By John Huggan
In the absence of many star names plying their trade primarily on the PGA Tour Champions in the United States, what was the European Senior Tour, then the Staysure Tour, has always struggled for attention. Nostalgia was its biggest selling point, the circuit reliant on pro-am income to survive.

Although specifics in terms of scheduling and the number of future events are still to be determined, things are going to be different in 2021. For one thing, the Staysure name will be replaced by the rather grand Legends Tour. And for another, Staysure Group CEO Ryan Howsam has assumed a majority equity share in what is, in golf, a unique ownership structure. Working alongside the head of the Legends Tour, Mark Aspland, Howsam, who founded the travel insurance company in 2004, will oversee the tour’s commercial strategy.

In that regard, the so-far lack of many recognisable names to build events around has been acknowledged and rectified. Going forward, former Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke, Mark James, Tom Lehman, Paul McGinley, Colin Montgomerie and Ian Woosnam, along with 2005 U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell and 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie, will act as the tour’s “official ambassadors.” They will, according to the press release announcing the changes to the 50-and-older circuit, “play a key role in outlining the tour’s vision in the months to come.”

“Our major champions, our past Ryder Cup players and captains and our European Tour winners have considerable pulling power,” Aspland said. “The accessibility to them offered by our new structure will form the basis of our growth plan moving forward.”

Indeed, perhaps the biggest difference will be in what Howsam calls the “alliance format” of the as-of-now undetermined number of 2021 events, in which amateurs will get the chance to play alongside the pros in tournament conditions. An additional focus on the amateur experience, will include a selection of celebrity pro-ams aimed at bringing together the “legends of golf” with others from sports, music and entertainment.

“I see the re-launch of this tour as something which could change the landscape of over-50s golf forever,” said James, a seven-time Ryder Cup player. “The alliance format brings a different dimension to competitive golf and will give the players the opportunity to meet a plethora of people and form new relationships, while amateurs will continue to hear the many stories from our lives on tour.”

Entry to that sociable atmosphere will come at a premium price. Membership into the “Legends Club” will cost £60,000, a source told Golf Digest. There will also be a dedicated Order of Merit where the amateurs will compete for a place in the end-of-season Tour Final by playing in three-day alliance events at some of the “best golf courses in the world.”

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By Alex Myers
As a member of the PGA Tour Champions for more than a decade, Tom Lehman has frequently contended for the season-long Charles Schwab Cup, winning it back-to-back in 2011 and 2012. But at least for one day, Lehman finds himself in the mix to win the Charles Schwab Challenge on the PGA Tour.

The 61-year-old shot a first-round 65 at Colonial Country Club on Thursday to place himself among the early leaders. It was Lehman’s lowest score on the PGA Tour since the opening round of the 2011 Waste Management Phoenix Open.

To put Lehman’s age in perspective, Bryson DeChambeau, one of the players Lehman was tied with in the morning wave, was still a junior in high school when Lehman last shot this low on the regular tour. Not that the five-time PGA Tour champ and 12-time PGA Tour Champions winner seemed too surprised.

“I’ve been aiming for this week for a while,” Lehman told reporters. “I live in Arizona, and we’ve been able to play golf all the way through this COVID-19 thing, so I’ve been playing a lot, practicing a lot. My game feels pretty good. I love the golf course. It benefits people who put the ball in the fairway, no doubt. Today I hit it straight and made a few putts.”

With the senior circuit not resuming until July 31 with the Ally Challenge, Lehman was happy for a spot in this week’s field by virtue of being a former champ.

“I think the biggest thing is knowing that I’m not taking a spot from some young guy out here on this tour,” said Lehman, who won this event a quarter century ago. “So the ability to come and play without causing somebody else to not play actually was part of what determined whether I would play or not. Because I’m a past champion, and the same at Memorial, where I can play without causing somebody else to not be able to play, I’m looking forward to playing in both of them.”

Even par through five holes, Lehman recorded five birdies against no bogeys the rest of the day.

