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S.F. Examiner: Local teaching pro mixes with stars at PGA Championship
1:37 PMBy Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — There’s a difference between a professional golfer, someone like Jason Day or Jordan Spieth, someone who plays golf for a living, and a golf professional, someone like Mitch Lowe, who teaches others how to a play and now and then has a chance to compete with the big boys.
The PGA, Professional Golfers Association, is the group of teachers and club pros, but starting nearly a century ago it created a tournament that, along with the Masters and U.S. and British Opens has become one of the four majors. The PGA Championship saves a few places for people such as Lowe, who does his instructing at San Francisco’s Harding Park.
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