Editor's note: This story originally ran in the Nov. 15-22, 2003, issue of Golfweek magazine.
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DORNOCH, Scotland –– There are times when the game of golf is little more than an aggravating, 4-plus-hour interruption of life, a proverbial good walk spoiled, if you will.