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They Wrote It
Edited by Richard O'Brien
April 26, 1993
?Ian Woolridge, of London's Daily Mail, on U.S. golf announcers after seeing CBS's Masters coverage: "Bereft of an original turn of phrase, dispensing clich�s like election mailshots, declaiming non sequiturs of prodigious lunacy in the tones of Charlton Heston, polishing one another's egos and generally investing golf with an importance above all other goings-on in this violent world, they seem devoid of all original thought and are particularly frantic when it becomes apparent that, for the fifth time in six years, a non-American is about to win the Masters."
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April 26, 1993

They Wrote It

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?Ian Woolridge, of London's Daily Mail, on U.S. golf announcers after seeing CBS's Masters coverage: "Bereft of an original turn of phrase, dispensing clich�s like election mailshots, declaiming non sequiturs of prodigious lunacy in the tones of Charlton Heston, polishing one another's egos and generally investing golf with an importance above all other goings-on in this violent world, they seem devoid of all original thought and are particularly frantic when it becomes apparent that, for the fifth time in six years, a non-American is about to win the Masters."

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