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OPINION
It’s a funny old game, golf. You may have noticed. Some of the worst rounds I’ve ever played have followed, by my wistful standards anyway, a couple of days of fairly intense practice and preparation.
Silly me, thinking I could sharply hone a game that wasn’t really there in the first place. Meanwhile, some of the best have followed shivering hangovers, late arrivals on the tee or early