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Shooting From The Lip/March 22 Edition

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ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman did the best they could under the heavy time constraints, but neither were able to ask thorough follow-up questions to evasive or generic answers -- something Woods likely... Source

John Deere Golf Comes to The Rescue of The First Tee of The Palm ...

Was the comment from local John Deere Golf distributor SHOWTURF’s irrigation specialist Tim Lovin.

The ten month old Palm Beach County Chapter of the International Youth Development program called The First Tee® was hardly capable of making the huge investment in replacing the damaged unit to run the irrigation over their 15 acre golf course and practice area. “Every nickel we raise goes to maintaining our facility and programming which impacts the lives of children positively while learning how to play golf, the game of a lifetime” says Executive Director and PGA Professional Craig Watson. “Our budget just wouldn’t be able to handle such bad luck”.

Ironically, Watson had been networking with some local Palm Beach County Golf Course Superintendents and preparing some future construction budgets that the facility was hoping to finance through grants provided by The Wadsworth Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps fund construction for “kid sized” golf courses.

John Gallagher at The Polo Club of Boca Raton, David Tandy at Delray Dunes and Harold Davis from Winston Trails took quick control of the situation and contacted the Boynton...

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