Wedge issue: Texas golf range offers
Clinton and Trump targets
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[November 03, 2016]
LONGVIEW,
Texas (Reuters) - Looking for a way to help relieve stress in a heated
political season, a Texas golf course owner has given patrons the chance
to whack their balls at large posters of the leading presidential
candidates affixed to hay bales. |
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Mike Williams, owner of the Alpine Target Golf Center, shows off his
swing at a driving range with hay bales covered with the portraits of
U.S. presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, which are
used as a mock polling station, at Alpine Target Golf Center in
Longview, Texas November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Todd Yates |
In the
Republican-stronghold of Longview, where Alpine Target Golf
Center is located about 120 miles east of Dallas, Democrat
Hillary Clinton has been the overwhelming target for patrons’
golf balls.
"Hillary Clinton is taking it a lot on the chin," owner Mike
Williams said on Wednesday of the promotion that started about a
week ago.
The Trump poster has suffered little damage, Williams said,
noting "he is still in great shape."
(Reporting by Todd Yates; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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