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Article: Tournament golf in B-N just not what it used to be
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- July 2, 2008
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There was anticipation in the air on a sunny June day at the
Illinois State University Golf Course. The first Bloomington-Normal
golf tournament of the year had finally arrived. It was time to tee
it up in competition and see what you were made of.
A field of 179 - from scratch golfers to 18-handicappers - turned
out for the Bloomington-Normal Medal Play Tournament.
The year was 1984. It was the first year I took over as The
Pantagraph's golf writer for my good friend, Cliff Schrock, who went
off to work for Golf Digest (side note: I still miss that guy). With
that many golfers, those were two long days on the course. Somehow,
that didn't matter. Playing in a city tournament was the thing to ...
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