SF Examiner: Chip Beck back on course at Harding Park

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Art Spander in Charles Schwab Cup, Chip Beck, articles, golf

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

He was a golfer good enough to finish second in the Masters. A golfer perplexed enough to give up the game to become an insurance salesman. A golfer persistent enough to rework the swing which had defeated him.

Chip Beck was the second person to shoot 59 in a PGA Tour event — indeed, he could play. He probably wasn’t the first to find he couldn’t drive a ball straight off the tee, and that flaw drove him out of golf and into the so-called real world of 7:24 a.m. commutes and office hours.

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