Finally they were invited to throw caution to the wind and make some left-field prediction.

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"She talked to me on the phone and said she didn't want me to come home, and that I had to win one for her, " the teary-eyed Webb said after digging deep to overcome the blustery conditions that derailed almost everyone in the field on wind-whipped Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club.

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The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).

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