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Fri 09 Sep 2006Former and current tour players play pundit game
Colin Byrne Caddie's ViewThere may well be only 24 official players at The K-Club for the Ryder Cup but judging by the number of other professional golfers who I have seen either out of uniform or wearing a very different one, an entire tournament field could quite easily be made up.
At one stage yesterday I was surrounded by a gaggle of former European Tour players, John McHenry, now director of golf at The K-Club, Silvio Grappasoni, who was commentating for Italian television, and Jay Townsend, who does a lot of golf radio work worldwide. They all played the tour in the 1990s.
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