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The best players on the Florida Swing

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WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession

This week’s World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession presents a new venue for the world’s best, with the beautiful but difficult Jack Nicklaus/Tony Jacklin co-design hosting a TOUR event for the first time. It’s the first of a four-week stay in Florida for the PGA TOUR.

That’s good news, because the Florida Swing has brought no shortage of highlights.

Corey Pavin and Fred Couples dueled at The Honda Classic in 1992. Flashbulbs popped in the dark as Tiger Woods drained a putt to win the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard. And of course you can’t beat THE PLAYERS Championship tension on the weekend at TPC Sawgrass.

So, who are the best performers, both historically and now, on the TOUR’s Florida Swing? 15th Club went through more than three decades of round-by-round data to break down who succeeds, who overperforms, and what types of players fare best in Florida.

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TOUR events in Florida are typically more demanding ball-striking tests than average. That makes sense, given the courses on the Florida Swing. PGA National (Champion) and Innisbrook (Copperhead) annually rank among the most difficult non-major venues in several key statistics. Since 2010, the average Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green field rank of tournament winners in Florida is 6.3. The PGA TOUR average in that stretch is 7.3.

Driving accuracy proves to be less vital in Florida than normal – the average fairways hit ranking of winners in Florida since 2010 is 22.0, compared to the TOUR average in that span of 18.8. Iron play is where players can separate themselves from the pack: the Strokes Gained: Approach average rank of winners is 11.8, compared to the TOUR average of 13.5.

Tiger Woods’ historic dominance

It’s only fitting, then, that the best iron player of his era has been so successful here. Tiger Woods has 16 wins in Florida in his storied career. Since 1960, only one player has even half as many wins as Woods in the Sunshine State: Jack Nicklaus, with 10.

From the 1999 Disney Classic through the end of the 2003 season, Woods played 14 official TOUR events in Florida. He picked up six wins and finished worse than third only three times. From 1999 through 2003, Woods was 203-under-par in his TOUR starts in Florida, 31 strokes better than any other player. Davis Love III was second-best at 172-under-par.

Since 1990, there are 568 players with at least 30 TOUR rounds played in the state of Florida. Not only is Woods the only player with a scoring average under 70.0 in that group, coming in at 69.8, but he is the only player under 70.5. Woods’ mark is a full 0.82 strokes better than any other player with 30 or more rounds (Justin Thomas, 70.64), and 0.83 better than anyone with 100 rounds played (Rory McIlroy, 70.65).

Woods’ margin over his peers in birdie average is even more startling. In Woods’ 239 career rounds in Florida, he has averaged 4.44 birdies-or-better per round. Of the 393 players with 60 or more rounds played in Florida since 1990, that is 0.35 more per round than anyone else. (McIlroy, again, is second at 4.08.) The gap between Woods and McIlroy on the list is equivalent to the gap between McIlroy and number 25, Bob Tway (3.73).

Incredibly, even as Woods has reached the later stages of his career, he has remained dominant in Florida. Since 2010, he is the only player with 50 or more rounds to average 2.0 or more Strokes Gained: Total per round (2.08). McIlroy has the second-best average, at 1.46. When isolating just the previous five years – a period in which Woods has not won a tournament in Florida, mind you – he still comes out on top. Woods has averaged 2.10 Strokes Gained: Total per round in Florida events in that stretch, best of any player with 20 or more rounds played.

Sungjae Im loving it in Florida

Florida isn’t just the site of Sungjae Im’s first TOUR victory, the 2020 Honda Classic. In six career TOUR starts in Florida, Im has four top-5 finishes. He leads all players in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green in Florida over the last three seasons, racking up 2.10 per round. Im and Woods are the only players in the last five seasons to average 2.0 Strokes Gained: Total per round or more at Florida TOUR stops. In 22 career rounds in Florida, Im has beat the field average 18 times.

Fleetwood flourishes, too

He hasn’t yet won on TOUR, but maybe this year’s Florida Swing is where Tommy Fleetwood breaks through. Since 2018, Fleetwood is one of five players with a scoring average in the 60s in Florida. He ranks second behind Im in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green per round in that span (+1.92) and third in Strokes Gained: Total (+2.09). Fleetwood is fourth in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee on the Florida Swing the last five seasons, trailing only Bryson DeChambeau, McIlroy and Bubba Watson.

Scott great in the Sunshine State

Since 2010, among players with 50 or more rounds in Florida, no player has averaged more Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green per round than Adam Scott (1.53). Scott ranks third in Strokes Gained: Total in that same span (1.37), and third in birdie average (4.08) going back to 1990. He’s one of six players with three or more TOUR victories in Florida since 2004, along with Woods, Stephen Ames, Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els, and Luke Donald.

