Bethpage Black: For U.S. Open titlists and weekend hackers
June 23, 2009
One of the unique connections between PGA Tour players and their fans is that they can share golf course experiences — sort of. Recreation league basketball players don’t play pick-up games in the Staples Center in Los Angeles or Madison Square Garden in New York. And you can’t meet friends for a Sunday morning flag football game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Kenny Perry had a career-best season in 2008 with three victories and a key position on the U.S. team that played in the Ryder Cup in his native Kentucky. But early is his career, despite two PGA Tour wins, Perry was an unheralded player, even when victorious. And no one tells the story better than the golfer himself.
Tommy Armour III is approaching 30 years as a professional golfer. His career has included glimpses of stardom, more than 1,800 tournament rounds and a well-documented celebratory lifestyle as a member of one of golf’s most enduring families. 
Like Phil Mickelson before him, golfing success provided Padraig Harrington with the odd moniker: “Best golfer never to win a major.” But just a quickly an errant drive or a shanked wedge can ruin a round, Harrington no longer has the major jinx. 
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