec. 29, 1925, in Urbana, Ohio, one of three children of Paul Francis and Eliz-abeth (Johnson) Dye. His father, an insurance agent, was also an avid golfer and helped build a country-club course.

Pete began playing golf as a boy in Florida, where his parents spent the winter months because of his asthma, and he went on to win the Ohio state high school golf championship.

While serving in the Army during World War II, Dye tend-ed the golf course at Fort Ben-

ning, Ga. Later, when he was stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., officers who learned of his golf background began making daily trips with him to play the Pine-hurst No. 2 course.

He met Alice O’Neal when they were on the varsity golf teams at Rollins College in Win-ter Park, Fla. Alice graduated in 1948, but Pete dropped out. They were married in 1950, settled in Indianapolis and sold insurance there.

Dye played in the United States Open in 1957, but his fu-ture lay in creating courses, and in 1959 Pete and Alice designed their first course, the nine-hole El Dorado Golf Club in Indianapo-lis. Being untrained in golf archi-tecture, however, they struggled for assignments.

“We were the proverbial babes in the woods in a profession that was mostly nonexistent at the time,” Dye recalled in his 1995 memoir, “Bury Me in a Pot Bunker,” written with Mark Shaw. “Alice and I would design a course based on the thoughts, images and memories of the many great courses we had played across the United States.”

The turning point in their ca-reer came in 1963, after Dye competed in the British ama-teur championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scot-land. Pete and Alice toured more than 30 courses in Scotland and England, and they photographed them as they played.

As Dye recalled in his mem-oir: “My new understanding of the use of small greens, wide fairways, the impression that ground-level greens were ele-vated, contrasting grass mixes, severe undulations in the fair-ways, pot bunkers, railroad ties, blind holes and the inclusion of gorse-like vegetation to frame holes would affect all our future designs.”

In the mid-1960s, the Dyes carved a course from a 400-acre cornfield outside Indianap-olis. While walking the grounds during construction, Dye had picked up a knobby, crooked stick and used it to swat at a stone. As the story went, one of the club’s charter members

suggested that he call the course Crooked Stick; it became the Dyes’ first renowned design.

Dye wanted the pressure to build on golfers as they neared the final three holes at Crooked Stick, so he created water haz-ards or bunkers to guard them. The greens, meanwhile, were at ground level but appeared elevated because large chunks of earth had been removed in front of them. Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind., stamped itself on the golf world in 1991 when the unheralded John Daly won the P.G.A. Championship there, overwhelming the course with prodigious drives.

Dye collaborated with Jack Nicklaus in designing the Har-bour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Opening in 1969 as the site of the Heritage Classic and known for its red and white lighthouse overlook-ing the 18th hole, it required golfers to hit to specific areas in order to master it at a time when many courses demanded powerful drives.

“It was Pete who inspired me to start designing courses more than 50 years ago, and so in many ways I owe my second career to him,” Nicklaus said in a statement.

“I think Pete Dye was the most creative, imaginative and uncon-ventional golf course designer I have ever been around,” he added. “Pete would try things that nobody else would ever think of doing or certainly try to do, and he was successful at it. If there was a problem to solve, you solved it Pete’s way. In the end, Pete’s way usually turned out to be the right way.”

Dye was probably best re-membered for TPC Sawgrass, built on Florida swampland. At the suggestion of Deane Beman, the P.G.A. commis-sioner at the time, it became the first prominent stadium course, allowing spectators to view the action from elevated areas of the terrain. Since the course opened in 1980, the fans have been amused by all those balls landing in the water at the 17th hole, so near but so frustrating for golf’s elite at the

Players Championship.“What’s amazing is that if that

green were surrounded by sand instead of water, those guys would never miss the green,” the golf coach Butch Harmon once remarked.

The Dye roster of courses also includes PGA West, near Palm Springs, Calif., and the Ocean Course, on Kiawah Island in South Carolina.

Pete Dye received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and was induct-ed into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008. Alice Dye was given the PGA of America’s First Lady of Golf Award in 2004. In addition to her course de-sign work, she championed for-ward tees that make formidable courses more playable for most women as well as for male play-ers outside the pro ranks.

In addition to his two sons, Dye had two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Complete information on his survivors was not immediately available.

Dye continued to design courses into his 80s. Golf Di-gest named his course at French Lick, Ind., the best new public course in the United States in 2009, and Golf Magazine gave the course its top honor, best new course of the year.

He created his first course in New York State in 2008, the public but championship-caliber Pound Ridge Golf Club in West-chester County.

Pound Ridge’s 15th hole, a short par 3, reflected Dye’s sense of adventure. He left in place a large craggy rock on a hill overlooking the green. If a golfer overshot the green, the rock deflected some balls onto the putting surface. But it could also send a shot rebounding into a water hazard.

“Some golfers will hit that rock, and when their ball ricochets onto the green, they’ll say this is a great golf hole,” Dye told The New York Times. “And some golfers, when they will hit that rock, their ball will disappear, and they’ll say this is the worst hole they’ve ever seen.” x

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Dye on the Pound Ridge Golf Course in Pound Ridge, N.Y., in 2008. It was the first course he designed in New York State. (Suzy Allman for The New York Times)

One of the most famous, and intimidating, holes designed by Dye and his wife, Alice, is the island-like par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. (John Raoux/Associated Press)

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was recently held in Melbourne, Australia, and the PGA TOUR pledged to match any figures raised up to $125,000 by play-ers at Waialae. Smith and Leish-man were both members of the International Team in the com-petition.

In another significant show of support the Presidents Cup, confirmed at the conclusion of play that they will provide the full $125,000 regardless of the final totals. On Saturday, the Interna-tional team also pledged to send $125,000 from their Presidents Cup charitable funds towards the relief efforts.

“It’s amazing that, as always, the TOUR steps up. When things are bad, we always say the TOUR is like a big family and it really is,” Leishman said.

“It’s good that we are helping out my fellow Australians who really need it. These bushfires are an ongoing crisis that continues to cut a devastating path right across Australia so support from the global community is crucial. It has been heartening to see the resiliency of the Australian peo-ple and to see the firefighters and volunteers from around the world coming together to continue this

important fight.“But the scale of the destruc-

tion is huge and it will contin-ue to take a team effort from every corner of the globe as we look to the future. The fires are expected to burn through the Australian summer and coming months and the families who lost loved ones, homes and priceless memories will feel the effects for years to come. So too will our unique wildlife so all support is greatly appreciated.”

To date, more than 10 mil-lion hectares (over 38,610 square miles) have been burned across Australia’s sixz states — an area about the size of Leishman’s adopted American state of Vir-ginia.

For comparison, the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires burned more than 7 million hectares, while California’s wildfires com-bined to burn just over 100,000 hectares in 2019 and 404,000 hectares in 2018.

Multiple fires are still causing problems. There have been at least 27 lives lost and destruction of homes is in the thousands. The unique wildlife of the country has also taken a cataclysmic hit, with estimates of more than a billion animals being affected. There are

fears some smaller species could face extinction or functional ex-tinction — where the species declines to a point where they no longer play a significant role in their ecosystem.

Smith’s win was extra special, given his uncle Warren has lost his house and farm in the fires. He hoped it helped add some smiles to otherwise devastating times.

“Every birdie putt I had, just meant that little bit more. Rather than kind of wanting to make it I almost felt like I had to make it,” Smith would say after his victory.

“I realize Australia is doing it tough right now and the focus in probably not on my golf for good reason. But hopefully it gave a few people reason to smile for a moment of two.

“Uncle Warren drove back to his place the other day and what he found was quite devastating. I kind of saw the photos and the only thing he had left was a little shed that him and his son built a few months back.

“We’re a tight knit family and it kind of hit everyone pretty hard. It’s good to do something good, and hopefully puts a smile on their face.” x

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200 Days Away: Here’s How Tokyo Olympic Standings Look

by WILL GRAYWhile the PGA Tour season is

still getting back to full speed fol-lowing a brief holiday off-season, the meat of the schedule will be here in no time — and this year, that includes the Olympics.

Sunday marked exactly 200 days until the opening round of the men’s Olympic competition in Tokyo, a 72-hole, stroke-play event that will feature 60 of the top players in the world. As was the case for the Rio games in 2016, countries can be represent-ed by a maximum of two players unless all are ranked inside the top 15 in the world, in which case the cap is raised to four.

Olympic qualification will be based on the June 22 Official World Golf Rankings, meaning that the closer we get to June the more in line the Olympic and OWGR standings will become. For now, here’s a look at the 60 players who would qualify for Tokyo if the standings were locked today:1. Brooks Koepka (USA)

2. Rory McIlroy (IRL)3. Jon Rahm (ESP)4. Justin Thomas (USA)5. Dustin Johnson (USA)6. Patrick Cantlay (USA)7. Justin Rose (GBR)8. Tommy Fleetwood (GBR)9. Adam Scott (AUS)10. Francesco Molinari (ITA)11. Shane Lowry (IRL)12. Louis Oosthuizen (RSA)13. Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)14. Bernd Wiesberger (AUT)15. Henrik Stenson (SWE)16. Marc Leishman (AUS)17. Shugo Imahira (JPN)18. Sungjae Im (KOR)19. Abraham Ancer (MEX)20. Sergio Garcia (ESP)21. Jazz Janewattananond (THA)22. Byeong-Hun An (KOR)23. Victor Perez (FRA)24. Adam Hadwin (CAN)25. Erik van Rooyen (RSA)26. Joaquin Niemann (CHI)27. Corey Conners (CAN)28. Mike Lorenzo-Vera (FRA)29. Haotong Li (CHN)30. C.T. Pan (TPE)31. Andrea Pavan (ITA)

32. Alex Noren (SWE)33. Matthias Schwab (AUT)34. Lucas Bjerregaard (DEN)35. Thomas Pieters (BEL)36. Rory Sabbatini (SVK)37. Joost Luiten (NED)38. Danny Lee (NZL)39. Viktor Hovland (NOR)40. Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN)41. Sebastian Munoz (COL)42. Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA)43. Emiliano Grillo (ARG)44. Thomas Detry (BEL)45. Martin Kaymer (GER)46. Scott Vincent (ZIM)47. Xinjun Zhang (CHN)48. Mikko Korhonen (FIN)49. Carlos Ortiz (MEX)50. Ryan Fox (NZL)51. Jhonattan Vegas (VEN)52. Kristoffer Ventura (NOR)53. Darius Van Driel (NED)54. Kalle Samooja (FIN)55. Sebastian Heisele (GER)56. Adrian Meronk (POL)57. Rashid Khan (IND)58. Gavin Kyle Green (MAS)59. Fabian Gomez (ARG)60. Shubankhar Sharma (IND) x

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Hurst Named 2021 U.S. Solheim Cup Captain

by RANDALL MELLPat Hurst’s long apprentice-

ship is over.She was named the U.S. Sol-

heim Cup captain by the LPGA on Thursday.

