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From Berlin with Love ... electronic music for your mind and soul, Thomas' purpose is to share positive energy through music around the world. With "a.life" Thomas Lizzara has united all these preferences under a well-sounding roof, especially with his own label and his own events. 25 years of experience as a producer Live Act and DJ are forming everything he is doing today, his DJ performances from the past have more and more developed into a live act of today. His DJ-Sets are fully loaded with his own timeless productions and unpublished remixes, personal insights of what happened until now and what is still to come. Every new gig so serves a unique experience. With more than 100 Releases, he played on many Festivals, like Airbeat One, with Artist like Boris Brejcha, Ben Böhmer, Westbam, Maceo Plex, Adam Beyer, Paul Kalkbrenner, Kölsch. Thomas Lizzara is living this kind of performance - and he loves it. It's all about beats, emotions, happiness and - of course - love. We are here to be happy and we are a.life, Thomas Lizzara

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ATLANTA, Ga. — There’s a PGA Tour A and a PGA Tour B schedule these days and it is evident in looking at where the pros who qualified for the Tour Championship by finishing in the top 30 on the FedEx Cup season-long standings teed it up this season.

There’s always been certain tournaments that attracted the best fields – that’s nothing new – but it has never been more pronounced than it is in the era of the signature events, which feature eight limited-field events with jacked up purses and inflated FedEx Cup points and often no cuts. Former longtime Wells Fargo Championship tournament director Kym Hougham once compared how players fill their schedule to college.

“You have your requirements and your electives. For years, there used to be four requirements – the majors – and the rest of the events were electives. You had four that were a given and then had 14 others to choose from.”

Now there’s eight signature events, the Players and three playoff events. That makes 16 requirements.

“The electives are vying for four or five spots,” Hougham said.

Some are electing to play even fewer than that. Viktor Hovland only played one non-major or signature event this season, the Genesis Scottish Open, which counts as a DP World Tour event for his Ryder Cup qualification. Asked if he may play more regular events next season, Hovland explained that this season he didn’t feel confident in his game and preferred to practice at home.

“I might,” Hovland said. “There are plenty of other tournaments I like to play. If I feel like my game is in a good spot I might just keep playing and add some non-Signature events. I’d love to do that, it just didn’t work out that way this year.”

Viktor Hovland hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during the final round of the 2024 BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club. (Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports)

Rory McIlroy, who said he expects to finish with 27 worldwide starts by the end of the year, said he’ll play fewer events next season.

“I’m going to try to cut it back to like 18 or 20 a year going forward, I think,” he said on Sunday after his round at the Tour Championship.

There are myriad reasons why players skipped tournaments, ranging from births to deaths to just being plain tired. Some players added starts to enhance their chances of making the Olympics, qualifying for a major, making the Aon Swing 5 to get into a signature event or helping their FedEx Cup chances. Sometimes a player has a sponsorship commitment. Some honored a commitment as defending champion. Others like Tom Hoge just like to play a lot of golf.

“Early in the year I played the entire West Coast chasing the top 50 so I could get in the Masters,” said Hoge, who played 11. “If I take a few weeks off, it usually takes me a week or two to get back in the groove so I like to play ahead of big events.”

But others found that the cadence of the schedule limited the number of times they played outside of the biggest tournaments. Justin Thomas, who wasn’t in the top 50 but ended up playing his way in or getting a sponsor exemption into all of the signature events, didn’t play a single tournament outside the majors and signature events after March.

“The way the schedule worked out we had signature event, major, signature event,” said Russell Henley, who played only three regular events. (He would’ve played the Wyndham Championship, where he has a great track record, but was dealing with the passing of his father.) “Just the way it was set up, I felt like it forced me to put all my eggs in the signature and major basket this year.”

The players who competed in the most regular events typically weren’t in the signature events to start the season. Billy Horschel needed to play 13 regular tournaments, including an opposite-field event (which he won), to make his way back to East Lake. Horschel said he would still play many of the regular events next season even though he’s in the signature events.

“It’s hard to get to Atlanta,” Horschel said. “With my record at events like the Wyndham Championship, I’d be crazy not to go there. Guys are going to realize that they need points and there are other places to get them.”

Matthieu Pavon and Robert MacIntyre both earned cards for finishing in the DP World top 10. Pavon played three regular events right out of the gate but after winning the Farmers Insurance Open in late January in his third start, he played just two more the rest of the season as he gained admission to the signature events. In contrast, MacIntyre didn’t notch his first win until June at the RBC Canadian Open (and then skipped his first signature event at the Travelers Championship to fly home to Scotland).

