John Carroll

October 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Ansley Golf Club is a quirky, but quality nine-hole golf course in Midtown Atlanta that has been around since 1912. The private club was founded by attorney-turned-real estate developer Edwin P. Ansley, who also created nearby Ansley Park neighborhood. A few years back, Sports Illustrated listed Ansley as one of the top 10 nine-hole golf courses in the country.

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December 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Gail Turner first became attracted to golf as a young girl when her late grandfather, Hugh Carlton Moore, was a golf club professional. Moore was the head pro at Radium Springs Country Club in Albany, where Turner grew up. "I nagged my grandfather into lessons. He showed me how to hold the club," said Turner, a legal receptionist at Spell Pless Davis Sauro in Atlanta.

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August 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

As the saying goes among golfers: A bad day on the golf course beats a good day in the office any day. That was the case last week for my foursome at the Association of Corporate Counsel golf outing at the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta. We had a bad day on the golf course. Now, bad day actually means poor scoring. Our team struggled to make birdies.

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March 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Two weeks ago it was snowing in Georgia, the dreary economy had me down and golf was the last thing on my mind. Then last week, temperatures soared into the 70s, the stock market rallied and the golf bug hit me like a government bailout. Needing to feed my golf deficiency, I visited a nearby driving range and pounded a bucket of balls.

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April 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

When The Masters begins Thursday in Augusta, it will be the first of six professional golf tournaments to be contested in Georgia in 2008. The PGA Tour will return to the state twice for the ATT Classic in May and the Tour Championship in September. The Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour also make stops here. But the biggest of all is The Masters from April 10 to 13.

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September 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Americus is a place in Southwest Georgia where cotton is still king, men hunt quail and Rambo plays golf.That would be local attorney William W. Rambo, not the tormented Sylvester Stallone character John Rambo. The movie Rambo hunts and kills enemies in thick woods. The outdoorsman Rambo hunts and kills quail in farm fields.

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January 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Personal injury attorney Jay Sadd is used to getting chuckles when he tells people that the name of his law firm is Slappey Sadd. "It's just a funny name. The typical reaction from people starts with a snicker," said Sadd, 46. "We catch a little flak about it. We often like to say our silent partners are Sleepy, Grumpy and Dopey.

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June 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Columbus attorney Marcus B. Calhoun Jr. has played golf for 58 years, but he's never hit a shot like the one he stroked on the Saturday before Memorial Day. Calhoun, 66, was playing golf with his regular group at Green Island Country Club in Columbus. On the 14th hole, a downhill par-5 measuring 471 yards, the lawyer bombed a drive leaving him 190 yards to the green.

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November 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Some 300 adult and youth golfers gathered at Callaway Gardens last week for the seventh annual Golf Channel Invitational for The First Tee. Corporate guests, junior players and golf club professionals enjoyed two days of golf and festivities at the Pine Mountain resort in southwest Georgia. The golf event raises awareness and money for The First Tee, a nonprofit organization that promotes junior golf.

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December 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

I attended my cousin's wedding in Atlanta last month. It was a beautiful ceremony at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The reception was held at a magnificent private home in Buckhead. Guests were entertained by the energetic party band Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. There was a whole lot of dancing and partying going on.

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