The Western Massachusetts Women’s Golf Association will hold its annual Open Four-Ball Tournament on Sept. 25 at Tekoa Country Club in Westfield.
Fee is $90 per player and includes golf, cart, lunch and prizes. Format is best two balls out of four. Deadline to register is Sept. 12.
Shotgun start scheduled for 9 a.m. Rain date is Oct. 2.
For more information, contract Marge Schimke at 413-536-4338 or email maschimke@msn.com.
The eighth annual Holyoke Mud Run will be held Sept. 8 at Holyoke Community College.
The event runs 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The 2-mile mud run course will feature as many as 20 obstacles, including a 6-foot high wall, rope climb, tire carry, a set of tubes, heavy jump ropes, a mud pit, cargo net and a new secret obstacle.
Event is open to anyone. Participants must by at least 5 years old.
Email Brad Vaccaro at Brad@YourFirstMudRun.com or visit www.YourFirstMudRun.com for more information.
The third annual Race to End Child Abuse 5K Run/Walk will be held Sept. 15.
The race begins at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield and ends at the Children’s Advocacy Center.
The event will include for the first time a free ½-mile Kid’s Race.
Registration/pre-registration pickup starts at 8 a.m. Runners can also register at www.runreg.com/childrens-advocacy-center-race-to.
Kid’s race starts at 8:40 a.m. The 5K starts at 9 a.m.
Registration donation is $15 per runner and $10 per walker.
For more information, contact Samantha Staelens at 413-772-9069.
BOSTON (AP) — Retired Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz has hired former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis to conduct an independent investigation into his shooting.
Ortiz’s spokesman Joe Baerlein says the three-time World Series champion hired Davis several weeks ago and Davis’ company “is monitoring and analyzing information from various sources in his native Dominican Republic around the motives for the shooting.”
Davis’ company is also providing personal security services for Ortiz and his family.
Ortiz was shot in the back on June 9 outside a club in the Dominican Republic by a gunman who drove up on a motorcycle and fired at close range. Dominican authorities have said that Ortiz was not the intended target. Several people have been arrested.
Davis was Boston’s police commissioner during the 2013 marathon bombing.