The PGA Tour new 2014-15 Schedule May 4-10, The Players Championship: TPC Sawgrass (The Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

The PGA Tour on Wednesday released its complete 2014-15 schedule, reflecting a handful of expected moves.

The WGC-Match Play will take place in May, rather than February, with a change in venue from Arizona to TPC Harding Park near San Francisco. The Wells Fargo Championship moves two weeks later as a result. The Quicken Loans National at Congressional near Washington, D.C., moves from late June to late July and early August. The Sanderson Farms Championship skipped a season but not a year, moving from opposite the British Open to November. The Barbasol Championship in Alabama will fill 2015's opposite-field date.

In all, the schedule consists of 47 tournaments offering FedEx Cup points, up two from 2013-14.

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The PGA Tour's 2014-15 schedule:

Oct. 6-12, Frys.com Open: Silverado Resort and Spa (North Course), Napa. Calif.

Oct. 13-19, Shriners Hospitals for Children Open: TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nev.

Oct. 20-26, McGladrey Classic: Sea Island Resort (Seaside Course), St. Simons Island, Ga.

Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, CIMB Classic: Kuala Lampur Golf & Country Club, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

Nov. 3-9, WGC-HSBC Champions: Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, China

Nov. 3-9, Sanderson Farms Championship: Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Miss.

Nov. 10-16, OHL Classic at Mayakoba: El Camaleon Golf Club at the Mayakoba Resort, Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Jan. 5-12, Hyundai Tournament of Champions: Kapalua Resort (The Plantation Course), Kapalua, Hawaii

Jan. 12-18, Sony Open in Hawaii: Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii

Jan. 19-25, Humana Challenge: PGA West (*Palmer Private Course, Nicklaus Private Course); La Quinta (Calif.) Country Club

Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, Waste Management Phoenix Open: TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), Scottsdale, Ariz.

Feb. 2-8, Farmers Insurance Open: Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course, North Course), La Jolla, Calif.

Feb. 9-15, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course), Pebble Beach, Calif.

Feb. 16-22, Northern Trust Open: Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, The Honda Classic: PGA National (Champion Course), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Mar. 2-8, WGC-Cadillac Championship: Trump National Doral (Blue Monster Course), Doral, Fla.

Mar. 2-8, Puerto Rico Open: Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Mar. 9-15, Valspar Championship: Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club (Copperhead Course), Palm Harbor, Fla.

Mar. 16-22, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard: Bay Hill Golf Club and Lodge, Orlando, Fla.

Mar. 23-29, Valero Texas Open: TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks Course), San Antonio, Texas

Mar. 30 - Apr. 5, Shell Houston Open: Golf Club of Houston (Tournament Course), Humble, Texas

Apr. 6-12, Masters Tournament: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.

Apr. 13-19, RBC Heritage: Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Apr. 20-26, Zurich Classic of New Orleans: TPC Louisiana, New Orleans, La.

Apr. 27 - May 3, WGC-Match Play: TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, Calif.

May 4-10, The Players Championship: TPC Sawgrass (The Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

May 11-17, Wells Fargo Championship: Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, N.C.

May 18-24, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial: Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas

May 25-31, AT&T Byron Nelson Championship: Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas (TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas), Irving, Texas

June 1-7, the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance: Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio

June 8-14, FedEx St. Jude Classic: TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn.

June 15-21, U.S. Open: Chambers Bay, University Place, Wash.

June 22-28, Travelers Championship: TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

June 29 - July 5, The Greenbrier Classic: The Greenbrier (The Old White TPC), White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

July 6-12, John Deere Classic: TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

July 13-19, The Open Championship: St. Andrews (The Old Course), St. Andrews, Scotland

July 13-19, Barbasol Championship: RTJ Trail (Grand National Lake Course), Auburn, Ala.

July 20-26, RBC Canadian Open: Glen Abbey Golf Club, Oakville, Ontario

July 27 - Aug. 2, Quicken Loans National: Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville, Va.

Aug. 3-9, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Firestone Country Club (South Course), Akron, Ohio

Aug. 3-9, Barracuda Championship: Montreux Golf and Country Club, Reno, Nev.

