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.
He only had 25 PGA tour wins, but what he accomplished was incredible. Sam Snead: Slammin' Sammy won seven Majors and he holds the record for most PGA Tour wins with 82. He was never able to win a U.S. Open, but he will always be one of the all-time greats.Ben Hogan: Hogan is fourth all time with 64 career PGA Tour wins, which included nine Major victories.rancis Ouimet: Ouimet is not one of the greatest golfers of all time, but when he won the U.S. Open in 1913 at the age of 20, he put golf on the map as a mainstream sport. We can thank him for all of the great American players whom we have seen over the years.