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The Skinny: Putting will be the key at FBR

By John Antonini
GolfDigest.com

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The 2006 FBR Open was the coming-out party for bomb-and-gouge golf, what with J.B. Holmes smacking his tee ball an average of 320 yards on every drive (not just the measured ones) and winning by seven strokes. His massive power caused reactionaries around the globe to suggest lengthening courses, narrowing fairways, growing longer rough, rolling back the ball and reverting to persimmon woods with hickory shafts all in the name of stopping the revolution that was going to end the game as we know ...

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