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“Negative wind stopped me from getting PRs, especially in the 200 because it’s longer. I like the state meet and I’ve PR’d up there the last two years so hopefully I can do it again.”

He'd been a little bored while his mic'd up dad had been talking to the media, so decided he'd try a bit of football before Jon encouraged him to go for goal.

“We wanted it to sound like one of the great old records from the ’60s,” McDonald says, which led the Doobies to “go out and get a piece of plywood because we’d heard that Bob Gaudio had done that on some Four Seasons stuff. We came back and mic’d up the plywood and just stomped four on the floor behind the track.”

“We’re not going to go out of our way to attack. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.

The players will be mic'd up, but the golf should do the talking because there are enough ingredients to give the contest a degree of edge which has been missing from previous iterations.