Farm bill informational meetings are set

Area farmers and ranchers are invited and highly encouraged to attend one of the FSA informational meetings to learn about the farm program options that are contained in the 2018 Farm Bill.

The Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) are the two program options within the bill.

Learning more about ARC and PLC is extremely important for producers who must make a decision on yield updates as well as ARC or PLC election and enrollment decisions throughout the life of the farm bill.  Attendees will receive basic information about the programs, learn the eligibility requirements of the programs, and be made aware of the applicable deadlines for the decisions that will need to be made throughout the enrollment process.  A representative from the Extension Service will be in attendance and share information about some tools they have available to assist in deciding which program option may best fit your farm.

Meetings are at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Anderson  County Fairgrounds in Garnett.

Meetings will be at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday in the Allen County Courthouse Assembly Room in Iola.

Those needing special accommodations should contact Doug Peine at 65-2901 or 785-448-3128 prior to the meetings.

A look back in time

70 Years Ago

November 1949

Since the publication in recent years of brightly illustrated books, the children’s wing of the Iola Public Library is a busy place. The comic book trend is facing competition these days. Mrs. Glen Stancliff, Jefferson PTA president, announced the Iola Parent-Teacher Association has raised $253.20 for expansion of the children’s department and is inviting other local organizations to assist. A new children’s department is the goal now, as a result of the PTA action.

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Ray Looker was re-elected president of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps at the organization’s annual meeting. Looker said the corps has 32 members, which will be increased to 40. It plans to participate in Iola’s Christmas parade on Nov. 26 and make several other public appearances during the coming year.

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W.M. Ostenberg, principal speaker at the 25th annual Allen County 4-H Club achievement banquet last night, paid tribute to Paul Klein, 93-year-old Iola lumberman, who introduced the bill in the Kansas legislature in 1913 which initiated the Farm Bureau program in Kansas adopted in 1915.

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Kenneth Daniels, scout master of Iola’s troop 55, was awarded the Silver Beaver, scouting’s highest honor, at the scouters court of awards last night at Chanute. Daniels has devoted much of his time to scouting during the past decade, serving first as assistant scout master for Troop 55 which is sponsored by First Methodist Church. In 1939 he became a scoutmaster and has held that post continuously with the exception of one year. About 150 scouters and their wives attended the court of awards. Beaver Scouts from this area who were present included Nat Armel, Humboldt, Geo. Caldwell, C.E. Russell and Lt. Col. T.F. Limbocker.

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The new Kroger store will open in Iola Thursday, said Leo Jeck, local manager. L.K. Harvey, the company’s branch manager, said Kroger has installed $28,000 worth of fixtures in the building, making it one of the most modern in southeast Kansas. Located at 114 E. Madison, just across the street from the present Kroger location, the new store is more than twice as large and will have more than double the stock.

Woman injured in one-vehicle crash

HUMBOLDT — Shannon Henderson, 37, Humboldt, was injured Saturday in a one-vehicle crash east of Humboldt Saturday morning.

The Allen County Sheriff’s Department reported Henderson had apparently fallen asleep while driving home from working an overnight shift in Chanute.

Three witnesses told deputies they saw Henderson’s vehicle, a 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan, drift across the road as it traveled on Delaware Road, about 1½ miles from the old Zillah School building, or about 5½ miles east of Humboldt.

The van traveled about 220 feet in the ditch before squarely striking an embankment with a metal culvert, which caused all of the vehicle’s airbags to deploy.

Henderson, who was wearing her seat belt, was trapped inside the van.

Iola firefighters extricated Henderson from the vehicle. Meanwhile, Humboldt firefighters and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers assisted in blocking off traffic for a landing zone for an air ambulance that flew Henderson to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Police report 11/18

Arrests reported

Iola police officers arrested Travis E. Clark Jr., 36, Kansas City, Mo., Sunday for suspicion of driving while suspended. Clark also was wanted on a warrant.

Humboldt police officers arrested Madison R. Witchley, 22, Iola, for suspicion of driving while suspended.

Joe A. Stevens III, 32, Iola, was arrested by Iola officers Saturday for suspicion of violating a protection from stalking order.