“I kind of felt like if I could just finish out two under, three under, I would have been really happy with that,” Lehman said. “To get a couple more is definitely frosting on the cake.”

Get a few more tomorrow, Tom, and you might just shoot your age.

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By Ryan Herrington
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — There is an expiration date on a past champion’s exemption into the Open Championship—it applies only to former winners 60 and younger—which is why Tom Lehman was so emotional as he walked up the 18th hole at Royal Portrush on Friday. The 1996 champion golfer of the year at Royal Lytham turned 60 in March, which means this was, likely, his last appearance.

Lehman’s second round was a struggle, as he shot a five-over 76 after a 78 on Thursday. But that didn’t stop him from receiving heartfelt applause all around the course, the loudest coming on the home hole.

“It was more emotional than I thought it would be,” Lehman said. “It was more—I did everything in my power not to start bawling walking down the 18th fairway. I didn’t totally succeed, but I mostly succeeded.”

What made the moment even more special for Lehman was that he got to share the walk with his son, Thomas, who was caddying for him this week. As they approached the green to the standing ovation, walking with arms around each other, Lehman leaned in to speak to him son.

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— The Open (@TheOpen) July 19, 2019

“I just said to him how much I loved him. ‘There was nobody in the world I’d rather be walking down the fairway with right here than you. It means a lot to me you’re here by my side. This may be my last one, but maybe the next time I’ll be caddieing for you.’ ”

Lehman’s record in the Open has been mixed; beyond his win, he had just one other top 10 in 24 starts (T-4 at St. Andrews in 2000). But his memories of the event are something he says he’ll cherish.

His favorite? During his victory at Lytham, Lehman was assigned a security guard for the week (he was ranked No. 2 in the world at the time). “Everywhere I went the whole week, whether it be to the driving range or the media center, down the fairways, to the parking lot afterwards, he was there, he walked us, and he was the guy for us,” Lehman said.

As Lehman made his way that year on the final hole, the guard helped him dodge the charging crowd racing for a spot surrounding the green. “There was 40 people deep who we had to kind of fight through,” Lehman said. “He kind of got in front of me, and he held me with one arm behind his back, and he just started kind of sweeping people out of the way, fighting through the crowd, and pulling me behind him. We got through, and there’s the 18th green, and there’s the golf ball sitting there.

“He puts his arm around me and he says, ‘Aye, Tom, we’ve been through a lot of s*** together, but now you’re on your own.’ ”

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By Alex Myers
Brooks Koepka’s four-shot win at the CJ Cup propelled him to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time. It also created a different kind of first in OWGR history.

Koepka kept alive a musical chairs situation in the top spot the likes that has never been seen before. For the first time since the ranking’s inception in 1986, the current top four (Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose and Justin Thomas) is comprised of players who all made it to No. 1 in the same year.

“It’s amazing to go World No. 1 on a win,” Koepka said after pulling away from the field in South Korea. “I think is something I’ve always wanted to do. I always wanted to earn my way to No. 1 in the world, and I felt like if I played and won, that would be exactly how I could draw it up. To do that this week has been special.”

It’s also just the second time that four different players ascended to No. 1 in the same year. The only other instance occurred in 1997 when Greg Norman, Tom Lehman, Tiger Woods, and Ernie Els all spent time in the top spot.

Overall, Koepka, 28, is the 23rd player to be No. 1 in the OWGR and the 11th in the past eight years.

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By John Strege
The Ally Challenge is a new PGA Tour Champions event on an old familiar course for many players in the field, none of whom played it as well as a Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club rookie.

Englishman Paul Broadhurst, 53, won the inaugural Ally Challenge on Sunday, shooting a six-under par 66 on the Grand Blanc, Mich., course to win by two over Brandt Jobe and three over Warwick Hills veterans Mark O’Meara and Tom Lehman.

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Warwick Hills was the site of the PGA Tour’s Buick Open beginning in 1958 and concluding in 2009, when Tiger Woods won the tournament for the third time.

“To go back to places you know so well and enjoy so much is a great thing,” Lehman said earlier in the week.