Robert MacIntyre tees off on the first hole during the third round of the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis. (Chris Day/The Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Before that, he even played two opposite-field events. In all, he played 17 regular events, the second most of any player to make the FedEx Cup finale, behind only Aaron Rai, who didn’t win until the regular-season finale at the Wyndham Championship and missed all the signature events.

“I think it will be pretty different,” said Rai, who also is in all the majors next season as well as the signature events. “You can’t really miss the signature events.”

He guessed he’d likely play 18 tournaments before the playoffs next season, which would mean dropping from 18 regular events down to six.

It’s difficult to make definitive statements based on one year of data of having signature events but it sure looks like the top players are taking fewer electives than ever, which makes it a tough time to be a regular tournament.

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A group of conservative alumni said the student-led tours were overly focused on the school’s history of using enslaved laborers.

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The University of Virginia said on Thursday that it had suspended a longstanding campus tour service, but said the move was unrelated to complaints that the tours cast a negative historical spotlight on the school, particularly its relationship to slavery.

The tours, aimed primarily at prospective students and their families, were run by student volunteers. For several years, the tour organization, the University Guide Service, has been the focus of criticism from an organization of conservative alumni called the Jefferson Council , which has argued that the volunteer guides have alienated prospective students by providing a “woke version of U.Va. history.”

A university spokesman, Brian Coy, said the decision to pause the work of the guide service had nothing to do with that criticism. Instead, he said, the university was concerned that the group had insufficient capacity to operate the required number of tours and that the information provided during the tours wasn’t consistent.

“Some of the tours have been excellent and comprehensive, and others have been found to be in need of work,” Mr. Coy said, adding that tour guides hadn’t always shown up. “If someone drives 1,000 miles to Virginia with the thought of potentially coming to school here, we want to make sure someone is on hand.”

U.Va. said it would temporarily replace the volunteers with student interns paid by the university to lead the tours. In a statement, a university spokeswoman, Bethanie Glover, said the university would work with the guide service on an improvement plan.

The announcement came about two months after a new set of appointees selected by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, cemented his administration’s control of the university’s governing board of trustees. His appointees now hold 13 of 17 seats.

Leaders of the guide service declined to comment but posted a notice on the group’s Instagram account. The group said it would work with the university to reinstate the volunteer tours in the spring semester, “so long as this relationship does not harm our ability to share an honest and complete account of U.Va. and its history.”

The announcement was first reported by the student-run newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. It came as U.Va., one of the country’s most selective public universities, was set to release the demographics of its entering freshman class — the first group admitted following last year’s Supreme Court decision banning the consideration of race in university admissions.

Against the backdrop of the state’s fraught racial history as the seat of the Confederacy, U.Va. became one of the first public universities in the South to admit Black students and has been lauded in the past for its efforts to increase the diversity of its student body.

In a statement issued after the Supreme Court decision last year, James E. Ryan, U.Va.’s president, said the university would do everything “within our legal authority to recruit and admit a class of students who are diverse across every possible dimension and to make every student feel welcome and included here at U.Va.”

More recently, Virginia adopted legislation banning the use of legacy preferences, which favor the children of alumni in admissions. The new law, which does not affect this year’s incoming class, could increase the diversity of Virginia’s state universities.

The Jefferson Council is an organization of conservative alumni who say their mission is to preserve Thomas Jefferson’s legacy as the founder and architect of U.Va. One of the group’s main complaints was that the guides emphasized how Mr. Jefferson was a slaveholder while downplaying his more positive contributions as a founding father and the nation’s third president.

Tom Neale, the organization’s president, wrote an open letter in June to Mr. Youngkin, in which the Jefferson Council asked that the university sever ties with the volunteer guides, among other requests.

Mr. Neale said on Thursday that the guides had started their tours by describing how the university’s land had been stolen from the Monacan Indian tribe, then segued to how the Rotunda, designed by Mr. Jefferson as the center of campus, was constructed by slave labor.

“We’ve gotten hundreds of emails, calls and texts from prospective parents saying, ‘I’m so turned off that my kid is not going to Virginia,’” said Mr. Neale, a Baltimore businessman.

“We’re not antediluvian right-wing zealots,” he added. “If we can get balanced tours, which is your first blush for many coming to U.Va., that’s all we want.”

