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Protecting par

By Jeff Bradley
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, June 8, 2009

This article appears in the June 15th issue of ESPN The Magazine. Mike Davis is walking the walk and, yeah, he's talking the talk. The walk, for Davis, the United States Golf Association's senior director of rules and competitions -- and as such the man responsible for deciding just how difficult the U.S. Open will play this year -- is exactly one yard per stride. The talk is of the shots the world's best golfers will have to make at Bethpage Black, the site of this June's event. "They can ...

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