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Golfers need to develop thicker skin

By Mark Kreidler
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Davis Love III should be glad he never had to deal with Robin Ficker. Never heard of Ficker? He was the guy who used to stand -- never sit -- just behind the visitor's bench at NBA games in Washington and verbally harrass selected opposing players for four quarters. The man barely stopped to take a full breath. He was loud, he was obnoxious, and he was a fixture. He was the cost of doing business in the NBA in D.C. And if Ficker ever showed up at a PGA Tour stop, they wouldn't have ...

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