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June 20, 2026
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A Day Before Play, There Was a Lake in East Lake

by Jon Bois

Waggle Room has posted this startling photo. This is the first hole at East Lake, where the PGA Tour Championship is being played.

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↵This photo was taken on Monday. Golfers were golfing here on Tuesday; miraculously, the flooding dried up quickly enough for them to be able to do so. It’s kind of a shame that it did, though. If only for one hole, it could have looked like the Jean Van de Velde Invitational.

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