South Korea’s importance to the LPGA is on display in a special way this week.

The tour’s home base is LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, but now it has an overseas home, too.

The tour will show off its home away from home at the BMW Ladies Championship at LPGA International Busan in South Korea, the LPGA’s first golf facility established outside the United States. Formerly Asiad Country Club, the facility was renamed and moved under the LPGA’s umbrella last year, with a major course renovation by architect Rees Jones preparing it as host of the only LPGA event staged in the country.

The field of 84 players will feature 50 from the LPGA, 30 from the Korean LPGA and four sponsor exemptions.

“We consider the KLPGA a partner in this event,” LPGA commissioner Mike Whan said. “I think, talking about partnering up with the KLPGA, the benefits are that we get significant players from both tours. We have help with our TV partners helping. We share some of the sanction fees.”

Whan said the new Busan facility illustrates how the LPGA has changed from its inception in 1950.

“We don’t consider ourselves a U.S. tour,” Whan said. “We consider ourselves a world tour based in the U.S.

“Like any global company, we have a home. We want our employees to be able to move together, live together, go to each other’s weddings and all the stuff we do, but we consider ourselves a world tour based in the United States, not a United States tour that kind of occasionally leaves the U.S.”

The BMW Ladies Championship takes the place of the KEB Hana Bank Championship on the schedule.

Busan is South Korea’s second largest city, behind Seoul. It’s a port city in the country’s southeast region.

“The very first time I came here, I fell in love,” Whan said. “I spent 25 years in California. It reminds me of San Diego. It's got a beach vibe. It's a big-city vibe ... It's a good sports town.

“It's neat to see how much my staff and my players are reacting to driving up and seeing our logo when you drive in on such an incredible venue. It's going to be our honor, quite frankly, to show off this city for the 175 countries that televise us.”

The event arrives with South Korea’s Jin Young Ko reigning atop the Rolex Women’s World Rankings for a 13^th consecutive week and looking to clinch the tour’s Rolex Player of the Year Award in her homeland. Ko can clinch the points-based award by finishing sixth or better in the tournament. She can also clinch if Jeongeun Lee6 doesn’t win this week. Lee6 will keep the competition for the award going if she wins and Ko finishes seventh or worse.

It’s a special week for American Danielle Kang, who claimed her third career LPGA title last week at the Buick Shanghai.

Kang, 27, who was born in San Francisco and won back-to-back U.S. Women’s Amateurs, has a special place in her heart for South Korea, her parents’ homeland. Kang spent a few years living in Busan while growing up. Her father, who died of cancer six years ago, was a telecommunications executive in South Korea.

“It’s been a long time,” Kang said. “It’s a lot of memories.

“I still have friends out here. It’s a childhood memory growing up, speaking the different dialects, but it feels a little bit different.”

Kang will tee it up in the first round with Ko and Hye-Jin Choi. Choi was raised in Busan.

The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will honor Arnold Palmer with a commemorative stamp in 2020.

A seven-time major champ and icon of the game, Palmer died in 2016 at age 87. The stamp will honor Palmer for his positive impact on the game, noting his rise "from humble beginnings to becoming a globally-revered champion."

The stamp, whose first date of issue has yet to be announced, will feature a photo of Palmer taken by photographer James Drake at the 1964 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club. It will be issued as a "forever" stamp, meaning its value will always equal the cost of a first-class mail stamp.

"To have my father celebrated in this way is a true honor," said Palmer's daughter, Amy Saunders. "It's something I think he would be proud of as both an individual and an American, and it's a wonderful way to preserve his legacy."

Palmer is one of two individuals being recognized with a commemorative stamp next year along with journalist Gwen Ifill, who like Palmer passed away in 2016.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If everything had gone according to plan, Patty Tavatanakit would be in North Carolina this week preparing for two weeks of the LPGA Q-Series in her bid to earn status on the LPGA tour.

It didn't work out that way. It went much better.

That's why the 20-year-old Thai from UCLA is chasing her other hobby in New York. A foodie at heart, Tavatanakit has an Instagram account she calls ''eatunderpar'' and already has posts from Joe's Pizza, Liberty Bagels and The Big Szechuan Cuisine.

She had reason to celebrate.

Tavatanakit is two weeks removed from securing her LPGA tour card with alarming ease, and she might have been on the LPGA even sooner if not for a recent change in regulations. She was the only three-time winner on the Symetra Tour, a feat that used to come with an instant promotion. It went away with the creation of the Q-Series, consecutive 72-hole events at Pinehurst that determines who gets cards.

