Golf & Sports Reflections

• Golf and the Pampered Pros
  Golf is a humbling game, the Scots warned — but the humiliated professionals on the PGA Tour have found ways to cushion the blow with millions.
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• Johnny Kelley, Bill Rodgers, and the Spirit of the Boston Marathon
  The Boston Marathon's carnage can't erase memories of Johnny Kelley and Bill Rodgers — two champions who embodied what distance running is actually about.
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• Lorena Ochoa -- Golf, Generosity, and Mexico
  Oh Oh Ochoa: the Mexican golfer who won her 25th tournament and used her fame not for endorsement deals but for schools back home.
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• Notah Begay and the Discipline of Comeback
  A professional golfer coming back from injuries and nine straight missed cuts — Notah Begay's comeback as a lesson in discipline the game rarely teaches.
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• Rocky Marciano Meets the Golf Ball
  A summer afternoon in 1958 when a college kid met Rocky Marciano at Sands Point Golf Club — the heavyweight champion, it turned out, couldn't hit a golf ball.
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• Rory McIlroy and Washington’s Golf Culture
  Washington heeds the call to think green — $125 tickets to watch golf at Congressional Country Club, where democracy is not a membership category.
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• Rory McIlroy and the Conscience of Golf
  Winsome winners are the rarity in professional sports — Rory McIlroy is one, navigating fame and politics with a grace most athletes never learn.
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• Sands Point and the Lessons of Golf
  A secretive double life in the summer of '57: rich college kid by day on the fairways of Sands Point, poor college kid by night — and the lessons golf taught both.
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• The Burriss Family and the Making of a Ballplayer
  The hundreds of games Allen and Denise Burriss watched their son Emmanuel play — a Washington family and the making of a ballplayer, one season at a time.
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• The Golf School
  Does it ever fail? No matter how bad the scorecard, every golfer plays one hole a round where it all comes together — and that hole is the school.
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• The Marathon That Marines Built
  The 25th Marine Corps Marathon and the man who built it — a race that proves the military can organize something worth running toward.
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• Tiger Woods, Notah Begay, and the Meaning of Golf
  Two Stanford teammates — Tiger Woods and Notah Begay — on the fairways at Congressional Country Club before dawn, chasing different versions of the same dream.
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• When Golfers Lose Their Humility
  Golf is a humbling game — but sometimes the humiliated let pride take over, and what follows is neither humble nor sporting.
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• Why Professional Golfers Are the Most Pampered Athletes
  The Scots warned that golf humbles; the PGA Tour proves that money and entourages can insulate professionals from the lesson.
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• Why We Run
  Twenty-five years after running the 1977 New York marathon at mid-life, McCarthy reflects on why we run — and why, eventually, we stop.
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