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7 Exceptional Holes that Bring the Ocean into Play

by SHAUN TOLSON

In his fictional work The Old Man and the Sea, author Ernest Hemingway described the ocean as “something that gave or withheld great favors.” He also opined that the sea could do “wild or wicked things,” but that such things could not be avoided. While the novella chronicled the heroic and sometimes futile attempts of marlin fishing, those same ocean descriptions can also apply to golf.

Caddie of the Golf Club at The Abaco Club

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