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Whistling Straits' length gets players' attention

By DAN MANOYAN of the Journal Sentinel staff

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

It was enough to make the biggest boppers on the PGA Tour wince.

OK, maybe Tiger didn't wince. But when word started filtering through the locker rooms of the tour that Whistling Straits will set up at nearly 7,600 yards for the 2004 PGA Championship, there were at the very least some double takes.

It is a bit of a conversation starter, especially since it is longer than the longest venue among regular tour courses -- Castle Pines, host course of The International, which measures at 7,559 yards. The shortest, incidentally, is Indian Wells, one of four courses that ...

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