Hurst, 50, whose six LPGA titles include a major champi-onship (1998 Nabisco Dinah Shore), will lead the Americans against the Europeans in the team event in Toledo, Ohio, next year.

A long-time friend and confi-dant to fellow Northern Califor-nian Juli Inkster, Hurst enjoyed the best kind of training for the new job, serving as assistant cap-tain in Inkster’s unprecedented three terms as the U.S. captain (2015, ’17 and ’19).

“For the last six months, I’ve been thinking that my time as an assistant Solheim Cup cap-tain, some of the greatest ex-periences of my professional career, might have prepared me to be captain in 2021,” Hurst wrote in a first-person article on LPGA.com. “I loved being an assistant captain; loved what I’d learned and seen being around captain Juli Inkster and all those great players on the last three American Solheim

Cup teams. I loved being out on the first tee in that amphi-theater setting with sound so loud you could feel it. No cheers in women’s golf match the Sol-heim Cup. Nothing makes your hair stand up or causes tingles to run down your arms like the drama and intensity of those three days.”

Hurst was there helping Ink-ster when the Americans staged the greatest comeback in the history of the competition in 2015, overcoming a 10-6 deficit going into Sunday singles to win in Germany. She was there in ’17, when the Americans routed the Europeans in Iowa and again last fall, when the Euros clipped the U.S. in the most dramatic finish in the history of the event, with Norway’s Suzann Pettersen winning it with a walk-off putt for the ages.

“Deep down, I hoped for that same opportunity, a chance to take what I’d learned from Juli and put my personal touch on it,” Hurst said.

No stranger to the event as a player, Hurst competed in five Solheim Cups, helping the Americans win four of them. She was a formidable 10-7-3 in

the matches, with a 3-1-1 record in singles.

Hurst knows something about coaching beyond the Solheim Cup. She’s an assistant coach at San Jose State, her alma mater. She led the Spartans to an NCAA team title as a play-er in 1989 while also winning the individual title. Her amateur achievements also include win-ning the 1986 U.S. Girls’ Ju-nior and the ’90 U.S. Women’s Amateur.

The next Solheim Cup is scheduled Sept. 4-6, 2021, at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Scotland’s Catriona Mat-thew returns as the European captain after leading the Euros to victory in Scotland in Sep-tember. The Americans lead the series with a 10-6 record.

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Champions Tour StatisticsCharles Schwab Cup Money List

1 , S c o t t M c C a r r o n , $2,534,090. 2, Jerry Kelly, $2,382,675. 3, Retief Goos-en, $1,859,085. 4, Bernhard Langer, $1,831,622. 5, Colin Montgomerie, $1,512,565. 6, Woody Austin, $1,733,517. 7, Miguel Angel Jiménez, $1,295,482. 8, Scott Parel, $1,522,956. 9, Kirk Triplett, $1,608,298. 10, David Toms, $1,538,262.

Scoring1, Retief Goosen, 69.14. 2,

Bernhard Langer, 69.26. 3, Jerry Kelly, 69.31. 4, Kevin Sutherland, 69.47. 5, David Toms, 69.48. 6, Scott McCar-ron, 69.53. 7 (tie), Woody Aus-tin and Scott Parel, 69.60. 9, Colin Montgomerie, 69.73. 10, Miguel Angel Jiménez, 69.88.

Driving Distance1, John Daly, 296.1. 2,

Darren Clarke, 293.0. 3, Re-tief Goosen, 292.7. 4, Brandt

Jobe, 292.2. 5, Scott McCar-ron, 291.1. 6, Kevin Sutherland, 289.4. 7, Kenny Perry, 288.5. 8, Vijay Singh, 288.0. 9, Scott Parel, 287.2. 10, 2 tied with 285.1.

Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Bart Bryant, 80.34%. 2, Colin Montgomerie, 78.41%. 3, Joe Durant, 77.90%. 4, Bernhard Langer, 77.61%. 5, Jerry Kelly, 77.08%. 6, Olin Browne, 76.58%. 7, Mark O’Meara, 76.14%. 8, Paul Goydos, 76.02%. 9, Tom Byrum, 75.55%. 10, Ken Duke, 75.49%.

Greens in Regulation Pct.1, Jerry Kelly, 73.53%. 2,

Stephen Leaney, 73.47%. 3, Brandt Jobe, 72.79%. 4, Kevin Sutherland, 72.76%. 5, Bernhard Langer, 72.47%. 6, Retief Goosen, 72.39%. 7, David Toms, 72.05%. 8, Colin Montgomerie, 71.83%. 9, Scott Parel, 71.55%. 10, Kenny Perry, 71.39%.

Total Driving1, Kenny Perry, 31. 2, Bern-

hard Langer, 35. 3, Scott Mc-Carron, 37. 4, Jerry Kelly, 41. 5, Joe Durant, 43. 6 (tie), Ken Duke, Miguel Angel Jiménez and Colin Montgomerie, 44. 9, 3 tied with 49.

Putting Average1, Kevin Sutherland, 1.724.

2, David Toms, 1.729. 3, Mi-guel Angel Jiménez, 1.736. 4, Retief Goosen, 1.745. 5, Tim Petrovic, 1.747. 6, Scott Parel, 1.750. 7, Steve Flesch, 1.753. 8, Paul Goydos, 1.754. 9, Ber-nhard Langer, 1.755. 10, Jerry Kelly, 1.756.

Birdie Average1, Retief Goosen, 4.41. 2,

David Toms, 4.38. 3, Kevin Sutherland, 4.25. 4, Miguel Angel Jiménez, 4.22. 5, Scott McCarron, 4.14. 6, Scott Parel,

4.04. 7, Tim Petrovic, 4.03. 8 (tie), Woody Austin and Jerry Kelly, 3.96. 10, Steve Flesch, 3.92.

Eagles (Holes per)1, Kevin Sutherland, 110.0.

2, John Daly, 118.3. 3, Kenny Perry, 120.9. 4, Scott Parel, 121.5. 5 (tie), Tom Lehman and David Toms, 141.8. 7, Dar-ren Clarke, 153.0. 8, Stephen Ames, 156.0. 9, Jerry Kelly, 168.8. 10, 2 tied with 177.4.

Sand Save Percentage1, Paul Broadhurst, 63.53%.

2, Lee Janzen, 59.26%. 3, Tom Byrum, 58.77%. 4, Rocco Mediate, 58.02%. 5, Tom Pernice Jr., 57.69%. 6, Kenny Perry, 56.67%. 7, Mi-guel Angel Jiménez, 56.47%. 8, Jay Haas, 56.00%. 9, Bernhard Langer, 55.56%. 10, 2 tied with 55.45%.

All-Around Ranking1, Bernhard Langer, 90.

2, Scott Parel, 96. 3, David Toms, 97. 4, Jerry Kelly, 102. 5, Kenny Perry, 106. 6, Miguel Angel Jiménez, 112. 7, Retief Goosen, 118. 8, Scott McCar-ron, 133. 9, Kevin Sutherland, 136. 10, Woody Austin, 141.

©Associated Press• • •

LPGA Solheim Cup Standings

Through Jan. 51. Danielle Kang, 792. Nelly Korda, 723. Brittany Altomare, 714. Marina Alex, 505. Jessica Korda, 476. Cheyenne Knight, 407. Jane Park, 337. Megan Khang, 339. Morgan Pressel, 2610. Jaye Marie Green, 2011. Kristen Gillman, 1912. Jennifer Kupcho, 1813. Lexi Thompson, 1613. Sarah Schmelzel, 1613. Gerina Piller, 16 x

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Morikawa’s 3-Putt from 4 Feet Costs Him More Than $100K

by NICK MENTALost in the craziness of Sunday

night’s wild finish at the Sony Open was a most disappointing end to an otherwise-solid week for Collin Morikawa.

Morikawa, who won his first PGA Tour title as a non-member last summer at the Barracuda Championship, was 1 over for the day but appeared headed for a final round of even-par 70 as he stared down a short putt for

birdie at the par-5 18th.Instead, he three-putted from 4

feet, racing the first putt by the hole and lipping out the come-backer for bogey and a round of 2-over 72.

Just how expensive were those short misses?

A birdie, a 7-under finish and a four-way tie for ninth would have netted $173,250.

A par, a 6-under finish and a 10-way tie for 12th would have

still paid out $112,530.As for Morikawa, his bogey,

5-under finish and seven-way tie for 21st amounted to $64,350.

That all said, the 22-year-old has already earned more than $2.3 million in 15 starts as a professional and is arguably the most promising prospect on Tour. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice. x

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New Hawaiian Island, New Course, Same Big Wind for Sony Open

by DOUG FERGUSONHONOLULU (AP) — Same state, new

island, two courses that could not be more different.

What hasn’t changed between the two-week Hawaii swing on the PGA Tour is the wind, which is stronger than usual. The gusts approached 40 mph at Kapa-lua last week for the Sentry Tournament of Champions. It was blowing just as hard Wednesday at Waialae on the eve of the Sony Open.