Stephanie Saul reports on colleges and universities, with a recent focus on the dramatic changes in college admissions and the debate around diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. More about Stephanie Saul

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Your one-stop shop for everything you need to know throughout the 2024 fedex cup playoffs.

Following an exciting regular season, the PGA Tour hosts a three-tournament postseason, the 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs, which concludes with a massive Tour Championship where the majority of the grand total $100 million purse is dished out to golfers. In fact, the $25 million top prize is tied for the largest payout on the PGA Tour this season with the Players Championship. 

Only 70 golfers advanced to the first round of the playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, same as last season. With 40 of those players now eliminated following the BMW Championship, the field has thinned in terms of the best golfers in the world able to compete for the league's top prize. There's plenty of star power still remaining, though, with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele atop the standings and other significant players like Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark in contention.

For Scheffler, a FedEx Cup win would be his first, but it would also serve as a feather in his cap on the back of a stellar season that already includes six PGA Tour victories and an Olympic gold medal. The same goes for Schauffele, a two-time major championship winner this season.

Let's take a closer look at what has occurred and what we can still expect from this year's festivities.

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings, via points accumulated throughout the year, played in the St. Jude Championship with 50 competing in the BMW Championship prior to the field being trimmed for the final time.

All three events are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, though the fields gradually get smaller as the playoffs roll on. The points change, too, as everything is quadrupled. During regular-season events, most winners receive 500 FedEx Cup points for finishing first at tournaments (in a handful of events, 600 points went to first place). The winners of the first two FedEx Cup Playoffs events will instead receive 2,000 points each. The point boost goes for every slot on the leaderboard: 300 for second becomes 1,200 and so on. 

Only seven golfers surpassed the 2,000-point total during the entire regular season: Scheffler, Schauffele, McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg and Sahith Theegala. Scheffler opened these playoffs with nearly a 3,500-point lead on third-place McIlroy -- who has since fallen off the pace -- while Schauffele himself was 1,500 points up on the rest of the field.

Winners are disproportionately rewarded and deservedly so given this is the postseason. This provides the opportunity for golfers to go on a hot streak and rocket up the FedEx Cup standings like Hideki Matsuyama and Keegan Bradley did over the first two weeks.

The top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings after the St. Jude Championship move on to the BMW Championship. Then the top 30 after that move on to the Tour Championship.

2024 FedEx Cup standings

Scheffler and Schauffele are having extraordinary seasons. They rank No. 1 and No. 3 on the all-time single season money list at $29.2 million and $18.4 million, respectively, following the second playoff event. Those numbers are officially locked in as money from the FedEx Cup does not count toward a player's official money.

Here's a look at the top 30 in the standings following the BMW Championship.

Matsuyama made a move to third by winning the St. Jude Championship. Bradley was the big mover at the BMW Championship as he barely got into the second playoff event but is now in fourth as the Tour Championship begins.

2024 Tour Championship format

Heading into the Tour Championship inside the top five or top 10 in the FedEx Cup standings is important because of how scoring is dispersed. Whoever is first in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship starts the Tour Championship at 10 under, and the event is played under normal scoring conditions from there.

With so much money at stake (again, $25 million for first place), those margins become more meaningful than even a normal week. The eventual winners of the four FedEx Cups played under this format have all started in the top seven at the Tour Championship.

• 10 under -- Scottie Scheffler
• 8 under -- Xander Schauffele
• 7 under -- Hideki Matsuyama
• 6 under -- Keegan Bradley
• 5 under -- Ludvig Åberg
• 4 under -- Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay 
• 3 under -- Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Tony Finau
• 2 under -- Ben An, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre
• 1 under -- Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith
• Even -- Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs purse, prize money

2024 st. jude championship purse, prize money.

• 1st: $3.6 million
• 2nd: $2.2 million
• 3rd: $1.4 million
• 4th: $960,000
• 5th: $800,000
• 6th: $720,000
• 7th: $670,000
• 8th: $620,000
• 9th: $580,000
• 10th: $540,000

2024 BMW Championship purse, prize money

• 4th: $990,000
• 5th: $830,000
• 6th: $750,000
• 7th: $695,000
• 8th: $640,000
• 9th: $600,000
• 10th: $560,000

2024 Tour Championship purse, prize money

The figures are startling for the finale. The winner of the Tour Championship receives $25 million. Second place is $12.5 million! Here's a look at what the lucrative top 10 will look like at the Tour Championship.