Allen County sheriff’s deputies arrested Cindy L. Reynolds, 52, Humboldt, for suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident Friday

Kristen L. Smity, 42, LaHarpe, was arrested by deputies Friday for a warrant alleging driving while suspended.

Nancy R. Renfro, 45, Yates Center, was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol for suspicion of driving while suspended.

Dakota L. Hibbs, 21, Chanute, turned himself in to authorities Friday for a warrant alleging he failed to appear in court, deputies said.

Randall D. Larson, 44, Parsons was arrested by deputies Friday on three warrants relatied to theft, trespassing and disorderly conduct charges.

Alexis N. Vanarsdel, 24, Tulsa, was arrested by KHP Thursday for suspicion of possessing cocaine, possessing marijuana and possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute the drug as well as possessing drug paraphernalia.

Deputies arrested Danny J. Conner, 41, Chanute, Thursday on suspicion of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia and driving while suspended (second or greater offense) after a traffic stop on U.S. 169 east of Humboldt.

Terry E. Shelton Jr., 30, Iola was arrested at his residence Wednesday afternoon on nine warrants alleging he failed to appear on charges of driving while suspended, criminal weapons possession, illegal registration, no liability insurance and driving while revoked as a habitual violator, deputies said. The arrest came four days after Shelton was arrested by KHP for suspicion of driving while suspended.

David J. Petty, 19, Gas, was arrested at his residence by an Allen County deputy on Wednesday for a warrant alleging failure to appear on charges of driving while suspended and illegal registration. Additional charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia also are being requested for items found by the deputy during Petty’s arrest.

Johnathan Rodriguez, 20, Oklahoma City, was arrested by KHP for suspicion of driving while suspended Wednesday.

Lucas D. Rich, 19, Olathe, was arrested by IPD Nov. 10 for suspicion of possessing alcohol as a minor and transporting an open container of alcohol.

Iola officers arrested Bryon L. Sanchez, 38, Chetopa, for suspicion of aggravated battery Nov. 9.

 

Vandalism reported

Andrew Seufert, rural Iola, reported Saturday that somebody had caused damage to his residence with a shotgun sometime during the past week. The damage was valued at between $3,000 and $5,000

 

Socks stolen

Donna Jackson, Gas, told deputies Friday afternoon that unknown persons had entered home her while she was gone and stole a package of socks.

Jackson also reported that jewelry reported as previously stolen in Iola had been returned with pieces missing or broken. No suspects were given.

 

Deer-related wrecks

Allen County sheriff’s deputies reported a number of accidents involving deer over the past several days.

One of the reports included a deer running into the side of an Allen County ambulance late Wednesday on U.S. 54 in LaHarpe.

Other deer-related mishaps:

— Wednesday morning,  on U.S. 169 near North Dakota Road.

— Thursday evening on U.S. 59 four miles north of Moran.

— Friday morning, just north of the Neosho County line bridge on U.S. 169 south of Humboldt.

— Friday evening on U.S. 54 just east of La Harpe.

— Saturday evening on U.S. 54 three miles west of Moran.

— Saturday night on 1000 Street, three miles east of Carlyle. 

College offers ‘adulting’ courses

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Many students entering college haven’t mastered basic life skills such as changing a tire or balancing a checkbook, so some universities are responding with noncredit workshops sometimes called “Adulting 101.”

Kansas State University in Manhattan offers a series that teaches practical skills. Wichita State University has offered a workshop on budgeting, the University of Nebraska-Kearney taught a tax preparation workshop and a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill workshop focused on building credit, The Kansas News Service reported.

While older generations might scoff at millennials and Generation Z for not knowing how to perform these tasks, educators say today’s college students grew up under intense pressure to pass college entrance exams and achieve high grade point averages — giving them little time to learn life skills. Hovering parents and a decline in traditional home economics classes also contributed to the problem.

When high schools began focusing on core subjects for testing, classes known as home economics or family and consumer science began to decline. By 2012, fewer than 3.5 million students were taking such classes, a 38% drop in a decade.

“It’s not considered to be a core area, and so it’s easier to say, ‘maybe we don’t need this,’” said Duane Whitbeck, the chair of Family and Consumer Sciences at Pittsburg State University.

Students working with Kansas State’s health center organized workshops because they had few opportunities to learn life skills.

