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Tulsan had impact in "other" golf tournament
Published: 8/31/2009 8:39 AM
Last Modified: 8/31/2009 8:39 AM

Tulsa became a centerpiece on the world golf stage last week during the seven-day U.S. Amateur.
The story that was lost amid the U.S. Amateur is that a Tulsan -- Rusty Bayliss -- had a significant impact on the PGA Tour last week.
The most recent PGA Tour stop, the Barclays, was staged at Liberty National, a golf course which sits about 1,000 yards from the Statue of Liberty. Off-topic question: How many shots would it take Tiger Woods to reach Lady Liberty?
The men whose vision turned the golf course site from an environmental wasteland to pristine golf course are Bayliss and Tom Kite.
The Newark Star-Ledger churned out a heck of an article on Aug. 23 about how Bayliss helped convert the once-toxic property into a course that launched the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Bayliss told the newspaper he had a vision of turning the course into "Pebble Beach East." Coolest part of the story: When the course was still a piece of junk land, Bayliss took out a golf ball and let his then-5-year-old son hit the first shot on what would years later become Liberty National.
Heath Slocum may have been the last man standing at the Barclays. But Bayliss and his son were the first.




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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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