“I’ve never seen the wind blow like this, and it’s supposed to blow like this every day,” said Justin Thomas, who will try to repeat his Hawaii 2-0 perfor-mance from 2017 when he won on both courses.

Thomas and the other 22 players in the winners-only field last week at least have some fresh experience. They faced three straight days of gusts that made Kapalua feel even more extreme than usual, especially on the greens. Thomas won in a playoff over Xander Schauffele and Patrick Reed, and all three said putts were knocked off line depending on the gusts.

“I thought I was going to get a little bit of a break after last week, but looks like we’ve got more wind and rain,” Thomas said. “Luckily, I had a little bit of a head start. So hopefully, it’ll help.”

The Sony Open starts on Thursday with Matt Kuchar as the defending cham-pion. He is among those at Kapalua last week who should get some answers on which course is tougher to play in the wind.

It’s not that simple an equation.Kapalua tipped out at close to 7,600

yards for a par 73, with massive fair-ways. The course was built on the side of a mountain, so players rely on how the ball reacts on the ground as much as in the air. But the course was soft from so much rain the mowers were not used since Friday. Some of the wind was right into their faces or behind them. Reed had a 119-yard shot on the exposed 10th hole that he played as if it were 165 yards.

Waialae is 7,044 yards at a par 70, with narrow fairways and a strain of Bermuda grass that allows the ball to sink

to the bottom. The greens are small. But being older, and so much recent rain, they are extremely soft and receptive.

“I think guys that played last week have a pretty nice advantage,” Graeme McDowell said. “We have a week under our belt in very similar conditions. But this week, the greens are more receptive. I can’t believe how soft they are.”

Corey Conners was happy to be on a flatter piece of property, even in big wind. He expects the shots to be more predict-able, mainly because he won’t be trying to hit from a severe lie — up or down — on

the side of a hill.“The impact it has on the ball is sim-

ilar,” Conners said. “But last week was more challenging. You had the ball way above your feet, trying to work the ball into the wind. It’s tough to do.”

Thomas felt like wind would cause more problems this week because Waia-lae is at sea level. In fact, step over the stone wall next to the 17th tee and the next step is sand, followed by water and then a long swim to the tip of South America.

The first hole at Kapalua, along with the loop from Nos. 10-13 and the two closing holes, offered big gusts because they were on higher ground. All of Waia-lae feels to be exposed, except for the H-1 along the right side of No. 5 and Keala’olu Avenue right of the eighth and ninth fairways.

“It’s going to be harder here,” Thomas said. “The fairways are just so big there. There are so many birdie chances, four par 5s. Even with last week — three of the four days it blew really, really hard — I easily could have gotten to 17- or 18-under par.”

Charles Howell III is playing the Sony Open for the 19th consecutive year, with two runner-up finishes among his 10 appearance in the top 10. He knows the wind of Waialae, and he considers this week an exception.

He also wasn’t looking for any sym-pathy. He’s not freezing. And there’s something soothing about palm trees, re-gardless of what kind of weather rolls in.

“People on the East coast in some bad weather will like to see us playing in some wind and rain this year,” he said. x

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Ben Hogan once said, “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” Could there be any wiser words for playing golf?

Goals in golf are self-evident: hit the ball close to the target, avoid trouble and complete the hole in as few shots as possible.

Reminding ourselves of these basic goals during a round of golf are not helpful and actually hurt our focus. Players of every level are guilty of losing sight of the real factors that make a complete round of golf as good as it can be. Playing your best golf isn’t setting

up one over-reaching goal; it’s creating a separate goal for every shot.

The key is to stay patient and focused Before every shot, select a target and decide what distance, trajectory and ground reaction you are expecting. Having a more complete idea of every shot you hit will keep you in the moment, not wasting time and energy on what might go wrong, but focus-ing in on the positive outcome a great shot will produce.

When it’s time to pull the trig-ger, BELIEVE in your strategy and shot.

When you hit a terrible lie, maybe in a hole, in the deep rough, and there seems no way out, simply refocus and set up your plan. Don’t dwell on the negative. Stay committed to your shot.

Elite players play with a high level of INTENTION. They have a plan and a commitment to every shot they hit. It’s specific and it’s methodical.

For your next round, don’t simply think, “hit fairways,” “hit greens;” try to knock it in. Put the plan in your head — and watch it translate to your scorecard. x

©PGAWebb Simpson’s commitment to this chip shot helped him win the 2012 U.S. Open Championship. (Getty Images)

begins his career as a golf course architect by creating a new course at Metairie Golf Club in his na-tive New Orleans. Because of the club’s segregation policy, howev-er, he is never allowed to play the course or even practice there. He goes on to create several public courses in the New Orleans area, but isn’t allowed to play them, either, for many years.

1926: Robert Hawkins stag-es his first tournament for Afri-can-American players. He stages another in 1927, and in 1928 creates the United Golf Associa-tions, which ultimately established a tour for players excluded from PGA events.

1939: Clyde Martin is named head professional at the segregat-ed Langston Golf Course in Wash-ington, D.C. He would go on to become Joe Louis’ golf instructor.

1946: Returning home to East Canton, Ohio, after serving in the U.S. Air Force, William Powell is denied a G.I. loan for his plan to build a golf course. Powell secures funding from two African-Ameri-can physicians while his brother takes out a second mortgage on his home, and builds Clearview Golf Club with his own hands. He becomes the only African-Ameri-can to build, own and operate a golf course.

1948: William Powell’s Clear-view Golf Club opens to the public as a nine-hole course.

1948: Bill Spiller is denied entry into the Richmond Open, and spends many years fighting the segregation policies in golf.

1948: Ted Rhodes becomes second African-American to play in the U.S. Open.

1956: Ann Gregory, a domi-nant female player, becomes the first African-American player to enter the U.S. Women’s Amateur.

1957: Charlie Sifford wins the Long Beach Open, an event

co-sponsored by the PGA and with a field including many white players.

1961: Charlie Sifford becomes the first African-American player to earn a PGA Tour card. He wins the 1967 Greater Hartford Open Invitational and the 1969 Los An-geles Open, as well as the 1975 PGA Seniors’ Championship and the 1980 Suntree Classic on what is now the Champions Tour.

1961: The PGA of America re-moves its “Caucasian-only clause” from its Bylaws and opens the door for all players to participate in professional golf tournaments.

1963: Tennis great Althea Gibson becomes the first Afri-can-American to compete on the LPGA Tour.

1964: Pete Brown becomes the first African-American player to win a PGA-sanctioned event, the Waco Turner Open. He also wins the 1970 Andy Williams San Diego Invitational.

1975: Lee Elder becomes the first African-American to play in the Masters. He misses the cut, but goes on to win four times on the PGA Tour and eight times on the Champions Tour.

1978: William Powell expands Clearview Golf Club to 18 holes.

1979: Calvin Peete wins the 1979 Greater Milwaukee Open, the first of his 12 career PGA Tour victories. Peete was the most prolific African-American winner until Tiger Woods came along.

1979: Lee Elder becomes the first African-American to play in the Ryder Cup.

1986: Harold Dunovant, a Life Member of The PGA of America, establishes the National Black Golf Hall of Fame.

1986: The PGA Minority Col-legiate Golf Championship is cre-ated to elevate the game of golf in minority colleges and universities by giving them a chance to com-pete in a championship because

of being denied opportunities to compete in NCAA collegiate golf events.

1987: The first PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship is conducted at Highland Park Golf Course in Cleveland, Ohio.

1990: Businessman Ron Townsend becomes the first Afri-can-American member of Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters.

1994: Tiger Woods wins the first of his three straight U.S. Am-ateur titles.

1996: Tiger Woods wins NCAA Division 1-A individual title as a member of the Stanford golf team. A few months later, he turns professional and ties for 60th place in his debut at the Greater Milwaukee Open. He goes on to win two PGA Tour events and be named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

1996: Renee Powell, of East Canton, Ohio, is elected the first African American woman PGA Member.

1997: Tiger Woods becomes first African-American to win the Masters as well as the youngest winner, and his 12-stroke margin of victory also sets a new Masters record. He goes on to win the PGA Tour money title for the first time, and captures his first PGA of America Player of the Year Award and PGA Tour Player of the Year Award. He also ascends to the No. 1 spot in the world ranking for the first time, but stays there only a week.

1999: Bill Dickey is honored as the PGA Distinguished Service Award winner.

2000: Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Open and British Open to become the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam. He goes on to win nine times on the PGA Tour in 2000 alone.

2000: Dr. Obie Bender, pres-ident of the Clearview Legacy

Foundation, becomes the second African-American to serve on the PGA Board of Directors.

2001: Tiger Woods wins the Masters to complete the “Tiger Slam,” giving him all four major championship trophies at the same time.

2001: Clearview Golf Club of East Canton, Ohio, is named to the National Register of Historic Places.

2003: Renee Powell is named The PGA’s First Lady of Golf.

2004: Charlie Sifford becomes the first African-American to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

2005: Tiger Woods reassumes the No. 1 spot in the world rank-ing, and has yet to fall out of that spot, a total of 245 straight weeks.

2006: Tiger Woods opens his Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, Calif.

2006: Charlie Sifford becomes the first African-American golfer to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

2007: Charlie Sifford receives the Old Tom Morris Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Golf Course Superintendents As-sociation of America.

2008: Renee Powell becomes the first female African-American golfer to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Uni-versity of St. Andrews in Scotland.

2008: Junior Bridgeman be-comes the third African-American to serve on the PGA Board of Directors, following a former NBA standout career and becoming a respected restaurant entrepreneur.

2009: The Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles creates “the Charlie Sifford Exemption” for a player who represents the ad-vancement of diversity in golf.

