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Article: Who's counting?: Breaking a course record doesn't seem to mean as much these days.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2006
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Byline: Rob Oller
Jul. 8--Sometimes even the best rounds of golf get treated like wooden tees tossed in the bag at the end of the day. Shooting a course record, unlike the more glamorous hole-in-one, is not the talk of the town when it happens. It receives attention, at private clubs more than public courses, but its fame is a flicker compared with the more envied ace, even if it is more difficult to achieve. A hole-in-one happens by chance as much as by skill. But going really low is not the stuff of flukes. Hackers don't shoot 63. Even those who set course records don't always celebrate them in grand style. John Whittle, who owns, operates and ...