“We don’t have classes on how to change a tire at school,” said student Frankie Skinner. “We lack knowledge of just basic adulting.”

Educators hope learning those lessons will help students cope with what they say is a mental health crisis, caused by increased academic pressure and expectations.

“In high school, I felt really pressured to take a lot of college classes to succeed because there was a huge race for valedictorian and being top of the class,” said Kansas State student Anna Traynham. “No matter how high your GPA was … everybody was still stressed. … You had to be perfect all the time.”

Mental health advocates say it’s not just high-achieving students who feel stressed. They believe adulting classes can help prepare already-overwhelmed students for life’s challenges and make students more resilient to better deal with setbacks.

“When we’re not given the tools to solve problems, we are not able to be resilient,” said Megan Katt, a health educator at Kansas State.

North Korea says Trump will pay for summit

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets something substantial in return.

The statement by Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan is the latest call by North Korea for U.S. concessions ahead of an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for the Trump administration to offer mutually acceptable terms for a deal to salvage nuclear diplomacy.

Following a U.S. decision over the weekend to call off joint military exercises with South Korea to create space for diplomacy with the North, Trump in a tweet urged Kim Jong Un to “act quickly, get the deal done” and hinted at another summit between them, saying “See you soon!”

But Kim Kye Gwan reiterated his government’s stance that Washington must discard what North Korea sees as “hostile” policies to keep the negotiations alive.

“Three rounds of DPRK-U.S. summit meetings and talks were held since June last year, but no particular improvement has been achieved in the DPRK-U.S. relations … the U.S. only seeks to earn time, pretending it has made progress in settling the issue of the Korean Peninsula,” he said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“We are no longer interested in such talks that bring nothing to us. As we have got nothing in return, we will no longer gift the U.S. president with something he can boast of, but get compensation for the successes that President Trump is proud of as his administrative achievements.”

Kim Kye Gwan is a veteran diplomat who led the North Korean delegation at much of the now-dormant six-nation nuclear disarmament talks held in Beijing in 2003-2008.

His statement came hours after KCNA reported that Kim Jong Un supervised a parachuting drill by military sharpshooters and vowed to build an “invincible army,” displaying more defiance despite the decision by the U.S. and South Korea to shelve their drills.

It was North Korea’s second publicized military drill in three days. A report Saturday said Kim urged combat pilots to prepare against enemies “armed to the teeth” while attending a flight demonstration.

North Korea has been ramping up missile tests and other military demonstrations in recent months in an apparent pressure tactic over the talks.

Negotiations have faltered since a February summit between Kim and Trump in Vietnam which broke down after the U.S. rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.

Kim later issued his end-of-year deadline and has also said the North would seek a “new path” if the United States persists with sanctions and pressure.

Working-level talks last month in Sweden broke down over what the North Koreans described as the Americans’ “old stance and attitude.”

North Korea last week said the United States has proposed a resumption of negotiations in December. Kim Myong Gil, who was the North’s main negotiator for the Stockholm talks, didn’t clearly say whether the North would accept the supposed U.S. offer and said the country has no interest in talks if they are aimed at buying time without discussing solutions.

He said North Korea isn’t willing to make a deal over “matters of secondary importance,” such as possible U.S. offers to formally declare an end to the 1950-53 Korean War, which was halted by a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, or establish a liaison office between the countries.

At an Asian defense ministers’ conference in Bangkok on Sunday, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the United States has indefinitely postponed a joint military exercise with South Korea in an “act of goodwill” toward North Korea

Mexico the sight for Chiefs matchup with Chargers

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium is looking to put its best face forward Monday night when it hosts a regular-season matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers, after last season’s NFL game had to be moved to the L.A. Coliseum in a major black eye for the arena and the league.

Poor field conditions forced the last-minute change of venue, which prompted headlines like “Colossal Shame” from the Mexican sports newspaper Record and others, and since then league and stadium officials have taken steps to ensure the marquee event comes off without a hitch in one of the NFL’s most important overseas markets.

The hybrid turf that never quite took in Azteca has been swapped out for natural grass. Women’s soccer league matches were moved to a different venue, and fewer events in general have been scheduled for the 84,000-seat Azteca. Last year, concerts in the days leading up to the scheduled game between the Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams contributed to the ragged field conditions.