2009: The PGA of America honors Wiliam Powell with its

Distinguished Service Award.2009: The PGA of America

bestows posthumous member-ship on Bill Spiller, John Shippen and Ted Rhodes, and honorary membership on former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis Barrow Sr., an advo-cate for diversity in golf.

2010: The PGA and USGA join together to create a central-ized repository for artifacts and documents related to the history of African-Americans in golf. The repository will be located at the USGA Museum in Far Hills, N.J., but also will create public exhibi-tions and programs for diverse audiences at the PGA Historical Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and at spectator events conducted by the USGA and The PGA.

2011: Joseph Bramlett makes his debut on the PGA Tour after earning his playing privileges at Q-School in late 2010. The former Stanford star is the first player of African-American descent to make the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods.

2013: William Powell was post-humously inducted into the PGA Hall of Fame.

2015: Harold Varner III be-came the first African American golfer to earn his PGA Tour card by qualifying through the Web.com Tour.

2015: Renee Powell was named a member of the historic first class of women Honorary Members of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews.

2017: Renee Powell was in-ducted into the PGA Hall of Fame. Renee and her father, Wil-liam, are the only father-daughter combination to receive the PGA’s highest lifetime honor.

2018: Renee Powell becomes the first American to have a resi-dence hall named in her honor by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. x

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A Guide to Living in Luxury

Recolor Your Kitchen and Make It More Efficient

A lot goes on in the kitchen: preparing food, sharing meals, spending time with a friend over a cup of coffee, helping children with homework, bak-ing for holidays — and much more. If your kitchen could use an update to become an easi-er-to-use, more pleasant room, Woodcraft has some ideas and

products to help you get started.“It’s amazing the difference

you can make with just a few functional and decorative changes to your home’s kitch-en area. Most of these projects can be completed in a weekend. If you live close to a Woodcraft store, the staff will be happy to help you match products

to any home improvement job you plan to do — and offer knowledgeable how-to advice for using the products,” Darin Lawrence, Woodcraft director of product development, said.

“For more project ideas, check out Woodcraft on Pinterest. Woodcraft also offers how-to video, articles and instructions at woodcraft.com.”

CabinetsIf you are not ready to re-

place kitchen cabinets, consider changing the color and hard-ware. Since the current trend is for darker cabinets, select an easy-to-use dark General Finish-es Gel Stain, such as the popular java or antique walnut. If you choose to remove some doors for an open-shelf look, consider using a General Finishes Milk Paint shade for the interior to complement the exterior color.

For easier door opening and closing, choose a Salice Hinge in a darker titanium finish that will complement the darker cab-inets. Add Hickory Hardware Door Knobs or Pulls that come in several styles and finishes. For kitchen drawers, upgrade the slides, changing from side mounts to undermount slides with Blum Tandem Plus Blumo-tion Concealed Drawer

RunnersReface the face frames and

cabinet ends with Sauers & Co. Wood Veneer backed with 3M Pressure Sensitive Adhesive

(PSA) that is pre-sanded and ready to finish to match the cabinet doors. For cutting, use a Quad Pro Trimmer with tung-sten carbide double-edge cut-ters that trim veneer in either direction. For easy application of this veneer product, the Fast-Cap Speed Roller Pro ensures consistent pressure for good results.

To add or replace decorative molding for your cabinets and/or walls, cut perfectly mitered corner joints with the EZ Pro Crown King Crown Molding Jig. The handy SharkGrip 8” Bar/Nail Puller can pry in a tight spot with little damage to molding and has curved blade that lifts molding easily. To help with molding installation, use the 3rd Hand’s articulating foot to support crown molding at an angle.

Say goodbye to constant searches for items in cabinets with a DIY 22”-24” Pullout Shelf Kit. The shelves are easy to measure, cut, assemble and in-stall. Or custom build your own pullout shelves using the Pre-cut Prefinished Drawer Side and Drawer Bottom material with the easy-to-use KREG Micro Pocket Drill Guide.

CountertopFor cluttered countertops that

are home to too many small appliances and other items, con-sider storing ones used only occasionally elsewhere, perhaps in cabinets.

To protect your valuable kitchen knives and save counter space, follow Woodcraft prod-uct development manager Ben Bice’s example and build a knife block to mount underneath the kitchen cabinet. Bice designed the block to hold his high qual-ity ZHEN knives.

FurnitureGeneral Finishes Gel and Milk

Paint are also good choices to recolor your wood furniture in shades that match or com-plement the new cabinet look. Milk Paint offers an opportunity to add a splash of color on a small piece of furniture, shelv-ing or a plant stand to brighten the look but not overpower the kitchen.

If your wood cabinets and/or furniture only need a cover-up for nicks, scratches and other damage, Touch-Up Pens, Fill Sticks and Burn-in Sticks from Touch-Up Solutions may be the answer. They come in 10 colors, ranging from light oak to black.

LightingAdd subtle lighting with Hae-

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Preserve Indoor Air Quality During Remodeling

Are you beginning a remod-eling project? Well, take a deep breath because your air is about to be affected in a major way.

Is this preventable? It can be, if you take action.

The most important time to act is before you begin your remodeling project, especially if you are staying in your home during the process. It is your job to make sure your contrac-tor has your family and overall indoor air quality (IAQ) top of mind before workers start in-vading your home and creating a dust storm.

This is a vital concern for homeowners, especially if someone in your home has breathing difficulties, such as asthma or another chronic med-ical condition.

In the past, contractors used patchwork dust-control solu-tions that are ineffective at pre-venting hazardous dust from traveling throughout the home. Today, more contractors are remodeling smarter and cleaner by providing livable remodeling to their clients.

Here are three ways to en-sure that your contractor under-stands your need for excellent IAQ and protecting your livabil-ity within your home:

Learn About the Dangers of DustRemember the last time you

kicked up a lot of dust? Your eyes itched. Your throat burned. You might have even felt dizzy and fatigued. Those are com-mon signs of indoor air pollu-tion.

You need to understand ex-actly what your family and pets could be inhaling while a contractor builds your dream kitchen.

An example of harmful sub-stances that might be uncovered during your remodel:• Materials such as drywall, ce-

ment and sawdust• Dangerous substances such as

silica, asbestos and lead• Mold and mildew• Dirt and debris of many sizes,

including ones you can’t even see

• Organic matter like rodent feces and dead bugsIf you have IAQ problems

before a remodeling project, they could be magnified by 10 times if a dust management plan is not in place. Visit liv-ableremodeling.com to learn how this dust can be ingested by humans and pets every day during a project.

Also, remember that just be-cause you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Smaller dust

particles are the most hazard-ous. They are lighter, stay in the air longer and travel farther than larger particles.

Make a Livability PlanAs the protector of your

household, you need to be armed and ready to ask your contractor some tough ques-tions to make sure your family is safe throughout this long and hard process. Before you hire a contractor, make sure you relay the information you’ve learned about hazardous dust.

Create a checklist of discus-sion points for contractors that

can be the basis for your liva-bility plan. For tips, visit http://buildclean.com/homeowner/tips.php. For example, what is the project timeline? What will be your temporary living arrangements if, for example, the contractor is working on the kitchen or bathroom?

And, most importantly, what is the contractor’s plan to con-trol potentially hazardous dust from invading the rest of your home?

Find a “Clean” ContractorTop contractors across the

nation are using new tools and

work processes to minimize the dust. Your contractor should have you covered, if you pick the right one.

One of the top new practices is to collect dust while it is still airborne, such as with the new BuildClean Dust Control System. Collecting particulates in this manner is the most effective way to capture and virtually eliminate all types of worksite dust — up to 90 percent of air-borne dust, to be exact.

The result? You can breathe easy. Your indoor air quality can even improve to better than normal levels.

Homeowners like Jim Colpi appreciate the efficiency and effectiveness of BuildClean. He saw first-hand how BuildClean picked up dust from all stages of his basement remodel — includ-ing the wood framing, drywall installation and sanding — and kept it out of his family’s living areas.“It was kind of shocking that

there was no dust anywhere. Period,” Colpi says. “It’s as if the project had not even hap-pened.”

Homeowners don’t have to accept the dust and the danger-ous living environment that it creates. Expect livable remodel-ing. You deserve it. H –BPT

Easy Ways to Combat Water Damage in Your Walls and Ceilings

Ask any homeowner what they dread the most when it comes to home ownership, and it’s likely to involve some type of undetected water damage that could result in mold and mildew in their walls and ceil-ings — and the problems that follow.

Most water damage in homes is associated with pipes and appliances, especially those that are not regularly maintained. Left unchecked, resulting mold and mildew can potentially cause health problems.

Six of the most common caus-es of water damage include:• Window or roof leak that

causes water to run down inside the cavity of the wall or ceiling

• Gutter clog that can cause rainwater to back up into your home

• Icemaker water line to the re-frigerator that leaks, causing mold in the cavity or on the surface of the wall

• Washing machine or dish-washer water hose failure that can cause mold within the wall

• Air conditioner unit clog or drip pan overflow that can cause water to run down the interior wall or ceiling

• Nail in PVC pipe that results in water leak or bursting pipes

“Homeowners need to realize that the effects of water damage in their homes aren’t always visible — and once you find them, it’s likely mold growth already has occurred and can af-fect everything on the wall sur-face and behind it,” said Anitra Mecadon, TV personality and award-winning interior designer.

There are three main ways to protect against water damage and the issues that follow:

Use drywall with extra protec-tion for your walls and ceilings

— such as moisture-, mold- and mildew-resistant PURPLE XP drywall by National Gypsum — whether you’re building a new home, or remodeling or restor-

ing the one you have. PURPLE XP products are GREENGUARD Gold Certified for indoor air quality while aiding in the cre-ation of healthier indoor envi-ronments.

Routinely inspect vulnerable areas to prevent water dam-age before it occurs. Every few months grab a flashlight and do

some sleuthing under sinks, be-hind appliances and around win-dows to check for moistness, rust, kinks or damage in water lines and hoses, and a musty odor. On a regular basis have professionals check things out, especially your air conditioning unit.

