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Spectator sport

Sport will not survive if it keeps being sold to the highest bidder

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

It’s just too hot and too early to get worked up about football, so the two highlights of the late-summer calendar are the US PGA golf tournament, in St Louis this time, and the US Open tennis from Flushing Meadows. Both compelling, vivid spectacles and — unless you have a lot of money and free time — best enjoyed from the sofa.

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