But it was the player who had never played there before who prevailed. Broadhurst, who never joined the PGA Tour, played 54-holes in 15-under par 201 to record his third victory of the year and fifth of his senior tour career.

“Pretty special,” Broadhurst said. “I was seriously not about to play this week. I was back home last week and pulled a muscle in my back. The physio’s done a great job out here this week to get me fit. Obviously pleased to be here and win once again in Michigan.”

Broadhurst, who won the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich., in May, made seven birdies, but the key to his round largely were par saves on the back nine.

“To come here and play as well as I did, although at times it was really scrappy, my game wasn’t totally in the groove,” he said. “It was in spells. The back nine was a little bit scrappy. Hit some poor tee shots and the rhythm was getting quicker and quicker.”

His most impressive birdie came at the par-5 13th hole. When his drive wound up in an old divot, he was not able to reach the green in two, so he laid up. He left his third shot 30 feet short of the hole, then made the birdie putt.

It was a dagger for O’Meara, who had trailed by one and reasonably could have expected to pull into a tie for the lead. But after reaching the green in two, O’Meara three-putted and made par to lose a shot rather than gaining one.

Still, it was a surprisingly strong performance for O’Meara, who is now 61 and generally no longer a factor. O’Meara’s tie for third was his best finish since 2015.

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Twenty-three years have passed since he took down one of golf’s bona fide heavyweights, Greg Norman, on two of golf’s greatest stages, the U.S. Open and Shinnecock Hills.

He delivered a knockout punch with a 4-wood from the fairway at the 450-yard par-4 18th hole, 209 yards to the front, 228 to the hole, a clutch shot that still resonates today, on the eve of another U.S. Open at Shinnecock.

“I was one up with that shot to go,” he said recently. “Greg Norman and Tom Lehman were two holes behind me. In my mind if I make par there I would very likely win. With having that in my head I had to throw that out and concentrate on the shot.”

He asked caddie Eric Schwarz whether he could get a 2-iron there. No, you can’t, Schwarz replied. They agreed, “100 percent,” that 4-wood was the correct club, Pavin said.

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“The wind was blowing 15, 20 miles an hour right to left. I could see the top of the flag. That was it. I decided to aim at the right edge of green and hit a little draw, the normal routing. The second I hit it I knew it was good.”

It was better than good. It was perfect, the ball stopping five feet from the hole. It clinched a U.S. Open victory, the capstone to a career worthy of Hall of Fame consideration—15 wins on the PGA Tour, one on the European Tour win, two on the Japan Golf Tour and a Ryder Cup captaincy.

Pavin, now 58, represented where the game was in 1995 with that 4-wood, a club now virtually obsolete in professional golf, and how he played the 18th hole at Shinnecock. From the tee, he worked the ball left to right into the wind with his driver to better his odds of hitting the fairway, then hit the 4-wood second shot right to left with a helping wind into the green.

Pavin was a legendary shotmaker who eschewed a linear path to the target. “It was hard for me to get up and hit a hard straight shot,” he said. “To me it’s kind of boring.”

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As for where the game is now, the uphill 18th hole at Shinnecock Hills has been stretched by 35 yards, its scorecard length for the Open 485 yards. What club might players be hitting into the green at this U.S. Open?

“If conditions are favorable, if it’s not playing into the wind, a guy like Dustin Johnson might be hitting driver and wedge,” Pavin said. “Maybe some guys would hit 3-wood and 8-iron.”

Clearly the game has changed, or, for those who prefer euphemisms, it has evolved. The equipment, among other factors, has increased the emphasis on power and diminished the value of shaping shots, given the inability of the ball to spin to the same degree it once did.

Pavin, a PGA Tour Champions regular, does not necessarily lament the changes, notwithstanding the fact his skill set has been devalued as a result. He’ll never be long, and those who are long are less concerned with hitting it crooked as they once might have been.

