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San Diego is well represented in new book listing history’s top 100 golfers

The debate to settle the No. 1 and No. 2 golfers of all time doesn’t involve many candidates. You pretty much just have to decide between Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.But what about choosing the No. 40 golfer? Or No. 80?Good luck with that.Enter Michael Arkush.An author and former writer for Golf Magazine and Yahoo Sports (among others), Arkush in the fall of 2021 came up with the idea to create a book ranking the top 100 golfers. The next spring, he mentioned his plan to Jim Furyk, the 2003 U.S. Open winner.“Tough task,” Furyk told Arkush.A few hours later, Arkush realized, “This is not a tough task. This is an impossible task.”That exchange is in the “Author’s Note” prelude to Arkush’s new book: “The Golf 100: A Spirited Ranking of The Greatest Players of All Time” (Doubleday: $30).Arkush said the project took him 2½ years — the rankings were completed after the 2024 British Open. It was spurred, he said, by years of reading obituaries about golfers from days gone by and wanting to learn more about them.“Who are these guys? What made them great? What made them flawed? What can I do to try to bring them back to life, at least in my own mind?” Arkush said in a recent phone interview from his home in Ojai. “I wanted to try to show readers that you know, too often I think we look at the greats of today and we forget about all those who paved the way.”If Arkush forgot about any golfing great, it certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort. His research covers players born more than 170 years apart — from Old Tom Morris, born in 1821 and ranked No. 46, to Jordan Spieth, born in 1993 and ranked No. 59. (For the record, No. 100 is John McDermott, who as a 19-year-old in 1911 became the first American-born player to win the U.S. Open and is still the youngest ever to do so.)Arkush said he read “tons of books,” went through every issue of Golf Digest since 1950, watched tournaments on YouTube and interviewed about 30 of the 100 players who wound up on his list.“Some of the players from certainly the 19th century and early 20th century there isn’t a ton of information about them,” he said. “So I got whatever I could. There are enough sources to get at least some kind of sketch of each of the players.”The most important aspect of Arkush’s task was obvious: Deciding how to pick the players. As he details in the book, he needed a formula to be able to compare golfers through different eras. And that formula would be heavily weighted toward golf’s biggest events, the majors.He awarded points for top-five finishes in majors, with a large gap between first (2,000) and second (500) and down to fifth (50). He then had to decide which majors to include — the four current ones, obviously, but also the U.S. Amateur and British Amateur, which for decades had far greater standing than they do now. He counted those throughout history but awarded only half the points for those held after 1961. Victories in non-major events were worth 300 points.To complete the rankings, he also awarded bonus points for those he believed made a larger impact on the game – the likes of Francis Ouimet, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer and Woods – or those who departed the game early for different reasons — Byron Nelson, Tony Lema, Young Tom Morris, Willie Anderson and two women, Lorena Ochoa and Joyce Wethered.In this 1967 file photo, the gallery follows Mickey Wright’s iron shot from the fairway at the Toronto Golf Club. Hall of Fame golfer Wright won 82 LPGA tournaments, including 13 majors.(AP Photo, File)Yes, women. Arkush believed it was important to integrate women, opting against a separate listing because, as he wrote, “women have been marginalized enough already.” He ranked the women separately, then decided where the 15 he picked should go on his overall list.“I used my best judgment as a golf writer for 30 years and just assessed their talent, assessed their impact on the game,” Arkush said.And he didn’t just toss the women in the bottom 20 or even 50. His top-ranked woman, Mickey Wright, is No. 6 overall. The San Diego native and Hoover High grad won 82 tournaments, including 44 in an incredible four-year span (1961-64). She captured 13 majors in just 50 starts. And she did all of that despite severely cutting back her schedule at just 34 years old.“Mickey Wright was phenomenal,” Arkush said. “Ben Hogan said she had the greatest swing he’d ever seen. … I always imagined her in the top 10, I just didn’t know exactly where and it just seemed right at six. I mean, she couldn’t go with Palmer, Hogan, Jones, Tiger and Jack. You couldn’t put her above any of them, but what she achieved in the LPGA Tour … the talent, the dominance and she was 34 when she scaled back.“Talking to Kathy Whitworth (at No. 37, the sixth highest-ranked woman) and others about her, (they) just could not stop raving about how incredible she was.”In this June 17, 1961, file photo, Gene Littler holds the trophy after winning the U.S. Open golf tournament in Birmingham, Mich. Littler’s fluid swing carried him to 29 victories on the PGA Tour and a U.S. Open title. (AP Photo/File)Three other San Diegans cracked Arkush’s Top 100 — actually, his Top 40. Gene Littler is No. 39, Billy Casper No. 16 and Phil Mickelson No. 13.“I can’t say enough positive things about Gene Littler, the man and the character and the resiliency and just what a great example of a role model for an athlete to be and how he came back from the cancer he had,” Arkush said. “I remember vividly the ’77 PGA and you know, nothing against Lanny Wadkins, but what a story it would’ve been if Gene Littler had been able to win that (he lost in a playoff to Wadkins). … I also vividly remember the ’70 Masters when him and Casper were in the playoff. San Diego must’ve been so into that.”As for Mickelson … there are several golfers on the list that, as great as they were, could be considered underachievers, Arkush argues. Some are obvious — Davis Love III and Fred Couples each won only one major — but even with his six majors and one U.S. Amateur, Mickelson is also on Arkush’s list, as is Woods.“I was surprised at how many great players you can make an argument did not achieve what we thought they would achieve,” he said. “I think Tiger underachieved from 2008 on. Phil, I mean, you can make an argument that Phil should’ve been a lot closer to double digits than he was. I think you can make a strong argument to that case.”Arkush expects arguments about his list, but when asked what he hopes readers take away from it, he said:“I want them to have a deeper appreciation of this game, of the greatness and the players who again paved the way for the players of today. They didn’t have endorsement contracts. They didn’t go in private jets. They came up the hard way in many cases and yet it was a game they loved, a game they put everything they had into it and it was because of them that others came and others prospered. I want readers to never forget how important those earlier players were.”Posner is a freelance reporter.Originally Published: April 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM PDT

