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Lee Trevino's lighting strike happened during the Western Open at Butler National in Oakbrook, IL in (I've now confirmed) 1975. He was taken to the hospital one town over in Hinsdale, where I was busy growing up and playing little league baseball at ten years old. I'd been to the Hinsdale Sanitarium--"the San" as it was known--I think the week before for what turned out to be an ankle sprain and remember feeling sort of almost touched by greatness when I learned of Trevino's hospital visit there. Other similar phenomena for me at the time included the fact that Bill Veeck was a Hinsdale resident, and that Morris the Cat was adopted from the Hinsdale Humane Society.

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I'm glad AGNC owns the broadcast rights to their tournament. I can watch coverage for free on their masters.com website or through the app. I like that I don't have to pay for an app I would only use once a year (like Paramount or Peacock)

The website coverage commercials are clearly oriented to geezers like Steve and I; they have '70's rock bands for the commercials' background music, lol (Three Dog Night, Supertramp, Buffalo Springfield)

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