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Televised golf isn't for everybody, and if you're the one who just can't get enough cleat-pounding and beer-advertising in one weekend, then read no more...
Maybe I'm tempting the baseball fan among you. Think about it--a 72-hole golf tournament is not unlike a miniature of baseball's 162-day pennant race. The drama builds, slowly at first, and then wildly as two, three, maybe four golfers charge down the stretch run with birdies and bogeys flying. Heck, the back nine on Sunday at The Masters can be an entire September's worth of dramatic moments...
Granted, this tournament isn't a major. But it is being played on a U.S. Open-caliber golf course, and as Harvard sophomore golfer and Olympic Club-member Jun Choo relates, this course tends to produce excitement at the finish...
Especially to win a golf tournament over the greatest golfers in the world. No no-names this week; the Tour Championship only invites the top 30 money winners from the 1993 season (sorry, Mr. Daly), and Player-of-the-Year honors is at stake between Greg Norman, Paul Azinger, and Nick Price. You can be sure the talent level will be high; witness Jim Gallagher's course-record 63 (eight-under par) yesterday...
...hold that golf's great pennant races amongst the best talent the game can offer might tide the baseball nut over until pitchers and catchers report some 160 days from...