A Minecraft Movie, Sinners And Jurassic World Rebirth Among Movies To Get HDR By Barco Release

At CinemaCon 2025 this week, Barco, the leading digital cinema projection company, announced that several upcoming title will be available in its groundbreaking HDR by Barco format.

Titles include Sinners. the upcoming Ryan Coogler-directed vampire thriller starring Michael B. Jordan, as well as A Minecraft Movie, (starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa) and the latest Jason Statham vehicle, A Working Man.

Barco also revealed four the live action version of How To Train Your Dragon (June 13th), Karate Kid: Legends (May 30th), Jurassic World Rebirth (July 2nd) and 28 Years Later (June 20th), will also gain an HDR grade.

The first HDR grades included The Wild Robot in October 2024, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II in November 2024, followed by DreamWorks’ Dog Man in January 2025.

Last year, the company introduced the Barco HDR LS4K projector, which thanks to its innovative light-steering technology, is the first capable of deliver what the DCI (the standards body for the digital cinema industry) considers to be cinema-grade high-dynamic range (HDR) images — that is 300 cd/m2 (or 299.6cd/m2 to be precise. As I noted in my my review of the system in action for Gladiator II, it offers an appreciable uptick in the image quality available for big screen projection.
(Read my interview with the lead technical engineer behind the Barco HDR LS4K project).
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Up to now, HDR grades have been relatively sparse, but with these announcements it sees as though we are getting to a place where most major theatrical releases will be available to view in HDR by Barco-capable-theatres. (That said, as of writing Marvel Studios productions are a notable omission). However, as it stands there are only six cinemas worldwide equipped with the projector, making it a moot point for most cinemagoers. Without content, however, there is little reason to upgrade to the new projector system, so the news of new titles is a welcome announcement.

New Server and Amplifier Systems
In other related news at CinemaCon 2025, Barco announced the mFusion ICMP-XS. Claimed to be five times faster than its predecessor, the new integrated media server is designed for simultaneous content ingest and play with support for 5.1 and 7.1 audio formats.

Barco says the new Smart Amplifier offers a “robust, dynamic sound,” and has a common control interface to the mFusion ICMP-XS. While compatible with other brands, both products are designed to complement the new Barco Series 4 laser projectors, for which it has announced deals with Regal/Cineworld and Vue.

