Dark days for Green ; Golfer may lose leg following fatal road crash that kills two [Eire Region Edition 2]

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IT MIGHT be the US Open this week and Tiger Woods may be centre of attention at New York's Bethpage Black as far as the watching television audience is concerned, but many within the tight-knit golfing world can be forgiven for having their thoughts elsewhere as the second major of the year rumbles into action.

Those thoughts will be focused on Champions Tour player and five- time PGA Tour winner Ken Green, who will be in a hospital bed in Jackson, Mississippi, as the world number one launches the defence of his title on Long Island.

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Dark days for Green ; Golfer may lose leg following fatal road crash that kills two [Eire Region Edition 2]

Former US Ryder Cup player Green was involved in a road accident last Monday that claimed the lives of his long-term girlfriend, Jeanne Hodgin, his brother and caddie Bill Green and his devoted Alsatian dog, Nip, whom the 50-yearold had once saved from the jaws of an alligator and whom he claimed had repaid the favour by helping him...

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