That's where Tavatanakit hoped to be when she turned pro in June after the NCAA championship. The late start gave her about three months to try to finish in the top 35 on the Symetra Tour money list and qualify for the Q-Series. That was her goal.

''I didn't have a good sophomore season, so I didn't have a high vision of myself shooting all these numbers,'' Tavatanakit said. ''But you know how things happen when you least expect it? That's probably why this all happened.''

What happened was a blazing debut.

After a tie for 34th in the U.S. Women's Open in her pro debut, and a tie for 14th in her first start on the Symetra Tour, she finished second and then won her next two tournaments. She won her third tournament in her eighth start, coming from six shots back with a birdie-birdie finish for a 62 and winning a playoff.

Tavatanakit was Rookie of the Year, finished No. 2 on the money list in 11 starts and earned an LPGA card to avoid another trip to Q-Series.

At least this time, she would have wanted to be there.

A year ago, Tavatanakit was among 11 top amateurs invited to Q-Series. She was coming off a summer in which she tied for fifth in the U.S. Women's Open at Shoal Creek to be low amateur, and she contributed two points in the Palmer Cup.

She wasn't ready to leave UCLA. She began her sophomore season by closing with a 63 to win the Annika Invitational in the fall. She was runner-up in her next event. Her heart wasn't in turning pro just yet, and it showed.

Of the top five college players at Q-Series, Tavatanakit was the only one who didn't make it.

''I didn't want to go,'' she said. ''It was weird timing. Me being at Q-Series taught me to be sure, to be committed, to anything I do in life. I wanted to go back to L.A. when it was raining and cold. I wish there was a cut, but there wasn't. I had to play eight days. It was the worst two weeks of my life.''

Being back in Westwood didn't make life any better. Golf was a struggle. She wasn't winning. She wasn't even contending.

''I had my worst finishes,'' she said. ''It's a college event, the competition wasn't as strong, and I still managed to finish out of the top 20. When you're in college, half the girls are not going to turn pro. I put a lot of pressure on myself.''

She finally won again at the NCAA regionals, but the Bruins crashed out at the NCAAs, and so did Tavatanakit, tying for 43rd in medal play.

And then she turned pro, and before long it seemed like she couldn't lose.

Funny game.

Meanwhile, 98 women are teeing it up this week at Pinehurst No. 6, including college stars Sierra Brooks and Albane Valenzuela. It's different this year. The LPGA now gives college stars a pass into the second stage of qualifying, not directly to the final Q-Series stage.

It's a reminder for Tavatanakit of how unhappy she was playing golf, and how happy she is that it turned out the way it did.

''I'm glad I didn't make it,'' she said. ''You never know what would happen. I probably would have turned pro right away and forced myself to be committed to this. But I don't think I would have played like how I did this summer. I need to be down low to realize how golf is important to me and how much it takes to climb back up.''

The Symetra Tour was ideal to teach her how to travel, use her time wisely and learn to be a pro. And even a short stint gave her time to explore new restaurants, though the UCLA foodie kept the posts to minimum at the final event.

It wasn't the pressure – she had locked up her card by then – but the location. When it comes to eating, Daytona Beach is not Manhattan.

''I did post some stories, but yeah, nothing that great here,'' she said. ''The beach is pretty.''

Doug Ferguson is a golf writer for The Associated Press.

Manchester United have issued an indefinite ban to a supporter for incidents of racial abuse toward Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold during Sunday's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.

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"Racism and all forms of discrimination are completely unacceptable and do not reflect the values of our club. Following our investigation into the alleged incidence of racist abuse on Sunday, we have issued an indefinite ban to the individual involved," Manchester United said in a statement on Tuesday.

"This individual is not welcome at Old Trafford and we want to reinforce that we will continue to take strong action against anyone who we identify has engaged in racist or discriminatory abuse, either online or at our matches."

The fan, seated in the home stand, was removed from Old Trafford during the match at the weekend. United announced on Monday that the club was "investigating the matter as a priority."

The incident comes days after England's black players were subjected to racist abuse during a Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in Sofia, which led to arrests and the resignations of manager Krasimir Balakov and football union president Borislav Mihaylov.

And on Saturday, an FA Cup match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil was abandoned after racist abuse was aimed at goalkeeper Valery Douglas Pajetat by Yeovil fans.

