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America needs to get better at golf

By Ron Sirak
GolfDigest.com

Sunday, February 25, 2007

My father was known as Big John, even though he was only 5-foot-7, to distinguish him from my brother, labeled Little John. Dad's regular foursome was a colorful collection of guys all of whom also had nicknames: Eyebrows, Tillie and Sham. Like Dad, they worked the mills of Western Pennsylvania back at a time when Western Pennsylvania still had mills. And like Dad, they lived for their nine-hole shop league competition every Thursday and for the 25-cent skins game they played with several other ...

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