Sport: Collector's Item

Collector's Item Ralph Kennedy, 69, a New York salesman, hoards his golf score cards the way other men collect stamps. Stacked in his safe-deposit box are cards from 2,999 courses that he has played. Last week, playing badly ("My score was high"), but pleased as punch, nonetheless, Kennedy brought his total to 3,000 and got a gem of a collector's item: the score card of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (see above). Kennedy figures that "3,000 different courses is a world record. I don't think it will ever be broken."

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