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RickMurphy, PGA director of instruction at the Carolina Golf Academy in Greensboro, N.C., gave a simultaneous golf lesson to some 5,500 fans attending the Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball game on May 15. Murphy and his staff also provided free 10-minute lessons before the game as part of PGA Free Lesson Month.
Though an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the "most people simultaneously taking a golf lesson" would not be certified, the world record is 632, set in China, on December 11, 2009.

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First Lynn Blake Certified Senior Instructors in the Carolinas

EATONTON, GEORGIA – March 31, 2010

Rick Murphy and Curt Sanders, both long-term members of the Carolinas PGA, have completed all requirements for Lynn Blake Certified Senior Instructor Training and have been awarded the first Senior Instructor status in The Carolinas. Mr. Murphy, founder of Carolina Golf Academy in Greensboro, NC, is the 2008 Carolinas PGA Professional of the Year and the 2001 and 2009 Teacher of the Year. Mr. Sanders, Assistant Golf Professional at Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, NC, is the 2008 Carolinas PGA Section Champion and 2009 Player of the Year.

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After years of toil and hard knocks Brian Gay has become a consistent contender on the PGA Tour—a tribute to his talent and to the no-quit spirit of his buoyant bride, Kimberly.

IT ALL seemed so effortless. There was Brian Gay two Sundays ago at the Verizon Heritage, basking in a runaway victory as he strolled down one of golf's most famous holes, the 18th at Harbour Town. On TV the announcers had run out of superlatives; on the final green Gay was engulfed by his beaming wife and adorable daughters. In one fell swoop he had scored a $1 million payday, lasting job security and an invitation to the Masters, to say nothing of the admiration of his peers and a nation of golf fans. It took only four days of stellar golf to produce this picture-perfect scene, but Gay's journey has been much longer, and more taxing, than appearances would indicate.  Everybody's All-American at Florida, Gay, 37, spent the better part of a decade and a half trying to find his place on the PGA Tour. It was a wearying journey that entailed grinding through B-list tournaments and sweating out travel expenses, but through it all Gay somehow held on to the belief that someday his time would come.  "There were low moments," he says. "Lots of them. But I never lost the desire to win. I never let myself believe I wouldn't."

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Listen to Lynn's interview on golfforegeorgia Radio, WCFO 1160 AM in Atlanta

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