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Furyk, Mickelson Visit Fort Worth Family

Here's an interesting story from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- http://www.star-telegram.com/610/story/655816.html -- it's about a Fort Worth family made up of huge golf fans. How huge? They like to hang giant signs off their house welcoming golfers to the Colonial, or proclaiming their "love" of their favorites.

A couple years ago the young boys in the family had a lemonade stand. And Phil Mickelson stopped one day and bought a 50-cent lemonade with a $100 bill. That's a $99.50 tip! I'm setting up shop down the block and I'm going to undersell those little whippersnappers right out of business!

The family had a "We love Furyk" signing last year, and Jim Furyk saw it every day driving to the tournament. So on Monday of this tournament week, he stopped and knocked on the door and visited with the family for a while. No word on whether he outttipped Phil on the lemonade ...

 

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what Mickelson is doing with the money he’s making on the commercials.

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