Aug. 10-16, PGA Championship: Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wis.

Aug. 17-23, Wyndham Championship: Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.

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FedEx Cup playoffs

Aug. 24-30, The Barclays: Plainfield Country Club, Plainfield, N.J.

Aug. 31 - Sept. 7, Deutsche Bank Championship: TPC Boston, Norton, Mass.

Sept. 14-20, BMW Championship: Conway Farms, Chicago, Ill.

Sept. 21-27, Tour Championship by Coca-Cola: East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Ga.

The Ponte Vedra Beach Sunken Ship has been Identified

T’was a nor’easter that did in the valiant old schooner that wrecked in 1947 on Mickler’s Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Archaeologists now have confirmed the recently revisited wreck is the Bermuda-based Deliverance, a two-masted “motor vessel” whose 80 feet of iron and timber remains last revealed itself during a New Year’s low tide.

Starting with a local history book and archives in Jacksonville Beach, then a list of 10 area shipwrecks and ultimately the Internet archives of a Singapore newspaper, the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program uncovered the name of the 67-year-old wreck that had reappeared on the beach in January.

“It was pretty cool, actually,” said Chuck Meide, director of the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum-based program. “You feel like an armchair archaeologist because we figured it out after we were back from the field. Everything else was done from the chair with a computer in front of us. Doing research has changed over the years.”

The eroded hulls of wrecked ships resurface from time to time along Ponte Vedra’s coastline during heavy storms. About five iron ribs of this one showed up in 2008, and Meide’s staff checked the wreck. It resurfaced New Year’s Day with 42 ribs uncovered for the archaeologists to study.

At the time Meide said it could be a wreck illustrated in Karen Harvey’s book, “St. Johns County: A Pictorial History.” That photograph showed a two-masted schooner beached near Mickler’s Landing with its hull parallel to the shore. So did an image they found from the archives of the Beaches Museum and History Park, with notes saying it was a “Bermuda boat wrecked on the beach.”

Archaeologists checked their list of ships wrecked in the area 1866 to 1974. The Deliverance fit. It was British-flagged, logical since Bermuda is a British colony. And Deliverance is a popular ship’s name on Bermuda.

Staff archaeologist Brendan Burke found the final evidence in a small story in the online archives of an English-language newspaper in Singapore. It confirmed the Deliverance was a motorized sailing ship that sailed between Jacksonville and Bermuda. The story said the boat sank Dec. 13, 1947, despite the efforts of Capt. Wilson King and his crew, one of whom swam to shore for help.

“There it was in black and white,” he said. “It was run ashore in a fierce storm and appeared to be in danger of breaking up. ... That was the smoking gun for this case.”

The next step is tracking down the age of the Deliverance, Meide said. In the meantime, the team will soon continue research on a 1782 British ship that was part of the evacuation of troops from Charleston and rests less than a mile off St. Augustine. Cannons, muskets and other artifacts have already been recovered and are being conserved at the museum for future exhibit display.

Moving to Nocatee? Neighborhoods of Nocatee Ponte Vedra Florida.

You have 11 Beautiful New Neighborhoods in Nocatee, Florida. Which is near one of the most
prestigious regions of Florida, Ponte Vedra Beach. Neighborhoods of Nocatee are in Duval County and St. Johns County. The first community for Duval is Brookwood followed by Austin Park, Coastal Oaks, Del Webb Ponte Vedra, Tidewater, Kelly Pointe, Willowcove, Greenleaf Village, Greenleaf Preserve, The Enclave and Lakeside. The final 2 being Town Center Communities.

The Nocatee Town Center is the central shopping and entertainment hub for the community. Regency Centers developed and constructed the first phase, which opened in February, 2010 and is anchored by a 54,000 sq ft (5,000 m2) Publix supermarket, the largest in northeast Florida. The town center has restaurants, retail stores and service providers featuring national brands as well as local favorites.

With the Fire Station coming soon and the already opened Water Park and Community Park Nocatee has become the 5th Best-Selling master-planned Community in America. An expected 1,000 new homes will be sold in 2014. If you plan on moving to Nocatee, Florida I suggest the Town Center Communities.

