Trevor Immelman - the first South African to win the Masters in the post-apartheid era
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Rover found this 4/14/2008 on www.worldgolf.com [flag] |
Congratulations are in order for Trevor Immelman , the first South African to win the Masters since Gary Player pulled the feat in 1978. It’s also the first Masters win for a South African since apartheid ended in the early 1990s, for what it’s worth.
Notables such as Ernie Els and Reteif Goosen couldn’t earn a Green Jacket at Augusta, but with Immelman’s win, South ...
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When cancer scare backstory cannot even get Trevor Immelman play, you know he's an unpopular Masters champion
Published 4/15/2008 at Chris Baldwin
... Armstrong had half of the U.S. wearing cheap yellow braclets, including about 95 percent of our golf pros.
At one point, you couldn’t be a golf pro without a Livestrong bracelet and a killer pair of shades. Even if everyone in France still thinks Armstrong was as juiced as Barry Bonds, Lance will never receive the Mark McGwire treatment in the U.S. Because he’s a comeback king, a heartwarming success in the battle against cancer.
Which should make Trevor Immelman feel even a little more sheepish today.
Immelman has everything you could ...
