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Life doesn't stay Idol for optimistic Purdy

By Jim Moriarty
Golf World

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

With a little cash having burned a hole in his pocket, a cell phone in his hand and a swing on the mend, life seemed good to Ted Purdy at Colonial CC. Purdy has just one top-10 finish this year, a T-9 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, so you might think the 2005 Byron Nelson champion would see the glass as half-empty, but Purdy is pretty much a half-full kind of guy. Jordin Sparks, the daughter of his buddy at Moon Valley CC in Phoenix, former NFL cornerback Phillippi Sparks, had just w ...

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