In the olden days, you may recall, golf merrily drifted off into its Silly Season come fall, ceding the stage once the four majors were done to football and the baseball playoffs.

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He's built a team of no real big name players or stars, but players who want to succeed, some who have been written off at some stage or another but who want to come to the club and prove people wrong.

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