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Saturday May 17, 2008

Columnist Lorne Rubenstein

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Youth movement charges into PGA Tour spotlight

Sergio Garcia's win in the Players Championship last week means golfers in their 20s have won six of the past seven PGA Tour events. Does this mean a wave of younger players is ready to challenge Tiger Woods more frequently?


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Sergio Garcia's win in the TPC means golfers in their 20s have won six of the past seven tour events.


Sorenstam leaves at top of class

Thank you.That was the text message Lorie Kane sent her friend and fellow LPGA Tour player Annika Sorenstam yesterday afternoon. Kane had just listened to the final 10 minutes of Sorenstam's telephone conference call from the Sybase Classic in Clifton, N.J., where the LPGA Hall of Famer announced she will retire at the end of this season.


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Hall of Famer has no second thoughts about retiring at end of year


'Brutal' 17th at Players great theatre

There's no end of opinions about the 137-yard 17th hole at the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. For a second take on the hole this week, we turn to Nick Price, the winner of three major tournaments, two Canadian Opens and the 1993 Players Championship. He spoke about the controversial hole and made some observations about the course over breakfast yesterday at a local spot.


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'Brutal' 17th at Players great theatre


Lots of history, drama at 17th

NBC's Johnny Miller likes to refer to an accessible hole location as offering players a ''green light special.'' But there's no such thing on the par-3, 137-yard 17th hole with its island green at the Tournament Players Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. It's the caution flag at best, and usually a red flag. Play away from the hole, that is.


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Course designer originally thought island green was no big deal, only a short iron


DeCorso's incredible journey

Call it a fairy tale, a dream come true or simply the next - if biggest - step in Bryan DeCorso's long, jagged journey as a professional golfer. DeCorso, 36, a native of Guelph, Ont., who lives with his wife, Charlotte, in Ocoee, Fla., near Orlando, won the Nationwide Tour's South Georgia Classic yesterday by four strokes over Bryce Molder and Greg Owen, and what a sweet victory it was.


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'It's been a long road'


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