‘Burns’-ing the greens

Sam Burns threatened to become the youngest player to win The Genesis Invitational since 1975, and the first wire-to-wire winner of the event since 1969. He isn’t in the field at The Concession, but keep this in mind going forward: Burns is a savant when putting in Florida. Since 2010, players make 68.7% of their putts from 4 to 8 feet on the Florida Swing. Burns makes 79% of those putts.

In 31 PGA TOUR rounds in Florida, Burns is averaging a ridiculous 1.31 Strokes Gained: Putting per round. Over the last five years, he is the only player to gain an average of a full stroke or more per round on the greens. Burns is normally a very good putter – 2020-21 is his third consecutive season ranked in the top 30 in Strokes Gained – but he takes it to another level in Florida.

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What to know about LIV Golf's return to Miami at the Blue Monster at Doral

With the third edition of the new tournament coming to doral this weekend, there’s a few things that have changed from previous iterations., by nbc6 • published april 5, 2024 • updated on april 5, 2024 at 6:26 pm.

The LIV Golf in Miami is coming back to Miami for a third year, but this time as a Spring event.

The PGA Tour’s rival is holding their Miami tournament from April 5-7, just a week before The Masters in Augusta.

With icons like Phil Mickelson, Jon Rahm, and Dustin Johnson set to take on the famous Blue Monster at Doral, this looks like a perfect warmup for those seeking the Green Jacket at Augusta the following week.

Here's what has changed.

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WHAT’S NEW?

LIV Golf is no stranger to Miami’s sunshine, but this will be the first time the tournament comes down during the regular season instead of during the Team Championship in October, as was done the first two years.

It's also the first time the iconic Blue Monster at Trump National Doral will host a LIV event a week before the legendary courses at Augusta National.

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Playing at Doral is something Mickelson considers to be a good re-creation of what players will see at this year’s Masters, according to LIV Golf .

For those that are unfamiliar with how LIV Golf works, the tournament consists of 13 teams of four players and two wild cards for a grand total of 54 players, according to LIV Golf’s website.

This year, LIV Golf hosts 14 events across the world and each event consists of three rounds of 18-holes for a total of 54 holes of stroke play.

Now all 54 players compete for the Individual Competition which takes place throughout the season.

And the Team Championship is decided as the final event of the season in a knockout format that combines match play and stroke play.

But just like the individual players, the teams accumulate a score over the three days of the event.

PRIZE MONEY

The purse for this year’s competition stands at $25 million, with $20 million allotted for the individual competition and $5 million to the Team Championship, according to LIV Golf.

The winner’s share will be $4 million to the winner of the individual competition and $3 million to the winner of the Team Competition.

WHO TO WATCH?

Out of the 54 players in this year’s LIV tournament, 13 will also be competing in the Masters at Augusta National beginning on April 11.

John Rahm, the defending Masters champion, and LIV's Legion XII team captain, is one to watch as he is the only player this season to finish in the top 10 in all four LIV Golf tournamentsso far, but makes his debut at Doral for the first time as a professional.

HyFlyers GC captain Mickelson has been crowned the Masters champion three times in his career and has won at Doral before, most notably in 2009.

4Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson is also another name to keep tabs on as he previously won at Doral in 2015 during the World Golf Championship.

THE BLUE MONSTER AT DORAL

The iconic Blue Monster Course at Doral is one of the most challenging courses in the PGA Tour and, now the LIV Golf tour.

Boasting an impressive 7,701 yards, this par-72 course has been hosting elite championships since 1962.

The famous 18 th hole is traditionally considered one of the most difficult holes in golf, according to LIV Golf.

Featuring deep bunkers, long fairways, and a deep Bermuda grass rough the course is set to give even the most experienced golfers a hard time.

You can catch the LIV Golf starting on Friday April 5 to April 7 th on The CW Network.  

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Korda wins 4th straight LPGA Tour start, beating Maguire in T-Mobile Match Play

Nelly Korda celebrates after winning the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nelly Korda kisses the trophy as she poses for photographers after winning the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nelly Korda hits off the first fairway during the final round of the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nelly Korda hits out of a bunker at the fourth green during the final round of the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Leona Maguire hits off the second tee during the final round of the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nelly Korda putts on the fourth green during the final round of the LPGA T-Mobile Match Play golf tournament Sunday, April 7, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Nelly Korda is on a roll not seen on the LPGA Tour in 16 years.

She won four of the first seven holes, largely making the rest of the final Sunday in the T-Mobile Match Play a formality in beating Leona Maguire 4 and 3 at Shadow Creek.