Act quickly to minimize dam-age from water intrusion, be-cause mildew and mold can begin to grow within 24-48 hours of water exposure.“I don’t know a single home-

owner that hasn’t had a water problem of some kind at some point in the history of living in their home,” Mecadon says. “My advice is simple — be prepared. Walls and what they’re made of are important and they’re not all the same. When you can, choose PURPLE XP drywall for performance, value and peace of mind that lasts.” H –BPT

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Home Improvement Insight: Redesign With Kids’ Safety in Mind

Smart homeowners take a strategic approach to home im-provement projects such as re-doing a playroom, living room or bedroom to keep kids’ safety in mind during the redesign process.

By being proactive today, you can ensure your entire family can safely enjoy the results of your home improvement proj-ect. Here are the top five things to keep in mind to create a stun-ning yet safe space for your family:

Window CoveringsCorded window coverings

are a Top 5 Hidden Hazard in American homes, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Dangling or accessible cords on window coverings can pose an acciden-tal strangulation hazard to in-fants and young children. The Window Covering Safety Coun-cil recommends only cordless window coverings or window coverings with inaccessible cords be used in homes with small kids.

Consumers can easily identify products best suited for homes

with young children by looking for the Best for Kids certification label on the packaging of a large variety of products. Window covering products that qualify for “Best for Kids” either have no cords or inaccessible cords. In order to be eligible for this certification, manufacturers must submit their products for third-party testing to determine if they meet the Best for Kids program criteria. (See window-coverings.org for additional in-formation.)

ElectricalElectrical updates should al-

ways be made with curious kids in mind. It’s easy to update outlet covers to sliding plug options. With these you never have to worry about replacing the outlet plug again because it closes automatically when not in use.

Larger electrical enhance-ments can help as well. Stream-line the aesthetic of your space while eliminating cords by up-dating wall lighting. For ex-ample, a few sconces might replace reading lights, plus they’re high enough to keep

out of reach of young kids. An-other example: a new dimma-ble ceiling fan provides safe air circulation with customizable light output.

Smart Home UpgradesTechnology is a home im-

provement game-changer that can make spaces more livable and safe. Smart window and door locks can be installed throughout the home. Kids can now securely enter without a key and parents are sent an

alert at that time. You can also set alerts for windows left open so you know to close them to reduce fall risks.

Another smart home improve-ment to consider: motion-acti-vated sensors. These sensors can be placed anywhere you don’t want children to be. For example, when your child opens the front door before you wake or he tries to get into the medicine cabinet, you’re sent an alert to your phone that makes you immediately aware of the activity.

Furniture and DecorThat vintage armor will look

perfect in your just-redone space ... until your kids start to pull out the drawers and rough-house around it. Tip-overs are another Top 5 Hidden Haz-ard by the CPSC, which notes in the U.S. a child is sent to the emergency room every 30 minutes as a result of falling furniture.

Furniture, TVs and appliances can tip over and crush chil-dren, so take an extra step to keep kids safe. Always stabilize furniture, decor and any other

items that could fall over. Safety anchors and brackets are widely available online and at retail home improvement stores. They are quick and easy to install and may save a life. (See www.anchorit.gov for additional in-formation.)

Interior PaintPainting a room is one of the

most affordable yet dramatic ways to refresh a space. Howev-er, not all paint is created equal. To maintain high indoor air quality and a safe area for curi-ous kids, be a selective shopper with interior paint.

Before you select your hue, research paints that are appro-priate for children. Look for zero-VOC (volatile organic com-pound) labels and environmen-tally friendly options. When in doubt, ask at the paint counter which paints are best for sensi-tive family members.

You’ll love your updated home even more when you can trust it is safe for you and your children. With these sim-ple tips you can create a space that is secure, stylish and safe for all. H –BPT

Refresh Your Home in the New YearEach new year gives you the

chance to reset and start new routines. When you’re consider-ing new approaches to healthy living — whether eliminating or adding habits to improve your daily life — beginning with your home is an optimal choice.

Your living environment has a strong influence on your life, and it’s worth evaluating how you can make updates that cre-ate a positive space for you and all that the new year will bring. Consider these ideas to refresh your home and simplify your housecleaning routine so you can spend more time focusing on your goals this year.

Start by DeclutteringIt’s practically impossible to

get excited about a fresh start when you’re surrounding by last year’s junk. Make declut-tering and purging unnecessary items a top priority for your re-fresh. Clear counters and tables to create more inviting surfac-es and force yourself to assess which items are worth keeping. Get rid of items you don’t need

by donating, selling or dispos-ing them. Tackle piles of things you’ve carelessly tossed aside and find (or create) purposeful places for them to belong.

Simplify Your Laundry Routine Whether it’s the frustration

of having no clean laundry or never-ending baskets filled with clothes that need fold-ing, laundry is an area where nearly every home can use a refresh. Start with the ba-sics to make laundry easy and quick. A streamlined laundry system starts with the right tools for the job, such as all Mighty Pacs, which are avail-able in several varieties with different benefits and contain single doses of detergent that release while inside your ma-chine, so you can simply toss one in and start the load. If you have sensitive skin, try all Free Clear, the No. 1 rec-ommended detergent brand by dermatologists, allergists and pediatricians for sensitive skin. It’s gentle and works through tough stains fast.

Create a Fitness SpaceOne way to stay committed

to a new workout regimen is to create a place where you enjoy spending time. Even if you don’t have a room to dedicate to fitness, you can make a fitness corner feel more intentional and less like an afterthought with some simple changes. If possible, locate your fitness area near a window so you can soak up the energy of

natural light. Clear away unnec-essary items and make room for the equipment or floor space you need. Add inspiring posters or make frames to hold your current workout guide. Add storage for hand weights, resistance bands and other small equipment to create your own home gym.

Reconfigure Your FurnitureA full-fledged renovation may

not be in the cards (or budget), but you can give your living space a quick facelift by simply rearranging the furniture. Be-yond simple aesthetic changes, think about how you can make better use of natural light and improve traffic patterns. You might also eliminate extra piec-es if the space feels overcrowd-ed or consider borrowing func-tional items that add storage or seating from other rooms in the house.

Add GreeneryThe middle of winter may

not seem like an ideal time to hone your green thumb, but adding a few plants can make your home feel more inviting and chase away the cold weather blues. Plants can also help serve as a natural air purifying system; they absorb carbon dioxide to help stimu-late their growth and are be-lieved to absorb a host of other airborne pollutants.

For more ideas to simplify your routine this year, visit all-laun-dry.com. H –Family Features/’all

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Tips to Mitigate Home Improvement Costs

Construction material costs are up compared to previous years and labor is also getting

more expensive as construction workers are in high demand due to the skilled labor shortage. So,

as a homeowner getting ready to start a project, what can you do to mitigate these rising costs?

Don’t delay. Building materials are projected to get even more expensive and the project back-log for some contractors across the country is up to three or four months. Waiting to start the process of a home repair or improvement, especially a needed one like a new roof, could push off the repair for months due to the contractor’s schedule, and only cause the project to get more expensive as building material costs con-tinue to rise.

Look for low-cost quality prod-ucts. Home improvement isn’t the place to cut corners by buying the cheapest supplies, but in many product segments there is a low-cost leader — a product or brand comparable in quality to more expensive brands, but offered at a lower cost to provide the best value per dollar.

Choose a reputable contractor. Don’t cut corners when hiring a contractor. Even if it may be more expensive upfront, or result in a longer waiting pe-riod for work to start, hiring an experienced local contrac-tor with a good reputation can save thousands of dollars in the long run.“A good contractor should be

able to show homeowners their license to practice and a certif-

icate of insurance,” said Rick Taylor, Field Sales Training Manager for TAMKO Building Products, a leading manufac-turer of asphalt roofing shin-gles.

A bonus, Taylor said, are cer-tifications from the manufactur-ers of products the contractor installs, whether it be roofing, flooring or cabinets.“Every company has a best

way to install their products, and being educated on that pre-ferred installation can go a long way in the product performing the way it was intended to,” Taylor said.

A reputable local contractor is more likely to do the job right the first time and be more willing to address any potential problems with the project in the future.

Plan, plan, plan. With any home improvement project, there are many decisions to be made, both large and small. Making as many of those deci-sions early in the process can reduce project delays or rework. Some of the decisions that can be made before the contractor ever starts include establishing the scope of the project, iden-tifying potential issues, having utilities mark lines and deciding what brands to use and product colors to install. H –BPT

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of these methods without con-sulting with a professional be-fore trying them. Use them at your own risk! Your results may vary; what works for me or other people may not work for you. Be careful and stay safe!

That said, I hope you will enjoy reading some of these interesting tips!

Cleaning & OrganizingVinegar is another wonder

product for cleaning. Add a cup to your smelly laundry (espe-cially sheets if you have bed wetters), add a few spoonfuls to water and run through your coffee machine to clean it, try it to clean windows, and de-odorize everywhere — a few tablespoons mixed with water in a spray bottle will neutralize most odors. It may smell a bit at first, but as the vinegar dries, the odor will dissipate.

To clean rust, use plain old Coca Cola! Add Coke to an abrasive pad or steel wool, and scrub well. Try it in your toilet as well; pour a can of Coke

into the bowl, allow to rest for a few minutes, then brush vig-orously. Coke contains phos-phoric acid, which helps zap tough stains.

If you’re not into making sachets, clip perfume samples from magazines and store in your dresser drawers for a nice boost of fragrance.

When you lose a sock, don’t toss the other one; instead, use as dust rags or to clean around the house. They slip right over your hands and can be reused hundreds of times.

Add a regular magnet to your sewing basket. When you lose your needles or pins, the mag-net is a great tool to help collect them for you.

If you have lots of tangled cords in your drawers, use an empty cardboard tube, such as in a paper towel, to keep them all organized. Just label each one and you’ll never have to solve the mysteries of the cords again.

