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Sometimes a goof is just a goof

By Mark Kreidler
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Memo to Jean Van de Velde: You go, girl! It takes a real man to try to enter a women's golf tournament against the rules. Van de Velde, fortunately for everybody else, I suppose, is that man. On Thursday, after hacking his way through a 7-over 78 at the Volvo Masters in Spain (that's a men's tournament), Van de Velde declared that he will attempt to enter the 2006 Women's British Open even though he's not, you know ... a woman. The action would be Van de Velde's way of protesting the recen ...

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