Lorena Ochoa in 2008 was the last player to win four consecutive starts. Korda, the world’s top-ranked player, will try to tie the record of five — set by Nancy Lopez in 1978 and matched by Annika Sorenstam in 2004-05 — in two weeks at the season’s first major, The Chevron Championship outside Houston.

Because Korda took seven weeks off after winning in January in her hometown of Bradenton, Florida, this victory was her third straight in a scheduled event. Four players share the record of four in a row, with Mickey Wright doing it twice.

Korda also became the first American since Kathy Whitworth in 1969 to win four of her first five starts in a season.

“I can’t even wrap my head around it,” Korda said “Such a whirlwind of the last three weeks. I just feel like I was just in go-mode constantly.”

This was the first head-to-head match-play singles event between Korda and Maguire, but they have experience against each other in similar settings at the Solheim Cup. The Irish player is 3-1 while representing Europe in team match-play events against Korda.

Korda birdied Nos. 5-7 for a 4-up lead. She was 5 up after 12, saw Maguire take 13 and 14 with pars, and ended the match with a par win on the par-4 15th.

“It’s always nice to get a lead, kind of like a cushion,” Korda said. “But it’s Leona. She’s such a fiery competitor. I knew when I lost those two holes in a row, 13 and 14, that I really needed to put my foot down to finish the match off.”

Korda earned $300,000 for her 12th career victory.

“You know you’re going to have to make birdies if you want to beat her,” Maguire said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t make enough today. Hats off to her. She is an incredible player and she is playing some great golf right now. All I could do is play my own game, and that wasn’t good enough today.”

This tournament was entirely match play the first three years and played in late May when temperatures often are in the high 90s. Many of the top players opted not to compete.

The format changed this year to three days of stroke play, with the top eight advancing to match play on the weekend. The event also moved back to early April, when temperatures are much more moderate, which helped attract its strongest field.

It’s a field that Maguire dominated during stroke play, ending the first three rounds at 6-under par, three strokes better than anyone else.

“It almost felt like two separate tournaments this week, the stroke-play event and the match-play event,” Maguire said. “To lead the stroke play around this golf course by three at the end of the three days was something I can take a lot of positives from and be very proud of.”

Korda had to fight just to get into the match play. She shot 73 each of the first two rounds, but then came through with a 69 on Wednesday to advance to the weekend.

Then she didn’t let the opportunity go to waste at one of the more demanding courses on the tour.

“It’s absolutely breathtaking, such an amazing, amazing golf course,” Korda said. “It is brutal, though. It has tested every part of my game. I think golf courses like that are so much fun play. They’re so frustrating where you’re just like you walk off the hole and you’re just so frustrated there are a couple swear words going through your head.”

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ANWA and DCP Performances Show Impact of Girls Golf on Women’s Game

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Stanford University sophomore Megha Ganne still employs the lessons she learned as a 7-year-old in the LPGA*USGA Girls Golf New Jersey chapter.

Wake Forest University graduate and 2023 NCAA National Championship team member Emilia Migliaccio will never forget being pushed by her fellow competitors on the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour.

For competitive female golfers like these across the United States and around the world, experiences provided by LPGA*USGA Girls Golf and the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour (PKBGT) have proved pivotal in their growth and development. Not only have these programs provided opportunities to experience competition at a young age, but they have empowered generations of girls to achieve their golf dreams.

Thousands of Girls Golf alumnae have gone on to play collegiate golf, and more than 100 have reached the pinnacle of the sport by competing on the Epson and LPGA Tours. As for this past weekend, 17 of the 72 players at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur were products of Girls Golf, including Ganne and Migliaccio.

For Ganne, Girls Golf provided the strong foundation she needed in her quest to earn a spot on the women’s golf team at Stanford. She still recalls Site Director Beverly Harrison encouraging the girls to speak up in their outside voices at all times and to always walk through life with their chin up and shoulders back.

Instilling this confidence at an early age paid off as Ganne has taken on life-changing opportunities like representing Team USA at the PING Junior Solheim Cup, playing golf at Stanford and teeing it up in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

“Having a program when I first started that reiterated what it’s like to be confident, have good posture, carry yourself in a way that makes yourself proud, and also have a lot of fun while doing it, that was crucial to my development,” Ganne explained. “When those are the first lessons you’re introduced to in the game, that’s really helpful because that’s the stuff that sticks with you and you remember the most. I still embody those core values to the best of my ability in tournament golf now.”

Migliaccio’s first PKBGT event was in 2011 at Pine Needles. Just 11 years old at the time, Migliaccio was excited to have the chance to play in a girls-only field, something she didn’t often get to do as a junior golfer.