This year, the most recent soccer game in Azteca took place Nov. 2, giving groundskeepers time to ensure the field is tip-top.

“The field is in very good condition,” said Arturo Olivé, director of the NFL’s office in Mexico. “It looks spectacular, and we are very happy with the great work that has been carried out.”

Starting in January, Olivé said, the league has been sending monitors to Mexico to avoid a repeat of 2018’s debacle, and he has been making weekly visits to the stadium to file progress reports.

“The NFL people did not come to judge what was being done, but rather as part of a working team contributing solutions,” Olivé said.

Last November’s fiasco was also a major headache for Televisa, the largest broadcaster in Latin America, which owns the stadium.

Officials hired World Sports Solutions International, which prepared fields for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, to restore Azteca’s hybrid surface to natural grass.

Renato Luis Laurentti, who is responsible for the upgrades, said this week that the field was fertilized and irrigated with orange juice, vitamins, carbohydrates and proteins. Images published by the company on social media showed the grass apparently in perfect shape.

Monday will mark the fourth regular-season NFL game played at Azteca, which underwent a renovation in 2016 partly with the league in mind. Capacity was reduced from over 100,000 previously, and locker rooms designed to accommodate NFL teams were added.

The 49ers and Cardinals faced off here in 2005, followed by the Raiders and Texans in 2016 and the Patriots and Raiders in 2017. Before that it hosted several preseason games as well, including a Chiefs victory over the Cowboys in 1996.

It will be the Chargers’ first visit to Mexico, where according to the league’s local office the team has a strong following — mostly in the northern city of Tijuana just across the border from San Diego, which the Chargers long called home before moving to Los Angeles after the 2016 season.

The push to keep playing games in Mexico is no accident. While soccer, known as “fútbol” in Spanish, remains king, the NFL estimates there are some 25 million fans of football in the country. Many people get together in homes, bars and movie theaters to watch live broadcasts, and it’s common to see fans wearing jerseys of their favorite teams. The Steelers, Cowboys, Patriots, Raiders and 49ers are among the most popular.

“I came a few years ago for the Raiders game and you could feel the excitement, and I believe that it keeps growing,” said Anthony Muñoz, a Hall of Fame former offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals.

“A lot of people think of Mexico and think that they just love the other ‘football,’ but it’s not like that,” said Muñoz, who has Mexican heritage. “The fans here are really knowledgeable and understand the game. There’s a big fan base here.”

The NFL has promoted the sport for years in Mexican schools and estimates that about 3.3 million children play on more than 6,000 junior teams in 27 of the country’s 32 states.

Football historian Alejandro Morales, founder of Mexico’s football Hall of Fame, said the game arrived in the country in 1896 via Mexicans who studied at U.S. universities and brought their appreciation back home. Mexico’s first football game took place that year in the city of Jalapa between local students and a team made up of U.S. Marines who were passing through the port city of Veracruz.

Mexico has two college football leagues with nearly 40 teams between them. Last weekend’s championship between Burros Blancos and Aguilas Blancas — “white donkeys” and “white eagles,” respectively — overflowed the 36,000-capacity stadium at the capital’s Sports City complex and was broadcast on national television.

“A stadium with 35,000 people to watch a student sport event is something incredible,” said quarterback Rodrigo García of the victorious Burros Blancos. “That tells you something about the passion for this sport in Mexico.

Kyle Busch claims second Monster Energy Series title

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Busch casually collected the championship flag from his team and did a slow, subdued celebratory lap. The most polarizing driver in NASCAR had just won his second Cup title and wanted to soak in the moment with his true fans.

He didn’t do his customary bow to the crowd, asked NASCAR for permission to take his 4-year-old son along for the ride to victory lane, and when the duo finally got there it was then that Busch remembered he’d just won both Sunday’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway and his second NASCAR title.

“I do remember taking the white flag and crossing underneath that — I had some tears rolling down my eyes for the last lap and I was just like, ‘Come on, man, we’ve still got to finish this damn thing. Don’t be such a siss,’” Busch said. “Emotions were starting to set in. I probably didn’t know where the hell my mind was at. I knew we had won and won big and were being a big more subdued about it.”

