Julie Williams

2 weeks ago | wxxinews.org | Evan Dawson |Megan Mack |Julie Williams

More than 50 years ago, a group of Native Americans chose to leave the reservations where they lived to form a new community near Plattsburgh. Frustrated with the overcrowding, drugs, and alcoholism they had just fled, they built their new settlement, called Ganienkeh, with the goal of following a traditional way of life.

2 weeks ago | wxxinews.org | Evan Dawson |Megan Mack |Julie Williams

Why are more young adults getting cancer? It's a question researchers are racing to answer. In January, the American Cancer Society released a report detailing how despite the cancer mortality rate in the U.S. decreasing by 34% from 1991 to 2022, the progress is jeopardized by an increase in diagnoses of many types of cancer, especially in younger adults. As our guests this hour explain, navigating cancer diagnosis and treatment as a young person has unique challenges.

2 weeks ago | golfweek.usatoday.com | Julie Williams

Outside of two-man best-ball tournaments, there aren’t many opportunities for an amateur to compete in a team event. That’s what makes the U.S. Senior Challenge, a national senior team event happening this week at Hobe Sound (Florida) Golf Club, so unique. The tournament, which dates to the mid-1980s, ends up feeling a lot like a college golf tournament. State teams are made up of four individuals, with the best three scores counting toward the team total in each of three rounds.

3 weeks ago | golfweek.usatoday.com | Julie Williams

From the many chapters of Mike Quinlan’s golfing life came this realization for Quinlan: The game has always endured within his family. As he was set to receive the Challenge Man of the Year award later this month, Quinlan relayed memories of his relationship with golf while looking at a photo of his father, standing together with his buddies on the golf course. “The things that he gave to me now carried on,” Quinlan said, detailing how golf became the family game among his wife and children, too.

1 month ago | golfweek.usatoday.com | Julie Williams

As soon as Bryan Hoops learned that no player before this week had won both the Golfweek Senior Division National Championship and the Golfweek Senior Amateur – played in back-to-back weeks at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, California – in the same year, the chance to be the first had his attention. “A good challenge,” said Hoops, a 56-year-old from Scottsdale, Arizona.