Growing up across the street from Lawton Country Club, Bobby Taylor wanted nothing more to just step foot on the lush grass of the golf course. But his family didn’t have the means to join a country club, perpetuating the stereotype of elitism often associated with the sport.“I would walk …
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The old man working near No. 2 knew. He had to have known, because everyone knew.The roar on Saturday afternoon had all the hallmarks of a classic moment being made at the Masters Tournament: the sharp lift of noise as something sensational unfolded somewhere on the 345 …
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The Masters has returned to its April spot on the calendar with the 85th edition of the tournament entering Moving Day at Augusta National. The excitement is palpable, and history may well be on the line with a number of top-tier golfers looking for their first green jacket while defending …
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Maybe it is the Masters tournament’s place as an annual rite of spring or its rich history, revisited this week for an 85th time. Perhaps it is because the tournament is the only major golf championship contested on the same golf course every year, which breeds a …
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — To most every player at the Masters Tournament, the 530-yard, water-guarded hole called Firethorn is a back-nine destination for earning back a stroke. To Bernd Wiesberger, that hole, No. 15 at Augusta National Golf Club, can teeter toward the nightmarish.In November, it dealt him a double bogey. …
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To anybody who has ever received a speeding ticket, the resolution of the investigation into Tiger Woods’s car crash in February might seem odd.Despite the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s determination that Woods drove well above 80 miles per hour in a 45 m.p.h. zone, he was not given a …
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