FICA, the international cricketers' association, has lent its support to the striking Bangladeshi cricketers while hitting out at the role of the Bangladesh players body FICA itself counts as a member for over a decade.

Tony Irish, FICA's executive chairman, criticised the Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) - which, in theory represents Bangladesh cricketers - for some of its office-bearers also holding positions in the Bangladesh board, and called for a review of the affiliated body's membership at FICA - membership granted in November 2007.

"FICA commends the players in Bangladesh for their unity and for taking a stand together in order to secure fair conditions applicable to them as professional cricketers," Irish said in a press release. "This has happened despite the challenging environment for players to collectivize in Bangladesh and it is a clear indication of the need for change in the way players are treated in what we regard as an important cricket country."

Irish said that the CWAB was not doing enough to properly represent the Bangladeshi cricketers, who, as they went on strike asked, for a change in leadership at the players body. It was the first of their 11 demands.

The CWAB has been run by the same committee for more than ten years. Its president Naimur Rahman and vice-president Khaled Mahmud are BCB directors while general secretary Debabrata Paul works as the BCB's match referee coordinator, for which he draws a monthly salary.

"It is also clear to us that the players in Bangladesh don't feel heard or respected in relation to important issues that affect them in their careers and that affect their livelihoods," Irish said.

"It is the role of a players' association to be the voice, and collective representative, of the players, and it is a matter of concern to us that the Cricketers' Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) does not appear to be fulfilling this role at a very critical time for the players. It is of further concern that it appears that office bearers of CWAB hold positions with the Bangladesh Cricket Board."

Irish has also offered help to the Bangladeshi cricketers. "Given the collective nature of the issues we believe that it's important for FICA to offer its support and assistance to the players during this time."

But the CWAB hasn't really committed to the cricketers' cause during this strike. Naimur has said he won't resign, and voiced his displeasure on a number of occasions in the last 24 hours, saying the players were being "selfish", and should have taken their demands to the board instead.

Jersey 147 (Ward 47) beat United Arab Emirates 112 (Carlyon 3-15, Stevens 3-20) by 35 runs

Benjamin Ward set the foundation while spin duo Harrison Carlyon and Ben Stevens sealed Jersey's second victory of the tournament with a 35-run win over United Arab Emirates.

Eighteen-year-old Carlyon snared the key wicket of Rohan Mustafa, who followed his brisk 39 off 16 in UAE's upset win over Ireland on Saturday with his side's top score against Jersey of 28 before he was caught by Nick Ferraby. That was after Carlyon had accounted for Mustafa's fellow opener, Chirag Suri, caught by Dominic Blampied for 27.

Stevens bowled Rameez Shahzad for just 7 before Carlyon claimed his third wicket, Muhammad Usman, caught by Anthony Hawkins-Kay, also for 7. From there the UAE chase fell away, with tailenders Darius D'Silva and Ahmed Raza the only remaining batsmen to reach double figures with 14 and 13 respectively.

The Jersey innings had not started promisingly with openers Ferraby and Carlyon dismissed cheaply, along with No. 3 Stevens. But Ward, coming in at No. 6 after Zahoor Khan had Nick Greenwood caught behind by Mohammad Boota for the first of his two wickets, unleashed himself on the UAE attack.

Ward cracked four sixes and two fours on his way to 47 off just 24 balls. In doing so, he steadied his side from 67 for 4 and withstood the fall of Jonty Jenner and Corey Bisson to build a defendable innings.

Once Ward was trapped lbw by Junaid Siddique, the Jersey tail fell away swiftly but by then they had enough runs against a UAE side depleted by the suspension of four players in relation to the corruption scandal that hit the team last week to give themselves a chance of victory.

Jersey's win put them second in Group B behind Canada, to whom they lost their opening match by 53 runs before beating Nigeria by 69 runs. Jersey sit ahead of Ireland - who have also won two matches and lost one - with a superior net run rate.

Joe Root has admitted he will have to be at the top of his game if he is to win a place in England's side at next year's T20 World Cup.

Root, England's Test captain, accepts he could be "swept away and eaten up" by the emergence of younger players such as Tom Banton, but insisted he remains as keen as ever to play in all three formats of the international game.

With Root and other senior members of the England sides rested for the T20I series in New Zealand, Banton is among a number of young players who will have a chance to stake a claim for a prolonged run in the side. The T20 World Cup takes place in Australia next October and November.

