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Local pros: USGA made Bethpage Black too easy
By closing time, the Open did seem like a pretty good show. The unusual, interesting finish Monday was a solid sendoff to the most celebrated big event in the mud since Woodstock. What remains an Open sore, though, for some local golfers is that the U.S. Golf Association never did let the Black Course show its true colors.
"They made it," local pro P.J. Cowan said, "look like Bethpage Pink."...
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