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A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

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A HAPPY END WITH YEAR 2013 !
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

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Solutions

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Created by: @zulolosi

3689 active golfers, 10682 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):
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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

01/01/2014 at 07:54PM

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#2 - Salleyron Julien / @juguul

01/01/2014 at 07:58PM

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#3 - Herrington Darkholme / @nonamesheep

01/02/2014 at 04:48AM

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#4 - MP / @Enemy_m

01/02/2014 at 06:54AM

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#5 - Matt Parnell / @parnmattdev

01/02/2014 at 09:53PM

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#6 - Ben Miller / @Nephi12Ben

01/02/2014 at 10:08PM

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#7 - Sebastian J. Mielke / @sjm1835

01/04/2014 at 03:05PM

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#8 - Petro Тrouq / @zulolosi

01/04/2014 at 04:20PM

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#9 - Pandu / @pandu_golf

01/05/2014 at 09:34AM

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#10 - Jaime A. Sánchez Hid / @jashbeta123

01/05/2014 at 02:23PM

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#11 - S. Chirlo / @y_alonsog

01/05/2014 at 05:28PM

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#12 - Clinton シ / @iblamefish

01/05/2014 at 06:28PM

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#13 - r/standupshots / @fuckreddit

01/05/2014 at 08:00PM

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#14 - ynwsoft / @ynwsoft

01/06/2014 at 03:18PM

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#15 - Jared Meyering / @Jmeyering

01/06/2014 at 04:36PM

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#16 - John Braxler / @braxler

01/06/2014 at 04:37PM

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#17 - Greg Jebb / @jebbster

01/06/2014 at 07:45PM

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#18 - oliver mueller / @marcontwit

01/07/2014 at 06:50AM

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#19 - Joel Gärtner / @Jeerok

01/07/2014 at 03:24PM

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#20 - Ian Liu Rodrigues / @ianliu88

01/07/2014 at 03:52PM

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#21 - JonnyRo / @JonnyRo

01/07/2014 at 10:49PM

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#22 - Hoxie Ackerman / @hoxie

01/08/2014 at 04:16PM

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#23 - Jeffrey Van Alstine / @JeffreyVanAlsti

01/09/2014 at 04:13AM

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#24 - Akash Agrawal / @akshagrwl

01/09/2014 at 07:04AM

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#25 - alexscott / @4l3xsc0tt

01/09/2014 at 12:32PM

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#26 - Kurt Robert Rudolph / @krudolph9

01/09/2014 at 11:50PM

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#27 - Quentin Tai / @QuillyT

01/10/2014 at 10:02PM

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#28 - Grigoriy Glushko / @grinderrz

01/13/2014 at 12:55AM

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#29 - John / @BerlinSchneider

01/14/2014 at 05:45AM

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#30 - Guy Rozen / @HolyEggplant

01/14/2014 at 01:22PM