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The golf gods must be crazy

By Bob Smiley
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Every golfer, if he or she plays the game long enough, will hit that perfect shot, that one swing when absolutely everything goes right … then watch in horror as the ball plugs in the face of a bunker. Or splashes into a lake. Or worst of all, just disappears altogether. And most of us, the rational beings that we are, will consider the events that transpired and reach the most obvious conclusion: The golf gods did it. It's not a belief that stops with amateurs. When Sergio Garcia lo ...

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