There are also lots of uses for those plastic shopping bags... they make great dispos-able gloves for whenever you

have to touch something yucky. Just turn them inside out and toss them into the trash bin! When coloring your hair, you can wrap your hair in a plastic shopping to seal in the color-ing action. (Don’t do this with lighteners, and keep away from mouth and nose.)

When transplanting plants into other pots, put a few coffee filters in the bottom of the pot. It keeps dirt from leaking out the holes in the bottom when you water the plants.

If you’re mailing gifts, recycle those empty boxes. Just turn them inside out and tape or glue the boxes back together. Makes your packages look nice and clean, and makes your writing much easier for the postal ser-vice to see.

Homemade air freshener or fabric refresher (aka Febreze) is easy and inexpensive to make. Take one part of your favorite liquid fabric softener and three parts of water, put into a spray bottle and spray wherever you need it. Works well on furni-ture, bedding, in the air, and anywhere! H – Yahoo!



Transform Your Bathroom Into a Wellness Retreat for Body and Mind

When you think of your bath-room, what comes to mind? A place you’re in and out of quickly while getting ready for the day or winding down for the night? Your bathroom can be more than just a utilitarian space.

By adding certain bathroom amenities, you can transform your bathroom into a calming oasis that serves as a retreat from everyday stressors. Consider these five ideas that provide a spa-inspired experience in the comfort of your own home:

Tantalizing tub features pro-vide a peaceful paradise. Water has many therapeutic benefits, and with the right tub, you can enjoy any time you’d like. Re-lieve sore muscles and calm the mind with an air bath, a soothing bathtub option that uses thousands of tiny air bub-bles to melt away the day. The DXV Aqua Moment Drop-In Airbath with Waterfall provides a gentle shoulder massage that helps release tension, while the waterfall transports the mind to a peaceful paradise. Activate the chromatherapy to complete the ambiance; for example, choose

purple to reduce anxiety or or-ange to boost energy.

Create coziness using heated el-ements. Warmth brings relaxation, so make sure your bathroom has all the features to keep you toasty. Consider adding heated elements underneath your flooring. Just imagine being able to adjust the temperature on a knob and warming the floor to your pre-ferred level of comfort. A heated towel rack is a must-have and easy accessory to add. Flip the switch at the start of your shower or bath and by the time you get out, your towel will be warm as if you just pulled it out of the dryer.

Delight the senses with a dis-tinctive shower experience. A shower can be much more than an opportunity to get clean. Mod-ern showerheads offer an expe-rience to delight the senses. For example, the Spectra eTouch showerhead from American Stan-dard allows you to choose from four distinct spray patterns with the simple tap of a finger on the wall-mounted remote. Select your spray pattern to jump-start your morning and another to relax at night after a busy day.

Enjoy a luxurious, clean feel-ing. It is important to pause and take time for yourself — you’ve earned it. Choose bathroom prod-ucts designed to offer you supe-rior cleansing and improve your well-being. Bidet features like self-cleaning nozzles to thorough-ly and hygienically cleanse front and back are a great investment. Consider options like the AT200 LS SpaLet integrated electron-ic bidet toilet from DXV, which includes luxury features like a heated seat. If you can’t install a full bidet, you can easily retrofit a bidet seat like the Advanced Clean SpaLet bidet seats from American Standard. These are es-pecially great for moms-to-be and new moms, and are a soothing way to stay clean and eliminate bacteria.

Complete the experience with pampering accessories. Add the extras you need to your bathroom to make it feel like a true spa re-treat. Invest in a plush robe and slippers to make you feel relaxed.

New loofahs and sponges, along with scented bath products, can make the experience extra calm-ing and luxurious. Don’t forget to pick up some new, lavish towels that will wrap you in softness. After a long day at work, there’s

nothing better for your body and mind than the ability to experi-ence your own “five-star” spa treatment. Even better? You don’t even have to pack a bag or hop in the car now that you have a calm-ing oasis right at home. H –BPT

Choose the Right Insulation to Save Money90 percent of U.S. homes are

under-insulated, according to analysis by the North American Insulation Manufacturers Asso-ciation (NAIMA). Adding insu-lation to your home is an easy way to save yourself hundreds of dollars per year in both heating and cooling costs, while helping to make your home more com-fortable year around.

A trip to your local home im-provement store to choose in-sulation can be overwhelming, though, given the dozens of op-tions. Many homeowners will gravitate toward fiberglass insula-

tion, as it is likely what they have in their homes and is familiar.

Fiberglass InsulationAdvantages of fiberglass batts

and rolls include they are rela-tively inexpensive and fit the stud and joist spacing in most homes. While fiberglass insulation installs quickly, it can be challenging for the average homeowner to get it done right. “It’s very difficult to complete a fiberglass insulating job without leaving a few gaps in coverage, and even a small void can diminish a wall’s over-all [insulating value] by 50 per-cent,” notes the Dr. Energy Saver company’s website. Homeowners should consider that fiberglass batt insulation does not contin-uously cover spaces, but fits be-tween studs. The insulation may also slump and lose its insulating value over time, creating more energy-wasting gaps.

Rigid Foam InsulationAnother DIY insulation option

available at home improvement stores throughout the U.S. is rigid foam insulation. Of the several rigid foams available, expanded polystyrene (EPS) can be used throughout the home, including walls, floors, ceilings and foundation walls. “EPS panels are lightweight and easy

to cut and handle,” says Tom Savoy, technical director for In-sulfoam. “EPS also installs easily over the home’s framing, pro-viding continuous, high-perfor-mance insulation in a way that’s not possible with batts or rolls.”

Location, Location, LocationWhen planning where to add

insulation, Savoy explains that one area to pay attention to is

“knee walls,” which are short walls with attic space directly behind them. Such walls com-monly lack insulation, but are a prime source for heat loss.

“Although it can be difficult to access attic spaces behind knee walls, readily available “fanfold” EPS insulation fits through many attic access doors and hatches, and easily unfolds to cover up to 100 square feet,” says Savoy.

Garage doors also many times are un-insulated. To fix this common area of heat loss and heat gain, some EPS manufac-turers offer garage door insu-lation kits designed to fit easily into the door’s segments, allow-ing the job to be completed in less than one hour.

For additional tips on where and how much to insulate, the U.S. Department of Energy provides information on adding insulation to an existing home. H –BPT

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Tips and Technology for a Healthier, More Livable Home

Today’s home builders, de-signers and innovators are working to create interiors and living experiences that take into account consumer trends to-ward seeking a more healthful

environment, inside and out. The most recent “Whole Home Concept House,” by leading design magazine House Beau-tiful, places focus on design elements and appliances created

to promote health, livability and sustainability, reflecting the increasing desire of American consumers for an approach to interior design that goes well beyond aesthetics.“At House Beautiful we be-

lieve our homes should be a refuge that helps you recharge and unplug from our busy ex-ternal lives — and that if you design it well, you will live a happier and healthier life,” said House Beautiful’s market di-rector Carisha Swanson. “The Whole Home Concept House is the culmination of our year-long wellness initiative. We’ve built out a real home that embodies and showcases ideas and inno-vations that feed happiness and drive well-being in every facet of our lives.”

Here are some of the 2019 Whole Home Concept House’s top features that consumers can adopt in their own home designs and renovations to im-prove livability and enhance their home environment.

Make it easy to clean. Espe-cially for homes with children, choosing fabrics and other ma-terials that are tough enough to withstand dirt and stains for flooring, walls and furniture makes it easier for parents who don’t want to spend every mo-ment cleaning. For the Whole Home Concept House, Atlan-ta-based designer Vern Yip used

heavy-duty, stain-resistant fab-rics in the foyer and living room, along with wipe-able wallpa-per that’s easy to keep clean. Swanson emphasizes that this approach gives families more time to do the things that they really want to do in life.

Fight allergens where they live. The latest technology for the laundry room now keeps clothes and linens as free from allergens as possible. Choose appliances certified by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America for the best results, such as LG’s TurboWash 360 front-loading washing machine. The washer’s proprietary Al-lergiene cycle removes 95 per-cent of pet dander and dust mites. All LG products in the home are equipped with smart technology, enabling users to control key features from any-where with the ThinQ mobile app or using voice commands via Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Avoid chemicals. For refresh-ing clothes and removing light wrinkles in under 20 minutes, the LG Styler steam closet helps extend the life of cloth-ing between laundering. There is no plumbing required, so the unit can be used in any room. It reduces the need for dry cleaning, cutting down on po-tentially harmful chemicals in

your wardrobe, as well as re-moves 99 percent of allergens and bacteria from clothing, pillows and even children’s stuffed animals with the gentle power of steam.

Keep food fresh longer. To store and prepare healthy, fresh food effectively, the Whole Home Concept House featured the latest in food storage and preservation technology from luxury kitchen appliance brand Signature Kitchen Suite. Their integrated refrigerators and freezers are engineered to pro-vide the largest capacities in their respective classes, while also minimizing temperature fluctuations to help maintain optimal food freshness longer, reducing food waste.

Cook like a chef. For cooking your healthiest, most delicious meals, the Signature Kitchen Suite 48-inch Dual-Fuel Pro Range provides home chefs with all the tools available to professionals, such as the first-of-its-kind pro-range with built-in sous vide modality, along with induction and gas, all on the cooktop. The sous vide cooking technique uses precise temperature control to deliver consistent, restaurant-quality results that preserve the true flavors, vitamins and nutrients of the food, needing little or no added salt or fats. H –BPT

How to Put Your Own Touch on Modern Bathroom Design

Home design continues to evolve but one element remains true: The bathroom is often the oasis within the home. A secluded bathroom is an ideal spot to experiment with modern designs without undergoing a major renovation. Below are a few tips on how to incorporate contemporary elements into an existing bath.

