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You have to let it roll off your back.”
For Clark, the result was another mind-
numbing disappointment for the man Charity Link the second playoff hole, his approach hit
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the pin and wound up some 20 feet from
without a victory.
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“Bad break or not, the tournament
five holes to play, two poor drives on the
charities in 2008,
should have ended on the first playoff
way in got him into trouble and he left
largely through
the tournament’s
hole,” said Clark, 33. “I didn’t make a
a 9-foot par putt short on the final hole Birdies for Charity confident stroke and I pulled it.
that forced the playoff. With a chance to
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“I can’t take anything positive from
win the playoff on the first hole, he pulled
charities benefit from
today. I have a lot of work to do when it
his 7-footer for birdie and kept the door
Fort Worth’s (and
comes to closing out golf tournaments.”
the county’s) most
open for Stricker and Marino. Then, on
charitable event.
As for Marino, he also had his
chances.
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He could have closed things out on the
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first extra hole but his long birdie putt just
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missed. When he hit a poor tee shot on
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the next hole, it was all but over.
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