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Blue blood meets blue collar

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, June 12, 2002

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Here at the "How-Ya-Doin'?" Open, the Bethpage rough is as thick as the Long Island accents. This isn't genteel Augusta, where the patrons stroll among the pines, azaleas and harp music, where you half expect Bobby Jones and Rhett Butler to stop by Butler Cabin for a chat with the CBS crew. This is the very public Bethpage State Park Black, where Joe Muni and 20,000 of his fellas are here to, you know, take care of that thing. Maybe a thousand of them, probably more, sque ...

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