Accessorize simply. Choose simple and polished accessories that complement the aesthetic of the room. Incorporate sleek, angular towel bars or an el-egant robe hook to create a clean layout that is functional and design forward. Incorpo-rating modest touches that fit your personal style, such as striking rose quartz crystals on your shelves, will transform the space into a serene oasis.

Add warmth with texture. A modern look doesn’t need to be synonymous with sharp lines and monochromatic colors. Incorporating softer materials such as a plush rug, textured bath towels or hand-woven wicker baskets will provide contrast to angular accents, bringing a sense of warmth and tranquility to the room.

Create a timeless aesthet-ic. Ensure your space remains modern for years to come by installing timeless fixtures. In-spired by the modern styles found throughout European homes, the Delta Emerge Show-er Column couples bold lines with impactful design to deliver a luxurious, customizable show-er experience. Simply mount it to the existing shower wall and plumbing. An adjustable hand

shower on the column allows the added benefit of a slide bar and overhead shower in one.

Engage your senses. In modern design, creating a contempo-rary space is about more than just how the room looks. When homeowners were asked to share the most important charac-teristic of their design purchases, the scent of the home ranked among the top five qualities from responses in the bi-annual Delta Faucet Homeowner Index. To truly complete the modern look and feel of your bathroom, skip the traditional candle and con-sider adding elements such as an aromatherapy diffuser to cus-tomize your space with different scent combinations.

For more design inspira-tion, visit DeltaFaucet.com/In-spiredLiving. H –BPT




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Selecting Right Paint for Your Homeby WILLAMS MORITNE

The right paint can create a big impression whether you are doing little or a big renovation to your home. Today, so many paint products are available in the market wherein you can select a particular one based on the architectural and aesthetic values of your home.

There are several factors to consider, including the nature of the wall you are going to paint, the color of your interior and, and the quality of paint prod-ucts that you are specifically looking for.

Choose a matrix. Even before choosing a color, determine the appropriate matrix. The two most common interior paints are water-based latex paints, and solvent-based (oil) paints. Today, water-based paints dominate and account for roughly 80 percent of paints sold in the residential market.

From a performance stand-point, advances in paint tech-nology mean that high quality water-based paints are in many respects equal to or superior to their solvent-based equivalents. High quality acrylic emulsions offer excellent durability, quick drying time, and the emission of less odor.

Consider aesthetic and archi-tectural details. Make sure the paint enhances the architectural details of your home. Remem-ber a right selection of paint can either highlight or hide your home’s beauty.

Consider the size of your space. Interior paint color can have a dramatic effect on the apparent size of a room. If an area is small and you want to make it appear spacious, choose a light color. Bolder, deeper shades work well in larger rooms.

Consider your persona and style statement. The colors you

use should reflect your personal style. Do you like to come home from a hectic day feeling restful? Do you exude energy and pas-sion? The colors you choose not only reflect your style, but affect

your mood as well.Start with what you already

have. Unless you’ve just pur-chased a new home, your exist-ing space likely already reflects your personality. Consider your

existing colors, design, furni-ture, and other aspects. What do you like? What don’t you like? Are you just trying to freshen up a drab space, or create a com-pletely new look? H –Article Base

Enhance Your Sports Watching Experience With the Right Light

The Big Game is just around the corner, which means it is also time to get your entertain-ment area in shape for family and guests. Whether your TV is in your family room or a dedi-cated media room, it takes more than just a big screen to get the

most enjoyment out of your viewing experience.

According to the American Lighting Association, good light-ing can significantly enhance movies and sports watching, while poor lighting can be a dis-traction to relaxing family time.

To make sure your media room has good lighting, the ALA offers these easy-to-do tips:

Consider reflection. If you’ve got a big TV, you’ve got a big surface that acts as a reflector. A bigger screen equals more bounce, particularly with over-head light sources.

Focus on ambient light more than direct light. A large source of overhead light will cause more glare, which is why am-bient or task light — side lights, sconces — should be a big

focus. Diffuse the light with more light on the walls than on the ceiling.

Dim it. Most people turn the lights off when watching a movie. You need some lighting to create a balance, so the TV is not the single glowing source, and to illuminate obstacles and steps.

Light the room in layers. To be properly lit, rooms should have three layers — overhead, task and ambient. This allows you to have the exact mix of light that

works for a particular time, day and need.

Reduce glare when you can. As much as possible, reduce the amount of natural light with window treatments, and allow artificial light sources to supple-ment as needed.

Most importantly, whatever your style, there are beautiful decorative lights that can com-plement the décor and, in the long run, are as important to comfort as a cushy sectional sofa. H –NewsUSA






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Add More Storage to Your Bedroom

by LEE DOBBINSEveryone can use more stor-

age and one of the best places to add storage is the bedroom. What with all your clothes and personal items cluttering up the closet and bureau, the bed-

room can sometimes seem like a messy catch-all for all your household clutter. Here’s some ways you can clean up the bedroom and get some extra storage space too boot!

Your closet — One way to

gain a ton of space is to install a closet organizer. This can be anything from a complete over-the-top remodel to a simple store-bought unit. You won’t believe how much extra space you can get when you use one of these systems.

Metal rail systems for closets are great. You can get acrylic shelves, chrome baskets and special slotted pieces for shoes and hats. The slotted systems are good, as they provide ventilation, which helps your clothes to breathe and are easy to maintain. These adjustable components come with non-chip and non stick coatings.

When choosing a closet or-ganizer, make sure you pick a system that allows you to double up your rack space. This way you can hang shorter clothes like shirts and skirts on top of each other and literally double your closet space!

Hidden storage in your bed-room — You might already have some storage space in your bedroom that you don’t even realize you have. Is there space under the bed? Are you using it to it’s fullest? Clean out

all the dust bunnies and throw away the socks and junk that has accumulated under there and use this for long term stor-age. You can put off-season clothing, camping gear, toys or whatever under there when it is not in use. Store the items in plastic containers (you can buy the low ones on wheels for easy retrieval) or space bags to protect the items and create a neat storage space.

Another overlooked storage area is a room divider. If you have one sitting in the cor-ner as a decorative item, you might want to look at the space behind it. This can be used to store items that you don’t need to get at every day like craft supplies or even cleaning supplies.

Storage baskets — Storage baskets are a great place to store various objects and can also add decorative touches to your bedroom. You can use them for small stuff like keys, holding bills or correspon-dence, toiletries, towels, jew-elry and just about anything

else that will fit in the basket. You can buy large baskets for your laundry and smaller ones to use as catch-alls.

When buying baskets to use as storage in the bedroom, make sure you pick ones that match your bedroom décor. There are many types of stor-age baskets available in the market in many different sizes and shapes and colors, and in different materials. Some are utility-oriented, while some are meant as decorative items. You can choose from willow, woven ash, rope, wrought iron, woven sea grass, bam-boo, woodchip and a variety of other types with all different kinds of embellishments, so you should be able to find a basket that matches any bed-room décor.

Adding more storage to your bedroom can help you get bet-ter organized and even help you remove some of the clutter from other rooms in the house. Now you just need to remem-ber to put that stuff away in the right place! H –Article Geek

Refresh Your Entry

Painting your front door is one of the easiest home im-provements. Applying a fresh coat of paint to your home’s en-trance is not only a key part of home maintenance, it also adds

curb appeal to your home. You can go for a classic look with a stately black, gray or navy. Or, try a fun and colorful look by using trendy colors like bright green, aqua or orange. H –BPT

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Superior Design, Superior FunctionalityIncorporating style and so-

phistication is becoming a stan-dard in today’s modern homes. As the center of activity and entertaining, the kitchen is the room to truly “wow” guests with elevated design choic-es that don’t compromise the space’s necessary functionality. From countertops to fixtures, a modern kitchen is designed with the home chef in mind and should seamlessly inte-grate purpose and style.

Beyond Granite Long considered the hall-

mark of a luxury kitchen, granite has been widely cho-sen for its aesthetic appeal and rugged durability; how-ever, homeowners looking to break from the standard have a range of alternate materials from which to choose. Crisp marbles infuse a room with a clean, stately charm while having the benefit of being cool to the touch, perfect

for the home baker. On the warmer end of the spectrum, butcher block countertops bring in a more relaxed vibe and will withstand rigorous use by the serious home chef. For something a bit out of the norm, soapstone and concrete are dependable surfaces that will patina over time.

On DisplayOpen shelving in the kitchen

ensures the most used items are within reach while simul-taneously delivering an airy feel. Customized to fit any space, these shelves effortless-ly draw the eye to perfectly organized dishes, cookware or dry goods. Complemented by a sophisticated backsplash, unique shelving materials such as galvanized iron or reclaimed wood can transform the kitch-en into an industrially inspired space, while floating shelves in white oak or black walnut pro-vide a more contemporary note.

Technology That Simplifies From appliances to faucets,

kitchen tools are becoming in-creasingly high-tech. Intuitive

applications that anticipate needs and increase functional-ity without sacrificing design are must-haves in the modern

kitchen. The single-handle Ar-ticulating Kitchen Faucet with SmartTouch Technology by Brizo combines a jointed arm that allows the spray wand to be positioned virtually any-where around the sink with the brand’s signature touch technology, allowing water ac-tivation with just a simple tap anywhere on the faucet base, handle or arm for maximum flexibility and functionality.

Sophisticated Storage As kitchens become the de

facto entertaining environment in the modern home, it is in-creasingly important to incor-porate elements to keep clut-ter at bay. Thoughtful storage solutions are critical to both the visual style and utilitarian design in the home chef’s kitchen. Max-imizing spaces in key work areas for items like spices, knives and even small appliances, improves efficiency while minimizing countertop clutter. H –BPT

The Rise of the Basement: Top Tips for a Better SpaceWith fewer homes for sale

and good returns on the re-modeling investment, more homeowners are reclaiming their lower levels and remod-eling their basements.

Basements are coming out of hiding these days. And they’re doing it in style, with before-and-after transforma-tions featured everywhere from HGTV to Pinterest and You-Tube.

