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Virginia’s finest amateur, Vinny Giles, is among a distinguished list of
players who’ve made an indelible impact on the game. Giles won
the 1972 U.S. Amateur Championship at Charlotte Country Club.
List of
Commonwealth
Greats Form
Impressive ‘Mount
Rushmore’ of
Virginia Golf
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Nope, this burning issue begins when
someone throws out a subject and the rest
of us fill in who we’d put on its Mount
Rushmore.
For example, I say: Hollywood leading
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Gable, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford.
Virginia golf’s Rushmore appears cut and
dry, except that it’s not, which is the beauty
of the whole exercise. That, and the fact that
there are no wrong answers.
Anyway, the chalk response: Sam Snead,
Vinny Giles, Curtis Strange and Lanny
Wadkins.
Snead, of Hot Springs, won 82 official
PGA Tour events and claimed seven
majors. Even when he failed, it was often
spectacularly—take his four runner-up
fin \