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Remember when Elrod Hendricks, Kelso and Arnold Palmer were in the news? - A spotlight look at the Mount Pleasant Golf Course in Baltimore City, opened in 1934 and featuring 18 holes playing to a par 71. The course played host to the Eastern Open on 10 occasions n the 1950s and early 1960s, with Arnold Palmer winning his third career professional tournament there in 1956.
- Senior golfers struggle through brutal conditions at Caves Valley. For Arnold Palmer in 2002, it was a walk on the course.
- Created with a goal of enhancing Baltimore's prestige and ability to attract businesses to the region, Caves Valley Golf Club has weathered waves of national corporate consolidations and relocations that thinned the pool of prospective members. Many of the companies whose leaders were instrumental in the Owings Mills club's 1991 opening have long since been acquired by others.
- We asked Baltimore Orioles fans who stayed up for the 18-inning win over Seattle to share their experiences of watching the marathon game. Here are a selection of responses:
- The Topps trading card company put the wrong man in its 2012 collection that includes Michael Phelps and Roger Federer.
- Tiger Woods probably won't say it -- at least not yet -- but he could say of Rory McIlroy, "He plays a game with which I was once familiar."
- Collectors' convention in Baltimore has something for everyone
- Eddie Murray, Weeb Ewbank and Tommy Bolt are part of The Sun remembers This Week in Sports July 22-28
- In the old days, Tiger Woods might have won the AT&T National with ease. In the old days, Woods might not have needed his closest competitor to bogey the last three holes at Congressional Country Club.
- "I would certainly say my short game has been something that has taken a hit," Woods said Tuesday at the Congressional Country Club, where he will play the role of host and favorite when the AT&T National begins Thursday.
- The reverberations from what Tiger Woods did Sunday on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio are still being felt throughout the golf world, but there¿s an even better comeback story coming to the Olympic Club in San Francisco next week. It's the story of Casey Martin.
- LSU and Alabama were Nos. 1 and 2 in Sunday's next-to-last release of the Bowl Championship Series standings, meaning we're one week away from the formal unveiling of a rematch.
- Cal Ripken Jr. asks Jerry Sandusky's charity not to use his name on its website or in its brochures. The former Orioles star had spoken at a dinner benefiting the Second Mile but had no other affiliation with the Pennsylvania group.
- Dr. McRae Whitaker Williams, a retired physician and former administrator at Union Memorial Hospital, died on Tuesday at home, in his sleep. Dr. Williams' family did not request an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
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