Because of heavy rain, golfers would have to finish the first round of the Arkansas Open on a temporary plastic green set up in the Burns Park Golf Course clubhouse.
Rock agreed to cover the event for the paper, and as he watched the first few golfers finish, noticed a box full of old, yellowed scorecards near his table. With a glance, Rock could see they had been filled out, obviously years earlier. He picked one up and was delighted to see it was signed by Cary Middlecoff, a golfer of worldwide significance in the 1960s. He looked more closely and saw one signed by Hubert Green, another by Mike Souchak, and then, almost unbelievably, Rock held in his hand a frayed, stained scorecard signed perhaps fifty years earlier by Jack Nicklaus.
It disappointed Rock that none of the golfers in the clubhouse seemed interested by it.
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