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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Top 200 golf courses in America? 2025 list features 3 in Minnesota, 7 in Wisconsin
Golf Digest has been releasing top 100 course rankings in the United States annually since 1966, and its 2025 rankings were unveiled Tuesday. Minnesota had just one course in the top 100, while Wisconsin nabbed four spots. There are more, however, in the "Second 100 Greatest" list. The top Minnesota course is Interlachen Country Club in Edina at No. 64 overall. Here's what Golf Digest wrote about it. When Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open at Interlachen (completing the second leg of what would become the game's first Grand Slam), fellow competitor Gene Sarazen insisted the course was tougher than everything but Oakmont. In the decades that followed a series of architects including Robert Trent Jones, Geoffrey Cornish and Brian Silva worked to keep Interlachen's edge, but nothing could staunch the march of time that made the course one-dimensional through the shrinkage of greens and the maturation of the hundreds of trees that had been planted, shading fairways and masking the property's natural land movements. Enter Andrew Green in 2023, who was given the resources to strip back the layers and rebuild the course based on the blueprints Donald Ross developed in 1922 when he remodeled the course. Interlachen's edginess is back, with ominous, strategically arranged bunkers guarding greens and fairway lines, and the expanded putting surfaces presenting a range of come-and-get-me hole locations that haven't been seen in ages. The restored bunkering shines a spotlight on Interlachen's wondrous undulation, punctuating focal points like the shared promontory of the second and seventh greens and the majestic rise toward the fortress putting surface of the par-5 12th. The five courses in Wisconsin that made the top 100 are Milwaukee Country Club in River Hills at No. 97; Sand Valley: The Lido in Nekoosa at No. 69; Erin Hills Golf Course in Hartford at No. 49; and Whistling Straights: Straights Course in Sheboygan at No. 29. You may be wondering where the likes of The Quarry at Giants Ridge, The Wilderness at Fortune Bay, Hazeltine National Golf Club, and The Classic at Madden's Resort are in the rankings? You'd be right to wonder considering three of the four cracked Golf Digest's top 100 public course rankings in 2023 (the last time public rankings were released). However, Hazeltine is the only one of the bunch to even crack Golf Digest's "Second 100 Greatest" list. Hazeltine, home to the PGA Championship in 2002 and 2009, the Ryder Cup in 2016 and the KPGA Championship in 2019, made the second list at No. 137. Hazeltine will also host the 2026 KPGA Championship and the 2029 Ryder Cup. Only one other Minnesota course made the Second 100 Greatest list: Spring Hill Golf Club in Wayzata, checking in at No. 107. Three other Wisconsin courses made the second 100: Sand Valley Golf Resort: Mammoth Dunes in Nekoosa (165); Sand Valley in Nekoosa (134); and Blackwolf Run: River in Kohler (128).
Forbes
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Yellowjackets' Season 3 Is All Over The Place And Not In A Good Way
Yellowjackets We are now eight episodes into the third season of Yellowjackets and I have decidedly mixed feelings. In some ways, I think this is a slightly better season than the previous one, but it's still such a far cry from the perfection of Season 1 that I'm having trouble really caring. In some ways, that's even worse than genuinely hating a show. I've gone back and forth a bit on this season. There are some interesting and entertaining elements, but it feels like the writers continue to have no idea what to do with a lot of the characters, especially in the modern timeline. The events of the past timeline also make me question everything going on in the present, particularly when it comes to Shauna. Spoilers ahead. One of the biggest mistakes this series has made, other than the massive tonal shift between Seasons 1 and 2, has been bringing back more survivors into the modern timeline. It began with just five: Shauna, Tai, Misty, Nat and Travis, who we know survived the wilderness but was found mysteriously dead from an apparent suicide, though with plenty of clues that it was something more nefarious. At the end of Season 1, we learned that one other girl had made it out: Lottie, the mentally unhinged priestess of The Wilderness. The end of the first season ended with a cliffhanger. Nat had been kidnapped by what appeared to be Lottie's cult. It was incredibly frightening and exciting and I couldn't wait to learn just how diabolical a grown Lottie and her Wilderness cult would be. Only, well, they weren't. Lottie was running a pretty milquetoast self-help retreat. Lottie herself, as an adult, was almost nothing like her teenage character. While every other adult version was a pretty perfect match, Lottie had an almost entirely new personality. It was jarring. Her cult was woefully bland. How we even went from boring cult to the hunt in the woods by the end of Season 2 remains a mystery. It certainly wasn't earned. Nat's accidental death by fentanyl was preposterous on so many levels, it makes me a little angry just to think about. And with Nat's death came an even bigger problem: The show lost its protagonist. If anything, Season 3 is only driving that point home. Teen Nat and teen Travis are the closest thing this show has to a moral center. The closest thing we have to heroic figures we can root for. It's clear that Shauna is being set up as the Big Bad at this point also, but without an adult Nat in