Busch emerged from the Joe Gibbs Racing juggernaut as NASCAR’s latest champion, winning his second title Sunday after teammates Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. were slowed by pit-road gaffes. He snapped a 21-race losing streak and beat Hamlin, Truex and rival Kevin Harvick for the Cup.

Busch joined seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson as the only active drivers with multiple titles. He’s the 16th driver in NASCAR history to win multiple championships, and one of only five to win titles in both the Cup Series and the second-tier Xfinity Series.

The No. 18 crew climbed the pit wall and handed Busch the championship flag for his post-race celebration, and he was met on the frontstretch by son Brexton, who immediately asked: “Dad, are you going to throw me in the air again?” about their celebratory tradition. He also asked to join his father for the final ride into victory lane.

Busch had raced for a second championship in each of the last three seasons and fell short a year ago in part because of his crew’s own pit error. This time, it was Truex and Hamlin bitten by silly mistakes. Truex dominated early but fell a lap back after his crew put tires on the wrong side of his Toyota.

“You’ve got to be perfect, one mistake probably cost us the championship,” Truex said. “I’ve never had that happen. I don’t even know what to say. It doesn’t drive good with the left front on the right front, though, I can tell you that. It’s very tight.”

Hamlin fell out of contention when an aggressive aerodynamic gamble backfired because a large piece of tape placed across the front of his car caused his engine to overheat. Hamlin had to make an unscheduled pit stop to remove the tape.

Truex recovered to finish second, but Hamlin didn’t have enough time to overcome the miscue and was a disappointing 10th.

“I feel like I did all I could. I don’t feel I could have done a better job. I didn’t leave anything out there,” Hamlin said. “I was thinking we got a chance and it just didn’t work out. We got a little aggressive there and it cost us.”

Harvick, the only Ford driver in the championship field, never had anything on long runs for the Gibbs cars and finished fourth.

“On the restarts I could do what I wanted to do and hold them off for 15 or 20 laps,” Harvick said. “This race has come down to that every year. You kind of play toward that and they were quite a bit better than us on the long run. We had a really good car for those first 15 to 20 laps on the restarts and had a lot of speed, we just never got to try to race for it there.”

The finale pitted a trio of Toyota drivers from Hall of Fame owner Gibbs against Harvick, the hand-picked driver of former Gibbs protege Tony Stewart at Stewart-Haas Racing. The Gibbs group had the edge based on its tremendous season — Busch’s win was the 19th out of 36 races for the organization — and the trio insisted it would continue its note-sharing all weekend.

Las Vegas couldn’t chose a title favorite and the four had essentially even odds at the start of the race, even though Busch was probably the least likely contender of the group. Although he won the regular season crown, his last Cup win was at Pocono in June, his playoffs leading into Homestead had been mediocre at best and his mood soured with every missed victory lane.

“We had a cold spell there. It’s been well documented,” crew chief Adam Stevens said. “Quite a few questions about it. We’re in such a unique situation, as a competitive team that runs up front with the goal of winning the championship every year, everything we do is to make that happen, right? To win the regular season points championship, then try to maintain that and get to Homestead, that’s what it’s all about.”

Hamlin, Harvick and Truex had all won playoff races, and Hamlin’s win at Phoenix last week gave him all the momentum. But with friend and fan Michael Jordan in attendance, Hamlin failed to win his first championship in his third try. Hamlin is the only driver in the final four without a Cup title.

“Our year was fantastic in every way you can think of, and it just didn’t pan out in one race in our favor,” said Hamlin, who won the Daytona 500 and five other races a year removed from a winless season.

Busch, ironically, had one of his worst races in the pits in last year’s finale as his front-tire changer had hiccups on two stops. But he was flawless Sunday night and led a race-high 120 laps.

“Everybody always says you never give up. We’re no different. We just do what we can do each and every week,” Busch said. “Sometimes we may not be the best, sometimes we may not have the right track position. We had a really good car and I could race around and move around. That’s what’s so special about Homestead Miami Speedway, is the ability to put on a show.

“I felt like we did that there racing those guys. I know it kind of dulled out toward the end. It was exciting enough from my seat. It was a lot of fun to cap off such an amazing year.”

