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UF coach J.C. Deacon plays his best tournament, wins Florida Open

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Playing golf? It depends.

Sometimes Deacon gets in a few rounds a week and other times barely touches a club. When he stepped to the first tee during last weekend’s 71st Florida Open, he had put the peg in the ground just twice in more than 14 days.

“I told my wife the night before I had no clue what is going to happen tomorrow,” he said.

Four days later, Deacon walked off the 54th hole a one-shot winner over Matt Borchert of Isleworth after carding a 15-under 203 total at Lecanto’s Black Diamond Resort.

“This was the best golf tournament of my life,” Deacon said.