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Scottie Scheffler dedicated his second Masters win in three years to God, declaring that “victory was secure on the cross” as he secured the victory at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday. "I was sitting around with my buddies this morning, I was a bit overwhelmed," the 27-year-old said Sunday after becoming the 10th golfer in history to win two green jackets in three years. "I told them, 'I wish I didn't want to win as badly as did I or as badly as I do.' I think it would make the mornings easier. I love winning. I hate losing....

American golfer Scottie Scheffler triumphed at the 2024 Masters Tournament in Augusta on Sunday, but it is his comments about his faith that have also garnered attention in Christian circles. Scheffler, the favorite going into the tournament and the number-one-ranked golfer in the world, won by an impressive four shots ... Two green jackets in three years.. Scottie Scheffler is a Masters champion once again. ... When asked earlier in the week as to whether golf defines him, Schleffer said it did not. “I’m a faithful guy,” he responded. “I believe in a Creator. I believe in Jesus. Ultimately, I...

AUGUSTA — Add a major championship - a Masters championship - to Scottie Scheffler’s fast-growing list of accomplishments. Scheffler won the 2022 Masters on Sunday by holding off all would-be challengers in the final round at Augusta National Golf Club. Scheffler, who took the No. 1 world golf ranking with three victories in five tournaments this year, finished at 10-under par 278. (69-67-71-71). The 25-year old was playing in just his third Masters after tying for 19th and 18th the past two years. With his first major championship, Scheffler can make lifetime reservations for Augusta each April. And add a...

Former President Trump warned Blake Masters that he is likely to lose an Arizona Senate primary to Kari Lake in 2024, The New York Times reported Friday. The Times report claims Trump called Masters on Sunday to make the blunt prediction, in what would be a move inconsistent with his 2024 strategy so far of generally staying out of down-ballot Republican races.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a measure to create scholarships for select elementary and secondary students aimed at covering education expenses so they can attend the school of their choice. Under S.39, the Educational Scholarship Trust Fund, eligible students — state residents with "a statement of Medicaid eligibility" — can receive scholarships of up to $6,000. They can use the money to cover instructional materials, tutoring, computer hardware, assessments, transportation, tuition and fees. According to lawmakers, the scholarships will be funded directly from the state budget, and lawmakers said they did not take any money from public school funds...

Ten years ago Angel Cabrera was battling for his second Masters title in a sudden death playoff. This year, he has swapped the Green Jacket for prison scrubs. **SNIP** However, his last win came at the 2014 Greenbrier Classic and his performances steadily declined. But his fall from grace really took a plummet in 2021, when his former girlfriend Cecilia Torres Mana made accusations of assault, intimidation and causing injuries against Cabrera. Cabrera denied the accusations but two women, his former wife, Silva Rivadero, and former partner Micaela Escudero, also filed charges, according to reports. 'I couldn't go to the...

Will the real Scott Stallings please stand up? Professional golfer Scott Stallings was “literally checking [his] mailbox five times a day” for his invitation to the Masters Tournament in April only to find it frustratingly empty, he recalled in a Twitter post. Then, on New Year’s Day, he received a private message from another Scott Stallings who claimed to have mistakenly received his long-expected invitation. “I received a FedEx today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters tournament April 6-9 2023. I’m 100% sure this is NOT for me. I play, but wow! Nowhere near your level....

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for “abandoning” GOP nominee Blake Masters in the Arizona Senate race, accusing him of putting personal politics over the needs of the party. Cruz is among a handful of GOP senators who have called to postpone the Senate Republican leadership elections scheduled for Wednesday. “Abandoning Blake Masters was indefensible,” Cruz said on his podcast, “Verdict,” referring to a decision by the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with McConnell, to pull out of the Arizona Senate race. Asked why the McConnell-allied group pulled out of the...

Is it true that McConnell tanked Senate races by not funding candidates like Masters? McConnell spent HUGE everywhere but AZ. Masters had Thiel so his outside spending was pretty good at $53M vs $57M for his opponent. But he got only 46% of the vote. Is It True That McConnell Tanked Senate Races By Not Funding Candidates Like Masters? https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-it-true-that-mcconnell-tanked-senate-races-by-not-funding-candidates-like-mastersSome were rankled by McConnell spending $6M in an R-vs-R race in AK, which they imagine could have gone to AZ But that's a negligible amount in the context of AZ spending & there's no reason it would have gone to...

