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Whitman’s Mark: Coore credits Rod Whitman, who shaped the second hole, as being an integral part of the success of Friar’s Head
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A bestselling author and award-winning columnist, Robert Thompson has been writing about business and sports, and particularly golf, for almost two decades. His reporting and commentary on golf has appeared in Golf Magazine, the Globe and Mail, T&L Golf and many other media outlets. Currently a columnist with the Sympatico and Ontario Golf, and a contributing writer to ScoreGolf and Billboard magazine, his blog, Going for the Green, was launched on in 2004.
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