PGA Tour

The PGA Tour (officially rendered in all capital letters, as PGA TOUR) is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, as well as the Champions Tour (for golfers age 50 and older) and the Web.com Tour (for professional players who have not yet qualified to play in the PGA Tour), as well as PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, and PGA Tour China. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.

Originally established by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, it was spun off in December 1968 into a separate organization for tour players, as opposed to club professionals, the focal members of today's PGA of America. Originally the "Tournament Players Division," it adopted the name "PGA Tour" in 1975 and runs most of the week-to-week professional golf events on the tournament known as the PGA Tour, including The Players Championship, hosted at TPC Sawgrass, the FedEx Cup, with its finale at The Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, and the biennial Presidents Cup. The remaining events on the PGA Tour are run by different organizations, as are the U.S.-based LPGA Tour for women and the other men's and women's professional tours around the world.

Quicken Loans

Quicken Loans Inc., is headquartered in The Qube building in the heart of the historic financial district of downtown Detroit, Michigan. In 2012, it became the second largest overall retail lender in the U.S. (it is also the largest online retail mortgage lender). The company consists of Quicken Loans, One Reverse Mortgage, and Title Source, a mortgage settlement service provider. Quicken Loans closed more than $70 billion in home loan volume in 2012, a 133 percent increase over its previous record of $30 billion set in 2011. The company also doubled its growth.

History

Quicken Loans, originally Rock Financial, was founded in 1985 by Dan Gilbert (businessman) along with Ron Berman, his brother, Gary Gilbert and his friend Lindsay Gross. In July 1987 the name was changed to Rock Financial Corp. Rock Financial became one of the largest independent mortgage companies in the country. As RFC grew so did the head count, hitting 50 employees in August 1991. In May 1998, Gilbert took Rock Financial public, launching an IPO underwritten by Bear Stearns and Prudential Securities.

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The Takeaway

The Takeaway is a morning radio news program co-created and co-produced by Public Radio International (PRI) and WNYC-New York Public Radio with editorial partners The New York Times, and WGBH Radio Boston of the United States. In addition to co-producing/co-creating the program, PRI also distributes the program nationwide to its affiliate stations.

Mission

The program's stated intent is to deliver news and cultural stories through a conversational and personality-driven format. The program launched on April 28, 2008. On January 25, 2010, a new schedule at flagship station WNYC-FM moved the show to WNYC-AM with a four-hour segment. Since September 3, 2012 the show has been reduced to one hour.

Presenters

Currently the program's primary host is John Hockenberry. It debuted on WNYC in New York, WGBH in Boston, and WEAA in Baltimore. The show initially launched with Adaora Udoji as co-host. Udoji left the show after its first year, at the beginning of May, 2009. Celeste Headlee co-hosted from 2009 to August 2012.

Quicken Loans National

The Quicken Loans National (known as the AT&T National from 2007 to 2013) is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the Washington D.C. area, held either during late June or during the Fourth of July weekend. The event was last held from July 30 to August 2, 2015. The event is hosted by Tiger Woods and benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation.

The first edition in 2007 was held July 5–8 at the Blue Course of the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, northwest of Washington. The event returned to Congressional in 2008 and 2009 and has been held midway between the U.S. Open and The Open Championship to ensure a strong field of competitors.

The event was officially announced on March 7, 2007, to replace The International, which tour officials had abruptly cancelled on February 8, 2007. The Quicken Loans National does not use the modified Stableford scoring system used by The International in Colorado.

The D.C. area hosted a regular tour event for over a quarter century. The Kemper Open arrived in 1980 but was terminated after the 2006 event. It was played at Congressional from 1980 to 1986, then moved to the nearby TPC at Avenel in 1987. Later renamed the Booz Allen Classic, Congressional hosted the tournament in 2005, while Avenel underwent renovations.