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Jim Thorpe Invitational creates strength in numbers
CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. – A few years ago, one of Jim Thorpe’s daughters wanted to have a frank conversation. Her father was playing golf five days a week, he had had a good career on the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, winning three and 13 times, respectively, but she didn’t think he seemed happy. “I’m…
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Button Hole
Under dark puffy clouds on a warm mid-July evening, a swarm of golfers braved the threatening skies,determined to squeeze in a round at Button Hole before the skies opened up. Protected under an awning on a patio, sat a group of Button Hole supporters who had been invited to hearfrom PGA tour winners and Rhode…
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Harris Park — Chris Harris
“Why won’t someone do something?” Ivanhoe neighborhood in central Kansas City is where Chris Harris grew up in the 1970s, and after leaving for college on a basketball scholarship the neighborhood that he called ‘home’ had become a blighted, littered, overgrown problem that no one seemed to care about. Chris Harris believed in his community…