Reginald Clark This is Me

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1. 1. roanoke.com - New River Sports - On the green, Reginald Clark is truly a man to be envied

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   Published on: 10/14/2005   Last Visited: 10/15/2005

   On the green, Reginald Clark is truly a man to be envied roanoke.com - New River Sports - On the green, Reginald Clark is truly a man to be envied
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   On the green, Reginald Clark is truly a man to be envied
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   Counting envy as one of the seven deadly sins, then there must be many a sinner who knows Reginald Clark.
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   Really, one of the few things that Clark has to worry about is the impending onset of Daylight Savings Time. Why? That's going to severely impact the chances of his playing his usual 36 holes four days a week. After all, it's tough driving from Auburn Hills Golf Club in Riner, where he plays the first 18 every morning, to Great Oaks Country Club in Floyd, where he plays the four-days-a-week second round -- and get it all in before dark.
   
   What the heck, though.
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   Clark doesn't just go out there and whack it idly around, either.
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   To Clark, it constitutes a slump.
   
   "I was playing better three years ago," he said. "I was shooting some low scores then."
   
   Knowing that he was shooting his age when he was in his 60s probably serves as little comfort to the guys in his regular group at Auburn Hills who he took a little bit of money off the other day. The 72 he shot held up just fine.
   
   This gentleman knows how to have fun on the links, to be sure. He works at it.
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   One part of the game that doesn't seem to amaze Clark at all is high level competition. About a month ago, he won the Virginia State Golf Association Super Senior (age 70 and older) championship at the Homestead Cascades Course in Hot Springs. He's come close before, but that's the first time he'd won a statewide tournament. The top seed, Clark required two extra holes to best Don Lashinger of Williamsburg.
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   "He's the best player in the family," Clark said.
   
   Among the "hundreds" of others Clark helped learn to play over the years is his wife Mary. She still plays, occasionally with him, which can get tense sometimes.
   
   "I've stopped giving her advice," he said.