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Everyone needs to get together and say: Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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