What’s driving this trend? A tight housing market, for one thing. With houses at a pre-mium — and a proliferation of DIY how-to’s — more home-owners are inspired to reclaim their unused space and expand their living area.

A Smart, Affordable Upgrade Updating your lower level

is a sound investment in your home. Remodeling magazine’s 2016 Cost vs. Value Report put the average basement remodel at $61,303, with a 70.3 percent payback — a far better invest-ment return than adding a bath-room or garage.

Props for Your Property Value

Depending on local regula-tions, the additional space can often be added to your home’s total square footage, making your market listing more ap-

pealing to buyers and poten-tially increasing your property value.

To recoup the most from your remodeling efforts, make sure your design and decorat-ing choices are attractive and functional — not too quirky or customized.

Look Up, Look Down: Banish Water All Around

Before you begin making decorating choices, tackle any needed repairs, including wa-terproofing your lower level. It’s a good idea to seal your walls and floors first, and im-portant enough to hire a pro-fessional if you’re short on time.

And since below-grade spac-es are usually cool, humid and prone to water damage, con-sider investing in a good de-humidifier and choosing mois-ture-resistant products.

Elevate Your Ceiling StyleUgly or damaged ceilings can

ruin the look of your newly up-dated basement space, so take steps to repair or replace your ceiling. Plaster any cracks and replace yellowing tiles.

If you’re updating the ceiling, look for products from compa-nies like Armstrong Ceilings that are specially treated to resist the growth of mold and mildew. From there, the sky

— or the ceiling — is the limit. Savvy design choices, like cof-fered ceilings, or wood planks add style and the results are easier to achieve than most people think.

Stuck with an older, 2-foot x 4-foot dropped ceiling grid? There’s no need to suffer with-out style. Homeowners can take advantage of today’s beautiful new 2-foot x 2-foot ceiling tiles by adding 2-foot

cross tees to their existing grid systems.

Flooring: Think Warm And Dry

Make sure your flooring choices stand up to moisture, too. Patch any cracks in the concrete floor and consider adding a subfloor if the surface slopes or is uneven.

Many homeowners gravi-tate to the warmth and sound-

proofing effect of carpeting in basements. Low-pile or Berber carpets resist wear and are inexpensive options. A mois-ture-barrier pad between the carpet pad and the carpet adds another level of water resis-tance and reassurance.

Now is a great time to finish your basement. You’ll enjoy the added living space now, and like-ly realize a healthy return on your investment in the future. H –BPT


Unique Ways to Add Style and Personality to Your Kitchen

From cooking to conversing to entertaining, the kitchen truly is the heart of the home. It’s also one of the spaces that homeowners most often dream of renovating. A growing trend in kitchen design is personaliza-tion, where thoughtful updates go beyond stainless steel appli-ances and standard cabinetry to incorporate a host of interesting design elements.

By adding splashes of person-ality to your kitchen, not only will you make the space one of a kind, but you’ll also enjoy it more because it will reflect your unique preferences and style. Consider these key ways to breathe new life into any kitchen.

Switch Up Your CabinetsWant to give your cabinets a

fresh look and add some pizzazz without refacing them or install-ing new ones? An easy place to start is to replace existing hardware. Just as jewelry com-pletes an outfit, hardware adds a finished look to cabinets. The availability of a variety of styles and materials for drawer and cabinet pulls — metals, ceramics, crystal, glass, stone — makes it easy to update your cabinets with little cost and effort. Don’t be afraid to mix-and-match hard-ware styles or experiment with different shapes to add character.

Another idea for freshening up your kitchen is to update a few key cabinets. For instance, you can paint the cabinets above or directly beside the stove in black chalk paint, allowing you to add fun words and phrases — or even a favorite recipe — with chalk markers. You could also remove the face of several cab-inets from the frame and add a clear or opaque glass insert for

added visual interest and an unexpected touch of beauty.

Finally, don’t forget about the often overlooked toe kick space — the recessed area just below the cabinets — which can be enhanced with subtle styling. Consider painting this area a fun statement color or adding tiles for a clever update you won’t see elsewhere.

Add Vintage Style AppliancesWhile stainless steel appli-

ances are popular in modern kitchens, colored appliances are a great way to add personality if you’re feeling the desire for something a little different. El-mira Stove Works offers several vintage-inspired appliance lines in a variety of styles and colors. Whether you opt to update all your appliances or choose a single statement piece, your kitchen will feel inspired.

For those who lean toward a retro or midcentury modern look, the Northstar line adds conversation-worthy color to

any kitchen. Perfect for base-ment bars, bonus rooms and man caves too, this line com-bines throwback style with modern conveniences. Add a fun pop of color with classic hues like tropical blue, mint green and candy red, or choose from an array of custom col-ors. Learn more at www.el-mirastoveworks.com.

If retro doesn’t suit your fancy, consider the Antique line, which features intricately detailed ap-pliances with historic styling. These distinctive appliances are available in a range of tradi-tional and custom colors, and can complement any vintage home design, including a rustic cabin, country cottage or lake house. For a turn-of-the-century feel, the Fireview stove is espe-cially stunning, with a visible wood-burning component that can also be used to heat rooms.

Light Up the RoomProper lighting is essential for

performing kitchen tasks, but that

doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Lighting provides an opportunity to get creative and bring touches of personality to the kitchen. By blending practical task lighting with decorative ambient lighting, you can inject the right balance of function and fashion.

Overhead and under-cabinet lighting make it easy to chop, cut, cook and more. Add a bit of flair by using a layered ap-proach — for example, strate-gically mix pendant and wall lights with recessed lighting. The globes that surround light fixtures are another great place to sprinkle in some character. From glass designs in vivid hues to textured metal looks,

these surrounds come in myriad shapes and sizes.

You can find your favorite kitchen lighting options at local home improvement stores or boutique lighting shops. For something truly one of a kind, visit antique shops, flea markets and home decor reclamation stores. Whether an amazing art deco chandelier or an ador-able Victorian decorative table lamp, you’ll discover unexpect-ed gems for your kitchen.

Your kitchen should be as unique as you are. When you add personal touches, you’ll enjoy an updated, customized space that will have you cooking and entertaining in style. H –BPT




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Aging-In-Place Bathroom Upgrades To Make While You’re Young(er)

Is it ever too early to think about aging in place, and mak-ing home improvements that will allow you to remain living in the same house well into your golden years? Homeown-ers in their 60s and 70s are no longer the only Americans investing thought and money into preparing their homes to meet their needs as they grow older — and that’s good news, according to HomeAdvisor’s 2016 Aging-in-Place report.“If homeowners start early,

they can spend sufficient time researching and planning to avoid wasted time and sub-optimal solutions,” Brad Hunter, HomeAdvisor’s chief economist, says in the report.

“Homeowners can protect, and possibly even raise, resale value of the home by making (it) more appealing to buyers in all age groups with modi-fications that have broad ap-peal.”

The report notes universal design improvements, such as wider doorways and open floor plans, “can enhance the

quality of life in a home even as they make the home safer ... and can be just as beneficial to a homeowner in their 30s or 40s as they are to a homeowner in their 70s or 80s.”

Universally Beneficial Upgrades

Incorporating universal de-sign principles into your home can facilitate aging-in-place goals, while comfortably ad-dressing the diverse needs of all ages and mobility levels using your home. Features like single-story design, bedrooms and bathrooms on the ground floor, daylighting through larg-er windows and skylights, and wider doors and hallways ap-peal to users of all ages.

However, if you’re consid-ering aging-in-place upgrades, making improvements in the bathroom can deliver the great-est return on your investment. The bathroom is often referred to as the most dangerous room in the home for all ages, but especially for seniors with in-creased risk of falling in show-

ers or bathtubs, or around the toilet area.

Upgrades to improve a bath-room’s usability and safety can help people remain in their homes for longer. Here are bathroom improvements to consider:

Shower SeatingShowers also present a fall

risk that affect people of all ages. Adding seating in a show-er — whether a removable chair or bench, or built-in op-tions — can allow you to relax in the shower with less fear of falling.

Chair-Height ToiletsStandard toilets have a bowl

height of about 14 to 15 inch-es. Toilets with higher bowls at 16 1/2 inches, similar to the familiar height of a chair,

make it easier for everyone to stand up without a lot of effort. Water-conserving models like the American Standard VorMax high-efficiency Right Height elongated toilet are not only more comfortable, but they also facilitate cleanliness with powerful flushing action and technology that keeps the bowl cleaner. Toilets with built-in bidets are another smart op-tion for those with dexterity and mobility issues, making it easier for them to maintain personal cleanliness without daily bathing.

Pedestal SinksStandard sinks are about 30

inches high. Installing a higher sink to reduce the amount of bending a user needs to do is another worthwhile bathroom improvement. While you can find vanity sinks set at a higher level, pedestal sinks of about 36 inches high have even

more advantages. The slimmer, sleeker profile of a pedestal provides more maneuverable floor space for people with mobility issues or those using wheelchairs or walkers. Plus, the reduced footprint makes floor-cleaning easier.

Easy-to-Use FaucetsTwist faucets can be difficult

to manage for people with ar-thritis or decreased flexibility, as well as for small children just learning to use the facilities. Lever-style or single-handle fau-cets make controlling the water flow much easier for people of all ages and with varying skill levels.

Universal design home im-provements can benefit all ages within your home. Making these upgrades at a younger age can prepare your home to meet your needs in your golden years, while allowing you to enjoy the comforts early on. H –BPT

The SpaLet AT200 Electronic Bidet Toilet from DXV is the highlight of this bathroom suite. It provides indulgent personal cleanliness, conveniently and easily.

This universally designed bathroom suite features an easily accessible walk-in bathtub with a convenient out-ward-opening door, a 16-inch VorMax Right Height toilet for more comfortable use, and a classically styled 36-inch high Town Square pedestal sink for less bending during use, all from American Standard.




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