Busch gave Gibbs his fifth Cup title and bookended a season in which the Gibbs cars opened the year 1-2-3 at the Daytona 500. Gibbs this entire year has been mourning the death of his son, JGR co-chairman J.D. Gibbs, and the organization promoted a “Do it for J.D.” theme the entire weekend.

The season ended with a 1-2-3 finish in the finale as it was Busch, Truex and Erik Jones across the finish line for Gibbs.

“I know J.D. was looking down on us all year long,” Busch said. “I mean, damn, what a season Joe Gibbs Racing put together.”

Busch gave Toyota its third drivers’ championship in five seasons.

Brendon Todd captures second straight tour victory

 

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Brendon Todd got up-and-down for par on the final hole Monday morning to close with a 3-under 68 and win the Mayakoba Golf Classic, his second straight victory in a remarkable turnaround.

Todd was tied with Vaughn Taylor when they were among 12 players who had to return to El Camaleon to complete the rain-delayed tournament. Todd holed an 18-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole and looked to stretch his lead to two shots until he missed a 3-foot par putt on the 16th.

With no margin for error, he made par on the last two holes. Taylor had a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that stopped one turn short of falling.

Taylor shot 68 and tied for second with Carlos Ortiz and Adam Long.

The 34-year-old Todd could not have imagined this position a few years ago, when he had a case of the full yips and began thinking about another career. From February 2016 through the end of 2018, he played 35 times on the PGA Tour and missed the cut all but twice.

But he battled through it, got his game in reasonable shape last year, earned his card through the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and now is leading the FedEx Cup as the PGA Tour heads to its final event before a short winter break.

“It’s just amazing how fast this game can turn,” Todd said. “It turned fast in the wrong direction for me in 2015, it turned fast the other direction for me, so I’m enjoying it and I’m just going to keep grinding.”

The victory also gets Todd into the Masters for the first time in five years. He has one event left at Sea Island next week, and then heads to Maui for the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.

Ortiz was going after his first PGA Tour victory before a home crowd in Mexico, needing a birdie on the 18th hole, which yielded only four birdies to 164 players on the weekend. He did well to scramble for par, and then had to wait to see if it would get him into a playoff.

Todd found a good lie in the rough left of the fairway, and he hit that left of the green into another decent lie. He lofted a pitch to just over 3 feet and made the putt, finishing at 20-under 264.

Taylor saved par from about 5 feet on the 15th hole when he returned in the morning. He caught a bad break from a greenside bunker right of the 16th when his ball came to rest right in front of a ridge, leaving him no chance to put any spin on the ball. The best he could manage was 10 feet, and his par putt turned away.

Todd gave him life by missing his 3-footer to keep the margin at one. Taylor’s last chance was right in the heart of the cup, just an inch short.

“Warming up this morning the greens were a little slow,” said Taylor, trying to win for the first time since Pebble Beach in 2016. “I was a little nervous, so usually come up short when I’m nervous.”

Harris English was one shot behind when he returned and missed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole to match Todd. Then, his shot into the 16th was plugged so badly in the bunker that it took him two shots to get out, leading to a double bogey that ended his chance.

Ortiz had the best finish by a Mexican in the Mayakoba Classic since it began in 2007. Abraham Ancer tied for eighth, making it two Mexicans among the top 10. Ancer was one of six players in the field who are in the Presidents Cup in December.

Alabama QB suffers hip injury; receives surgery

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is scheduled to have hip surgery in Houston.

Team surgeon Dr. Lyle Cain said in a statement Sunday that Tagovailoa will have surgery on his dislocated right hip Monday. An Alabama spokesman declined to disclose where he was having the surgery citing privacy reasons.

Cain says the medical team “consulted with multiple orthopedic experts across the country, who specialize in hip injuries and surgeries.” He reiterated that they expect Tagovailoa to make a full recovery.

The fifth-ranked Crimson Tide’s star, a potential top pick in April’s NFL draft, was injured while being dragged down by two defenders late in the first half of Saturday’s 38-7 win over Mississippi State.

Tagovailoa had been nursing an ankle injury and Alabama was considering holding him out of this game. Defensive linemen Phidarian Mathis and Raekwon Davis posted a picture with a smiling Tagovailoa in his hospital bed Sunday.

He passed for 418 yards and four touchdowns in a loss to No. 1 LSU less than three weeks after right ankle surgery.