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...second season into a Top 10 hit by presenting itself less as a home-improvement show than a life-improvement show. Each week the design team meets a family with a heart-wrenching story--disability, death, debt--and tailors a monster renovation to its needs. For the Vardon family of Oak Park, Mich.--two deaf parents with a blind, autistic son named Lance, 12, and a sighted son Stefan, 14--the team built a house with high-tech aids, including flashing-light smoke alarms and Braille labels on the walls. The Vardons also got a $50,000 college scholarship...
...years after it first opened in May 1891, the Machrie attracted the legendary golfing triumvirate of Harry Vardon, John Henry Taylor and James Braid by offering top prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that...
...surprising that the Machrie, close to such venerable distilleries as Laphroaig, Ardbeg, Bowmore and Lagavulin, has managed to remain one of golf's best-kept secrets. It was not always so. Ten years after it first opened in May 1891, the Machrie attracted the legendary golfing triumvirate of Harry Vardon, John Henry Taylor and James Braid by offering top prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop...
With his signature knickers and quick wit, the "Squire" played everyone from Harry Vardon to Bobby Jones to Nicklaus...
Their most obvious connection, of course, is what they have done for the game of golf. In the American history of the sport, there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger...