Elsewhere in the world of sports, the Senior PGA Championship is being played this weekend in Michigan.

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Dennis Watson's winning score at the 2007 Senior PGA Championship was nine-under par.

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Haas, who won the Senior PGA Championship two weeks ago, first played Winged Foot in the 1974 US Open as an amateur.

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Last week's Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich.

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And now that the Senior PGA Championship is over, you can also tee it up at public Harbor Shores and play all the great holes you got to see on TV.

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Over the long 2011 Memorial Day weekend, for tips and a few bucks an hour, I signed up to be a mobile cart concessions operator at the 72nd Senior PGA Championship.

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Fortunately, golf fans can look forward to a much more star-filled slate of players next week, when the Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid takes to the fairways of Harbor Shores, Michigan.

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Back in May I wrote about how an impressive new course in Michigan, the Jack Nicklaus designed Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, was hosting its first Major, the Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid.

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