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  1. 09-13-2006 10:51 AM #1
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    Gipper Finau

    Check this out, snipped from the globeandmail.com:

    YOUTH IS SERVED: The latest teenager to make a splash is Gipper Finau, a 16-year-old from Salt Lake City, who earned a spot in the Nationwide Tour event last week by shooting 63 in the Monday qualifier, then became the youngest player in that tour's history to make the cut with a 67 in the second round.
    He finished at even-par 288 to tie for 58th among the 61 players who made the cut, turning heads along the way. Finau averaged 339.3 yards off the tee — the highest average of any player this year in a Nationwide event — and led the field with 24 birdies.
    Finau, a junior at West High School, was the youngest player to make the cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event since 15-year-old Bob Panasik in the 1957 Canadian Open.
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  2. 09-13-2006 11:27 AM #2
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    If he finished at even par, but had 24 birdies he also had a tonne of bogey and double bogeys too. He'll have to learn to be more consistent than that for sure!
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  3. 09-13-2006 11:53 AM #3
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    With a name like 'Gipper', the US press is going to go gaga over him!
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  4. 09-13-2006 12:10 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Jack
    Finau averaged 339.3 yards off the tee — the highest average of any player this year in a Nationwide event
    That's just nuts.
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  5. 09-13-2006 01:21 PM #5
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    Yeah, but he's no Michelle Wie.
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  6. 09-13-2006 01:41 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by LobWedge
    Yeah, but he's no Michelle Wie.
    Exactly what I was waiting for! Thanks LobWedge!
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  7. 09-13-2006 02:22 PM #7
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    Look out for this kid I'd say. Michelle who? She won anything I would know?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinshark
    Michelle who? She won anything I would know?
    She won her class crokinole tournament in grade 3 playing on a sponsors exemption so it's not as if she's never had the sweet taste of victory.
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  9. 09-13-2006 03:30 PM #9
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    Maybe Michelle should win one because of the Gipper. Har!
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  10. 09-14-2006 11:27 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Jack
    Maybe Michelle should win one because of the Gipper. Har!
    Hey, Michelle is even par right now in the 84 Lumber Classic... ...this could be her week!!
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  11. 09-15-2006 06:57 PM #11
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    Is Gipper a man? Cause I only root for the men...even if they only shoot par, yet somehow get rocognized for having 24 birdies.
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