Andrew Magee
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"Andrew Donald Magee" is an American professional golfer who played for more than 20 years on the PGA Tour.

Magee was born in Paris, France, where his father, a Texas oil man, was working at the time. He grew up in Dallas, Texas/Dallas, Texas. Magee attended the University of Oklahoma from 1981–1984. While there he was a distinguished member of the golf team, winning All-American honors three times. He turned pro in 1984 and joined the PGA Tour in 1985.

Magee won four PGA Tour events. His first win came in 1988 at the Pensacola Open. In 1991, he won two Tour events and was awarded Golf Digest"s Most Improved Golfer Award. His most recent win was at the 1994 Northern Telecom Open. His best finish in a Men's major golf championships/major was T5 at the 1992 The Open Championship/British Open. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

Magee is the only person in PGA Tour history to hit a hole-in-one on a par 4 hole during a PGA Tour event. He did this with a driver at the 332-yard 17th hole of the 2001 Phoenix Open. The ball caromed off Tom Byrum's putter on its way to the bottom of the cup. Byrum, in the group ahead, was squatting down looking over a putt.

In 1999 Magee won the Southern Company Citizenship Award (which now sponsors the Payne Stewart Award) for his work with charities.

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I thought I might have to be a car-pool guy or a TV announcer or something last year.

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Then I remembered I was back on tour, and it was time to screw up. The old habits just don't seem to go away after the surgery. I was hoping all the old negativity might go away, but it's still there.

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Most of the time, you hear about friends who go through a situation like that and they have a couple years left to live. This is a happy story.

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It's just got long holes, short holes, views, trees, dogleg rights, dogleg lefts, it's got a real versatile mix of holes. It's just a beautiful place.

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It's all so scary, because you think about your kids. You don't think about all the things you didn't do yet. I'm very lucky. They caught it very early.

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I'm very fortunate that we caught this early and very thankful for the tremendous care I've gotten.

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This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round.

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You have to really drive your ball straight here. Nobody who hits it off the fairway is going to play well this week. You have to hit it straight, you have to hit it below the hole. The greens are fast and it's just a classic golf course. It's a very fair course, but it's just tough.

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