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Oakland Hills Is Ready to Humble World’s Best Golfers
armchairgolfblog.blogspot.com - 8/1/2008
Oakland Hills Is Ready to Humble World’s Best Golfers
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THE MONSTER IS READY. Oakland Hills, site of next week’s PGA Championship, is groomed and sufficiently gnarly as it awaits the arrival of the world’s best golfers. This monster, as Ben Hogan famously called it after his 1951 U.S. Open victory, will be a severe test for the field of the 90th PGA Championship, according to course superintendent Steve Cook. “We’ve made our par 3s longer and ...
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