“Back in middle school, golf was not cool,” recalled Migliaccio. “It was something our dads played. I remember practicing with local boys, but there weren’t any girls like me who took the game so seriously.”

That changed when she arrived at her first PKBGT event. Migliaccio remembers being in awe of the number of girls who were already on the range hitting balls and grinding on the putting green. Not only did these girls share her competitive drive, but they quickly bonded over being girls who golfed, an uncommon interest for others their age.

“The PKB Tour was really the first time I saw other girls with the same sock tan lines as me,” Migliaccio said. “I also quickly realized that it was normal to see girls start practicing at 8 a.m. for an 11 a.m. tee time. To see other girls do that really pushed you because you’re also competitive and want to win.”

This sentiment was echoed by Migliaccio’s fellow Demon Deacon Rachel Kuehn, who also competed on the PKBGT, albeit a couple of years behind Migliaccio because of their age difference. Since cutting their teeth on this all-girls tour, Kuehn and Migliaccio have both found individual and team success at the junior, amateur and collegiate levels. Most notably, the pair led Wake Forest to victory at the 2023 NCAA Championship.

“The PKB Tour was my first exposure to high-level competitive golf,” Kuehn explained. “It’s where I learned to manage tournament pressure and different situations like sleeping on a lead before the last day. All of those lessons I’ve carried with me through my golfing career, I learned first on the PKB Tour.”

Leaning on their strong foundation, all three players made the cut at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur along with four other Girls Golf alumnae. Of those seven players to make the cut, it was University of Southern California freshman Bailey Shoemaker who ultimately stole the show at Augusta National Golf Club.

Trailing by four entering the final round, Shoemaker charged up the leaderboard with a sensational, bogey-free, 6-under 66 on Saturday. Even though she came up just short of eventual winner Lottie Woad, Shoemaker could hold her head high, knowing that she now stands alone in the record books as having the lowest final-round score in ANWA history.

Speaking of the record books, just one day after the conclusion of the ANWA, three active Girls Golf members claimed titles in the annual Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals. Of the 40 girls to reach the national stage, 20 belonged to Girls Golf.

Madison Pyatt of Missouri won the Girls 7-9 Division, Lily Wachter of Florida took home the Girls 10-11 title and McKenna Nelson of Wisconsin claimed victory in the 14-15 Division. The only division not won by a Girls Golf member was the 12-13 grouping, but Gayatri Arora from Charlotte did manage to finish in a tie for second after winning the putting portion of the competition.

“It means a lot to me to represent Girls Golf here,” Wachter said. “I just think it’s amazing how little girls get to look up to us, and I hope that helps them find more passion and drive to get here.”

Whether or not they win events like the Drive, Chip and Putt, these players know just how important Girls Golf is for their competitive golf development. For Georgia native Ariel Collins, who finished T4 in the Girls 14-15 Division, this program means the world.

“I really appreciate my coach at Girls Golf and the experience that program provides,” Collins said. “I’ve learned so much about golf and the different things I can do with the game. Girls Golf has done so much for me, and I want to continue to help show the world how it is changing the future of the women’s game.”

There is no doubt that LPGA*USGA Girls Golf and the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour have helped shape the current state of girls’ and women’s golf both domestically and internationally. In fact, just last year, the Girls Golf program reached its one-millionth member, and in honor of that feat, the LPGA Foundation launched the #OneMillionMOREGirls campaign to reach the next million by 2030, an effort that hasn’t gone unnoticed by girls currently in the program. And they are just as invested in the organization’s growth.

“In my town, there’s really no girls in Girls Golf,” Pyatt explained. “So, I want to represent it and get more girls my age into it. I want to get more girls out there to try and do it because I love it, and I want other people to find it, and love it too.”

These girls and young women represent just a few of the endless success stories to come out of LPGA*USGA Girls Golf. But as Pyatt acknowledged, there is still so much work left to be done in growing this game for girls of all backgrounds, a cause that takes all of us.

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The future home of The Outsider Golf Club in Naples, Florida borders The Hideout Golf Club.

In a story that seems ripped straight out of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, when the head of sales at an insurtech firm was denied membership at an exclusive golf club in Naples, Florida, he bought up parcels of land next door and set out to build a better one.

Collier County is known for fluffy white sand beaches, slithering Burmese pythons and a veritable bounty of opulent golf courses. There are well over 100 tracks in the area in and around Naples alone and 80% of them are private.