• 1st: $25 million
• 2nd: $12.5 million
• 3rd: $7.5 million
• 4th: $6 million
• 5th: $5 million
• 6th: $3.5 million
• 7th: $2.75 million
• 8th: $2.25 million
• 9th: $2 million
• 10th $1.75 million

Last year, Viktor Hovland won the BMW Championship and then took the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup over Schauffele. Both players shot the same 19-under score at East Lake to end the year, but Hovland started the tournament at 8 under while Schauffele only started it at 3 under so Hovland easily won by five and took home the first prize of what was then $18 million.

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After nerve-wracking flight, Justin Thomas soars with 66 at TOUR Championship

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ATLANTA – Justin Thomas thought he was safe, but he wasn’t going to stick around to find out.

There was enough uncertainty, though, that Thomas flew home to South Florida instead of straight to Georgia. Only after a couple of nervous hours in the air – which included constant refreshing of the FedExCup standings and a few “angry beers” – was Thomas able to book his travel to Atlanta. He had to push his hotel reservation back a couple days because the uncertainty around his status precluded him from flying directly to the TOUR Championship.

Thomas said he’s grateful to be back in Atlanta after failing to qualify for last year’s FedExCup Playoffs. East Lake is no longer a destination he takes for granted.

“You've got to play really well, really solid golf. It is an accomplishment,” Thomas said. “Although I am No. 30, I'm still happy to be here and excited to go.”

Justin Thomas on importance of taking ownership of his golf swing

Thomas started the week 10 strokes behind leader Scottie Scheffler under the unique FedExCup Starting Strokes format . It’s a nearly insurmountable deficit, especially considering Scheffler’s dominance in 2024, but Thomas has more to play for. The TOUR Championship also offers one last week to audition for U.S. Presidents Cup Captain Jim Furyk , who will make his captain’s picks next week.

Thomas’ week is off to a strong start, as he birdied his final two holes to shoot 5-under 66.

It established a new course record at the restored East Lake Golf Club, which is dramatically different than the course that existed 12 months ago (its par also has changed, as the 14th hole was lengthened and turned into a par 5 ).

(Thomas' record-setting 66 was surpassed by Scottie Scheffler's 65 later in the day.)

Thomas was 22nd in the FedExCup entering last week’s BMW Championship. Even though he finished in the bottom third of the BMW field, he knew the math was in his favor. Until it wasn’t.

“I had to have a lot of things, I would say, not go my way to (not) get in,” Thomas said Thursday. “Although for a while there or for a little bit it looked like I wasn't going to.”

Before takeoff, Thomas said one website gave him a 94% chance of qualifying for the TOUR Championship. Thomas asked his parents not to discuss the live FedExCup standings during the flight, but he couldn’t keep himself from refreshing. He played cards with his father, Mike, to take his mind off the movement in the standings.

Smylie Kaufman, who was at Castle Pines as part of NBC’s broadcast, also was texting Thomas live updates, including photos of players’ lies.

“Literally every time I opened my phone it was getting worse and worse and worse and people kept making birdies that needed to not make birdies,” he said. “A couple nervous beers turned into a couple angry beers because it looked like I wasn't going to get in.”

Thomas finally learned his fate about 40 minutes before the flight landed. A double bogey on the 72nd hole from Brian Harman proved to be the difference. Thomas arrived at East Lake on Tuesday after a day practicing at home.

“I’m still proud that I’m here and have a chance,” he said. It’s an opportunity that Thomas is making the most of.

Sean Martin is a senior editor for the PGA TOUR. He is a 2004 graduate of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Attending a small school gave him a heart for the underdog, which is why he enjoys telling stories of golf's lesser-known players. Follow Sean Martin on Twitter .

University of Virginia suspends tours that had come under fire for mentioning Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery

The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery, officials said Friday.

The tours led by University Guide Service have been plagued by spotty attendance by student volunteers and issues with "consistency" in content, university officials said in a statement to NBC News.

The school has been "in close contact with the student-led University Guide Service" for two years "to address a trend of issues and concerns surrounding guide attendance and tour consistency, and to discuss plans for improvement," UVA said in statement.

The Jefferson Council, a conservative alumni group, had been calling for an end or change to the tour program, insisting that volunteers had been wrongly besmirching the legacy of UVA's founder.

The university's statement did not cite the Jefferson Council's ongoing campaign against University Guide Services.

And UVA spokesperson Bethanie Glover went a step further adding that: "This isn't in direct response to any criticism from the Jefferson Council. This is more to do with the guides not showing up for their scheduled tours."