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"For me to get in to the T20I side, it will mean that I have to keep getting better," Root said. "If someone like Tom Banton comes in and sets the world alight, I've got to try force him out in the limited opportunities I get to play.

"If that happens, it raises the standard of English cricket in that format. That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up."

Root's T20I record is respectable. He made an unbeaten 90 in his first T20I innings, against Australia in 2013 - it remains his highest score in the format - and an impressive 54, top-scoring for England in the 2016 World T20 final. But he has reached 10 only twice in his most recent six T20I innings and, despite a healthy-looking average of 35.72 in the format (of England players to have enjoyed 20 innings in the format, only Kevin Pietersen's average is higher), a strike rate of 126.30 places him only 14th on the list of England players to have featured in 20 matches.

He has also struggled for opportunities to work on his game in the format. While he did have an unremarkable spell at the last edition of the Big Bash, scoring 99 runs in seven innings with a best of 26 and an average of 14.14, he has generally either not been picked up by T20 franchise leagues or not been available to appear in them due to his schedule. He remains confident, however, that should he win a sustained opportunity to play T20 cricket, he can adapt to its demands.

"I obviously scored runs in the 2016 final and I've always felt that when I have had a block of that format, to really get stuck into it, I've generally done pretty well," he said. "I felt that was the case with the last T20 World Cup. It took me a couple of warm-up games over a two-week period beforehand to really get back into it.

"But then once the tournament started, I found my way in, and felt like it was very similar to the one-day team where I knew how everyone else was going to play. Then you dovetail around them.

"I've got good experiences to call upon. I know what it's like to have to perform in those scenarios."

There will be those who suggest Root should accept he is not cut out for the T20 format and decide instead to concentrate on the other formats of the game. His Test average has fallen to 47.91, after all, and as captain to 40.81. A case could be made to suggest he had plenty on his plate without worrying about improving his T20 batting - not to mention grappling with a new format in the form of the Hundred.

But, while he acknowledged the importance of his Test form, Root was adamant that playing all formats will improve him as a batsman.

"I know how important it is that Test cricket is my main focus," he said. "But as long as the other formats aren't a distraction or taking away from what I can give to the Test team then I'll always look to improve my game and put myself in as many situations and scenarios which I think will long-term help me as a player."

To that end, he has already started to prepare for the Test team's tour of New Zealand admitting he felt there were some technical issues to address by the time the Ashes series ended.

"I want to start the winter off with a bang," he said. "I want to set a marker early in terms of going out to New Zealand and making big scores. I really want to try to lead from the front.

"I felt sometimes [in the summer] I was getting a little bit too off side of the ball and then as though I was trying to fight that. So if I can find something which feels very rhythmical, that's a big part of how I bat well. Also if I am better aligned, I can access everywhere a lot easier.

"Four years ago is the last time I had a break as long as this and that was because I broke my thumb. So to have a block and a chance to spend some time working at certain technical things without the pressure of a game around the corner is invaluable really."

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that they are open to talks with cricketers who have called for a strike, but not before accusing them of "conspiring against and tarnishing the image of the country".

After a 25-minute monologue which at times veered into the bizarre, an angry Hassan countered every question with "but why did they not tell us before?"

When asked how the BCB would solve the problem of the players threatening to boycott the India tour, Hassan said that they are ready to talk to the players.

"We are open," Hassan said. "I don't know if you listened to me. We have agreed to bigger demands. We have always given them a lot of money. We have solved each and every problem. We were focused on the World Cup, and now we are focusing on domestic cricket. They didn't go for a strike when nothing was happening but the moment I started to do things, they did this. So these are not real issues. If they come, we are ready to talk."

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Hassan also peppered his answers with incidents in which he helped cricketers or their family members. He was then asked about how he would answer if the players pointed at the lavish travel options for Hassan or other board directors, while they had to find bus and train rides within BDT 2,500.

"Let me tell you something," Hassan said in reply. "We made [the travel allowance] BDT 2,500 from BDT 1,000. Nobody talked about it when it was BDT 1,000. They didn't go to strike when it was BDT 1,000, so why don't you find out about it? We pay the divisional authorities, and they manage hotel, bus, etc. We heard them, so we will improve it. But why stop the cricket? Why before the India tour? This can't happen."