“Guys are hitting it a lot farther. The balls go farther, the clubs go farther, players are stronger,” Pavin said. “It’s a combination of a lot of things. The ball doesn’t curve as much. It doesn’t spin as much, so it’s harder to curve. It’s just the way game’s gone. If it’s good or bad, I can’t answer that.

“Personally I’d like to see the ball come back and not go as far. Obviously that would help me, but not for that reason. So much has to be done to golf courses now to lengthen them and change them. Courses are becoming obsolete.”

If he was, say, 32 today, would he be as competitive as he once was? “Zach Johnson is a great example,” Pavin replied. “He’s a guy who moves the ball, is not a long hitter and figures out a way to get it done.

“If I was 32 [now], I’d play a different style of golf. I would have been brought up differently. But if I played now the way I did, how would I do? The question is not answerable. You wouldn’t be using the same equipment. I would like to believe I would find a way to be competitive, that I’d figure out a way to get the ball in the hole as quickly as possible.”

Pavin’s offense is not directed at the equipment or the players, but at the USGA for having become more accommodating of how the game is played today.

“I’m a little miffed at the USGA lately with how it’s setting up courses,” he said. “I applaud them on the one hand, trying to do different things. But to me, U.S. Open golf courses have fairways 25 to 32 yards wide and long rough right off the fairway. It puts a premium in putting the tee shot in the fairway, leaving you clean iron shots into the green. That’s the U.S. Open to me.

“I’ve heard people who’ve said the fairways at Shinnecock are 40-yards-plus wide. I find that sad. It’s nice when a golf course is set up the same way over a long period of time, that it’s a constant. It’s nice to compare different eras.

“I think the great thing about the U.S. Open in general is that it tests all phases of your game. That’s what I love about the U.S. Open. You have to hit it straight and it tests your iron play, your short game. You have to manage your game and there are a lot of things that go into it.”

Meanwhile, there is a historic 4-wood in a display case in Pavin’s home, and one could argue that a more appropriate place for it is the World Golf Hall of Fame. But this is an argument for another day.

What is undeniable is that a wedge used to help finish off an Open victory (short of holing out for eagle), rather than taking its place in history, will remain in play until its grooves wear out.

Yes, the game has changed.

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By John Strege
Bernhard Langer surely isn’t ageless, but neither does he appear to be ageing. Even as the years mount, so do the victories.

Langer, 61, won the Insperity Invitational for the fourth time on Sunday, a record fourth PGA Tour Champions victory after turning 60. It ran his streak of years with at least one senior win to 12, setting another record.

“He’s a freak, we all know that an aberration,” Langer’s friend Tom Lehman said. “There is that statistic that, once you get past age 56 or 57, whatever it is, the percentage of winning is quite low. I kind of see that. You play a lot of really good golf but you’re just a hair short. Maybe when you’re a little bit younger there’s that little extra edge you may have more with the focus and maybe with a little bit added length makes a difference.”

Yet Langer rolls on, unimpeded by the obstacle of time. Though it was only his first victory following a year with seven wins, he might be on the cusp of another stretch of dominant golf. Since tying for 38th at the Masters, Langer has tied for second twice (losing in a playoff each time) and posted his 37th senior win.

It will go down as a wire-to-wire victory based on his leading by three after a first-round 63 and by one after a second-round 72. Yet it was anything but routine on the Woodlands Country Club in Woodlands, Texas, on Sunday, even as he shot a two-under-par 70.

Langer bogeyed the seventh and eighth holes and found himself trailing Paul Goydos by four shots. But he holed a long birdie putt at nine to reverse course, eventually took the lead when Goydos bogeyed the 18th hole, then had to make a difficult par save to avoid a playoff with Goydos, Jeff Maggert and Bart Bryant.

At the par-4 18th with water fronting the green, Langer pushed his tee shot so far right of the fairway it was behind GolfChannel’s 18th hole booth. He opted to take relief right of the booth, then hit his second over the water and into the rough right of the green.

He hit an excellent pitch shot that rolled three feet past the hole, then made the par putt to win by one.

