Word: par
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...reminds you that when all's said and done, it is just a game," he says. "Regular golf can get pretty stressful." But the result of the U.X. Open indicates that not everything about golf changes when you change the format. The winner of the tournament, at 6 under par, was Thomas Clarke, 41, a chiropractor who was very serious about the competition...
...multiply seven times four." Nor can he readily recruit young executives from outside the area after they learn that the state put Osceola's school district on "academic distress" two years ago, when only 33% of 11th-graders could read at grade level, and only 8% were up to par in math...
Part innocent, part impresario and a natural motivator on a par with the slickest infomercial guru, Pregracke has big plans. His Adopt a Mississippi Mile Program hopes to do for the father of waters what similar land-based efforts have done for the nation's highways. Once the program is on its feet, he's heading east...
...sinister independent counsel, trapped by a McCurry-like ignorance of the dirty dealing going on behind his back? Or are Bakaly and Starr both blameless, betrayed by a leaky staffer? Maybe everybody's lying - in those heady days of scandal management, press manipulation (and re-manipulation) was certainly par for the course...
...works as hard on his game. Ernie Els has as much poise under pressure. But no one combines these traits like Tiger. His long, high tee shots allow him to sail over the trees, bunkers, ponds and other obstacles that trap or deter lesser golfers. He routinely hits unreachable par-five holes in just two strokes. He can hit a soft, high nine-iron shot into par-fours where others face more difficult shots with middle and long irons...