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Skins Game is a Thanksgiving turkey

By John Hawkins
Golf World

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Skins Game always has been one of pro golf's guilty pleasures, a conceived-for-TV event driven by a rather cheesy competitive premise: four of the game's wealthiest stars playing for nothing but more money. My mother used to wonder why the pot didn't consist of the participants' own cash, which only would have robbed this Thanksgiving tradition of its vast insignificance. From its 1983 debut (Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Gary Player) into the mid-'90s, the Skins attracted huge ...

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