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Eight green jackets got together with eight Super Bowl rings on Sunday in Florida. They chose teams, and they gave a sports-starved public another reason to gather around their TVs (or tablets, or phones) and watch. Charities were served, rightfully, and amid the banter golf took another step in returning to a national stage.
As Ron Green Jr. observes, the game is as well positioned as any for the restoration of elite-level sporting competition. Even as times have been unsettling, its heartbeat has remained, thumping along.
With golf on the precipice of making a return in St. Andrews and across Scotland, Lewine Mair checks in at the Old Course and finds the legendary links awaiting the restart in all of its natural beauty.
In Massachusetts, Brendan Walsh and Jay Wick lead the golf staffs at noteworthy courses 40 miles from each other, and as John Steinbreder reports, they share a bond as close as brotherhood.
In this week's edition of The Divot, Steve Eubanks considers the sense of loss that has become common for young athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the way many golfers dealt with it anew in the wake of entry guideline adjustments for top USGA events.
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