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Article: Out of bounds?(Sports)(Golf Report)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1998
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GLEN ALLEN, Va. - Ivan Lendl has a new racket.
Four years after concluding one of the most successful pro tennis careers in history, Lendl has taken his legendary stony glare to the golf course. And more precisely, to the Nike Tour, golf's penultimate echelon of competition, where today the 38-year-old native Czechoslovakian will tee off in the opening round of the Nike Dominion Open as a member of the 144-man field.
"At my best, I can manage not to embarrass myself with these guys," Lendl said yesterday at the par-72 Dominion Club, looking surprisingly in his element with a putter folded beneath his crossed arms. "I'm a decent player, but not ...
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