Posts by: Curt Sampson
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The David Leadbetter Academy at Champions Gate in Orlando comprises a manicured expanse of tees and target greens with a luxury hotel on one side and a luxury golf course on the other. But amidst the spit-and-polish in the clubhouse hangs a photograph as discordant and jarring as a whipped cream [...]
Continue Reading →On January 21, 2011, in Augusta, Georgia, the afternoon’s high temperature will be 43 degrees. I can’t wait to get there.
But wait I will, until April, along with about 100,000 golf nuts, some 500 members of the broadcast and print media, a hard to quantify number of ladies of the evening from Myrtle Beach [...]
Continue Reading →Ben and Carl, Masters Champions
If you know the standard Augusta National caddie epic, you know Carl Jackson.
He was just another dropout, a 13-year-old who spent his days reading greens instead of school books. There were nine children at home, and mama needed the money. A big, solid-looking kid on his way to [...]
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