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Article: World is watching Oakland Hills for Ryder Cup.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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September 13, 2004
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Byline: Shawn Windsor

He was tooling around in his golf cart when the call came in that they were ready to throw open the gates.

``Oh, baby!'' Andy Odenbach hollered.

And he ran from the International Pavilion to the edge of Maple Road, where a line of fans had camped along the entrance to one of the country's most prestigious country clubs.

``Let 'em in,'' Odenbach called into his two-way radio.

It was 9 a.m. Sunday, kickoff week to the 35th Ryder Cup matches, and Odenbach, the tournament director, couldn't contain himself as he watched the public pour into 18 holes of manicured heaven, trimmed, shined and staged to beam ...

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