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Sam Snead shot a record 59 (-11) at The Greenbrier Open
The Greenbrier's Old White golf course is one of the oldest in the country.In 1913, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the owners of the White Sulphur Springs resort, hired Charles Blair Macdonald to design the 18-hole course. Macdonald—who learne...
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