“It wasn’t just 18,” he said of his final-round issues. “It was really all day. Got off to a good start and then dropped a bunch. Then came all the way back from seven under to 11 under and got myself back in the lead.

“Then hit a bad tee shot at 18. Just came out of it. The tee box was a little uneven. I wasn’t happy with that. Anyway, bad shot. I got a good drop. I hit a reasonable [second] shot, then a great pitch shot and a good putt.

“I didn’t want to do three playoffs in a row,” he said. “I’m very very fortunate in the end to pull this off. I’ve got a lot more grey hair right now.”

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By Joel Beall
Following a stint as a commentator at the Winter Olympics, David Feherty will be back inside the ropes this week as golf gears up for the Masters. Feherty’s eponymous show is also returning to the Golf Channel on March 5, ditching its historical one-on-one format in favor of a panel discussion. These roundtable discussions will feature Rickie Fowler and Jack Nicklaus (March 5), Tom Lehman and Justin Leonard (March 12), and Ray Allen and Jon Lester (March 19). On tour to promote the show, we talked to Feherty about rowdy fan behavior, Rory McIlroy’s struggles and why Tiger Woods will win again.

Golf Digest: You just finished up coverage for the Winter Games. With two Olympics under you belt, what’s surprised you about working this event?

David Feherty: Well the Winter Games were a lot colder! I fell down a lot more; I think I only fell once during the Summer Games. I can’t tell you how many times I slipped and fell on my ass. I invited a new skating jump: the Triple Klutz. That’s when you fall down once and fall down twice more trying to get up.     

It was a great experience both times, but the Winter Games would be my favorite. I enjoy the sports more and getting to see them live and up close for the first time was incredible.

You’ve made numerous endeavours outside the scope of golf, such as standup, writing and charity work. Obviously your show and work with NBC takes a sizable amount of your time, but, similar to your Olympic experience, are there any other ventures outside of golf that you eventually want to try?

Good question. Not off the top of my head…No. I think I’ve gotten to the point where if I start doing something else I’m going to have stop doing something. Ideas these days, if I get one, I have to sort of throw it out.

Tiger Woods just had his most promising showing of his latest return at the Honda. I think most in golf considered a clean bill of health for the Masters as the standard of success in his comeback, but following his performance at PGA National, is it time, or even fair, to expand those expectations a bit?

I think so. Just from first look, he’s carrying himself differently, he’s walking differently, his body language is markedly different from the way it has been.

And it gives me the sense that something’s stirring in there. It might be an awakening. If he can stay healthy, I think he’ll win again. The only mistakes I’ve ever made about Tiger is when I’ve underestimated him. He has such a strength of will. The thing people don’t bring up very often is how much he adores the game. He loves, loves to play golf. And you have to love to play golf to go through what he’s gone through the past couple years, because Lord knows he doesn’t need to.

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Fan behaviour has become a recurring topic as of late; just this weekend Justin Thomas tossed someone from the gallery. There’s a certain degree of latitude when this concerns Phoenix, but the rowdiness seems to be spreading, and as we saw at Hazeltine a few falls back, it can be a blemish on the game. You’re inside the ropes with these guys; are these merely isolated cases, or is there a genuine cause for concern?

Well, I’ll tell you, it’s something Tiger has put up with for many years. The distractions he’s had to put up with are amazing compared to what everyone else has had to deal with.

I saw what happened (with Thomas). What seems to have happened with this guy is that he didn’t make just one comment, he had made a few appearances on the ropes. If you get someone stalking a player and making negative comments, it’s time to go. It’s not part of our game.

And I get the Phoenix thing, I do. I wouldn’t want to see Phoenix every week, but I’d like to see a little of Phoenix every week. A little more of that. But you got to be respectful of the players just before and when they hit, it’s the nature of our game. Now, after they hit, that’s an entirely different thing. If someone makes a comment then, well, shut up.

Are you worried we are going to see crowd issues at the Ryder Cup in France?

We were just talking about that. If people think Minnesotans are rude, wait til we get to Paris! It will be very partisan, and I imagine fairly raucous there. I’m familiar with the venue because we used to play the French Open there…I expect it will be a hell of an event when it comes to that.

