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In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

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Tommy Bolt
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 31
Died: 2008
Died: August 30
Golfer
Thomas Henry Bolt
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Surgery
Control
Muscles
Games
Performing
Scalpel
Free
Bread
Scalpels
Eye
Driving
Swinging
Something
Putting
Muscle
Like
Using
Knife
Golf
Knives

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