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As for snowboarding waiter Leslie, he has tried other golf variations before, but Northstar's U.X. Open marks the first time he has scaled a mountain to try to shoot birdies. "It reminds you that when all's said and done, it is just a game," he says. "Regular golf can get pretty stressful." But the result of the U.X. Open indicates that not everything about golf changes when you change the format. The winner of the tournament, at 6 under par, was Thomas Clarke, 41, a chiropractor who was very serious about the competition.

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