Mark Janz, the aforementioned tech exec, is a scratch player and Golf Digest ratings panelist who had relocated down south from Chicago. He’d been a member at Wynstone for years and sought membership at a highly rated golf club in his new home. When he started perusing his options he encountered waitlists ranging from seven to ten years and initiation fees from $350,000 to over $700,000 at non-equity clubs.

His interest was piqued by a club called The Hideout where NBA legend Larry Bird is a founding member and a couple of his buddies belonged. With his friends vouching for him, he applied to join but would end up getting a thumbs down from the club following his interview.

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“I didn’t get in the golf club for a very strange reason. I asked why the initiation fee went up from $65,000 to $100,000,” Janz, who was simply curious if there were plans for capital improvements, related. He added that he did not ask the question in a remotely condescending manner. But the feedback he got later from his member pal is that the query derailed his bid.

“This was the type of club I didn’t get in—I can’t ask a question like that?”

When reached by telephone, the manager of the Hideout expressed that he did not have knowledge of anything that may have occurred and would offer no comment.

After getting spurned Janz tried to get in to Olde Florida Golf Club and Naples National, both of which he found very welcoming. Unfortunately, they were full at the time and he was waitlisted—told it could be years till he’d get in. While playing a round with Ryan Chiodo, a local realtor and pal and still stewing over that initial rejection, Janz mentioned that he wished he could just build his own golf course and a seed was planted.

The idea struck a chord with Chiodo who is a co-owner on the project. That evening he told him he found 96 acres of sandy soiled land zoned for recreational use. Now, they’d need over double that footprint to build an eighteen-hole course but the good news on that front was that it was connected to two other parcels and altogether that would get them to 227 acres.

“Ironically, one of the parcels bordered The Hideout, the golf club directly next door that wouldn’t admit me,” Janz related.

They locked up the three tracts, mostly raw land filled with cypress trees and Chiodo asked Janz, ‘ok now what do we do?’

“I told him I’ve been in software and technology my whole career. I have no idea how to build a golf course.”

Tapping into his network Janz looped in another friend who happened to have a connection with Dana Fry, the architect who turned what was a pancake flat site into Calusa Pines , one of the most dramatic and celebrated layouts in the Sunshine state.

“Thirty seconds later, Dana Fry, who was in Mexico at the time, starts texting me. We start having a conversation back and forth and then he calls me. I told him I want to build a golf course in Naples that’s unlike anything here. Everything is pretty stuffy, meaning shirts tucked in, no music. It’s a different vibe here. I want to build something more LIV Golf than PGA Tour golf meaning I want guys to be able to wear a tee shirt, wear no shirt, I don’t care. And I want to build the best golf course in Southwest Florida, something better than Calusa Pines—the next Top 100 course,” Janz said.

Since that initial conversation Fry and his partner Jason Straka have decided not to come aboard the project and so there is not currently an architect attached to the golf course at this stage.

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The permitting process however is well underway. Land use attorneys, the army core of engineers, and environmentalists have been dispatched to push the project into gear.

“Collier County is very unique in that it takes forever to get things done here and the hurricane made it even worse. It typically takes anywhere from two to three years to get permitted for something like this but we’ve already passed the one-year anniversary,” Janz explained.

The expectation is for the golf course, dubbed ‘ The Outsider ’ to open by the end of 2025. Membership will be capped at 250 individuals with initiation fees in the $750,000 ballpark. It will be strictly a golf club with an eighteen-hole course, a clubhouse, some golf cabins on the property, a lit nine-hole par 3 course and a helicopter pad so players on the state’s east coast can easily zip in.

To raise capital for the projected $80 million build—though they’re prepared to go as high as $100 million if that’s what it takes to build ‘the best golf course in Southwest Florida’ they’ve adopted a founding membership model. The Outsider is seeking 75 to 100 investors to put up $1 million each, divvied out over rounds during the construction process. In return the founders will receive lifetime club memberships with no annual dues for a set number of years while also re-cooping their principal within five years with their investment converting from equity to a non-interest bearing note. Currently they’re pre-collection but are oversubscribed on pledges for the initial investment round.

“We are going to be able to build the golf course, fund all the members back and still make money on this venture,” Janz said, adding that pledged founding members include a couple Augusta National members.

Not exactly a fan of the cookie cutter Floridian golf course clones with fairways lined by homes that wend around ponds that seem to pop op on every hole, Janz wants to create something you just don’t see in Naples. The Outsider will be a pure golf course without a housing development component. It will feature rollicking elevation changes while staying true to a prairie links style course aesthetic.

As the Outsider borders the Hideout, the club that rejected Janz and got the ball rolling on the whole endeavor, it would be quite the epilogue if down the line the clubs became friendly neighbors and cooked up a reciprocal play arrangement.

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