Presidents Cup -- September 3, 2024

Locator: 48526GOLF.

The twelve. Link here.

The Presidents Cup teams are complete. U.S. Team Captain Jim Furyk and International Team Captain Mike Weir announced their captain’s picks Tuesday afternoon, less than three weeks before the teams are set to arrive at Royal Montreal Golf Club. 

Furyk selected Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman and Max Homa. They join the six automatic qualifiers – Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala – who accumulated the most Presidents Cup points over the last two years.

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The Notebook / Journal Page

Moleskin mania. Link here.

In 2013, the Moleskine SpA launched on the Italian stock exchange, and in 2016, a Belgian car distributor bought the company outright, for half a billion euros.

Small wonder that the story is now taught in business schools as a textbook example of successful product design and marketing.

In 2017, the story came full circle when Moleskine and Chatwin’s publisher struck a deal to publish a new edition of The Songlines, bound in the now-familiar black boards, complete with elastic closure, rounded corners, ribbon markers, and pocket. You bought it shrink-wrapped to a blank journal, embossed—in a gesture which Chatwin would surely have recoiled from—with the motivational boost “Enjoy your travel writing.”