But in golf, the fans police themselves to a certain extent, just like how players police themselves. If you get someone who is completely out of order, he’s liable to get the shit kicked out of him. I don’t think it will be a problem.

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Speaking of Thomas, the last three seasons or so have seen the top ranks dominated by youth. This doesn’t appear to be an aberration, with players continuing to make an impact in their early-20s. Why are these guys so formidable at a young age now?

The reason they’re so formidable is just coming back himself. Tiger Woods is solely responsible because the way he played around the turn of the century and these kids were seven, eight, nine years old. You know they had a golf club in their hand watching their fathers’ watch Tiger Woods. He raised the bar to a point where, well, people like me could get underneath it.

You know, it was something to aim for these kids, something to strive for. And in the meantime, it’s not possible…they’re not going to play like he did. Nobody is. My children won’t see that golf, their children might not see that golf. Hell, he won a U.S. Open by 15 shots. The last person to win a major championship like that was Old Tom Morris at the Open in 1862, back when he was playing with a badger’s testicles stuffed with seagull feathers.

It seems like every few weeks we’re watching a fledgling talent enjoy a breakthrough. Is there anyone you have in mind who seems ripe for the next star turn?

You know, for the life of me, I don’t really understand what’s happened with Rory. I think he’s going to be a player that has streaks, he’s not going to be that consistent. I think he still has a lot left in him though, and there’s a lot left to see there.

But there are just so many good young players now. The strength and depth out there is amazing. There are players on the Web.com Tour who could easily win on the PGA Tour, and honestly, probably win a major…

…You saw that with Sam Burns at the Honda, going toe-to-toe with Tiger Woods…

Yes! Exactly right. That’s the kind of youngster that has the type of attitude to get it done.

And what amazes me is nobody chokes anymore. What the hell happened to that? I remember choking very vividly. It’s like these kids forgot how to do it, or maybe they never learned. But they’re so steady now.

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You’re changing the format of your show from one-on-one interviews to a roundtable discussion. You’ve enjoyed success with its previous configuration; what spurred this change?

Well, it wasn’t broken so we decided to fix it…I’m not sure what spurred it. It was a lot of lying around on a sofa, so we decided to get a sofa and put people on it. And the hope that we would get crosstalk as well. If I’m listening to someone like Ray Allen ask Jon Lester a question, I think that’s just as relevant as one I might ask, and probably more interesting.

It is something of an experiment, but from the shows I’ve done so far, I think it works. There have been a couple of shows, I’m thinking of one we did with Billy Horschel, Kevin Kisner and Pat Perez that was just hysterical. And we’re hoping we get a lot more of that.

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It’s been quite the opposite so far this week at the Senior British Open, taking place at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales. The elements have been the story in the first two rounds, with winds reaching well over 25 mph and rain pouring. It’s been so brutal that 13 over will make the cut, and two players posted rounds of 94 and 96 on Friday.

Despite the weather, an illness and questions about his putting stroke, Bernhard Langer finds himself in a position he’s often in at the top of the leader board. The two-time Masters champion holds a share of the lead at one-over 143 after posting a three-over 74 on Friday. He’s looking for his second Senior British Open victory, the last coming in 2014 at Royal Porthcawl by 13 strokes.

Tom Lehman, who carded a one-over 72, is also at one over for the championship. The 1996 British Open winner has made the cut in all seven of his Senior Open Championship appearances, but has finished no higher than T-10. A victory this week in Wales would give him his fourth senior major championship.

Steve Flesch, Billy Mayfair and Mauricio Molina are also at one over through 36 holes.

Four shots back at five-over 147 is Colin Montgomerie, who shot a five-over 76 in his second round. While the Scotsmen has won three senior major championships, he’s yet to win a Senior British Open.

Tom Watson is six back at seven-over 150.

Those looking for more carnage will certainly get it over the final two days. More rain and high winds are on the way on this weekend at Royal Porthcawl.

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