Yellow Fever Facts and History. 1  Yellow fever is a viral hemorrhagic infection transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. 2  Yellow fever has and continues to affect the equatorial tropics and is believed to have been imported to the Americas with the West African slave trade.
Rocco Mediate â 51 â $26,296 per year in 2013. Many golfers who were very successful in the PGA Tour have managed to transfer that success to the Champions Tour. Take Rocco Mediate, a golfer who earned $16.8 million in his career in the PGA.
Increasing Distance. PGA Tour players of the early 21st century unquestionably hit the ball farther than throughout the 20th century. A 2003 Golf Digest article noted that the average PGA Tour drive traveled 260.4 yards in 1993, 279.8 yards in 2002 and 287.8 yards in 2003.