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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
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There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.
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