the modern timeline, there is no yin to Shauna's yang. The equilibrium is gone. Back to what I was talking about before. By the end of Season 1, we had six survivors. Season 2 added adult Van who effectively becomes adult Tai's new (old) love interest. The writers pretty much just erased Tai's wife and child from the script and other than a brief moment in Season 3, that has remained the case. Tai and Van's adult relationship has been about 5% as interesting as Tai's family life in Season 1. When she was running for office and dealing with what appeared to be her son acting out, and lots of weird stuff was going on that we didn't understand (before learning that it was Other Tai), this was a really brilliant and compelling story. Simply dropping all of that so that Tai and Van could drive around and fret over Van's cancer was a huge mistake. But bringing Van back creates other problems. Namely, it reduces the tension in the teen storyline because we have yet another main character who we know will survive. There aren't many of them left, especially after the latest episode when we learn that Melissa is still alive. Hilary Swank joins the cast and dons Melissa's teen signature backwards baseball cap, just so we in the audience know it's her. (As we all know, grown versions of teenagers wear the exact same clothes 25 years later). Yellowjackets Now we can check off yet another teen in the past storyline. We know for sure Melissa survives, so any future scenes with her character are a lot less interesting. The number of teens who could die before rescue has just dropped again (though the show is happy to just drop in new girls whenever it sees fit, despite how immersion-breaking that is). The number of girls who could be Pit Girl (the teen who died in the very first episode) has been reduced to basically two: Mari and Gen (the latter was recast for Season 3, which really confused me). These are the only light-skinned, dark-haired girls remaining that I can think of, though I suppose it could be the new addition, Hanna, though that would be a cheap trick since Pit Girl was very obviously a teenager in Season 1. Speaking of the scientists, this feels very much like a plot twist they came up with when writing Season 3 rather than something planned out from the get-go. I could be wrong, of course, but it's just so out of left-field. And it adds yet another character with ties to the survivors in the form of Hannah's daughter. We know Hannah is dead based on what the survivors have talked about, but her daughter is alive and well and Shauna suspects her of doing all the nefarious things that have been happening to her, until she discovers that Melissa has married said girl under a false identity. So this is quite the dark turn of events, no doubt. Melissa seems like a pretty normal person at first when Shauna confronts her. She tells her she lives a normal, boring life and would like to keep it that way, which is why she sent Shauna the tape and a note that Shauna never got (did Callie hide it? Was it Callie doing all this stuff to Shauna? Was it Callie who killed Lottie?) But there's nothing normal about changing your identity and marrying the daughter of a woman you killed and (presumably) devoured. In fact, it's super creepy and evil. Even though Shauna comes off as super unhinged by the end of Episode 8, there's little doubt in my mind that Melissa is also off her proverbial rocker. In the teen timeline, I don't understand the showdown between Nat and Shauna. Nat and the group is about to head off with Joel McHale's forest guide, Kodi, and Hannah and hike the six-day journey to the rescue point. Almost everyone wants to leave, but then Lottie says she's not going. I understand her reluctance to leave. She's found herself in the forest. Found her faith, her priestesshood, her calling. The world back home is one of pain, judgment, and quite likely institutionalization. Shauna's motivation for staying is murkier, but I suspect it's similar. Over the course of Season 3, she's harnessed all her anger into a kind of power. She wants to be queen. She keeps asserting her dominance. And Tai's decision to join the first two makes sense, since we know this is Other Tai, or at least that Other Tai is influencing her. What I don't understand is Nat and the others just obeying Shauna when she tells them that nobody is going to leave. Nat says 'We're going' and everyone turns to leave and Shauna just says 'No. You're not.' And that's it, they stay. Maybe they'll go in next week's episode. They have the gun and the crossbow. But it sure looks like they'll just cave and buckle to Shauna and the other two. Why? It doesn't make sense. All these complaints aside, I do like Shauna's turn to the dark side. I like her being set up as the villain, and I like the contrast that provides between her ruthlessness and Nat's goodness. Nat and Travis are, as I said, the moral center of the group. Travis was smart to try to take Kodi and Akilah to find help rather than go back to the group, and it's really disappointing to see Akilah undermine him. But the problem with this dynamic is that it really muddies the entire adult storyline up to this point. Sure, Shauna has done lots of bad things. She's created chaos in her life in the adult timeline. She killed Adam, for one thing. And she bites Melissa's skin off and wants to force her to eat it in this last episode. The issue is the way the others have treated her since Season 1, not as the ruthless ringleader of the Bad Girls but as one of them. There was next to no real tension between Shauna and Nat in the adult timeline. Lottie was treated like the dangerous outlier. But if Shauna was this awful and