Nonetheless, the alumni group's president claimed victory on Friday.

Council president Thomas Neale, a 1974 UVA grad, said his group helped push Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, to place 13 appointees on the university's 17-member governing board of trustees, which led to this action.

"So yeah, we raised the issue and now that they have 13 (appointees) — and not all of the Youngkin appointees are homogenous, some are fairly moderate — but all of them looked at this and said this has to change," Neale said.

Neale insisted his group doesn't want a whitewashing of Jefferson's status as a slaveowner, but a greater contextualization of America's third president and Declaration of Independence author.

He insisted that it should be taught that Jefferson signed into law, in 1807, the prohibition against the importation of slaves. The prohibition was poorly enforced, doing little to end the institution of slavery until the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation .

"He's (Jefferson) quoted by every country in the modern era having started a democracy," Neale said. "There are many commendable things about him. Of course, mention he was a slave owner. That's not hidden."

In statement posted to social media on Wednesday, University Guide Services said it hopes to work with UVA administrators to re-start tours by spring 2025.

These tours, though, must "share an honest and completely account of UVA and its history."

"To our stakeholders, collaborators, community members, and fellow students, we are deeply sorry that we cannot fulfill our mission to the fullest extent this semester," University Guide Services said.

"While these months will undoubtedly look different, we hope to continue collaborating with all of you to share those stories of this school throughout the fall."

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Justin Thomas recognizes PGA Tour’s new Creator Classic as a good thing for golf

Thomas highlights how vital the Creator Classic can be for the PGA Tour and golf, as it offers more opportunities.

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Justin Thomas is no longer one of the youngest players on the PGA Tour. At 31, he is among the veterans with multiple Ryder Cup and President Cup appearances.

However, that does not mean he is out of the loop. The former Alabama golfer understands the importance of social media.

This week at the Tour Championship , the Creator Classic will be on Wednesday evening. Sixteen golf influencers and YouTube content creators will play in a nine-hole stroke-play event.

Golf is becoming increasingly popular. For the sport to continue to grow, the younger demographic must be interested, and implementing these creators helps with that.

“It’s very cool. It’s obviously very different. That’s the day and age we’re in right now,” Thomas said. “At the end of the day, if it gets more kids and people interested in golf, that’s what’s most important.”

Welcome to the big stage! Sixteen golf content creators will compete on the back nine of East Lake on Wednesday, August 28 at 4 p.m. ET. #TOURChamp | @PGATOUR pic.twitter.com/IuChAqT3Ya — TOUR Championship (@TOURChamp) August 27, 2024

Thomas is probably one of the most recognizable names on the PGA Tour. He is a fan favorite. The 15-time PGA Tour winner acknowledged that he did not know the field very well, but as long as the fans do, that is what matters.

“There’s a handful of influencers out there that people know probably way better than me,” he said. “And that’s not right or wrong, but that’s the power of it.”

The two-time PGA Championship winner uses social media and is one of the more active guys on the Tour. When Thomas knew he was in the Tour Championship field, he posted a hilarious meme about himself.

So you’re telling me there’s a chance #FedExCup pic.twitter.com/guXneuAF10 — Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas34) August 26, 2024

He credited the 16 creators for choosing to compete in the Creator Classic, taking time out of their schedules and doing something right for golf.

“Their time is valuable, like ours. For them to take the time on a big week like this, play a course, and have the opportunity to create a little bit more buzz, that’s great. It gives kids a different avenue to want to be involved in golf. I think that’s a good thing, regardless if it’s professional or influencer.”

Thomas's acknowledgment that being an influencer is still a great way to get into the sport is massive. The PGA Tour and LPGA make up a tiny percentage of the golf population, so it only improves the sport if they can find another way to get involved.

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf coverage, follow us @_PlayingThrough on all major social platforms. You can also follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @golf_girl_sl.

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Thomas Lizzara is a Berlin-based music producer and DJ with a prolific career spanning two decades. He is best known for merging electronic music with elements of jazz, soul, and hip hop. His creative approach to creating his sound has earned him the title ‘free-style producer’. Some of his repertoire showcases his obsessive knack for experimentation in sound. He’s toured Europe and the US and has released four studio albums. Tracks from his albums have been frequently featured in popular television and film. He has also collaborated with many internationally recognised producers and frequently collaborates with fellow Berlin-based label Katermukke. He currently holds residencies at prominent Berlin club institutions such as KitKatClub and Crustulum Berlin and is jet-setting all over the world to play for international venues and festivals.

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