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Ponte Vedra Beach in World War II German spies invade during WW 2

During World War II the German submarine U-584 debarked four saboteurs at Ponte Vedra as part of the failed Operation Pastorius. The four German spies, all of whom had previously lived in the United States, came ashore on the night of June 16, 1942 carrying explosives and American money. After landing they strolled up the beach to Jacksonville Beach, where they caught a city bus to Jacksonville and departed by train for Cincinnati and Chicago.
The invaders were captured before they could do any damage. They were tried by a military tribunal and executed.

 

The actual site of the saboteurs’ landing, shown at left, is 4.3 miles south of today’s Ponte Vedra Inn. 
 

 Operation Pastorius and German landings on the U.S. eastern coast during World War II are the subject of the 2003 publication, They Came to Destroy America: The FBI Goes to War Against Nazi Spies and Saboteurs Before and During World War II. Author of the book, Stan Cohen is speaker for the society’s Thursday, November 6 program.

Cohen’s book recalls life on the Ponte Vedra coastline during the war years:

 Blackouts curtains were required for every household to deceive the German submarines patrolling off the Atlantic coast. Ponte Vedra residents were among the very few stateside Americans to witness acts of war firsthand as German submarines sank ships within sight of the shore, and oil from torpedoed tankers blackened the beaches.

 Four other German saboteurs, also part of Operation Pastorius, had landed a few days earlier at Amagansett, New York. The operation’s mission was to destroy American aluminum and metal industries, railroads, and utility plants. There were also plans to plant explosives in crowded public locations as bus terminals and department stores.

 Unknown to the four German spies in Jacksonville, the FBI had learned of the operation, but the group escaped the city the next morning without notice. Kerling, the ringleader, was eventually brought back to Ponte Vedra to pinpoint the burial site; among the items were blocks of TNT shaped as laundry soap, a device appearing as a pen that could start fires, and a watch that could be set for detonation watch.

The spy informants who landed in New York were imprisoned. The Ponte Vedra foursome were electrocuted within two months of their June 1942 landing. 

Shipwreck exposed on Ponte Vedra Beach.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Carol Caruso likes to walk on Ponte Vedra Beach, but she hadn't been out in a few weeks. When she walked along the shore Tuesday, she saw something big. With her hands held out wide, she said, "This is what I found at low tide!" It appears to be the skeleton of a ship, right where the waves hit the beach. "I've been looking at it for two years," Caruso explained but she's never seen so much of it coming out of the sand. "Generally it's just that point, literally that point sticking up and that's it. So I thought this had to be something special," she beamed. The ribs of the ship appear to be jutting out from the beach above the waves. Caruso estimates the shipwreck is about 75 feet long. Archaeologists with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (or L.A.M.P.) in St. Augustine have been out to the site before, studying it. However, after seeing pictures of the ship Wednesday, archaeologist Brenden Burke said he and the L.A.M.P. team have never seen so much of the ship exposed. Burke explained that parts of the ship have been revealed three times in the last six years. Caruso remembers only seeing portions of the ship "at low tide and only during the fall and winter. During the summer, it was totally covered." When the shipwreck is covered by sand and waves, the job is a bit more tricky for marine archaeologists. Burke believes it's a steel frame vessel, but they don't know what ship it is. Caruso gazed at the ship, "It is a mystery! I'd love to know how long it's been here." After seeing photos from Caruso and from First Coast News, Burke said a crew from L.A.M.P. will be out to study the relic soon. Maybe they'll uncover a clue to help solve the mystery of the ship that is no longer completely covered by the sand.

Beautiful Pricey Ponte Vedra Beach Home Burns!

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. - A home in a pricey area of Ponte Vedra sustained significant fire damage late Thursday night.

St. Johns County Fire Rescue responded to a residential fire in the 200 block of Oak Hammock Drive at approximately 11:30 p.m.

When crews arrived on scene, heavy fire was showing from the roof of the home. According to SJCFR, the fire was initially isolated to the attic space of the home and rapidly spread throughout the home.

Both adult occupants of the home were able to get out of the home safely and no injuries were reported.

The cause of the blaze is under investigation and an official damage estimate is unavailable at this time.

First Coast News