domineering and scary in the teen timeline, why has she been treated like a normal housewife by her fellow survivors this whole time? And the widening gap between how teen Shauna acts and how adult Shauna acts makes them feel like two very different characters. It doesn't add up. It makes me wonder if this was, yet again, a change the writers came up with for Season 3 rather than something they had planned the whole time. If nothing else, the relationship dynamics between Nat and Shauna in the first two seasons should have been wildly different and more strained. That this wasn't the case is the strongest evidence I have that they just changed course with Shauna's character this season. Either that, or they did a lousy job in the first two at creating a more realistic dynamic between the adult survivors. Yellowjackets My guess is that they had always planned for Lottie to be the Antler Queen and the leader of the Bad Girls in the teen timeline, but changed course after Season 2 basically ruined Lottie's character. I could be wrong, obviously, but that's the feeling I get. Shauna is clearly being prepped to become the Antler Queen. Mari is almost certainly Pit Girl. The big question is whether we get confirmation of this by the end of Season 3. I'm still enjoying aspects of this show, but it's really lost so much of what made it greatin Season 1 that I'm finding it hard to care. I've said this before but it's been widely misrepresented and misunderstood by fans: I just don't like any of the characters anymore, except for maybe adult Misty. And I don't mean that I dislike them because they're bad. Plenty of bad characters are great fun to watch. Walter White, for instance. But in this show, I need to enjoy the bad characters. Tai used to be a really complex character who I enjoyed a lot, but the Other Tai stuff has just sort of fizzled. I still like Nat and Travis in the past timeline, but knowing both are dead in the adult timeline really takes the wind out of their sails. In the adult timeline, everyone is just kind of awful or flat except for Misty, and she's not a protagonist to root for so much as a source of constant comic relief (like Jeff, who I also like but who functions more as a running gag than anything). Without anyone to root for, and without the interesting story hooks that Season 1 gave us with Other Tai and so forth, the show loses much of what once made it so great. I guess we'll see. Two episodes remain this season. I wonder if we'll get a fourth. What do you think of Season 3 so far? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. 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Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Yellowjackets' Season 3: Where to watch and what you need to know via Van and Shauna
The Wilderness heard us … and Yellowjackets is finally returning. After a long winter (a year and a half-long hiatus between seasons) the psychological thriller survival series about a high school girls' soccer team getting stranded in the woods post-plane crash, leading to some supernatural occurrences and ritualistic cannibalism — you know, just girly things — is back for Season 3. Starring Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton and Liv Hewson, the third season of the series seems to seriously heat up (and not only because winter is finally over for the Yellowjackets). Hilary Swank and Joel McHale are joining the cast this season in mysterious new roles. If you need a refresher on what our girls have been up to, Van and Shauna have you covered with this recap. Here's what you need to know about watching the new season of Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets Season 3 premieres this Friday, Feb. 14 with two new episodes. After that, a new episode will drop weekly every Friday on streaming and every Sunday on cable. Yellowjackets is a Showtime show, but episodes premiere on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME two days before they air on the channel, so if you want to be the first to watch when new episodes drop, Paramount+ is your best option. Forgot some of the gory details in the Yellowjackets story so far? Don't fret, Van has you covered with this helpful recap of what went down with our girls in Yellowjackets Season 1 and 2. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Simone Kessell and Elijah Wood are all returning to their roles in the series. Hilary Swank and Joel McHale are both slated to appear as guest stars in Season 3. Swank's role reportedly has the potential to become a series regular if the show gets renewed for another season. Notably, Juliette Lewis will not return, and if you've already seen Season 2, you'll understand why. We do get a quick flash of Ella Purnell in the trailer for Season 3, so fingers crossed we get to see some of Jackie from beyond the grave like last season. New episodes of Yellowjackets will drop on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME every Friday morning at 3 a.m. ET. Episodes will then air on Showtime (the channel) on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. Episode 1 - Friday, February 14 Episode 2 - Friday, February 14 Episode 3 - Friday, February 21 Episode 4 - Friday, February 28 Episode 5 - Friday, March 7 Episode 6 - Friday, March 14 Episode 7 - Friday, March 21 Episode 8 - Friday, March 28 Episode 9 - Friday, April 4 Episode 10 - Friday, April 11 Episode 1 - Sunday, February 16 Episode 2 - Sunday, February 16 Episode 3 - Sunday, February 23 Episode 4 - Sunday, March 2 Episode 5 - Sunday, March 9 Episode 6 - Sunday, March 16 Episode 7 - Sunday, March 23 Episode 8 - Sunday, March 30 Episode 9 - Sunday, April 6 Episode 10 - Sunday, April 13
