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Senior champion Zabriski learned lessons well

Bruce Zabriski follows his tee shot while playing

Photo credit: David Pokress | Bruce Zabriski follows his tee shot while playing in the MGA Senior Open. (Aug. 28, 2012)

Mark Herrmann

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Even now, as a champion senior golfer at 55, Bruce Zabriski relies on the lessons he got from Bob Joyce when he was a 12-year-old in Southampton.

Zabriski recalled that other kids in town caddied at Shinnecock Hills and National Golf Links, but he worked at Southampton Golf Club so he could study with Joyce, then the head pro there. "We were never members of the club, but he would let us play...

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