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TPC Sawgrass extreme makeover extolled by many

By Bob Harig
ESPN.com

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Once panned, now praised, the TPC Sawgrass has come a long way from the day when Jerry Pate used a pink ball to win the Players Championship, then did a celebratory swan dive into a greenside pond. Pate took course designer Pete Dye and then-PGA Tour-commissioner Deane Beman into the water with him, and there were more than a few peers who gladly would have helped submerge the two men who concocted the then-crazy notion of stadium golf. "It's ...

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