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters refused to concede his race against Democrat incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly Saturday, hours after news outlets called the election in Kelly’s favor — and vowed to fight on until “every legal vote is counted.” “For my people who knocked doors in 115-degree heat, and for the million+ Arizonans who put their faith in me, we are going to make sure that every legal vote is counted,” Masters wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “If, at the end, Senator Kelly has more of them than I do, then I will congratulate him on a...

The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has won re-election in Arizona. He defeats Republican challenger Blake Masters. Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, was seeking a full term as Senator of Arizona in the 2022 race, after winning the 2020 race against Martha McSally, the Republican who was serving the rest of John McCain's term after he passed away while in office. Throughout the election cycle, the race was under the national spotlight, being one of the best pickup opportunities for Senate Republicans this year.

91% of precincts reporting. Governor View More 4 Year Term | Elect 1 Hobbs, Katie (DEM) Lake, Kari (REP) 50.9% 49.1% 894,081 Votes (Leading by 30,073) 864,008 Votes *** U.S. Senator View More 6 Year Term | Elect 1 Kelly, Mark (DEM) Masters, Blake (REP) 51.9% 45.9% 918,058 Votes (Leading by 106,938) 811,120 Votes

The Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona — who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race — is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, the Republican nominee.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) leads Republican challenger Blake Masters by 6 points in the state’s Senate race, new polling shows. A New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday found Kelly with 51 percent to Masters’ 45 percent, a lead that may signal hope for Democrats to secure the state just over a week until November’s midterm elections.

Just a month after national Republicans appeared to give up on Arizona Republican Blake Masters, the Trump-backed Senate candidate has staged a comeback — and Arizona is in play. National and Arizona Democratic operatives are privately fretting that incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly is endangered, noting a shift by previously undecided voters toward the GOP, aided by a patchwork of new Republican spending to bolster Masters. Recent polling has shown Kelly’s lead shrinking to a few points, much tighter than surveys showed throughout August and September. “There’s a very narrow path to victory for Democrats in Arizona,” said Roy Herrera, a...

Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has a four-point lead over Democrat Katie Hobbs, meanwhile, Republican Blake Masters is trailing closely behind Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in the state’s U.S. Senate race, according to a co/efficient poll released Friday. The poll found that 48.6 percent of likely Arizona voters say they would vote for Lake, compared to 45.3 percent who support Hobbs. Lake is also more favored than Hobbs among Arizonans, with Lake’s favorability rating sitting at 45.8, compared to Hobbs’ 39.5 percent.

Republican Blake Masters has surged to a statistical tie against Biden puppet Mark Kelly in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race. Per the Daily Wire/Trafalgar poll, incumbent Biden puppet Kelly is in the lead by just one point: 47.4 to 46.4 percent. The same poll also shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake beating Democrat Katie Hobbs by three points: 49.2 to 46.4 percent:

Senate Republicans are on track to pick up two seats in the western United States in the 2022 midterms to win back a majority in the upper chamber, according to a projection 30 days until Election Day. Blake Masters could beat out Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a RealClearPolitics projection shows, despite the incumbent having an average 1.8 percent polling advantage over his GOP challenger in the adjusted October figures. The projection also estimates that Republican Adam Laxalt will best Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada in November. Laxalt has a 1.3 percent average polling advantage over the incumbent...

Republicans Blake Masters and Kari Lake are both in statistical ties with their Democrat opponents in Arizona’s U.S. Senate and governor’s races, per a poll. The CBS/YouGov poll released Wednesday shows that 48 percent of likely voters in Arizona are backing Masters, while 51 percent support Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is running for reelection. Another one percent of voters are undecided. Masters is within the polling margin of error, making the race a statistical tie.

The hourglass is running low on Blake Masters and his chances to reverse course in the Arizona Senate race as Sen. Mark Kelly (D) keeps up his offensive on the airwaves, leaving Republicans pessimistic and turning their attention elsewhere on the 2022 map. Masters, the Peter Thiel protégé-turned-politician, found himself on the wrong side of the multiple developments last week, headlined by the cancellation of $9.6 million worth of ads by the Senate Leadership Fund — a group backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). In addition, a new poll on Thursday commissioned by AARP showed Kelly leading by...