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Top 10 Toughest Golf Courses

While the game of golf may evoke snobby clubs full of badly dressed men, the sport has plenty of courses on which the average player can test his or her skills. Many consider Bethpage State Park's Black Course — where the 2009 U.S. Open will be played June 18-21 — to be the sternest such examination. TIME takes a look at what makes the Long Island course, as well as nine others, so difficult to master.

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