Global Golf Post: Venturi Had Come Full Circle

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

This was at a dinner in conjunction with the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am a couple of years ago, a California Golf Writers function, and Ken Venturi, the most famous man in the room, looked out at an audience comprised of those he saw more as acquaintances than admirers.

They knew his story, his triumphs and his failures. How he had battled himself as well as the best...

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PGATour.com: Fabled Olympic Club boasts mist, myths and memories

By Art Spander
Special to PGATour.com

It is a place of mist, myth and memories, some wonderful, some not. The Olympic Club was where Ben Hogan walked away in defeat, Ty Cobb stomped off in anger and numerous people less famous but no less fortunate spend hours stacking up dominoes, knocking in putts and tossing down drinks.

Olympic, where for a fifth time America’s golfing championship, the U.S. Open, will be played June 14-17, represents San Francisco in the extreme, with plenty of history and humor compressed into a magnificent Spanish-style clubhouse and onto two wonderful courses.

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