Netflix’s woke Narnia movie sparks fan fury as Meryl Streep in talks for Aslan

Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who depicted Ryan Gosling’s Ken embracing “the patriarchy”, is helming Netflix’s first Chronicles of Narnia movie.The streaming service is adapting all the books in chronological order starting with The Magician’s Nephew.Written by Christian author CS Lewis, the fantasy stories are filled with Biblical metaphors, including Aslan the Great Lion, who represents Jesus Christ.Now, Deadline has reported that Meryl Streep is in talks to voice the much-loved male character, and film fans are furious. Many are taking aim at what they perceive to be a woke movie.One joked on social media: “Who’s playing the Ice Queen, Brad Pitt?”One commented on X: “They’re destroying Narnia on purpose. Another wrote: “Aslan is a representation of Christ — he’s male. Hollywood truly despises Christians.” One added: “Aslan is not “generally portrayed” as a male. He is a male. Another said: “Hollywood’s insistence on endless narrative/cultural subversion is simple yet baffling self-destruction.”Many film fans shared their concern when Gerwig was announced as director, given she has a history of subverting the original meaning of stories for a progressive agenda. Given the backlash and box office failure of Snow White, perhaps Netflix will made a U-turn?The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew’s release date is TBC.

Wall Street heavyweights take a drubbing, from airlines to Big Tech

U.S. companies were getting hammered again in the stock market Friday after China matched President Donald Trump’s tariffs in what is a rapidly escalating trade war.Few sectors were spared in trading Friday, a day after U.S. companies lost $2 trillion in value and finished with their biggest one-day drop since COVID-19 flattened the global economy five years ago. Recommended VideosThe Commerce Ministry in Beijing said it would respond to the 34% tariffs imposed by the U.S. on imports from China by imposing a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10. Companies who sell their goods to China were hit hard on Friday, including those in aerospace, agriculture and heavy equipment.Some of Thursday’s biggest losers — banks, airlines and technology companies — sank again on Friday. Others, such as retailers, clothing and restaurants, were down but not nearly as bad as Thursday. Some, like Nike, even posted small gains on Friday.Tariffs are effectively a business tax that gets passed on to consumers. If prices for goods and services rise, consumers could tighten their budgets and pull back on spending for non-essential goods and services. Consumer spending makes up about 70% of economic activity in the U.S. A significant decline in demand would cause businesses to produce fewer goods, limiting growth and potentially causing a recession.JPMorgan raised its forecast for the risk of a recession to 60% on Thursday, up from a previous 40%.The three major U.S. stock indexes were down between 3.5% and 4.5% in morning trading.Here’s a breakdown of some of the market’s worst performing sectors and companies on Friday.Agriculture and heavy equipmentSome of the U.S.’s biggest exports to China are heavy machinery and oilseeds and grains. Deere & Co., down 2.8% Friday after losing 5% on Thursday.Archer-Daniels-Midland, down 7.1% Friday after losing 0.8% on Thursday.Caterpillar, down 5.2% Friday after losing 8.6% on Thursday.Aerospace and defenseAerospace companies also heavily export their products to China. As part of its retaliation Friday, China imposed more export controls on rare earths, which includes materials used in high-tech products and aerospace manufacturing and the defense sector.Boeing, down 8% Friday after losing 10.5% on Thursday.General Dynamics, down 3.4% Friday after losing 2.3% on Thursday.AirlinesAirlines had been projecting a strong year for profits. However, if Americans are faced with higher prices for essentials, economists say that could put a crimp in their travel budgets.United Airlines, down 10.4% on Friday after losing 15.6% on Thursday.American Airlines, down 8.3% on Thursday after losing 10.3% on Thursday.Delta Air Lines, down 7.3% on Friday after losing 10.7% on Thursday.TechnologyCompanies that make and sell computers, smartphones and other technology source many of their parts from abroad. Some manufacture their entire products overseas, meaning they will have to pay a tariff when those products are shipped back for sale to consumers.Apple, down 3.2% on Friday after losing 9.3% on Thursday.HP, down 4.3% on Friday after losing 14.7% on Thursday.Dell, down 4.9% on Friday after losing 19% on Thursday.Nvidia, down 5.3% on Friday after losing 7.8% on Thursday.BanksIf the economy slips into a recession, households and businesses will be less likely to borrow money as demand for products and services decline.Wells Fargo, down 6% on Friday after losing 9.1% on Thursday.Bank of America, down 6.7% on Friday after losing 11.1% on Thursday.JPMorgan Chase, down 6.2% on Friday after losing 7% on Thursday.AutomakersSomewhat surprisingly, automakers didn’t get hit as hard most other sectors did on Thursday. That could be because most of Ford, GM and Stellantis’ steel and aluminum — which Trump previously announced tariffs on — already comes from the United States, reducing the direct impact the companies would feel from higher duties.General Motors, down 3.2% on Friday after losing 4.3% on Thursday.Ford, up 0.5% on Friday after losing 6% on Thursday.Tesla, down 7.7% on Friday after losing 5.5% on Thursday.Stellantis, down 3.8% on Friday after losing 9.4% on Thursday.