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the Greens  Betting on Golf is a Natural Part of the Game, from
$1 Skins to $100 Nassaus Jeff Williams From the Print Edition:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, July/Aug 03  The Commissioner arises each
morning at 5:30, religiously. He goes to work out, religiously.
He goes to his golf club's pro shop at mid-morning to check The
Shootout's sign-in sheet, religiously. Around noon he gathers
all the names on the sign-in sheet and makes up the teams for
the afternoon round, religiously. Seven days a week -- 365 days
a year unless the weather intervenes. Every day, The Shootout is
off and running at Bay Hill. Religiously. There is something
about golf that drives a player, be it hacker or hero, to play
the game for something beyond the sheer joy (or frustration) of
whacking a ball around a park with holes in the ground. Hackers
and heroes love to have something at stake, be it a dollar, a
hundred, a thousand. If shepherds in fifteenth-century Scotland
invented t