DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The first bundle of joy for Ryann O'Toole arrived Monday: a $1 million bonus for winning the Aon Risk Reward Challenge for the LPGA Tour season that ended in September for O'Toole because she is pregnant with her first child.
O'Toole is expecting in January. She played her final event at the FM Championship in August, giving her enough rounds to qualify for the bonus program built around a player's average score on a designated risk-reward hole — typically a par 5 — at each tournament.
With two tournaments left in the challenge, no one can catch her.
The $1 million bonus should come in handy for the 39-year-old O'Toole, who has one career LPGA win and whose most lucrative season was in 2024 when she won just over $629,000. Her career earnings from a 15-year career are $4,706,355.
“A year after going back to Q-Series to earn her card, Ryann finished on top while playing a limited schedule, all while navigating her pregnancy and supporting her brother in his recovery from a severe accident. That’s really special golf," LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler said.
O'Toole improved her ranking in par-5 scoring from 125th on the LPGA in 2025 to 11th this year, helped by a career-best 270.6 average in driving distance.
“Ryann’s performance shows what better decision making looks like: understanding the risk, recognizing the opportunity and having the confidence to act when it matters most,” said Anne Corona, Aon's CEO of North America. "We are proud to celebrate her as the newest Aon Risk Reward Challenge champion, and we wish Ryann and her partner, Gina, all the best as they prepare to welcome their first child.”
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FILE - Ryann O'Toole, right, and Albane Valenzuela, left, celebrate on the 16th green during the first round of the Dow Championship LPGA golf tournament, June 11, 2026, at Midland Country Club in Midland, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Thomas Massie moved Monday to force a vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, pressing his fellow Republicans to remove one of the Trump administration's most prominent figures following sweeping election losses blamed in part on fallout from the war in Iran.
Massie, a Kentucky Republican, read the impeachment resolution from the House floor just hours after it opened for the first day of sessions after the midterms. It largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in carrying out military actions in Yemen and Venezuela.
The congressman, who was defeated by a Trump-backed challenger in a primary earlier this year, said Hegseth's actions amounted to “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Hegseth, he said, “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders” and “remains a threat to the Constitution.”
President Donald Trump lashed out at Massie personally just hours after the congressman read the resolution, calling him a “loser” who “has a lot of hatred in his heart.”
A vote in the House could come by mid-week, but next steps are highly uncertain. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries supports the measure. If most Democrats follow him, Massie would only need support from a few Republicans to impeach Hegseth.
If the House votes to impeach, it would fall to to the Senate to either dismiss the charges or hold a trial. Republicans remain in the majority in both chambers, until the new Congress convenes in January with Democrats in control.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, endorsed the impeachment push. "Hegseth must stand trial before the Senate," he said.
Republican leaders, who are eager to use their final weeks in power executing their own agenda, expressed frustration at the move. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has tried to prevent the vote, said impeachment “in the middle of hostilities abroad would be a terrible, terrible look, a terrible thing for our allies and our enemies to see that.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he wasn’t sure why the vote was being held now.
“We’ll see what their ultimate decision is over there,” he said of the House. “We’ll have to deal with it accordingly here."
Hegseth is stepping up his public statements ahead of the vote, telling reporters that he's eager to defend the military actions that he and Trump have taken against Iran, Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Venezuela's previous leaders.
After giving a speech at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, he brushed aside the impeachment push.
“There’s a lot of politically motivated people who may have substantial policy disagreements, but their disagreements are with success,” he told reporters. He added that “if we want to litigate” the military actions that the Trump administration has taken, “I’m happy to do it all day long.”
Asked about Vice President JD Vance blaming the Iran war for the massive GOP losses in the election, Hegseth noted that Trump said he would do it again, and “I agree.”
Hegseth also announced that he would hold a rare news conference on Tuesday — his first in over 180 days — on the impeachment threat.
Hegseth argued that the war was necessary because “someone had to confront the Iranian regime’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon” and said “the choice was don’t act and wish it away or take a bold move."
Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is peaceful. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Trump defended Hegseth to reporters on Monday, commending him for having “won the war” in Venezuela and “winning the war” in Iran, which continues to drag on.
Hegseth reiterated that “Iran is devastated,” even though the Islamic Republic has been able to keep striking military bases in the Middle East that are used by the United States, causing billions of dollars in damage, as well as commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Disruptions to shipping in the waterway, where one-fifth of the world's oil passed before the war, have led to higher energy prices that hit voters' pocketbooks.
Hegseth's defense of the war comes after about 6 in 10 voters said the U.S. made the “wrong decision” in taking military action against Iran, according to The AP Voter Poll, a survey of more than 100,000 voters in the United States.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended his fellow Cabinet secretary, saying that he believes Hegesth has been doing “a great job” and that its unfair that a Republican is pushing the impeachment effort.
“I work with him. And so I see perhaps a side of him that the media doesn’t see and members of Congress may not see,” Rubio told reporters at the Group of Seven industrialized democracies gathering in Paris. “But I think Pete works really hard. He’s incredibly smart.”
Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, Joey Cappelletti and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaves after attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Defense Ministers' Meeting in Cebu, central Philippines, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, Pool)
