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It's playoff time

A blockbuster end to the PGA Tour season. A season-long points competition. A bonus worth five times the typical first-place check.

If that sounds like the FedEx Cup, turn back the calendar to the age of persimmon woods and sansabelt pants.

This was the Vantage Championship in 1986, and it was designed to give golf a compelling finish. That became the precursor to the Tour Championship, which soon became a tournament for the rich to get richer at the end of a very long year in golf.

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Like most investigators, Auburn Police Department detective Tom Burger is quite a curious man.

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