Hassan said the BCB was going to adopt a wait-and-watch approach for the next couple of days, when the strike action will come into effect. The NCL's third round, in four venues, begins on October 24, while the India tour squad's camp begins on the following day.

"I want to see who goes to the [NCL] matches, or the national camp. I want to find out who is trying to stop the India tour. I am hopeful the camp will take place, and the India tour will happen," he said. "Most of the players want to play, and want the best for Bangladesh. I can't believe they will destroy Bangladesh cricket for 5,000 taka. But we will soon see what is going on."

Hassan then deflected a series of questions about the board's conflict of interest problem, which was part of the issues the players had with the board. When asked how committed he was to reducing conflict of interest within the board, especially after the BCB ended franchise rights deals following Shakib Al Hasan's move to Rangpur Riders from Dhaka Dynamites, which is owned by the same company where he and two other board directors are employed, Hassan had no answer.

He also deflected questions about other conflict of interest points including that of the CWAB chairman Naimur Rahman also having the role of a BCB director, Khaled Mahmud holding eleven roles within the BCB and outside, and home broadcaster Gazi TV having a BCB director as its owner.

Hassan finished the press conference saying that he had no idea about some of these conflicts, but he would find out.

The beleaguered UAE national team was dealt another blow after it emerged wicketkeeper Ghulam Shabbir left the squad and country without explanation in the midst of the World T20 qualifiers.

Shabbir did not show up for the team meeting ahead of Monday's game against Hong Kong, which UAE won by eight wickets. He was also missing from the UAE's fixture against Jersey on Tuesday, which saw them beaten by 35 runs.

"At 11am yesterday we had a team meeting, and Ghulam Shabbir did not show up for it," Peter Kelly, the UAE team manager, was reported in the National as saying.

"He did not show up for the bus in the afternoon [when the team left for the Hong Kong match]. ECB are doing due diligence. We are obviously concerned for his well being. We went out of our way to contact any next of kin that we could, as well as any numbers we had for him.

"We also searched hospitals to make sure he was OK. We also got people to go and check if he was at home. Since that point, we have managed to find out that he has left the country. What we do know is that he is safe, but we don't know the reasons that he has gone."

The UAE is already without four players, provisionally suspended as part of corruption investigation. Mohammad Naveed, Qadeer Ahmed, Shaiman Anwar and Ashfaq Ahmed are the players currently suspended - the last after Monday's victory against Hong Kong - by the Emirates Cricket Board. Naveed, Ahmed and Anwar have been charged various breaches of the ICC's anti-corruption code.

There is no suggestion yet that Shabbir's disappearance is linked to the corruption probe.

"It is out of his nature, and we are unsure why he left, and why he chose to not tell people," Kelly said. "He was not a part of the anti-corruption investigation.

"For the past 24 hours or so, we have been trying to find out if he is OK. We have managed to get to the point where we are. Where we go from here, we [don't know]. We do know he is OK, and he has left the country. That is all we know so far."

The last two days have thus seen UAE's 15-man squad cut down to 13. Whether they can be replaced in the middle of the tournament is currently unclear.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney took over the top spot in the annual coaches salary database, published by USA Today on Tuesday.

Swinney made $9.3 million in total pay, surpassing Alabama's Nick Saban at $8.85 million. Swinney agreed to a 10-year, $93 million contract extension in April, after winning his second national title in three years.

Saban topped the list last year, when he signed an eight-year, $74.4 million extension to coach through the 2025 season.

Michigan's Jim Harbaugh is third on the 2019 list at $7.504 million, followed by Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher at $7.5 million and Georgia's Kirby Smart at $6.87 million.

Fisher has the largest buyout, at $60.6 million, followed by Swinney at $50 million.

Four SEC coaches are in the top 10, with Auburn's Gus Malzahn sixth at $6.83 million and Florida's Dan Mullen 10th at $6.1 million.

Texas' Tom Herman was the top-paid coach in the Big 12, ranking seventh overall at $6.75 million.

Purdue's Jeff Brohm is eighth at $6.6 million and Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley ninth at $6.3 million.

LSU's Ed Orgeron, coach of the No. 2-ranked Tigers, is a bargain at $4 million, which ranks 30th.

Every coach in the SEC makes at least $3 million, with total average pay of $4.95 million, according to the database.

USA Today has compiled the list since 2006, when Oklahoma's Bob Stoops was the only coach to make more than $3 million in total compensation. This year, 31 coaches make at least $3 million.