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The Sacred Acre

Dan Davies

Shrinking the game via a very short, very difficult backyard golf course. Home of the RNGC Invitational.

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    Dan Davies is an award-winning author, journalist and host of the This Golfing Life podcast. In The Sacred Acre he writes about golf, friendship, and his mission to shrink the game via the backyard golf course he's created in the orchard behind his h

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