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PGA National Resort & Spas acclaimed Champion Coursethe Jack Nicklaus-designed host of the PGA Tours Honda Classic and home of the famous Bear Traphas reopened after a major re-grassing with cutting-edge Celebration Bermuda, and renovation of the 14th hole.

Celebration Bermuda grass is now on fairways, green surrounds and tees of the Champion Course, making the popular layout even more eye-catching and playable. The new turf should be embraced by the worlds best golfers who annually play in The Honda Classicone of the top events in professional golfas well as the thousands of resort guests who play the course.

In addition to hosting seven Honda Classic tournaments, the Champion Course has been home to the 1983 Ryder Cup, 1987 PGA Championship, and 18 Senior PGA Championships, and this year will host the final stage of the Web.com Tours Q-school.

The Celebration Bermuda will provide us with major-like conditions, said Lukus Harvey, PGA National Resort & Spas Director of Agronomy. The Honda Classic field is perennially on par with golfs four majors, and now we have the turf to provide similar conditions. Our resort guests and club members will love it because it provides a better year-around product, including upgraded irrigation. The grass is so dense you wont get a bad lie.

With the new turf, The Champion Course will no longer require over-seeding during the off-season, allowing for faster, firmer conditions that golfers enjoy.

We can all use an extra 20 yards of roll, Harvey added.

Four of The Champions greensNos. 1, 9, 15 and 17have been expanded to their original size, creating more exciting pin locations for the event that kicks off the PGA Tours Florida Swing. The greens remain TifEagle, one of the worlds truest putting surfaces.

The Bear Trap Evolves

The Champion is well known as home to the legendary Bear Trap. The daunting 15th, 16th and 17th holes are considered one of the more challenging three-hole stretches in the game, with water prominently in play on each hole. USA Today called The Bear Trap one of the toughest stretches in golf.

As part of the renovation, Nicklaus moved the green on the 14th hole, which leads into the feared Bear Trap, 17 yards to the right, bringing water into play on the approach shot. The tee also was moved back 10 yards, and bunkers were built in front and behind the green to further strengthen the 465-yard hole.

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Personally I cant muster much sympathy for the owners of 2 million homes even though that wont buy you a mansion anywhere in this city, as Miliband, owner of an NW5 house worth well over that, can himself testify. I doubt Labours plan will lose the votes of many Londoners who wouldnt already be voting Tory.

Still, Labour and the Lib-Dems reliance on this wheeze is testimony to politicians fundamental cowardice in dealing with the real problem: our completely broken system of local taxes.

Its right that there should be progressive taxation of homes, the main expression of most peoples wealth and one which is difficult to hide from the taxman. That is one original, theoretical principle of council tax, like the old system before it of local rates based on homes notional rentable values.

The problem is that council tax is still based on property values in 1991, the baseline year for when the tax was first introduced in 1993. The idea was to revalue properties every 10 years: it never happened. In September 2005 Labour postponed the exercise until after the next election, a move the minister responsible, David Miliband, cheerfully admitted was a vaulting, 180-degree, full U-turn. In 2010 the Tories followed suit, ruling out any revaluation in this Parliament.

This means illogicalities such as homes built since 1991 being given notional 1991 values. Much more serious, it locks us into a system incapable of registering the wild divergence of property values over the past two decades let alone of helping put a brake on soaring prices.

You can judge how big a cumulative tax cut the present system has handed the rich by considering that in 1990, the last year of the old system, the biggest London homes were paying rates of up to 10,000 a year (worth 21,700 today). Westminsters band H council tax this year? Just 1,353.48 (its nearer 3,000 in most boroughs.)

H is the highest of the eight council tax bands: politicians of all parties refusal to revisit the tax means that there can be no new bands added. They probably fret that higher property taxes might drive the rich away. Inexplicably, that isnt what New Yorks far higher, annually reassessed property taxes have done.

Instead, were offered a mansion tax. It isnt bold or radical. Its a sign of politicians impotence.

There was a symbolism to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund promising this week to phase out its holdings in fossil fuels: the family fortune was made by John D Rockefeller, founder of the oil company whose descendant is Exxon. The announcement was timed for yesterdays meeting of world leaders in New York to discuss climate change: more than 300,000 people marched in the city to demand action.

President Obama does now seem (fairly) serious about it though thats what people said when David Cameron cuddled huskies on the Svalbard ice in 2006. Since then, Cameron has junked even token environmental commitments, while the ice has shrunk: this week Cambridge Universitys professor of ocean physics said that the Arctic ice cap is in a death spiral. I dont want to get all apocalyptic like David Mitchell in his new novel, The Bone Clocks, with its nightmare vision of the 2040s post climate change. But time is running out.

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Also featuring a British synth-pop group on the rise, a country superstar at the Gorge and two very different guitar-and-drums duos.

6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at The Paramount, 911 Pine St., Seattle; $28.75 (360-467-5520 or http://www.stgpresents.org). With Broods

For Americans, there have been two main entry points into British singer Sam Smiths music thus far, and they could hardly sound more different. Syrupy adult-contemporary ballad Stay With Me and garage-house banger Latch (a Disclosure song he sings on) were both top-10 hits this summer, and all they have in common is his silky-smooth voice.

9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., Seattle; $25 (206-709-9442 or http://www.neumos.com). With Kim Ann Foxman, Little Daylight, Kevin Kauer

Expectations are high for electronic-pop quartet Clean Bandit on the heels of Rather Be, a No. 1 hit in the bands native United Kingdom. With its folksy violin motif and vaguely populist uplift, the song plays into EDM trends these days. Fortunately, the groups debut album New Eyes has plenty of more-interesting moments indebted to house and UK garage.

6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at the Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., Seattle; $29.50 (360-652-0444 or http://www.showboxpresents.com).

Taking Back Sunday and The Used, who co-headline this show, reached the apex of their popularity and saw the majority of their Warped Tour appearances in the mid-2000s. Both bands have put out albums this year, maintaining a rock sound inspired by post-hardcore punk but with a prominent pop backbone.

9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at The Showbox, 1426 First Ave., Seattle; $26.50 (206-628-3151 or http://www.showboxpresents.com). With Yppah, Blue Hawaii, Vox Mod

El Ten Elevenis a guitar-and-drums two-piece, but unlike many bands with that configuration, its music is highly technical. The rare rock act booked for Decibel Festival, Kristian Dunn loops a double-necked guitar/bass through a litany of effects pedals while drummer Tim Fogarty metronomically keepspace.

9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at the Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., Seattle; $10 (206-784-4880 or http://www.sunsettavern.com). With Gazebos, Legendary Oaks

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Master Hanz Cua, a long-time practitioner of feng shui, noted that 2014 has been a "very, very good year" for Locsin, who was born under the Chinese animal sign of the Ox.

This year, Locsin starred in the phenomenal drama series "The Legal Wife." It was also announced that she will play the Pinoy superhero Darna again, this time on the big screen.

But Cua warned the actress about 2015.

"You have to be very careful dahil hindi masyado ang maganda ang 2015 sa iyo dahil Year of the Sheep," Cua explained.

Cua also shared his prediction for "It's Showtime" host Ryan Bang, who was born under the sign of Sheep.

He said Bang should expect the latter part of the year to be "extremely auspicious" because of the good combination of the Horse and Sheep.

"Be careful lang pagpasok ng mid-year ng 2015 dahil ang Sheep at ang papasok na taon ay Goat," Cua warned. "Dahil diyan may tinatawag tayong indirect conflict, unexpected lost."

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